I thought that the Battlestar Galactica reboot did a pretty good job of portraying warfare in zero-g, zero-atmosphere space. Not perfect, but pretty good.
Altho I didn’t watch it that much, B5 seemed to do so as well.
No need for airplane like “fighters”.
Just lasers and missiles — at very long range.
I never really watched much of the new Battlestar Galactica, since it was pretty boring. Some of the space battles I did catch seemed as if the graphic artists and writers at least had some realistic concept of the difficulty of battles in space.
I am not really certain how effective small fighter craft would be in a space battle since the combination of the limitations of speed, inertia, and fuel would pretty much limit any encounters to long periods of coasting at a set speed followed by fractions of a second of actual fighting while passing by and hopefully not colliding with enemy fighters, then turning and braking to see if you had enough atmo and fuel to either engage again or RTS.
Probably most battles would be ship-to-ship.