What are your favorite spaceships from science fiction shows, movies, games, comics, anime or anything?
The Swordfish from Cowboy Bebop is probably my top favorite. I like the idea of small compact ships meant for a single person and going fast.
For that same reason I love the Razorback from The Expanse. Except the engine to ship ratio in this universe probably makes more sense realistically. The cockpit 360 swivel system is also really clever.
The Outlaw Star from… Outlaw Star is not a small ship. I just like it because it looks cool despite its goofy unrealistic grapple arms that hold weapons.
You gotta hand it to Ten-chan’s spaceship. And it can warp of course.
@Izzy The generation ship Asteria from Record of a Spaceborn Few. It sticks with me because every character has a complex and touching relationship with the ship, whether as a home, an object of duty and responsibility, a idyllic myth to live up to, or an anthropological puzzle.
I’d have to go with the Galactica from Battlestar Galactica.
Basically an aircraft carrier in space, and it didn’t hurt that I grew up on watching the original series. Watching the vipers launch out of the Galactica was pretty cool when you’re young.
I like the various ships in Babylon 5, but I also like moya from Farscape, the enterprise d from tang and who could forget the ship with HAL in 2001: A Space Odysee
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I’ve always been a fan of the B-Wing
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Earth’s Omega -class destroyer was and still is supremely cool to me. Also the utilitarian and cobbled together look or Narn ships had its appeal.
Earth’s Omega -class destroyer was and still is supremely cool to me. Also the utilitarian and cobbled together look or Narn ships had its appeal.
Earth’s Omega -class destroyer was and still is supremely cool to me.
They always have me chills when they dropped in as you knew shit was going to go down.
The ships the humans develop in Stargate seem to owe a debt to the Omega-class but it may just be that it follows the same design thinking - we’d likely start off making things a bit utilitarian at first.
Also the utilitarian and cobbled together look or Narn ships had its appeal.
And they had great markings on them - it reflected their warrior culture, where the Centauri were a little more ostentatious.
ECS-5 Norway
That is both sex’ reproductive organs in one ship.
That book is by Steward Cowley,1978 Was lucky to find a copy in great condition a while back. It was one of my favourite books when I was a kid.
Here are a couple more pics… https://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com/2011/09/spacecraft-2000-to-2100-ad-stewart.html?m=1
“[…] illustrated by various sci-fi artists, among them Angus McKie, Bob Layzell, Colin Hay, and Tony Roberts. […]”
Honestly, it was always Picard’s Enterprise (D I think…?) from TNG.
I always really liked that take on a capital ship. They’re usually military vessels or logistics craft, what else do you need something that big for? The Enterprise was well-rounded though, and perfect for deep space serial adventures around more complex moral and ethical issues.
The Enterprise was well-rounded though, and perfect for deep space serial adventures around more complex moral and ethical issues.
And for trying to fuck women in red dresses on the holodeck 😂
Apologies, the app I’m using gave me a network error every time I tried to reply, but apparently it actually went through and posted each time.
It’s a pretty common bug.
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I love the show, but the ship always felt too clean, too perfect, and too large. Voyager and even the Defiant cause more feelings and memories than the Enterprise does for me. But I agree that the ship design is perfect for what TNG is.
Also, it fucking splits into two ships!
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I see what you did there.
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The black cruiser from before the fall of the Hegemony in the Hyperion Cantos tends to be the one that appears in my dreams the most, even 30 years later. Also the fucking tree ships.
Moya from Farscape. Creepy, organic, but strangely lived in. Also very temperamental.
Agreed. The living ships are my favorite. Moya & the TARDIS are both great characters.
