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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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The Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) Those Nietzschean ships (Andromeda) The Balance of Judgment (Andromeda) Discovery (2001) The Mars ships (Mission To Mars)
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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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Do video games count? cause i really like the Dralthi from the original Wing Commander. not the movie, movie was dumb.
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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.
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- 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)
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