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.
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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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 😂
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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.
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.
I think the reason I really love both if these is how they just feel intimate and cozy, like proper homes in space.
Yes! I love these two for the same reason, along with Serenity from Firefly.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of bigger ships as well. For example, I love the Normandy from Mass Effect
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”.
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.
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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.
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.
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The Normandy from Mass Effect
Agreed, both versions are easily up there.
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.
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.
I’ve always liked just about any sentient/thinking ship. Oddly enough, I can’t think of any examples where a thinking ship has been paired with a wicked design. Although I might just be overlooking something.
But some examples from sci-fi fiction:
- Gay Deceiver (Robert A. Heinlein - he was using the term “gay” in its original sense)
- Helva, from Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang (she’s technically a human “Brain” installed in a ship…but the series is written as if she’s the ship in many ways)
- Zora (Star Trek: Discovery . I really wish she’d gotten more time, a Star Trek ship that is sapient is something we should’ve been able to explore in lots of detail)
- ART - Asshole Research Transport, aka Perihelion, from Martha Well’s Murderbot Diaries
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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.
Once again the universe tells me I need to read that series.
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.
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.
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Maybe it’s because I’m old, but BSG’s vipers.
Oh, and the Lexx!
Lexx!
We need more bug-ships in modern sci-fi. Dune’s thopters don’t quite do it for me.
I really like the ship designs of Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Especially the flagship Brünhild
The R-9A Arrowhead from the R-Type games. I remember thinking that the blue canopy looked so unexpected and elegant as kid.
