What is the best spaceship ever commited to science fiction and why?
I'm fond of spaceships ok, I quite like the 'Sulaco' in Aliens but it would be pretty slow, and the Iain Banks 'culture' ones are great too
Answers:
Star Trek's Voyager or Defiant.
no, Lexx is cool.
The 'Prometheus' from Stargate SG-1, that thrumming engine noise is cool!
I always liked the "Enterprise."
I'm fine with any spaceship that is not "aerodynamic" since that sort of streamlining isn't needed in space and makes for a very inefficient design.
Aloha
The starship Heart of Gold, instantaneous travel.
I like The Serenity from Firefly
I quite liked the "Liberator" out of Blake's 7, fantastic design. Thunderbird 3 is pretty cool too. X-Wing Fighters - the list is endless! I think they're my main three.
Read "Cities in Flight" by James Blish. They turned cities into space ships.
the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars.
For me it would be a toss up between the Millenium Falcon and the X-Wing fighter from Star Wars. The Millenium Falcon is after all the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. More importantly it's got great character. In fact it almost IS a character in it's own right, with it's technical woes adding to the plots of the movies.
And the X-Wing? Come on. That's one cool looking machine!
Liberator (Blakes 7) for something a little more personal
the Tardis as to be the ultimate Space/Time Vehicle but
if your going for the Classic Spaceship its the Liberator!
My first choice would have to be the Voidship in 'Destination:Void', 'The Jesus Incident', and 'The Lazarus Effect' by Frank Herbert, because after man made it conscious, it became God - ".decide how you will WorShip me.". Creepy. Then again, there was NYC in 'Cities In Flight' by James Blish. I mean, it's a spaceship, AND it's New York. What's not to love?
I’ve wondered about this myself (Yes, I’m sad & need a life)
5 – H G Wells - Martian Tripods – The image of them walking across London & destroying everything their heat ray.
4 – H G Wells – Time Machine – Basically a time travelling bath chair – Fantastic Victoriana.
3 – Star Trek - Enterprise D – Looks good & can separate in two.
2 – Star Wars - The Millennium Falcon – Again looks good & has character (does not always work, looks battle damaged).
1 – Dr Who – Tardis – Travels in TIME as well as space, bigger on the inside & is a 1960’s Police Box.
Dragonfall 5 read the books.
Millennium Falcon
The death-star, tie-fighters,tie-bombers,tie advanced. Xwing,falcon,
Depends on what class of spaceship. What about the ships out of battle star galactica cant remember any of there ships names..
The Lady Mac Beth out of Peter F Hamiltons Night's Dawn trilogy, near 6000! But Syrinx's void hawk Oenone is pretty cool, so are the GSVs like one particular renegade that secretly changes unfathomable amount of mass into engine to out pass acceleration of anything.
Why. read the books.
The first would have been the rifle bullet like one described in the Wells story "from the earth to the moon" One of my favorites would have to be voyager from the star trek franchise.
Star Trek's Enterprise-D. It's fast, a whole lot faster than "point five past lightspeed," (Star Wars fans will know what I'm talking about), it looks nice, and it can separate into two parts.
I like The Enterprise..NCC-1701.there might be a way to skip the warps in space.I'd love to be around to see it happen ~grinning~
The Winabago from Spaceballs! Ludicrous speed now!
Seriously the Jupiter Mining Corporation ship Red Dwarf, so called because it's red, and big!
Then there's the TARDIS, smaller on the outside, bigger in the middle.
I would include the colony ship from Hitchikers but you never see the outside.
The ship from Dune is a good concept, travelling without moving, very Zen.
Red Dwarf - funniest by far
To be honest, the Star Trek series has the best looking ships, but I must admit to having a secret fondness for the Klingon Battlecruisers.
from FireFly. the spaceship Serenity because it was the 9th main character of the show. they made it a home. if that makes any sense.
~peace~
Red dwarf
Thunderbird 3. Probably not strictly science fiction, but always looked like it had just had a full valet, even when it came back from nearly crashing into the sun.
Strictly speaking, this question belongs under "entertainment" rather than "astronomy and space," but it's an interesting question, so I will get into the spirit of it and not report you.
And the answer is clear: Beyond all question, the greatest all-around space ship ever created for a Sci-Fi story is the United Planets Cruiser D-57W (J.J. Adams, commanding) that appeared in the 1956 classic "Forbidden Planet."
Admit it: no other space ship ever used Liquid Born, Quandrum Mechanics, and Klystron Relays. Who else ever Short Circuited the Continuum on the ten-parsec level? And got the girl, too?
No way to beat it. The cleanest design and the most obviously practical magneto-gravitic controls and etherophasic propulsion ever seen. And those wonderful steps they recycled from old Greyhound busses.
And what other spacecraft ever allowed the Executive Officer to turn the Artificial Gravity off ("grav off!" *click!*) in the middle of a high-speed turn without spilling a drop of the Medical Officer's coffee?
Good old D-57W. She was the best!
the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars cuz they go out of the milkey way
I think that Tie Fighters would make great space crafts, giant solar panels, and enough room for compressed gas for acceleration, my opinion is that it is perfect.
Star trek and Star wars all very good but personally I have always liked the "baddie" and in Babylon 5, the shadows' ships were just great, all black and looking a little like spiders with too many legs. They looked nasty and the crew would probably be the baddest "bad guys" in the universe
UFOs are best for science fiction.Flying saucer is the most imaginative and mysterious name.
