My top 10 spaceships of all time

POSTED BY: Moss
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MOSS

Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:30 AM

Let's let our hair down, admit we love cool spaceships & have some fun with this one. Are you game?

What's your favourite ship(s) & why?

1 Millenium Falcon-(Star Wars) Who hasn't imagined owning one? after all it could make the Kessle run in less than 12 parsects. How cool is that?
2. X wing fighter (Star Wars) - The Tomcat of the stars, Lock "s-foils" in attack position, nuff said.
3. The last starfighter "Guntstar" the Swiss Army Knife of the stars. Supercool ship, excellent name and whoever thought of a weapon called "death blossom" was a genius. Would have whooped an x-wings ass.
4. Victory class Imperial Star Destroyer. (Star Wars)Totally awsome ship, but a high staff turnover in senior managment.
5. Battlestar Galactica: the latest edition is an excellent interpretation and better than the original in my opinion. I always wanted to see this ship arrive at earth and sort us all out. Anyhow, the Cylons wouldn't last 2 seconds in Iraq.
6. Police car from Blade Runner. Not a spaceship per se' but imagine turning up to a party in one of these. It has the best dashboard I have seen in any scifi film and is real intimidating.
7. In at number 7 is our beloved Serenity. It would be number two if this thread were "top 10 spaceships that I would want to take my mates travelling in", but it's not as pretty as the ones listed above.
8. Eagle Transporter Space 1999. I loved the design , in true 2001 stylee, something you could imagine NASA actually building.
9 The Liberator - Blakes 7, Sleek and unique. I have to be serious about this one because I loved Blakes 7. I don't know if anyone from the states knows this one. Big ship with talking computer called Zen.
10. USS Enterprise NCC 1701, there are probably far more worthy ships but no list would have been complete with out old NeCCy. My fave is the re-conditioned model as seen in the motion picture- Introduced us all to Warp speed, phasers and photon torpedoes- love to see some going head to head with the Empire, or bumping into the Battlestar Galactica & giving it to the Cylons big time.

Almost made it.
SKYDIVER- (Gerry Andersons UFO) If Carlsberg made submarines this would be it. Again not a spaceship but a 'U-boat' sized submarine (Diver) with a jet interceptor on the front (Sky). The best working environment on any scifi vehicle, space or otherwise. Female members of the crew had to wear string vests and hot pants in a hot confined space. Man what a great idea.
Nesquik Bunny's Hopcraft (see the links below).
USS Discovery- (2001) Would't have lasted long against a Star Destroyer and not very manouverable. The intro shot from Star Wars with the Star Destroyer owes a lot to this ship.
The Death Star- Space Station the size of a moon with a serious design flaw. When it was first seen in the cinemas no one on the planet had seen anything like it. Named "The Ultimate Force in the Universe" it got blown up by a lone snub fighter with a broken stabiliser being flown by some blindfold farmboy". Death Star 2 was a larger, more powerful replacement, it too was destroyed by a lone snubfigher and a small freighter. Bummer.
The Space Shuttle- Amongst the bravest people in the world climb aboard this glider on a giant firework knowing that there's a high probability that they're not going to see the Earth again. True heroes, keeping the dream real.

I have probably forgotten loads.

Also anyone who is into spaceships you must visit http://www.zemi.net/shipyard/
These guys are taking it to the extreme, looking at their work makes me smile.

P.S Firefly is the best scifi Tv show ever made, ney best tv show period(equal only to Band of Brothers). Bring it back you b######s.

RABBIT2

Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:58 PM

All of the above and also.

1, Dr Who`s Tardis. Bigger inside than outside and changes shape on the outside for camoflage. Only it dosn`t.
2, The Russian Soyuz, developed originally for the Soviet Moon program and currently the most reliable manned spacecraft ever built.
3, The Imperial and Super class Stardestroyers for the same reason as the Victory.
4,The B5 Starfury, the most practical looking fictional starfighter design to date.
5, The Leonov from 2010, if only for the Jupiter aerobreaking scene.
6. the C57D from Forbidden Panet, classic 1950`s flying saucer.

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Me: Don`t crash?

MICJWELCH

Sunday, March 19, 2006 2:55 PM

I can't remember the name of the ship at the moment, but there was an episode of Star Trek Voyager where the Doctor was somehow sent to the Alpha Quadrant and met an alternate version of himself. The ship they had in the episode was nice. Split 3 ways instead of 2 like the Enterprise. If anybody remembers the name of that ship it'd be great.

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

DERANGEDMILK

Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:04 PM

That ship was the Prometheus and hell yea did it kick ass. 4 warp engines! I bought a game a few years back called Starship Creator I think. You get to build your own star trek type ship and the Prometheus class was on there(don't think this is a recomendation for that game, it sucked after you built the ship).
Also, surprised noone mentioned the Defiant. That little ship rocked. Clocking device, four forward quantum torpedoe bays. That ship would definitely make my top ten.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

OKAMI

Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:56 PM

All right Im in

#1 The Millennium Falcon. It started the trend
#2 Serenity. It is just too cool not to be on here
#3 A Viper from BSG. Old or new I dont care they were kick ass.
#4 Y-wing. Yeah every one loves the X-wing but give me the long range fighter bomber
#5 The Bebop. Because cowboy bebop rules.
#6 The Outlaw star. See above
#7 The Defiant. One of the best things to come out of DS9
#8 Veritech VF series. Not technicly spaceships but they werespace worthy
#9 The Gay Deciver. In many Heinlen books space craft that could also traverse time and dimensions.Nuff said.
#10 The Gunstar. From last starfighter.Nice and has an Alpha strike button.

Operative:Do you know what your sin is Mal?

Mal: Aww hell I'm a fan of all seven...But right now I'm gonna go with Wrath.

CYBERSNARK

Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:34 PM

The Andromeda Ascendant. A fully-sapient AI, enough firepower to defoliate a planet, nova bombs, point-defense turrets, and a whole passel of fighters, fighter drones, and sensor drones, any one of which can be remote-controlled by the AI. Everything it needs is produced by onboard factories (raw materials come from asteroids which the ship can "eat"). It also includes the Twins, a pair of Battletech rejects that can be deployed for ground ops, as well as an army of robots, DRD-style maintenance droids, full holographic systems, and one Ship-Made-Flesh android, all of them controlled by (or partitioned subunits of) the AI.

Also, she's beautiful. Built by angels. Well, Vedrans. Same diff.

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DAVESHAYNE

Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:48 PM

1) Serenity
2) Heart of Gold (the movie version)
3) Suleiman Type S Scout/Courier*
4) Space Battleship Yamato
5) Tigress*
6) Azhanti High Lightning*
7) Millenium Falcon
8) Saturn V rocket with Apollo lander
9) Vogon Constructor Ships (the yellow ones from the TV series.)
10) Heart of Gold (The TV version)

*From the Traveller RPG

David

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

MATTCOZ

Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:53 PM

Ha, yeah, Andy Dick as the new holographic doctor model, good ep.

DERANGEDMILK

Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:58 PM

Was it Andy Dick??? Man, I totally forgot...that ship was frackin' awesome though.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

MATTCOZ

Sunday, March 19, 2006 7:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by derangedmilk:
Was it Andy Dick??? Man, I totally forgot...that ship was frackin' awesome though.

You know, I've just started watching BSG but I just can't get on board with "frackin'", just ends up sounding goofy.

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