I know most of these were fantasy based, but I really grew up loving the allure of the real deal. One of the only times ever two shuttles were up and ready for launch because of the Columbia LOVC (Loss of Vehicle and Crew). <3
Most of my favorites have been mentioned already but i think Sins of a Solar Empire deserves some love, some of the Capital ships and titans have great designs:
For me it's Enterprise D. I mean come on, it's like a luxurious cruise ship in space... that also kicks major ass with it's phasers and torpedoes. Best of both worlds right there.
Mal: You know what the first thing of flying is, Little Albatross? Well of course you do. You can read my mind.
River: I want to hear you say it.
Mal: Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
LEXX because it's the most powerful spaceship in the universe.
Narada because it looks evil as shit.
Yamato because deal with it.
Yup, LEXX is pretty great. Like everything in that show it's so ridiculously suggestive, and the power and sheer size of that thing is wonderful too. I remember the intro that episode where they first encounter that recurring cannibal girl, you see her pod flying towards the ship, getting smaller and smaller to the point you can't see it anymore, and then there's a small explosion when it hits, just a great way to show how massive a ship it is.
Now I wish most of the LEXX fansites weren't gone. :(
Clearly the best spaceship would include a Mr. Radar, a Mr. Coffee, a Mr. Rental, a three-ring circus, a zoo, the ability to beam people to other rooms with their heads on backwards, the ability to transform into a mega-maid with a vacuum, and most important, the ability to go beyond light speed, beyond ridiculous speed, all the way to... ludicrous speed. *GASP*
Executor class Star Destroyers are pretty cool. Aside form that i really like the Caitian Atrox from STO. Aaaaand...i can't attach any images or anything cause this thing seems to be broken and all the options up top are gone. Ha.
I'm fairly partial to the SA-43 "Hammerhead" fighter and John F. Kennedy-class space carrier from Space: Above and Beyond. Also a fan of the Akira-class heavy cruiser from Star Trek.
LEXX because it's the most powerful spaceship in the universe.
Narada because it looks evil as shit.
Yamato because deal with it.
Yup, LEXX is pretty great. Like everything in that show it's so ridiculously suggestive, and the power and sheer size of that thing is wonderful too. I remember the intro that episode where they first encounter that recurring cannibal girl, you see her pod flying towards the ship, getting smaller and smaller to the point you can't see it anymore, and then there's a small explosion when it hits, just a great way to show how massive a ship it is.
Now I wish most of the LEXX fansites weren't gone. :(
Man, LEXX was a weird show, like some bizarre Canadian+German Dr. Who.
Gah! I was rapidly scrolling through everything hoping I'd be the first to post this exact image. Oh well.
Seriously though, I don't think anything will ever touch the Enterprise-D.
Definitely throwing in another vote for the Enterprise-D here! She has the top spot in my collection for a reason--I've been in love with that ship since I was, like, four. That said, I at least like pretty much every ship in this thread so far! Particularly chuffed that the ol' Liberator got some love.
I actually just used ST: Bridge Commander to test out the video recording feature of the Windows Xbox app a couple of days ago, and made a video of a battle between the Enterprise-D and the Normandy SR2--another favourite, though I go back and forth on whether I prefer the SR1... Anyways, I had planned to just leave it rattling around my hard drive, but this thread seems like the right sort of place to put it, so I chucked it up on YouTube:
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(The fight wraps up around the 03:40 mark--I just messed around for a bit after that. Don't worry, there's no commentary--for one thing, I don't have a mic set up, and for another, I wouldn't dare subject the internet to a video that included my actual voice.)
Kinda surprised no one has brought up this gem yet.
Enterprise A? Ewwww, gross.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant:
Aw, no way! The refit/Enterprise-A is - IMHO etcetera - just dramatically prettier than the original. Like, the original is, well, the original Enterprise, so it wins some points for that, but aesthetically - and, honestly, sentimentally, at least for me - I'd rank it way below the refit. Like, for me, the D's in first, then there's the refit/A in second - at least, if we're excluding Andrew Probert's original concept for the Ambassador class/Enterprise-C, which was sadly never used on-screen - and then you've gotta go several Enterprises down before you get to the original.
@kirkyx: I think I have a negative reaction to the Enterprise cinematic redesign because Robert Wise spent a 15 minute sequence drooling all over it, and I just don't like being hit over the head with all the "Look how majestic it is!" footage. Star Trek is about the people on the ship, the hardware should be in the background. Also I hate that Star Trek 3 establishes that the refitted Enterprise can basically be flown by 6 people.
It's easy to forget how unique that original Enterprise design was (especially when every Star Trek ship has endlessly copied that design for 50 years), but it's a minor miracle that an American 60s science fiction TV show managed to get a starship on screen that didn't look like a flying saucer or a rocket ship with sparks coming out of the back. And yet at the same time it's a very unassuming design, it doesn't call attention to itself.
Also, I'm sorry to say I don't like the Enterprise D design either. The saucer section is way too big, it looks like it has gigantism. The Enterprise E design was pretty cool, I like how much of a departure it was, though it was mostly wasted on some terrible terrible movies.
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