Favorite Spaceships
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.
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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.
Also, it fucking splits into two ships!
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.
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And for trying to fuck women in red dresses on the holodeck 😂
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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.
I always liked the designs of the ships in Babylon 5 as each culture had a distinctive aesthetic that told you a bit about them - human craft were chunky and practical, Minbari ships were elegant, Vorlon vessels were organic, etc.
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.
And they had great markings on them - it reflected their warrior culture, where the Centauri were a little more ostentatious.
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.
There are so many awesome ships, but my favorites by far are from Star Wars
Ebon Hawk from KOTOR:
Stinger Mantis from Fallen Order:
I think the reason I really love both if these is how they just feel intimate and cozy, like proper homes in space.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of bigger ships as well. For example, I love the Normandy from Mass Effect. But in the end, nothing can beat small crew ships for me.
Yes! I love these two for the same reason, along with Serenity from Firefly.
What about the first Normandy, from ME1? That one was a lot smaller, and gives me similar vibes, even though it did have a much larger, less personal crew.
The SR-1 was definitely smaller, but to me it didn't feel intimate at all. Felt like a workplace, not a home. But it's an awesome ship for sure.
Yeah that's fair. With the Ebon Hawk, Stinger Mantis, Serenity, and even something like The Bebop, the whole crew is the people you grow to know and love; there's a lot of "redshirts" and nobodies on the Normandies. I think you really nailed it with "workplace, not a home".
The Normandy from Mass Effect
The original? Or the better one? 😉
I'm old. Original. Loved me some janky mako driving too
Ha gotta love the Mako. The fridge on ice skates.
Agreed, both versions are easily up there.
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.
The “Adama maneuver “ is still one of the coolest space ship battle moves I’ve seen on screen
What I especially like is the diversity of the whole fleet, all ships are quite different.
The Y-Wing. It's old, it's run down, it's clunky, but it's not totally obsolete and can still get the job done.
Moya in Farscape might fit the bill, but she only really communicates through the pilot.
The Culture ships. I'm sure at least a few of them look wicked.
The Disaster Area stunt ship described in "The restaurant at the end of the universe" always fascinates me!
Did you know it was inspired by Pink Floyd's show stopper where they had a mock plane crash and explode into the stage.
Persepolis Rising (book 7 of The Expanse) the introduction of the Laconia magnetar-class ships were always really cool in my imagination, haha. They just seemed so powerful and impossible to take on.
The Laconian vessels are so eery and weird that I don't have a strong mental image of them. Might as well be pixelated.
Maybe because the show never depicted them.
Maybe this says a little too much about me, but I love the personification and romanticism of Firefly's Serenity. She's a bucket of bolts, but she's home.
Maybe it's because I'm old, but BSG's vipers.
Oh, and the Lexx!
The R-9A Arrowhead from the R-Type games. I remember thinking that the blue canopy looked so unexpected and elegant as kid.
From Halo, my favorite ship is probably the Heart of Midlothian, followed by the Spirit of Fire. There's something I like about the slabbed, angular bow.
From Mass Effect, the Tempest, bar none the most attractive ship I think I've ever laid eyes on. I think she looks better when you can walk around her, it's hard to get a good angle on.
And an odd one out, the Taiidan Destroyers from Homeworld are particularly badass, even if their gun layout is objectively hot garbage. Could say the same about most Taiidan ships, they look less functional and more like the product of an unchallenged imperial navy. Kushan vessels feel comfortably realistic but aren't visually distinct.
(HD artwork by Jayden Morris on Artstation)
I like the main ship from Battle Beyond the Stars
That is both sex' reproductive organs in one ship.
You gotta hand it to Ten-chan's spaceship. And it can warp of course.
I've always been a fan of the B-Wing
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.
The Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect.
The Defiant, Sovereign, and Akira classes from Star Trek.
The Pegasus from Battlestar Galactica.
Yes, I have a type. Big gun beauties who stomp into a fight not giving AF are my thing.
"Terran Trade Authority Handbook: Spacecraft 2000 – 2100 AD" - it is full with cool spaceships like this.. I love this book.
Is that a Chris Foss design?
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. [..]"
A lot of the aforementioned. But mine would be the Nostromo. Rough, old, charismatic. Great sounds, great details like pictogrammes, ...
USS Voyager, NCC-74656 will always be top of my list. Seeing her in S3 of Picard made me even happier than seeing the Enterprise D (though hearing Majel Barrett as the computer again was another favourite moment).
The SSV Normandy from Mass Effect (either the SR1 or the SR2 — they're both beautiful galaxy-saving vessels).
The Ebon Hawk from Knights of the Old Republic, even if it is an unoriginal design for the franchise.
The TARDIS from Doctor Who.
The Ebon Hawk is so homey and comfortable. It felt like my own Millennium Falcon.
As a scale modeler and scifi enthusiast, this thread is torture. All these dope designs that have no scale models...
Zeke and Edsels ship from Heavy Metal.
https://heavymetalmedia.fandom.com/wiki/Spaceship?file=Spaceship.png
Can you name a happier ship?
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.
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Nostromo from Alien, it was such an awesome industrial looking design.
I've always been fond of the (seemingly) abandoned generation ship Thistledown from Greg Bear's Eon.
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
To me the most beautiful ship I've ever seen is the Baudo Star Yacht from Star Wars. Now, there's two very different kinds of ship called this, and the one I mean is the sleek, smooth one that's all curves and huge engines, not the blockier version.
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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/2/2a/Baudo-class_Star_Yacht_FC.png/revision/latest?cb=20160130080404
Yes! That's the one.