Borg Cube - they just rock
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There you go... all the others can run and hide now
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Elite? In colours? Did I miss something?
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Top 3:
1. Imperial Star Destroyer (Star Wars)
2. The Event Horizon (Event Horizon, funnily enough)
3. Slave I (Boba Fett's ship, Star Wars. Gotta love a ship that looks like an iron...)
smoke me a kipper i`ll be back for breakfast
Shinzon's Scimitar from Star Trek Nemesis.
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Flesh Gordons motor wernt to bad!
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Yay, sonor put up my favourite, a Bab5 Shadow Ship! Just wonderful, semi-sentient biomachine. Lovely design. I also loved Fireball XL5, I've got a lovely large diecast model, Liberator, and any number of the ships from Banks' universe. I also rather liked the shape-changing starship from The Last Starfighter.
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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CountZero - MemberNice 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.
Does that make [i]me[/i] the Übergeek then?
soma_rich said
No heart of gold yet?
There was one on page 2. Worth a repeat though.
Culture ships for sure. Not sure orbitals count as they are constructs that are stationary, and I can't rememeber if they have a Mind in them.
Clear Air Turbulance (CAT) for shear life-likeness and shonky all round charm (ok, I know its fictional!) but Consider Phelbas was pretty life-like and unlike a holywood movie and I hope they never make a film of it!
Have a look here for [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture) ]Culture Ship names[/url]
SSP
Zoic the company that did Special Effects on Firefly (they worked on all the other Joss Whedon shows too)did the Special effect on BSG as well. geek points, i want them. 🙂
don't thank me, it was my google underpants.
apparently the company doing the cgi for BSG also did firefly.
if i had to choose it'd be either starbug or a culture ship.
from the best sci-fi film ever
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Singlespeedpunk said:
Culture ships for sure. Not sure orbitals count as they are constructs that are stationary, and I can't rememeber if they have a Mind in them.
They definitely have Minds. The one in 'Look to windward' used to be a Ship.
Matthewjb, not read Look to windward yet 🙂 So many good books not enough time!
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Mtbcol but it is advanced it use's Asgard and Goa'uld technology.
Matthewjb, not read Look to windward yet
It's my favourite Culture novel. Less geeky spaceships but a great story.
redthunder you are sooo right. I had forgotten all about elite.
The Blue Peter Geekdestroyer
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I think [i]Grey Area[/i] and [i]Frank Exchange of Views[/i] are probably two of my favourite Culture Minds/Ships, out of many. Love those books, read the whole lot one after another recently, 'cos Waterstones were doing 3 for 2 on them, and I'd only ever had library copies out.
Can't be ar*ed to see if it has been done yet, but my childhood one was...
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Dammit, someone beat me to it... I'd have the Sulaco, complete with dropships for those trips to the shops.
Never really took a fancy to the Firefly... It always seemed like a bit of a dump in both the series and the film, and it's not fast or cool. The Millenium Falcon could easily have it.
Nah, I'm sticking with the pride of the USCMC.
thunderbird 4
Jedi, do you mean Thunderbird3?
4 was the submersible..
Hmmmm Andromeda because it has the hot ships computer Romy /rawr and because looks cool
Mastiles - you'd think those clever SHADO people who managed to get a moonbase up and running, plus nice little spaceships would come up with a way of have more than one missile on their spaceship wouldn't you.....?
no i meant thunderbird4 underwater or in space as a kid it was my favourite.
i was an adult when i realised it was a submerine 🙂 🙂
Believe it or not, Thunderbird 4 did actually exist, it's the only bit of Thunderbirds that wasn't fiction, I kid you not! look here, this is the actual real thunderbird 4 setting off on a rescue:
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Great thread folks!
I always liked this one...
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And in Eve Online, I fly one of these freudian beauties...
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Chatting with a mate tonight on the way back from watching Wolverine: Origins, and he mentioned another ship I thought was really cool at the time, and that was the B5 Star Fury fighters. Terrific looking craft. Oh, and the latest Battlestar Galactica Cylon BaseStar capital ships are nifty. Still not as cool as the Shadow or Minbari ships.