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Answers:
Star Trek's Voyager or Defiant.
no, Lexx is cool.
The 'Prometheus' from Stargate SG-1, that thrumming engine noise is cool!
I always liked the "Enterprise."
I'm fine with any spaceship that is not "aerodynamic" since that sort of streamlining isn't needed in space and makes for a very inefficient design.
Aloha
The starship Heart of Gold, instantaneous travel.
I like The Serenity from Firefly
I quite liked the "Liberator" out of Blake's 7, fantastic design. Thunderbird 3 is pretty cool too. X-Wing Fighters - the list is endless! I think they're my main three.
Read "Cities in Flight" by James Blish. They turned cities into space ships.
the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars.
For me it would be a toss up between the Millenium Falcon and the X-Wing fighter from Star Wars. The Millenium Falcon is after all the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. More importantly it's got great character. In fact it almost IS a character in it's own right, with it's technical woes adding to the plots of the movies.
And the X-Wing? Come on. That's one cool looking machine!
Liberator (Blakes 7) for something a little more personal
the Tardis as to be the ultimate Space/Time Vehicle but
if your going for the Classic Spaceship its the Liberator!
My first choice would have to be the Voidship in 'Destination:Void', 'The Jesus Incident', and 'The Lazarus Effect' by Frank Herbert, because after man made it conscious, it became God - ".decide how you will WorShip me.". Creepy. Then again, there was NYC in 'Cities In Flight' by James Blish. I mean, it's a spaceship, AND it's New York. What's not to love?
I’ve wondered about this myself (Yes, I’m sad & need a life)
5 – H G Wells - Martian Tripods – The image of them walking across London & destroying everything their heat ray.
4 – H G Wells – Time Machine – Basically a time travelling bath chair – Fantastic Victoriana.
3 – Star Trek - Enterprise D – Looks good & can separate in two.
2 – Star Wars - The Millennium Falcon – Again looks good & has character (does not always work, looks battle damaged).
1 – Dr Who – Tardis – Travels in TIME as well as space, bigger on the inside & is a 1960’s Police Box.
Dragonfall 5 read the books.
Millennium Falcon
The death-star, tie-fighters,tie-bombers,tie advanced. Xwing,falcon,
Depends on what class of spaceship. What about the ships out of battle star galactica cant remember any of there ships names..
The Lady Mac Beth out of Peter F Hamiltons Night's Dawn trilogy, near 6000! But Syrinx's void hawk Oenone is pretty cool, so are the GSVs like one particular renegade that secretly changes unfathomable amount of mass into engine to out pass acceleration of anything.
Why. read the books.
The first would have been the rifle bullet like one described in the Wells story "from the earth to the moon" One of my favorites would have to be voyager from the star trek franchise.
Star Trek's Enterprise-D. It's fast, a whole lot faster than "point five past lightspeed," (Star Wars fans will know what I'm talking about), it looks nice, and it can separate into two parts.
I like The Enterprise..NCC-1701.there might be a way to skip the warps in space.I'd love to be around to see it happen ~grinning~
The Winabago from Spaceballs! Ludicrous speed now!
Seriously the Jupiter Mining Corporation ship Red Dwarf, so called because it's red, and big!
Then there's the TARDIS, smaller on the outside, bigger in the middle.
I would include the colony ship from Hitchikers but you never see the outside.
The ship from Dune is a good concept, travelling without moving, very Zen.
Red Dwarf - funniest by far
To be honest, the Star Trek series has the best looking ships, but I must admit to having a secret fondness for the Klingon Battlecruisers.
from FireFly. the spaceship Serenity because it was the 9th main character of the show. they made it a home. if that makes any sense.
~peace~
Red dwarf
Thunderbird 3. Probably not strictly science fiction, but always looked like it had just had a full valet, even when it came back from nearly crashing into the sun.
Strictly speaking, this question belongs under "entertainment" rather than "astronomy and space," but it's an interesting question, so I will get into the spirit of it and not report you.
And the answer is clear: Beyond all question, the greatest all-around space ship ever created for a Sci-Fi story is the United Planets Cruiser D-57W (J.J. Adams, commanding) that appeared in the 1956 classic "Forbidden Planet."
Admit it: no other space ship ever used Liquid Born, Quandrum Mechanics, and Klystron Relays. Who else ever Short Circuited the Continuum on the ten-parsec level? And got the girl, too?
No way to beat it. The cleanest design and the most obviously practical magneto-gravitic controls and etherophasic propulsion ever seen. And those wonderful steps they recycled from old Greyhound busses.
And what other spacecraft ever allowed the Executive Officer to turn the Artificial Gravity off ("grav off!" *click!*) in the middle of a high-speed turn without spilling a drop of the Medical Officer's coffee?
Good old D-57W. She was the best!
the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars cuz they go out of the milkey way
I think that Tie Fighters would make great space crafts, giant solar panels, and enough room for compressed gas for acceleration, my opinion is that it is perfect.
Star trek and Star wars all very good but personally I have always liked the "baddie" and in Babylon 5, the shadows' ships were just great, all black and looking a little like spiders with too many legs. They looked nasty and the crew would probably be the baddest "bad guys" in the universe
UFOs are best for science fiction.Flying saucer is the most imaginative and mysterious name.
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