Ok.... C'mon. Favourite Spaceship!

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UPDATED: Friday, June 9, 2006 22:36
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JIGMAN

Friday, June 9, 2006 12:45 AM

For cargo hauling: A Guild Ship from Dune(granted, I would have to be a twisted mutant to fly it but, oh wait I'm good to go).

For on my own with peacefull voyages: USS Discovery, aethetically pleasing ship, and I can have existential discussions over a game of chess with HAL when I get bored, as long as he doesn't act up.

For a medium crew: Either the USS Reliant or the USS Stargazer. I love the predatory look of the Reliant, and the functional look of the Stargazer.

For war: A modern battlestar from the new series. Damn tough, Damn Powerful, and Damn Cool. Just make sure to not have the computers networked together...

For a fighter: A fully decked out TIE Defender. Those things packed a wallop, could take a beating, and have a hyperdrive. Oh yeah, they were as fast and manuverable as an Interceptor too...

For making a helluva first impression: Either the Event Horizon or the SSD.

For...ever: Serenity

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All good things must come to an end.

JIGMAN

Friday, June 9, 2006 12:46 AM

For cargo hauling: A Guild Ship from Dune(granted, I would have to be a twisted mutant to fly it but, oh wait I'm good to go).

For on my own with peacefull voyages: USS Discovery, aethetically pleasing ship, and I can have existential discussions over a game of chess with HAL when I get bored, as long as he doesn't act up.

For a medium crew: Either the USS Reliant or the USS Stargazer. I love the predatory look of the Reliant, and the functional look of the Stargazer.

For war: A modern battlestar from the new series. Damn tough, Damn Powerful, and Damn Cool. Just make sure to not have the computers networked together...

For a fighter: A fully decked out TIE Defender. Those things packed a wallop, could take a beating, and have a hyperdrive. Oh yeah, they were as fast and manuverable as an Interceptor too...

For making a helluva first impression: Either the Event Horizon or the SSD.

For...ever: Serenity

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All good things must come to an end.

JIGMAN

Friday, June 9, 2006 12:47 AM

arrg, double post. soory.

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All good things must come to an end.

BROWNCOATSANDINISTA

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:49 AM

I liked the dropship in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. As long as I get the powered armour with the gel launcher for Air drops.

The Longsword outta Halo was pretty cool. Some awfully effective guns as demonstrated in the end-of-mission cutscene in the first level.

That SA-43 Hammerhead made me think of the X-30_ Series in Stargate SG-1. Or maybe it's the other way around..? Still pretty darn cool.

I don't know if its spaceworthy, but the Wraith in Starcraft is pretty cool.

If anyone gets nosy...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.

CYBERSNARK

Friday, June 9, 2006 3:05 PM

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Originally posted by BrowncoatSandinista:
That SA-43 Hammerhead made me think of the X-30_ Series in Stargate SG-1. Or maybe it's the other way around..?

X-302, BTW. X-303 was the Not-Enterprise, and X-301 was the death glider with USAF decals slapped on.

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CRUITHNE3753

Friday, June 9, 2006 4:20 PM

Oooh, another, very practical reason for Serenity:-

TOILETS.

What do you do if you're billions or trillons of kilometres from anywhere and you're busting? I don't recall seeing a khazi of any description on the likes of any Federation starships, Imperial warships, or White Star, Liberator or whatever. No wonder the crew of Voyager were so keen on getting back to the Alpha quadrant.

The only other ship I recall having toilets was the lunar shuttle in 2001, but the instructions for using the zero-g facilities are rather daunting...

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 9, 2006 7:56 PM

Star Trek did have toilets, they just didn't show them often.

Star Trek V is well known for toilet in the Enterprise’s brig (If you didn't notice it the toilet is the toilet shaped thing with a sign including the word "toilet" by it. Kirk sits on, but does not use, it.) In fact the inclusion of a toilet is one of the few things for which Star Trek V is praised.

On the Enterprise-D the door to a restroom was on the bridge and clearly marked, yet most people don't notice it. The thing is that because the door is on the bridge is appears constantly. When was the last time there was an episode of Star Trek that didn't include a shot of the bridge?

Of course what these two examples lack is someone actually using toilets.

You could argue that because they never show the inside of the restroom in The Next Generation people didn't take notice, but if the door to the restroom isn't enough to make you think there is a toilet the door to a stall wouldn't be either, and Star Trek V pointed out that even if you show the toilet itself, put a sign near it indicating it is a toilet, and then make the characters physically touch it so it won't be ignored, people will ignore it.

I guess you just have to drop your pants and use it if you want people to notice and that's just not something you do in Star Trek. In Star Trek people only go when no one, camera included, is looking.

CESARE

Friday, June 9, 2006 8:24 PM

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Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
Oooh, another, very practical reason for Serenity:-

TOILETS.

What do you do if you're billions or trillons of kilometres from anywhere and you're busting? I don't recall seeing a khazi of any description on the likes of any Federation starships, Imperial warships, or White Star, Liberator or whatever. No wonder the crew of Voyager were so keen on getting back to the Alpha quadrant.

The only other ship I recall having toilets was the lunar shuttle in 2001, but the instructions for using the zero-g facilities are rather daunting...

Toilets are definitely essential.
(Again, I'd prefer the toilets on Lexx - they seem quite a lot of fun to use... However distasteful the whole design and concept seems at first glance... Who wouldn't want a toilet with a tongue...;-))

DUG

Friday, June 9, 2006 9:08 PM

And once you know where the toilet is on the bridge of ST:NG you'll get a kick out of how often the person in command is in the loo when they are needed. Scenes frequently begin with Picard/ Riker/ whoever has the bridge coming onto the scene from the toilet. Never noticed anyone drying their hands, though....

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 9, 2006 10:36 PM

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Originally posted by dug:
And once you know where the toilet is on the bridge of ST:NG you'll get a kick out of how often the person in command is in the loo when they are needed. Scenes frequently begin with Picard/ Riker/ whoever has the bridge coming onto the scene from the toilet. Never noticed anyone drying their hands, though....

That's why they put it on the bridge, can you imagine if they had to come out the door, go down the hall, get in the turbo lift, and then come up to the bridge at the start of all those scenes?

As for the lack of hand drying, they use a sonic shower, why not a sonic faucet? Or a better toilet system that doesn't require making your hands need to be washed, or ... or maybe they're just not hygienic.

Maybe that's why Starfleet personal get such weird diseases, if they just washed their hands they'd never de-evolve into prehistoric beasts and what's the one disease from the Original Series that came back in The Next Generation? The one where they walk around looking at their hand.

You've come across something that will require us to look at Star Trek in a whole new light.

No doubt it will take Trekologists years to fully understand the ramifications of this discovery.

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