Best spaceship?

[Whitestar]

Here are the starships I love in order of importance:

1. Whitestar ship from B5 (What can I say, I'm biased! )

2. Talyn from Farscape

3. Moya from Farscape

4. Battlestar Galactica (both old and new version)

5. Gunstar from The Last Starfighter

6. Omega Class Destroyer from B5

7. Starfury from B5

Oh hell, I love all of them!

[DevoidRaptor]

I like Serenity from Firefly. My favorite part is the ladders/doors that lead to the crews' quarters.

Also, Arthur Clark's Universe from 2061: Odyssee 3 was cool. I liked how the ship travelled "horizontily" but the levels were vertical, utilizing the ship's acceleration as a source of gravity. Most ships, like Star Destroyers and the Enterprise subcribe to the oldfashioned horizontal layout like a naval ship.

Also, the Elsa, Durandal, and Woglinde from the videogame Xenosaga were
cool.

P.S.- Am I the only one who grows tired of the tradition starship that has a bunch of un-unifrom protusions (Think of the surface of the Death Star)? I like my ships nice and streamlined, even though aerodynamics aren't important in space, aesthetics should be.

[Hawkshaw_245]

The B5 Starfury was the first 'realistic' fighter I recall ever seeing on film.
Using maneuvering thrusters, it made axial turns, pivoting while still moving forward (or backward) in space.

That was a realistic use of physics. A ship cold do that, if it were in a vacuum. I'm glad to see the new Vipers can do that, too.

[malfunkshun]

Can I choose two? If so, then I choose the Discovery and the Leonov from 2010. I guess when they were docked together you could consider them one ship, right?

These ships are my favorites from film because if we wanted to, we could actually build them.

My favorite spaceship from a book would be Michael, from Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. There's nothing more bad ass than a battleship launched by atom bombs. And again, we could actually build an Orion type spaceship if we really wanted to.

[sci-fi girl]

My favourite are Moya from Farcape and Andromeda.

[Serin]

Good choice, sci-fi girl, mine too.

[Doggyforce]

I dunno if this has been mentioned yet, but I'm a huge fan of the original U.S.S. Enterprise model, the NCC-1701, cause it had such a strong appeal and was so crazy... I mean, it had parts from a flying saucer, some rocket boosters with glowing red things, and an antenna, and what?? that's popular?? hah

I mean, my favorite design for a spacecraft ever has to be the millenium falcon, because it came at a time in science fiction when it was so easy to make pretty looking space thingies, like an X-wing, or whatever else was pretty from Battlestar, or whatever... But the Falcon took on an enormous role as a setting and transportation in some of the most famous science fiction movies of all time, and the thing was ugly!!! I just find it amazing that craft like the millenium falcon can be just as appealing, if not more-so than some fast looking thing like a A, Y, or X wing.

-Doggyforce.

[j. d. worthington]

Yes, I've always rather liked the Nostromo for that reason... awkward-looking, angular, not at all aesthetically pleasing, but it seemed fitting for the job it was designed to do....

[UltraCulture]

Tough one this, on totally opposite scales first of all i'd say the Ship that surrounds the planet called Marrow in the book by Robert Read.

And on the other side of the scale it would have to be the Ship from the film Flight Of The Navigator, very small but beautiful to look at, like a creation from liquid mercury, can alter shape, is able to time travel, has a witty AI(Max). I want one.

[judge_mel]

I enjoy nothing better than the concept of gothic cathdrals in space. This puts two ships imediately to mind:

The oft mentioned Liberator from Blake's 7 (complete with flying butresses)

and of course, the long forgotten:

Cygnus, from the Black Hole. Sya what you want about that film, the Cygnus was a beautiful ship.

[Doggyforce]

Originally Posted by judge_mel

Cygnus, from the Black Hole. Sya what you want about that film, the Cygnus was a beautiful ship.

omg, good call on the Black-Hole ship. Whenever I see the cover of that movie I get a little goosebumpy. The ship was mostly empty, and somehow filled with light, which was puzzling, but awesome. I saw the movie when I was like 5, maybe, so oh my gosh was I freaked out by it. I think I still get flashbacks.. !!! haa

ya, but Cygnus for the win.

btw, I think my favorite thing about space ships (cause I draw them whenever I'm bored!! :P) is that they really can look like anything. They don't have to be aerodynamic or anything, because the physics of space travel are vastly different on the material plane than travel within a planet's gravitational pull. But thats why I like designing them, cause you have the ability to say, "you know what?? This could happen!!" and you draw it, and make up some reason for it in your head, and it looks cool as ****, because you had a reason for it when you drew it. Ramble: Early in my space drawing travels, I realized that drawing ships which "Look" cool was not really making cool looking ships after all. So, I started making ships which had weird funny things which, though they might not work in atmospheric travel would probably work in space. So, I would work with different concepts of constraint, like a lessening of surface area (spheres) or different concepts or motifs which would come from a paticular culture or whatever.

[Anomaly]

Most interesting spaceship concept.

I have seen this a few times.

One was on a Next Generation show. A Beta Zoid guy had tough going controlling his Telepathy.

A ship was discovered floating close to a sun due to go nova. Turns out the ship was part ship and part being. Ancient. It flew in partnership with it's telepathic masters, which now did not exist. It was trying to commit spaceship-icide by nova.

Bottom line, the ship and the BZ hit it off famously and they flew off together in perfect synergy.All the BZ had to do was think of a postion and the ship instantly got it.

Way out there, but kinda neat to imagine...

[Ice fyre]

Jeff Russel's Starship design Would post a link but on the wrong computer.

This site gives you comparitive sizes for your favourite ships. You can (if you're sad like me) drag various ships around and compare sizes.

I had a good time and as time goes on it's becoming a good sci-fi fan site, not a patch on this one.

[Kostmayer]

Originally Posted by Ice fyre

Jeff Russel's Starship design Would post a link but on the wrong computer.

This site gives you comparitive sizes for your favourite ships. You can (if you're sad like me) drag various ships around and compare sizes.

I had a good time and as time goes on it's becoming a good sci-fi fan site, not a patch on this one.

The site is here Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS

Haven't looked on it for a while. Its a great site though.

[Doggyforce]

Yo, Anomaly, that ship was "Tin Man" from an episode with the same name...