[Closed] What's you favourite spaceship?

Moya and her driver.

(I've got a colleague that looks like Chiana!)

Thanks Druidh - downloading right now. Is it named after the ooo-laaa martian thingy in War of the Worlds?

I don't play computer games me. I'll let you know if this is no longer true at 4am 😉

Off to the anarchic end of the galaxy! Byeeee!

I just like to colour.

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Romulan Warbird's always look more menacing face on.

From Ulysses 31

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Well theres something to be said for the event horizon i mean apart from the fact its pure evil its got a drive that opens a frickin black hole and one cool lifeboat system.
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The Serenity from Firefly has got a fond place in my heart for pure industrialism and general Shonkiness.

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shiny 🙂

For the "trivialists"...

If you watch the pilot episode of BSG, get to the scene where Laura is being told of her cancer, look behind her and you'll see a Firefly coming in to land.

1. Imperial Star Destroyer (Star Wars)

You knows it. No contest.

2. The Event Horizon (Event Horizon, funnily enough)

LOL! How uncanny is that??!? 😯

3. Slave I (Boba Fett's ship, Star Wars. Gotta love a ship that looks like an iron...)

I always thought it looked like some sort of orbital sander/polisher, or a hair dryer or something.

Dwelller Planetary defence craft from the "The Algebraist" by Iain M Banks. No pics of it anywhere, but for sheer destructive kick ass power it can't be beat.

(Sorry - It's 23.07hrs standard earth time, I'm posting sci-fi gibberish - does this make me a nerd?)

Right. Spaceships what don't appear in a visual form, in a film or owt, don't count. If it ain't in a pic, it ain't allowed.

Fair enough?

Rudeboy - point taken.

I'll back out with my respect intact...

Or has that been done away with by my initial attempt at entering the fray?!!!

(Good book though - worth a read)

Never give up , never give in

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This has got to be the scariest and most awesome sounding spaceshipthing!!

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if not the BSG vipers are fairly cool but the original 1980's vipers sound way better on take off and shooting cylons!

Spaceships what don't appear in a visual form, in a film or owt, don't count. If it ain't in a pic, it ain't allowed.

Fair enough?

Seems a bit arbitrary to me.

A Imperial Star Destroyer is impressive but so is one on The Culture's Systems Class GSVs. 200km long! I just can't find a picture.

I did find this one of an Orbital though. 10,000,000k in circumference!
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Gotta love a spaceship shaped like a gun.

jeeez what a bunch of geeks 🙂

While searching for pictures of Culture craft I found that 'State of the Art', one of Banks' short stories, has been made into a BBC radio play.

I downloaded a copy [url= http://huffduffer.com/adactio/4454 ]here[/url].

+1 for Serenity

1) Fleur de Lance (the specification kept me scribbling when I was a kid)

2) Suluco - As NickC said; plus the Cayenne dropships and the APC 🙂

3) H-Type Nubian Yacht from Episode 1

So it's true; we're all nerds. We should hold a Sci-Fi film-night!

Here's where I show my true geek credentials. I have a black MA1 jacket with proper crew patches from the Leonov, from 2010, and a flight suit with a complete set of crew patches for the Nostromo, complete with the baseball hat. Probably worth a bit on fleabay nowadays. Must say I do love the Sulaco's drop-ship; kind of out-atmosphere A10 Thunderbolt. Nifty.

Oh, and Rudeboy, don't go changing the rules at this point. The OP did not specify whether a ship had to be illustrated, just your favourite. The OP's choice, AFAIK, has never been illustrated, and if it has it was after it was first described. I'm gonna stick with Culture ships, because they are intelligent, arbitrary, largly amoral, frakking huge and have such cool names. So there.

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For the "trivialists"...

If you watch the pilot episode of BSG, get to the scene where Laura is being told of her cancer, look behind her and you'll see a Firefly coming in to land.

Will have to find that one... just for pure geekiness! I was gutted when I found they were ditching 'Serenity' after only one series.

I'm gonna stick with Culture ships, because they are intelligent, arbitrary, largly amoral, frakking huge and have such cool names. So there.

Well if that is what a ship should be/do I think the incal lumière ship kick ass...

**** me!!

Just as i think that this forum cannot get any sadder!

'whats your favourite spaceship?' Good God!!!

😉

I used to like the interceptor from the U.F.O. series by Gerry Anderson.

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Technically, not a spaceship, more of a time machine, but there's one for sale [url= http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/www/cars/DELOREAN/Ne-2-4-5-6-7-8-27-44-49-53-61-64-67-103-133-146-236,N-240-4294882683/advert.action?R=200916332813373&distance=379&postcode=dd2+3db&channel=CARS&make=DELOREAN&model=&min_pr=&max_pr=&max_mileage=&vehicleYearOfManufacture=1982&vehicleRegLetter= ]here[/url]

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Just because it played an cool tune and made you do odd things with mashed potato!
😀

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good telecommunications systems

Myrmidon from Eve Online... many more space ships goodies there.

Strange that no-one has mentioned Eve Online...

Also for Sci-Fi goodness it would be a light hugger from Alistair Reynolds... maybe the Nostalgia for Infinity. Although I like Banks culture ships as well...

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i AM the material defender

Oooh - Olly - nice one. I spent hours/days/weeks "flying" that thing. Good online gaming system too - even if it did involve dial-up modems 🙂

Pah spaceships are so yesterday! This is what you need for those faster than light trips around the galaxy...
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But my favouriteship has to be this, none of this super advanced high tech malarkey!
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Daedalus from Stargate SG1

Before Farscapes Moya, we had The Lexx! 😆

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Myrmidon from Eve Online... many more space ships goodies there.

Strange that no-one has mentioned Eve Online...

Also for Sci-Fi goodness it would be a light hugger from Alistair Reynolds... maybe the Nostalgia for Infinity. Although I like Banks culture ships as well...

I was going to post teh RMR ship poster from teh eve-o wiki but it's the size of a house! Personally I <3 my Moros.

good question, but mtbcol beat me to it, i'd forego a spaceship in preference to a transportation device so long as i could fit my toys (surfboard, bike etc) in as well. and for the surfing especially, maybe a time travel element would be desirable as well so i can go back 100 yrs or so and score utterly empty waves.

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Well done mrchrispy

Nice screengrab mrchrispy. I remember the scene, but I never noticed the Firefly landing, and I'm pretty good at spotting things like that. I love it when programme producers drop in little references to other series.

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Thinking about ships from various series, in particular the B5 ShadowShips, I suddenly remembered I had a real fondness for these:
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The rather beautiful Minbari Sharlin Heavy Cruiser

No heart of gold yet?
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