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None. the ships are what make me love sci-fi, not the derivative stories. i don't think there's ever been a "bad" ship design for me. Even the silly ones hold a special place in my heart.
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I'm not keen on all this modern 'organic' feel to ships. Give me the boxy, panelled ships of old any day. By organic ships I mean the likes of The White Star, and that horrible Andromeda, I don't like pretentious ship designs that look like they've just come out of a jello mold
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I don't like it when ships have too much surface detail, like they've been coated with glue and rolled in a spare parts box. A good ship design comes from a good shape, not from the surface detail. For this reason I'm not too fond of ships that came out right after the original Star Wars, like Battlestar Galactica and the Bad Guys' ship from Buck Rogers (both of which came from the Universal Hartland facility, I think).
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The ship I hate the most is this big black thing siumilar in shape to the Rebel Blockade Runner, that's shown up in countless cheap Sci-Fi movies (often Corman-produced) over the past 20 years. It first appeared, I believe, in Battle Beyond the Stars. Last seen as an Earth deep-space probe in a film called Terminal Voyage.
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Vader's Tie Prototype was ugly, but that didn't make it unlikable, fortunately. The angled wings compared to the ordinary TIEs flat ones was what made it so cool, IMO.
The big Minbari cruisers look like fishtank fish, like the big one in "A Fish Called Wanda". They may be powerful but they look stupid, like octopus craniums or something.
I think all fat, spherical ships are bad, generally, like the "Titan AE", or Flash Gordon's escape craft from earth. A Borg Sphere is different, because it's design is really dedicated to the idea.
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I don't like any ships with excesseve detail, or anyones that are assymetrical or organic shaped. like the Hutt dreadnought or th Mon Cal Cruisers.
I like my ships to be streamlined, sleek, and aerodynamic, like the A-wing or the Hapes Nova battlecruisers. or the Bop from Star Trek.
By the way. has anyone ever noticed the similarities between the HApes Nova and the Bop?
I don't like my ships blocky like the Star destroyers bridge.
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You think the bridge is blocky? But they've got such a nice layout with the control panels and the big window and that nice catwalk in the middle...
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not the interior bridge, i meant the superstructure. sorry for the confusion.
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To tell you the truth.. I like smoother looking ships. Not the super organic ones like 8472 or the Zerg from Starcraft, but ones like the Akira or Dauntless. I dont like boxy ones except for the borg... hehe.
I really hate uneven non symetrical designs. Those breen ships make me puke.
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Gee, I liked Leonev because of its brutal, overengineered lines. The filmmakers actually put in a centrifuge rather than relying on the magic of artificial gravity. Also, it never pays to criticize a Syd Mead design!
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