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Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :

Mine in no particular order are:
Nautilus (20,000 Leagues under the Seas)
Spinner (Blade Runner)
Sulaco (Aliens)
Thunderbird 2
Aries moon shuttle (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

You want me to name my favorite five science-fiction spaceships, but they cannot be from Star Trek, Star Wars, or Babylon 5? That's gonna be tough, but I'll give it a whirl.

I like the Andromeda Ascendant from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. I think it's an interesting and very organic design. So curvy, so complex, and that AI is really sexy.

The Battlestar Galactica is a pretty interesting ship. Reminds me of an aircraft carrier cruising through the stars. It also tends to remind me of a Danube runabout.

The combat fighter from the movie The Last Starfighter. It's a powerful little ship that's is definitely derived from classic video games.

The NSEA Galaxy Quest from the movie Galaxy Quest. I really like the streamlined look of the ship. I especially like the engine design. It seems to be a radical off-shoot of the ST:TNG era warp nacelles. Very cool, in my opinion.

Then there's the ship from the movie Explorers. Not the alien vessel, the ship the kids made out of garbage and stuff in the garage. My friends and I saw this movie when we were youngsters. How much we wished that we, too, could build our own little ship.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Is this only including vehicles that have graced stage and screen?

I like the city from Dark City. It counts, I think.

I've never cared for the actual ships in Alien or Aliens or Crikey! More Aliens!, but the drop ship and APC from Aliens were neat.

Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :

Hmmm... difficult...

Lets see:

- Andromeda
- Roger Young from Starship Troopers
- Nebacanezar (sp?) from the Matrix
- Ravage's Stealth ship from Beast Wars Transformers.
- Tracks from the classic Transformers (the blue Corvette Stingray with wings)

Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :

#5 Son'a battleships. (Star Trek)
#4 Shadow battle crab. (Babylon 5)
#3 Excaliber. (Babylon 5)
#2 Akira-class Starship. (Star Trek)
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#1 The U.S.S. Saratoga (Space: Above and Beyond) By it's self, it can kick major ass but when it scambles it's fighters, you are in trouble. It can probably take out out of those junky Star Destroyers.

In all honesty. The Akira-class starship really doesn't make 2nd place with me. It's just there because I couldn't think of a ship worthy of 2nd place.

[ May 28, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]

Posted by JeffKardde (Member # 411) on :

I'm actually kind of partial to Duncan MacLeod's Thunderbird, honestly ...

Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

SA-43 Hammerhead from S:AaB (most flexible, well steered fighter I've seen, with fore and aft automatic laser turrets, yum)

His Divine Shadow's Flagship in "I worship His Shadow" of LEXX. (cool main gun which fires Shadow disruptor energy web stuff)

VF-1S Valkyrie (Fokker's Skull Squadron) from Macross/RoboTech

SuperDimensional Fortress "SDF-1" from Macross/RoboTech (I have a thing for blue/white color schemes too)

PatLabor Police Vehicle Type ZERO (with extendable arms and knife-sharp fingers for piercing blows and the updated, automated steering system, for increased manouverability and reaction time)

Consolation prize: Colonial Marines APC from Aliens...

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

The 2001 ships were wonderful. I got to see it last week, in widescreen format, on TCM.
Add Moya and Talyn to that list.

Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :

Talon from Farscape is cool indeed.

I also want to add (dare I say this...) the movie version White Falcon Zord...

Posted by Baron Soontir Fel (Member # 392) on :

1. OZ-00MS2B Tallgeese 3 from EW
2. VF-1S Valkyrie from Macross
3. The Tiger Claw from the Wing Commander movie
4. Andromeda Ascendant
5. Sulaco from Aliens
For good measure 6. YF-19 from Macross Plus

Posted by Pro. Portside (Member # 390) on :

The Event Horizen (the ship not movie)
and let's not forget the ships from the 5th Element. all of them.

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :

1. The Discovery (2001: A Space Odyssey)
2. The Event Horizon (Event Horizon)
3. Colonial Viper (Battlestar Galactica)
4. Earth Defence Force Starfighter (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
5. The Rodger Young (Starship Troopers)

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Can't think of five, but here's a pick:

Thunderbird 2
The Fireflash (Thunderbirds)
"Mothership" and others (from 'Homeworld' PC Game)

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

no particular order

That alien ship in The Fifth Element at the start.
The Goa'uld Pyramid ships from Stargate SG-1
That huge Alien ship in Antarctica in "The X-Files Movie"
The Jupiter Mining Corp. Mining Ship Red Dwarf
The T.A.R.D.I.S.

Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :

I never thought of this! We can choose ships from sci-fi games can't we? hehe. Here's my revised list then!

#5 that large Human science ship (Sphere)
#4 TAC fighter. (A sci-fi story I'm working on)
#3 Cyrollian warship (The Journeyman Project 3)
#2 Quo'Thalas warship (The Journeyman Project 3)
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#1 The U.S.S. Saratoga (Space: Above and Beyond) By it's self, it can kick major ass but when it scambles it's fighters, you are in trouble. It can probably take out out of those junky Star Destroyers.

P.S. I just remembered that I'm not supposed to have a ship from Star Trek, Star Wars, or B5 in the list. My top 5 favorite non-Star Trek, non-star wars, non-B5 ships I made the revisions.

[ June 03, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]

Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :

Too *gasp* many...

