What is your favorite fictional spaceship?
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Zombie_61
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It's okay. I completely forgot Uncle Martin's ship from My Favorite Martian and the Eagle from Space: 1999. Just as I knew I would. :rolleyesHow? How did I forget Serenity?? It is a hunk of junk, but still a nice shipHear hear captain tightpants
Hey, you are a zombie, at least you can always blame it on the whole being living dead thingy :lol
FordPrefect
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OK love the Spaceship Yamato (re watching the anime right now)
Serenity would be a ship I could see myself working on (i.e. looks like it could be a real ship crew would work on)
My favorite would be The Heart of Gold from the new movie.
Something about the roundness of it just strikes me as fun
The TV Heart of Gold was good also
Serenity would be a ship I could see myself working on (i.e. looks like it could be a real ship crew would work on)
My favorite would be The Heart of Gold from the new movie.
Something about the roundness of it just strikes me as fun
The TV Heart of Gold was good also
Zombie_61
Master Member
Hmmm. That might explain why zombies are always searching for brains--ours are worthless!
That's another one I forgot, the Heart of Gold (movie version). I've never seen the TV version, but that ship looks a bit like an adult toy.
Vincent V
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I've never seen the show, but I've seen the ship before online. It was supposedly inspired by a shower head.
Solo4114
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Which is, in my opinion, the absolute pinnacle of the game series. Particularly if you used the multi-gunner patch and could get it working in MP. THAT was friggin' awesome. The main downside was that the game's multiplayer was largely limited to skirmishes rather than actual missions similar to those in the game itself. For MP, the best in the series was Balance of Power for XvT because you could co-op an entire campaign. I remember playing that with my best friend in college, with me flying squadron leader on the A-wings and him flying escort in the X-wings. I'd often end up covering for him and just doing crazy close-up fly-bys of enemy ships at high speed to help buy him time to get out and get whatever convoy we were protecting out of the system.
What I really always wanted to do, though, was to build an entire elaborate campaign where the game was basically "DMed" such that what happened during the mission would impact the next mission. So, if you fail the mission....you just fail the mission. No replays, and you live with the consequences.
I was stunned it took this long for someone to mention her.
Uchuu Senkan Yaaaaaaamaaaaaaatoooooooooooooooo!!!
Easily one of my favs.
....so, as mentioned, an adult toy?
Anyway, I think you have to break this down by ship class. There's just too many ships to really have a SINGLE favorite.
My breakdown goes like this:
- Fighter class: either the BSG Viper (old school -- either the original show or the new show's old-school viper), the X-wing, or the B5 Star Fury. The Viper just looks super cool. The X-wing I identify with on an emotional level, and the Star Fury is basically the only ACTUALLY VIABLE zero-g fighter. It's also a bit of a cheat, but the VF-1x series from Macross/Robotech (they were space-capable, rather than purpose-built for space).
- Light transport: The Falcon, obviously. (But I also accept other similarly designed CEC YT-series freighters.) The Falcon's design is a bit problematic, in that it has a LOT of blind spots, and things like cockpit placement don't make a ton of sense. It's visually striking, but it doesn't make a ton of sense. I actually find the Ghost on Rebels to be a more practical design.
- Capital ship: Probably the Yamato because it fuses WWII design with space stuff. That or the Klingon Bird of Prey.
Zombie_61
Master Member
It looks better from that angle. More "street light" than "shower head" in my opinion, but inspiration can come from almost anywhere.
I like the design of the Starfury, except for sticking the cockpit front and center with nothing to protect the pilot but a thin frame and a bit of glass. :facepalm
@Solo414 I think all the ships in Leiji Matsumoto's works are friggin' amazing Harlock's has the back half of a galleon on it,Esmeralda's ship is like a blimp with an old galleon hanging off of it hell Galaxy Express 999 we have a bloody train running around space.
Of course I grew up with this so maybe I'm biased....
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Of course I grew up with this so maybe I'm biased....
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Fawbish
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This is just an interpretation I found on Pinterest, but
A Guncutter, from the Warhammer 40k Universe, first seen in the Eisenhorn trilogy, it belongs to Gregor Eisenhorn (an Inquisitor) and is piloted by Midas Betancore, and later his daughter, Medea Betancore.
Throughout the novels of Eisenhorn and Ravenor, there arent many fictional space ships that are used better in my opinion. The relationships that are explored via the Guncutter are excellent and some badass action moments.
A Guncutter, from the Warhammer 40k Universe, first seen in the Eisenhorn trilogy, it belongs to Gregor Eisenhorn (an Inquisitor) and is piloted by Midas Betancore, and later his daughter, Medea Betancore.
Throughout the novels of Eisenhorn and Ravenor, there arent many fictional space ships that are used better in my opinion. The relationships that are explored via the Guncutter are excellent and some badass action moments.
Solo4114
Master Member
Yeah, but realistically, with the exception of a head-on attack, the pilot is decently protected. Also, the cockpit offers excellent forward visibility and pretty good side visibility.
There's also the later-model Starfury Thunderbolt, which looks more like a traditional atmospheric fighter and includes actual airfoils and a fuselage, with the cockpit positioned as you'd expect in a fighter jet.
Yet it still retains the directional thrusters at the end of each wing.
Yeah, Matsumoto's stuff is really gorgeous. A lot of the anime from that era are pretty amazing in their ship designs. (e.g. the SDF-1)
Gods below, I miss that. I did much the same, far too briefly back in the '90s. That's where I got my favorite callsign, that I still paint on certain of my Imperial fighter model kits.
As for as on-topic...? As so many others have said, there are too many that are too amazing across so many size/capability ranges. I love many that others have mentioned, such as the Yamato, but if we're talking favorite-favorites...
"Fighter"-sized
The original BSG Viper
Galaxy Rangers Interceptor
Several from Star Wars... I love the TIE Avenger
Royal Guard TIE Interceptor
TIE Phantom
The Mandalorian Gauntlet fighter
...and the venerable Y-Wing
No list of mine would be complete without the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter
Moving up a size class to things you can move around in... Freighters and Frigates and Corvettes, oh my!
Back to Star Wars for the Charger-class Frigate
and the Republic Nu-class attack shuttle (an updated evolution of which is what I wish had been the First Order landing craft in The Force Awakens)
The Sulaco
The Starjammer
And, to keep things at least slightly manageable, on to Capital Ships
I'll start with about the most capital of capital ships, the Command Ship Eclipse
From Uchuu Senkan Yamato, the EDF flagship Andromeda
The Cygnus
And I'll finish with the one that needs no introduction...
There are many more that I love, including various Enterprises and other Trek ships, but these top my lists.
--Jonah
Riceball
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Not to mention that there are many far worse designs as far practicality as a fighter goes. Take the fighters from Buck Rogers for instance, lots of blind spots with the heavy framing around the canopy, and there's the wide body which you're not going to see anybody/or anything that's below you in a pretty wide radius because of that. The same goes for the A-Wing, horrible visibility below you and I think that it has pretty poor visibility to the rear as well.
Angelus Lupus
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Enterprise C (Yesterday's Enterprise TNG)
Enterprise (TOS)
Enterprise (TMP)
Klingon BOP
Serenity
Max (Flight of the Navigator)
Ebon Hawk (SW:KOTOR)
Enterprise (TOS)
Enterprise (TMP)
Klingon BOP
Serenity
Max (Flight of the Navigator)
Ebon Hawk (SW:KOTOR)
