Coolest Ships in Sci-Fi

[The Bushranger]

Having finally watched Star Trek last night (awesome eye-candy, but You Fail Orbital Mechanics Forever), I got to pondering, and wondered: to you, what are the coolest ships you've found in Sci-Fi, by your own personal standards?

For me, the top three would be:

1. Destiny, Stargate Universe.

2. Enterprise, Star Trek XI.

3. Yamato, Uchū Senkan Yamato (aka Argo, Star Blazers).


Yours?

[Starscream]

Bigger on the inside, capable of traveling throughout time and space, looks generally awesome, goes unnoticed wherever it is, can translate any language, may very well be sentient with its own personality, the interior can be altered to look however you like...

And owning one means that attractive young women will be lining up around the block to be your "companion".

[Ravens_cry]

Enterprise D
Star Trek: The Next Generation
It's Picards ship. What more must be said?
Discovery
Sure, the onboard computer is a little wonky. But its one of the closest to what we will really some day build.
Space Shuttle Columbia
Cowboy Bebop.
In 2003, you flew out of history.
See you, Space Cowboy.

[Drakevarg]

Serenity. One of the few ships in Sci-Fi I can think of that I could actually find my way around in. Most of them tend to be plot-sized.

[Nerocite]

The Millennium Falcon. Cause it's fast.

[warty goblin]

Serenity. One of the few ships in Sci-Fi I can think of that I could actually find my way around in. Most of them tend to be plot-sized.

This is a very good point. Also one of the few sci-fi ships that look like people actually live there.

Although I'm rather partial to Babylon 5's Starfuries myself. You just can't beat that omnidirectional maneuverability.

[BRC]

Bigger on the inside, capable of traveling throughout time and space, looks generally awesome, goes unnoticed wherever it is, can translate any language, may very well be sentient with its own personality, the interior can be altered to look however you like...

And owning one means that attractive young women will be lining up around the block to be your "companion".

Starscream, I must ask that you wait until at least the second page before rendering the rest of a thread irrelevant.

[Geiger Counter]

Talyn

[Toastkart]

Daedalus class battlecruisers from the Stargate franchise for sheer awesomeness factor.

Nebula class ships from Star Trek are also pretty slick looking.

[Dienekes]

I've always enjoyed Star Craft's Carriers, though I can't point to any specific ship. Others to pick are the Executor from Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica (more for the show than the actual ship I think), and The Normandy from Mass Effect.

But Serenity, the Falcon, and of course the TARDIS are all great choices that I support wholeheartedly.

[Geiger Counter]

Wraith Hiveships from SG Atlantis

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[thompur]

Moya from Farscape.
The Vorlon ships from Babylon 5
The Shadow ships from Babylon 5
Heck, most of the ships, especially from the First Ones, were cool!

[Serpentine]

Most of the ones from Animorphs: The Visser's Blade Ship, the nasty little Bug Fighters, the elegant Andalite Dome Ships and... whatever their fighters were called.

Also the ship in Alien, because it looks grotty, broken-down, well-used, practical and lived-in - a change from shiny brand-new sleekness that was around before then.

Oh! Speaking of which, the alien ship they find the xenomorph in. Anything designed by Giger has gotta be good!

[warty goblin]

Moya from Farscape.
The Vorlon ships from Babylon 5
The Shadow ships from Babylon 5
Heck, most of the ships, especially from the First Ones, were cool!

Babylon 5: It's like porn, but with spaceships.

[Jade_Tarem]

The Icarus, from Timothy Zahn's The Icarus Hunt. That ship was chock full of surprises! And by surprises, I mean problems. Still, most of the plot takes place on board, so it's pretty well described, and definitely cool.

[warty goblin]

Also, all the capital ships in Sins of a Solar Empire, particularly the TEC ones. The Dreadnaught and battleship are just gorgeous hunks of hot burning space destruction.

[Dervag]

Dauntless, superdreadnought of the Galactic Patrol.

You just can't beat the classics sometimes...

[Seonor]

Most of my favorites have been named, but also (nearly) every ship of the Culture ever.
And the Orion, of course.

[The Bushranger]

Oh, I suppose I can add a fourth ship to my list: Valiant, from Doctor Who.

I just have trouble seeing the TARDIS as a ship.

[Mando Knight]

Enterprise D
Star Trek: The Next Generation
It's Picards ship. What more must be said?

Enterprise-E is also Picard's ship (but only in the post-TNG movies, alas), and is sleeker and awesomer.

Of course, it doesn't scream "Oversized Freudian Excuse" like the Executor, Vader's 17-kilometer long Super Star Destroyer from Empire and RotJ. Pick it up in Empire at War and you can almost hear the Rebels scream for mercy. The TIE Defender is also the awesomest starfighter ever to make the jump to LEGO speed. The Emperor's heart might be a rotten lump blacker than coal, but his engineers know how to make cool weapons.

[Dervag]

A note: My preference is unchanged, but I must say that the USS Enterprise has a really good song written about it. Which takes it up a notch.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

The Beans-With-Bacon Megarocket trumps all. It's the keenest!

[Serpentine]

COMMANDER KEEN!

In that case, I thow in this one:



It has maths! And, uh... drops rubbish... and... um... Hm.

[Starscream]

I just have trouble seeing the TARDIS as a ship.

That's sort of the point. Try landing the Enterprise on a London street corner somewhere so you can go see a Beatles concert in 1969.

It has maths! And, uh... drops rubbish... and... um... Hm.

Math Blaster! That game was awesome. I still liked Dr. Quandary better, though.

[Mando Knight]

The Beans-With-Bacon Megarocket trumps all. It's the keenest!

It is the Keenest. How many 8-year-olds build a ship that exceed the current capabilities of all our aerospace engineers... out of household objects? (Note the vacuum cleaner main engine nozzle and liquor bottle fuel tank. And car battery power supply.)

How could I forget the Bean-With-Bacon? It was my first starship.

...Or was it the second, third, or fourth? The early 90s are a bit fuzzy for me.

The other candidates for my earliest starships: LEGO Space Police II!

[DraPrime]

That's sort of the point. Try landing the Enterprise on a London street corner somewhere so you can go see a Beatles concert in 1969.

I see no problem with that. It would be the most stylish way to arrive possible.

[Excession]

Babylon 5 again, but I lean toward the Starfury, because they actually look, and fly, like they're designed for space. The Shadow ships are also awesome, simply for being so damn scary looking.

http://www.gkane.de/artwork/starfury_still.jpg

[Knaight]

The new Battlestar Galactica ships. Most of them really, but particularly the Galactica and the Pegasus. Mostly the Galactica.

I'm assuming Sci-Fi means Sci-Fi and Space Opera.

[Graymayre]

Of recent memory, the new Star Trek movie rendition of a Romulan mining vessel created an amazing piece of art.

Others that should recieve praise include the ship from the movie Sunshine. It was an fantastic bridge between asthetic visuals and utilitarian design.

I'll agree that Serenity cannot be ignored, simply because the thing has so much life in it.


But one of the best I have ever seen has to be from a little known 2000-and-something film known as The Fountain. The contraption was nothing more than a galactic snow globe with a large tree dominating the center. Pictures of the ship's solitary passenger sitting against its trunk in the vastness of space, seemingly uncontained, were simply breathtaking.

[Lycan 01]

If I could have any starship of my choice, I'd want a ship like the Millenium Falcon. Not the same ship, but the same model.

Slap on a few point defense turrets for those pesky pirates, a more advanced hyperdrive generator so I can get to places quicker, and some creature comforts like a holo-screeen and a comfy sofa, and we're good.



I want to play the Star Wars Saga RPG now.