The Yamato
The Andromeda
The Arcadia
The troopships from ID4
The VF-1S Valkyrie [Strike augmentation]
The VF-2SS Valkyrie II {Strike augmentation]
The Gunstar
The Colonial Battlestar
The EDF fighters from Buck Rogers
The Pan-Am spaceplane from 2001
The Event Horizon
The Galaxy Rangers' interceptors
The Sulaco
The Cygnus from The Black Hole
That liquid metal spaceship from Flight of the Navigator...

Don't ask me to choose five out of that list. I narrowed it down as far as I could already.

--Jonah

Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :

No Space: Above and Beyonf ships?!? What kind of sick monster are you?!?

Posted by Eclipse (Member # 472) on :

In no particular order:

NSEA Protector - Galaxy Quest
A nice blend of ship and aircraft.
USS Saratoga - Space: Above And Beyond
Big, clunky, gets the job done. A bit like the Omega class destroyer.
USS Sulaco - Aliens
Ditto.
The Nomes' Ship - Wings
The idea of a big, black disc just appeals to me.

And I'm sorry, but a fifth evades me.

Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :

1. Veritech Valkerie VF-1S - Robotech
Jolly rodgers on the hood. Roy rulz. Rick's a whiner.

2. The Cygnus - The Black Hole
Looks like a haunted house in space.

3. Andromeda - Starblazers
Lock stock and two smoking barrels of wave motion fun.

4. Black Lion - Voltron
The toy looked dumpy, but the lion looked great on TV.

5. Sea Quest DSV - Sea Quest DSV
That is one big mutha.

[ June 16, 2001: Message edited by: Balaam Xumucane ]

Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :

Two reason why the SeaQuest wouldn't count for me is A) it's not a space vehicle but a submarine (maybe its counts, I dunno), and B) I personally never really got a good look at it, as every time I seemed to watch the show it was a murky, low detail squid-like thing in the far distance. I could never make out what it looked like in the big picture.

But my non Trek five could, off the top of my head be (in no real specific order):

1 Battlestar Galactica
2 The Antarian spaceship from 'Cocoon'
3 Apophis' starship from 'Stargate SG1'
4 Those ID4 city destroyers
5 The Rodger Young from Starship troopers

I also really loved that huge UFO from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

I used to dislike the design of the SeaQuest, but then, in one episode, they watched a 3d model representation of the SeaQuest, spinning it around and so. I had videotaped it so I could go back and forth to watch the design.

In another episode she was facing a real no-win situation, and they employed some sort of JetStream superdrive, only allowed in emergencies and very dangerous to the ship structure.
Some exhausts shifted position, four hatches opened in the stern and away she went! That was a cool manouvre.

Xumucane: I just watched the RoboTech episode where Rick stands next to the repaired Skull-1, "Paradise Lost", I think. Got some nice view up-close, she's a real beauty.

Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :

Nimrod: Ooooh! Yeah, I'm anxiously awaiting the Macross/Robotech DVD release. *drools* The creators seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time on the actual engineering of most of the veritechs. Maybe it's because they knew they'd be toys, but they are super cool. It's kind of ridiculous.

Red: As for the Sea Quest, I know they never really showed a lot of detail on it. I just thought it was great that they used such an organic shape and that the thing was so freakin' big! I dunno if anyone saw the first episode of Seaquest 2032 with the boat lying in the cornfield, but I thought that was pretty durned cool.

Posted by TerraZ (Member # 233) on :

For me, it would be the following:

5. The Sagittarius: Ha! I'm sure nobody has ever seen this one. It was and old green rocket ship from a kids anime called in French "Les aventuriers de l'espace". I mean, dispite the fact it was an old rocket rustbucket, it was still cool!

4. The Arrow (Wing Commander 3): I've never played the game, but that ship as a VERY cool design, all sleak with fins on top and bottom.

3. Practice plane (Wings of Honneyamise): I don't know why, but that blue plane would just look gorgeous in real life, with the rotors on the tail and the very compact frame.

2. YF-19 (Macross Plus): It's the best Macross design in my opinion. There's nothing more to say.

1. Swordfish II & Redtail (Cowboy Bebop): Both of these ships, belonging to Spike and Fay respectively, have striking design and lots of firepower!

Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

hmm
1) Discovery (2001)
2) Terran Battlecruiser (Starcraft)
3) Sulaco (Aliens)
4) Terran Wraith (Starcraft)
5) Can't think of one

Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :

The Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)
Those Nietzschean ships (Andromeda)
The Balance of Judgment (Andromeda)
Discovery (2001)
The Mars ships (Mission To Mars)

Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :

Oh, and, the Drej mothership from Titan A.E.. And the Drej fighters. And that other ships (not the Titan, not the Phoenix, the other one

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Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :

Do video games count? cause i really like the Dralthi from the original Wing Commander. not the movie, movie was dumb.

Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :

I also like the ships from Descent Freespace, And the Crusher from the old NES game GAlaxy 5000, although not a true space ship it is a vehicle.

Posted by Wes1701E (Member # 212) on :

- Andromeda (Andromeda)
- Yamato (Starship Troopers, the newer ship in the very end of the movie)
- Nebuchadnezzar (Matrix)
- Sulaco (Aliens)
- The O'Niel (Advanced Asgaurd ship from the Stargate SG-1 season 4 premiere)
- Mars 2 (Mission to Mars)

[ June 29, 2001: Message edited by: Wes1701E ]