Favorite Spaceships

3 years ago by Izzy to c/sciencefiction

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.

Candelestine 15 points 3 years ago

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.

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treadful 7 points 3 years ago

Also, it fucking splits into two ships!

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Rednax 4 points 3 years ago

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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antaymonkey 3 points 3 years ago

well-rounded

I see what you did there.

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mikeyBoy14 -4 points 3 years ago

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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Izzy 2 points 3 years ago

Hi, don't be too weird please. I'll assume this duplicate spam was some sort of accident. 🤨

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mikeyBoy14 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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Aesthesiaphilia 1 point 3 years ago

It's a pretty common bug.

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elscallr 1 point 3 years ago

It's happening all over the site, how could you assume anything else?

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dominiquec 13 points 3 years ago

Moya from Farscape. Creepy, organic, but strangely lived in. Also very temperamental.

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RBWells 1 point 3 years ago

Agreed. The living ships are my favorite. Moya & the TARDIS are both great characters.

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Emperor 10 points 3 years ago

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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Kallioapina 3 points 3 years ago

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Emperor 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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Kallioapina 2 points 3 years ago

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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sunaurus 10 points 3 years ago

There are so many awesome ships, but my favorites by far are from Star Wars

Ebon Hawk from KOTOR:

Ebon Hawk

Stinger Mantis from Fallen Order:

Stinger Mantis

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.

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Celediel 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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sunaurus 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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Celediel 2 points 3 years ago

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".

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Olap 9 points 3 years ago

The Normandy from Mass Effect

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chronicledmonocle 2 points 3 years ago

The original? Or the better one? 😉

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Olap 2 points 3 years ago

I'm old. Original. Loved me some janky mako driving too

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chronicledmonocle 1 point 3 years ago

Ha gotta love the Mako. The fridge on ice skates.

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ChristinWhite 2 points 3 years ago

Agreed, both versions are easily up there.

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OrganDonor 8 points 3 years ago

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.

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FlippyOne 4 points 3 years ago

The “Adama maneuver “ is still one of the coolest space ship battle moves I’ve seen on screen

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Wander 2 points 3 years ago

What I especially like is the diversity of the whole fleet, all ships are quite different.

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dudinax 7 points 3 years ago

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.

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IonAddis 7 points 3 years ago

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flippant 6 points 3 years ago

Moya in Farscape might fit the bill, but she only really communicates through the pilot.

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ScytheAsgore 5 points 3 years ago

The Culture ships. I'm sure at least a few of them look wicked.

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IonAddis 2 points 3 years ago

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BOMBbejaan 7 points 3 years ago

The Disaster Area stunt ship described in "The restaurant at the end of the universe" always fascinates me!

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AccoSpoot 2 points 3 years ago

Did you know it was inspired by Pink Floyd's show stopper where they had a mock plane crash and explode into the stage.

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Teali0 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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exuberantlime 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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Anomandaris 6 points 3 years ago

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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OrganDonor 6 points 3 years ago

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knobbysideup 6 points 3 years ago

Maybe it's because I'm old, but BSG's vipers.

Oh, and the Lexx!

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IonAddis 3 points 3 years ago

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davetansley 5 points 3 years ago

The R-9A Arrowhead from the R-Type games. I remember thinking that the blue canopy looked so unexpected and elegant as kid.

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LeZero 5 points 3 years ago

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cyanarchy 4 points 3 years ago

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)

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smfx 4 points 3 years ago

I like the main ship from Battle Beyond the Stars

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antaymonkey 8 points 3 years ago

That is both sex' reproductive organs in one ship.

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pglpm 4 points 3 years ago

You gotta hand it to Ten-chan's spaceship. And it can warp of course.

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skunch 4 points 3 years ago

I've always been a fan of the B-Wing

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BaconIsAVeg 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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chronicledmonocle 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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zzap129 3 points 3 years ago

"Terran Trade Authority Handbook: Spacecraft 2000 – 2100 AD" - it is full with cool spaceships like this.. I love this book.

from the wonderful book "Spacecraft 2000 – 2100 AD"

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smfx 1 point 3 years ago

Is that a Chris Foss design?

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zzap129 2 points 3 years ago

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/...

"[..] illustrated by various sci-fi artists, among them Angus McKie, Bob Layzell, Colin Hay, and Tony Roberts. [..]"

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wajib 2 points 3 years ago

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Amitab 2 points 3 years ago

A lot of the aforementioned. But mine would be the Nostromo. Rough, old, charismatic. Great sounds, great details like pictogrammes, ...

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Hyacathusarullistad 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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exuberantlime 1 point 3 years ago

The Ebon Hawk is so homey and comfortable. It felt like my own Millennium Falcon.

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Moghul 2 points 3 years ago

As a scale modeler and scifi enthusiast, this thread is torture. All these dope designs that have no scale models...

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AccoSpoot 2 points 3 years ago

Zeke and Edsels ship from Heavy Metal.

https://heavymetalmedia.fandom.com/...

Can you name a happier ship?

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Saltycreams 1 point 3 years ago

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wilberfan 1 point 3 years ago

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IonAddis 1 point 3 years ago

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wajib 1 point 3 years ago

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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Krististrasza 1 point 3 years ago

ECS-5 Norway

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dishpanman 1 point 3 years ago

Nostromo from Alien, it was such an awesome industrial looking design.

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pessimism_of_the_intellect 1 point 3 years ago

I've always been fond of the (seemingly) abandoned generation ship Thistledown from Greg Bear's Eon.

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Efwis 1 point 3 years ago

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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Xariphon 0 points 3 years ago

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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tal 0 points 3 years ago

looks for image

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/...

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Xariphon 1 point 3 years ago

Yes! That's the one.

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