Best ones are still only in books (Utu Class Battle Planetoid Dahak, or the Skylark of Valeron). But I will always have a soft spot for the Enterprise rebuild NCC-1701A from the early movies. It took the neat but a little stodgy original Enterprise and made it sleek and beautiful.
@duodec The thing that always makes or breaks a “great” movie or TV space ship is the space porn “money shot” we all know as “the flyby”.
/youtube Star Trek Enterprise flyby
@mike808 And with the music playing slow and almost majestic. The movie itself wasn’t great, but that ship, and the new music for the movies, was awesome.
The Defiant in ST:DS-9 lore. Not built for exploration of space, but for kicking butt. Fast, sleek and overpowered for its size. The only Federation ship to have had cloaking. Ah……
Originally the Gemini 12 renamed Jupiter 2 before the original show aired.Look…it also does controlled burns,and best of all…daughter Judy.You can search her if you wish.
While I think there are plenty of better ships, prettier ships and more interesting ships, I have to stick with Voyager (NCC-74656, not the probe)
It is the first ship I have recollection of not being a sing static grid for the ship itself and the whole idea of a ship being able to move like that opened up so many ideas in my young child brain at the time.
But which Enterprise? There were at least seven different designs even before the reboot. And now we have the Strange New Worlds version coming up, though it looks more like a modern spin on the original than a remake.
Let’s not Forget the Lantian City-Ships…
most famously Atlantis
though technically speaking, that’s not Atlantis… it’s an Asuran City Ship Come to attack Atlantis.
Red Dwarf.
@yakkoTDI
That’s what I was going to say!
Heart Of Gold
Andromeda Ascendant
The Slave
@hchavers FTFY
The Slave“Bobba Fett’s Ship”Disney always gotta be retconning.
/giphy Bubba Fett Starfighter
@hchavers Come on, “Slave 1”.
@hchavers @mike808
Firespray.
Ninja’d on Heart of Gold, so:
@Aspirant_Fool ahh… the Satellite Of Love…
Star Destroyer
Death’s Head
Imperator-class Star Destroyer from Star Wars
Discovery One, the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey; it seemed the most realistic, even for one from 50 years ago.
Discovery One
NSEA Protector (NTE-3120)
Galaxy Quest
Moira
@Ziggie I think you meant this.
Moya Leviathan
Farscape
@Ziggie
that is Moya
this is Moira:
@earlyre @mike808 Yes, that one. Clearly I shouldn’t try typing at midnight.
Correction accepted.
The Nostromo
Alien
The Lexx
“It’s not phallic. At all.”
@mike808 I loved that show.
Planet Express
Futurama
Eagle 5
Destiny
Stargate Universe
Best ones are still only in books (Utu Class Battle Planetoid Dahak, or the Skylark of Valeron). But I will always have a soft spot for the Enterprise rebuild NCC-1701A from the early movies. It took the neat but a little stodgy original Enterprise and made it sleek and beautiful.
Then the reboot made it look st00pid. Meh
@duodec The thing that always makes or breaks a “great” movie or TV space ship is the space porn “money shot” we all know as “the flyby”.
/youtube Star Trek Enterprise flyby
@duodec @mike808 The 4K remaster was just released.
@blaineg @duodec @mike808 Finally
@mike808 And with the music playing slow and almost majestic. The movie itself wasn’t great, but that ship, and the new music for the movies, was awesome.
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
Galactica.
@kostia I was wondering where all the other BSG fans were. The show it its issues but the awesome space ships were not among those.
/giphy galactica
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
I’m in it for the replicators.
The Defiant in ST:DS-9 lore. Not built for exploration of space, but for kicking butt. Fast, sleek and overpowered for its size. The only Federation ship to have had cloaking. Ah……
@thechasman
https://imgur.com/gallery/TV1jE
The one Alf used to escape the destruction of Melmac that unfortunately crash landed in the Tanner’s garage.
I always thought ships like the TARDIS and Moya from Farscape were interesting because they were alive.
The Stargate Needle Threader. A small 2 man ship explicitly designed to fit through a stargate.
@blaineg The Wraith Dart also fit through a Stargate.
/image wraith dart ship
Better picture of the SG Needle Threader. It was actually a G’aould ship.
@mike808 And also the Stargate Atlantis Puddle Jumper.
But the Needle Threader was the first one we saw.
@mike808 It took WAY too long for the “puddle” in Puddle Jumper to click when Atlantis was in first run.
Babylon 5 Whitestar.
Babylon 5, Minbari Sharlin class battleship.
@detailer Which one?
Judy Robinson played by:
@mike808 I went with the original ship,so the original Judy (MK) A cute one by 1965 standards and my age at the time.That one…you can’t search
Swordfish II from Cowboy Bebop
While I think there are plenty of better ships, prettier ships and more interesting ships, I have to stick with Voyager (NCC-74656, not the probe)
It is the first ship I have recollection of not being a sing static grid for the ship itself and the whole idea of a ship being able to move like that opened up so many ideas in my young child brain at the time.
But which Enterprise? There were at least seven different designs even before the reboot. And now we have the Strange New Worlds version coming up, though it looks more like a modern spin on the original than a remake.
I have a special love for the Vree ships in Babylon 5 because … well, this is a Vree:
and this is a Vree warship:
Let’s not Forget the Lantian City-Ships…
most famously Atlantis
though technically speaking, that’s not Atlantis… it’s an Asuran City Ship Come to attack Atlantis.
What the Fuck is an Asuran you ask? Click here.
The Valley Forge from Silent Running
/image Flash Gordon Dr Zarkov’s Rocket
/image Captain Video Galaxy
Tintin’s rocket:
Elon Musk is a fan - https://www.monsffa.ca/?p=7975