What Is Your Favorite Spaceship?

Question

We all have favorites. What is your favorite spaceship? Would you like to go to space?

Sixgunsound · Accepted Answer

Can I have the NX Enterprise? Not the show just the ship. It is one of the better designed and more believable ships of any TV series; maybe or maybe not aesthetically but for what the show universe needed it to do, it was the best. It’s not an overpowered fanfic, it’s not the biggest or the best at anything, but it does reflect the pre-federation human military design philosophy, and still manages to also ge a science ship and be a diplomatic ship and be a tough nut to crack. The Enterprise A and refit were cool, the B was a fanfic, the C was just basically skipped but had potential, the D was an insult to the memory of the previous ships, and the E is a gigantic, overpowered fanfic that is as nimble as a fighter plane with the power to slay borg cubes. I’ll take the NX and the era it served in any day of the week.

MuddyMole · Accepted Answer

The Nostromo, from "Alien", and the derelict from "Aliens". There's amazing attention to detail, and the contrast between the two is very striking. There's an interesting article about the typography (among other things) here: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/

Also, I know these don't really count, but anyway...

The Sarang facility from "Moon". Again, the attention to detail is incredible, especially on such a low budget. The film's conceptual designer, Gavin Rothery, has a wonderful website, packed with fascinating behind-the-scenes stuff here: http://www.gavinrothery.com/they-never-went-to-the-moon

The Omega 76 space station from "Space Station 76". It's a generally terrible movie, but a great example of retrofuturism, which I love.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

The millennium falcon was built a short drive from me at pembroke dock and is the last "ship" they built. Sadly it was chopped up for firewood after filming.
But we do have a housing estate built in the same shape

Secret6620 · Accepted Answer

I voted E!  I haven't seen any of these movies but the Battlestar Galactica really caught my attention.  My eyes just kept naturally gravitating to it.

goaded · Answer

I went with the Enterprise, but since other people are referring to video game ships, mine would have to be the Cobra, seen bottom left in this incredibly high resolution and realistic screenshot. Well done Commander!

Anonymous · Answer

Overall I think probably Voyager is the best, it has a broad range of capabilities, its nice inside and strikes a nice balance in size; you can land it on a planet if you want or need to without much fuss but it is strong enough to defeat or at least escape from any potential adversary (especially in the final episodes where it is upgraded with advanced borg technology, notably including deployable ablative armour).

It also has the highly developed Emergency Medical (and later Command) Hologram, as portrayed with excellent performances by Robert Picardo, this feature alone really singles out this ship as being vastly superior to other sci fi offerings.

Shy_Steve · Answer

I like the design of the Enterpise and the millennium Falcon, But I think the Enterprise has a design floor because if the engines are on the lower part of the ship, So if it were to propel it forward at the speed of light so to speak the bottom part would simply break off without the top part.

DarkWinterNights · Answer

One of my own creations. It’s a blend of a Star Destroyer type shape but it has hexagonal docking bays on either side like a Battlestar. I named it the Solaris. If I find one of the pictures of it later I’ll link it.

NathanDavis · Answer

the Corvette Transport Rodger Young

Snsl153 · Answer

I'm glad you have the original (and only, in my view) "Galactica" there, and not the one from the crappy SJW remake of the show.

MysticDevice · Answer

Probably the Normandy SR-2 From Mass Effect. Runner ups are, Destiny and Odessey from Stargate Universe and Atlantis respectively USS Defiant from Startrek DS9 Rocinante from The Expanse