All time favorite Starship/Spacecraft Design,,,, pick 10

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Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphApril 02, 20126022 Views75 Replies
Over the last 40 years, here are my picks, not in any order except for THE ENTERPRISE
Enterprise, All of them, except the new one that J. J. Abrams screwed up
Land of the Giants...Spindrift
Plant of the Apes, "Icarus
Space 1999 …Eagle lunar
Alien …narcissus
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea….. Sea view (NOT A SPACE CRAFT, BUT STILL A COOL DESIGN)
2001……..XD-1 USSC Discovery,
Silent Running,,,, Valley Forge
Alien………… the Nostromo
And Now………………. Prometheus
April 02, 2012
I am still a big fan of the a Klingon Bird of Prey ;)
I also remember when i was a kid that the Liberator from Blake 7 impressed me.
Draconia 1 from Buck Rodgers i liked aswell. Oh and Commander Makara's Cruiser from Star Fleet X Bomber
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April 02, 2012
My favourite sci-fi TV series was Babylon 5 and for me, this show to this day still had the most realistic depiction of what OUR vessels would actually look like if we ever really went out there.. ie: Big ungainly things that required rotating sections in order to create fake gravity.
Here is one of the cruisers... Pay attention to its name.. may be a little chuckle for this board if you know what I mean...
[img]http://archive.firstones.com/tp2b/babylon_project/2262_arrival.jpg[/img]
Also, the Babylon 5 STAR FURY is probably the most realistic earth space "fighter" craft ever envisioned. Even NASA asked the shows creators for detailed models and renderings of it cuz it really flipped them out!!!
But after these, I agree that the utilitarian EAGLES from Space 1999 were very good... again because they depicted a very realistic concept that we could probably achieve.
April 02, 2012
^^^^^
Sorry the resizing makes the name on the side fo the cruiser unreadable, but its...
ACHERON
April 02, 2012
Hay BigDave
, Love the Bird of Prey , Built two of them over the years
One as is , the other one added LED lights
April 02, 2012
for me its:
Narcissus (ALIEN)
Eagle (Space 1999)
Jupiter 2 (Lost In Space 1999)
Viper Mark II (BSG 2004TV series)
Prometheus (PROMETHEUS)
Dark Star
Blockade Runner (Star Wars)
Super Star Destroyer (The Empire Strikes Back)
Malevolence (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Spinner (Blade Runner - not really a starship though)
random order here...
April 02, 2012
Not in any order
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Sulaco
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Space Battleship Yamato AKA: Argo
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Starship Voyager
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Battlestar Pegasus (New Version)
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USS Daedalus
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Enterprise-E
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The Event Horizon
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Imperial Super Star Destroyer
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Serenity
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USS Defiant
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April 02, 2012
Cylon Basestar (redesigned BSG)
BSG Pegasus (redesigned BSG)
The Spacing Guild Heighliner (David Lynch's version)
Cylon Raider (original BSG)
Barbarella's ship
Slave I
The Nostromo
Marvin The Martian's Rocket
The Dalek Space Saucer
The Swinetrek
April 02, 2012
star bug was always a fav but also the ship from flight of the navigator
or yes the liberator from blake seven what was the name of the ship that took over after the liberator was eaten away ?
April 02, 2012
Hahahaha!.. The STAR LOST...
that was really similar to the ships in Silent Running sort of.
PS: How did that line go?? " MAY I BE OF ASSISTANCE? ""
:)
April 02, 2012
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lmVxvRaXU&feature=related]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lmVxvRaXU&feature=related[/url]
Interesting veiwing if you a few minutes
April 02, 2012
oh wow, awesome question. !!DISCLAIMER!!! if I'm all joe-joe the duck with the craft names, go easy people. my brother's the sci-fi ninja. Ok, to do proper justice here....
1) Milleneum Falcon(robot chicken.."whats an aluminum falcon?")
2)Sulaco
3)Last starfighter(name escapes me)
4)Aliens Dropship(righteous)
5)Tie Interceptor(not shown enough)
6)Battlestar Galactica(whatever apollo flew)
7)Klingon Bird of Prey
8) the Enterprise(need I say more)
9)Robotech Valkries(I know cartoon, but still bitchin)
10)Super star destroyer(aka Palpatine's limo)
April 02, 2012
it was stolen off Silent running
and you got ,,,MAY I BE OF ASSISTANCE, i forgot about that , that guy looked like my uncle back in the day
April 02, 2012
i dont know a lot about space ships so i only have a couple faves. the enterprise of course (TNG), the defiant from deep space 9... numerous random star trek alien ships (like the klingon bird of prey meantioned before)
does a Gundam count as a space ship? lol if so i have some faves there.
i like numerous other anime ships i wont even get into that.
but gotta say [u]my fave is always going to be borg cubes and spheres.[/u]
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April 02, 2012
In no particular order.
Eagle Transport (Space:1999)
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)
Nostromo (Alien)
Tantive IV (Star Wars)
Battlestar Galactica (BSG New Series)
Sulaco (Aliens)
The TARDIS (Dr Who Original Series)
The Liberator (Blakes 7)
Earthship ARK (The Starlost) in principle. Updated technology would make it cool.
Leonov (2010)
April 02, 2012
nothing can beat serenity :D
[img]http://www.infinitydish.com/tvblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/serenity1.jpg[/img]
April 02, 2012
also, i like the look of the new enterprise, yeah the movie was kind of bad, but it was better then the TNG movies and the look is still great i think :D
April 02, 2012
The ship that Blakes 7 "found" after the Liberator was destroyed was called Scorpio.
@canadaphil totally agree about B5- way ahead of it's time- you have to look past the wooden acting (esp season 1) and slightly dogdy effects but the story over 5 seasons is outstanding.....
Whitestar (B5)
Millennium Falcon
Minbari Cruiser (B5)
Liberator (Blakes 7)
Sulaco
B Wing (ROTJ)
Shadow vessel (B5)
Tie Fighter
Star Fury (B5)
Super Star destoyer Executer (ESB)