What is your favorite spaceship? (Topic 3 years old)

Across all settings, what is your personal favorite spaceship? Could be a fighter, could be a cruiser, could be a frigate. Could be a factory model, could be the only one of its kind. But it has to travel through space.

I like these:

1. The "deterrence fleet" - in The Evolutionary Void (DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU EVER PLAN TO READ THE BOOK: the entire "fleet" of a galaxy spanning human civilization doesn't even exist until needed, and then it is a single dude made into essentially an electron matrix lacking any physical dimensions, thus unaffected by conventional weapons, unconstrained by speed limits of ftl travel and able to freely affect any other ships as it's pleases, and in the end it doesn't even do jack shit to affect the events oops)
2. GSV Sleeper Service - in Excession
3. Discworld - Discworld novels duh

They turn a dude into the Matrix, got it.

I love the Normandy.

I am kind of being unfair tho and maybe a little childish. (to myself and maybe the intent of the topic) :P

Something written in a book exists mostly in my imagination and will therefore always seem cooler then something visual. Also kind of unfair are sentient ships, a personality goes a long way for making something more interesting right on the starting line. The final unfairness is scale the first and last examples are technically spaceships but on completely opposite sides of the spectrum (and thus could be argued to not even be spaceships).

My second answer the GSV Sleeper Service is really the only "classical" spaceship.

Even though my screen name is from a game, it's funny than my favourite spaceship is also named the same thing.

The Gunstar from The Last Starfighter!

@fattony12000 said:

I like these:

Yuuuuup. These things are awesome. Size is somewhat ridiculous but then again the Warhammer universe was never known for subtlety.

Normandy is a close second though.

The Enterprise. It has a replicator on board that functions using recycled human waste. How cool is that!

What? From Peter F. Hamilton's book? I read it, I do not remember that, and I very much love everything he wrote.

I'm going to have to go with this old standby:

I loooooved me some Star Wars when I was a kid. It's really a shame Lucas crapped it all up so bad.

I also have a weird soft spot for this generic little thing:

Which was probably one of my most favorite toys ever as a child.

Edit: Ha! I just noticed the exact same Millenium Falcom up there...

@sinusoidal: It's his last trilogy, The Void trilogy continuing the Commonwealth saga. The deterrence fleet is talked about constantly, but is in action for like a few pages.

The Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars (although I don't like how the bridge is sticking out), the Battlestar Galactica from the newer Battlestar Galactica and the UD-4L Cheyenne Dropship from Aliens.

My three are a little obvious but they're mine.

SSV Normandy SR-2 before the Alliance retrofitted it all shitty.

T-65 X-Wing Starfighter; the best starfighter ever. Lock S-foils in attack position!

USG Ishimura. My favorite game-sized ship. Better than the Von Braun or the Rickenbacker! Better than the Nostromo! It's a PLANET-CRACKER CLASS!

or

Always liked the cut of the X-Wing and B-Wing's proverbial jib from Star Wars and the Normandy is my favourite videogame ship.

(Edit: Forgot a pretty picture)

Whatever ship I am flying in Star Trek Online, usually a variant of the Intrepid class. But, besides that, I would say this -

Eclipse-class super star destroyer, I mean look at that elegant black menace. Everything looks better painted in black.

V'ger p.s. star wars sux

A couple more!

#GRIM

#DARK

I am partial to the OG version, too.

@jadegl: aw yiss mutha fuckin D'deridex.

I grinded STO for 2 days straight trying to get it, realized I couldn't get it (or even buy it) if I was United Fed, then grinded out a Romulan in a day and a half and was cruising.

@fattony12000: OG was a little blue and lacking in features. Cockpit, CIC, lo-fi space phone, sleeping pods and a vehicle bay where half the squad sits around. SR2 has a luxury captain's room, bathrooms, fancy quantum entanglement space phone, science lab, full medical lab, minifacting station, personal rooms, beds, a cafeteria, a couple lounges and an onboard AI. OG is straight military and SR2 is a pimpmobile.

WHY HAVEN'T ANYONE POSTED A PICTURE OF A GIANT BONG YET?!

The Normandy, B-Wing, Super Star Destroyer, Pillar of Autumn etc. are all fantastic ships but I have to go with something slightly more mundane.

Do giant-ass robots count?

The Bebop duh

If they're great big machines that can fly around space with jets or gravitic propulsion or something, sure. If they're magical fucking robots who use cosmic aether magic to fly around then no. Wizards are not spaceships.

Unless....

This is the absolute dog's bollocks of space-ship toys. And it still looks awesome.

Other than that, I love Slave One and this;

The show was mediocre, but the ships and design of Space 1999 was excellent. Very functional ships, vehicles, and equipment. The Eagle above was the work horse ship of the show. The front egg shape "command module" of the Eagle can detach from the main body enabling it to dock with another compatible craft or for use as an emergency escape capsule. The main modules that fit under that tubal superstructures with landing pads w/ engine pod varied from Passenger, Reconnaissance, Rescue, Transport/Supply, Freighter, Laboratory, Winch, and Combat modules.

Just a very functional and plausible design, and it looks sort of cool.

Also...

Any science fiction graphic designer over 35 who doesn't say they were influenced by Chris Foss is lying.

I've always loved the design and the tech of the daedalus class ships from stargate

Super Star Destroyer son!!! Also like the Tie Interceptors.

@psylah: Yeah I pretty much rolled a Romulan in STO just to have this ship. I mean, Romulans are my favorite Star Trek alien faction, so I probably would have played as one eventually anyway, but that ship... I just love that ship so much. I also like what they did with the Advance Dyson Sphere ship as well. I grinded to get both the free Fed version and free Rom version, then they offered better pay versions... oh well.

Gotta love the Enterprise E

@happenstance: That shot was such a wonderful reveal for the new ship in First Contact.

Slave 1, Millenium Falcon, Serenity, and the Normandy are immediate responses to this question. For me, it's not just about look, but about character. And those four boats have that in spades.

But, oh man. There are so many.

The Discovery, SDF-1, Bentus (also evry single ship in Homeworld looks amazing).

Ventor class star destroyer

Millenium Falcon was awesome but, I really loved the Borg Ships. As a kid watching Star Trek I thought they were so menacing.

Were not aerodynamic because theres not wind in space and you can't run from the Borg

Swordfish II

TIE Interceptor

A-Wing

Ebon Hawk

Some of my favorites have already been mentioned: Super, normal, and Venator Star Destroyers, Enterprise-E, and Normandy 2.

To those I'll add:

I always loved the interior sets for Farscape. Lots of neat curves and angles. Awesome lighting and colors.

The Event Horizon is another good one.

Star Destroyer and Normandy probably overall favorites

Haven't seen the movie in awhile but I love the interior of the Discovery, outside is pretty cool too

I was always a big fan of the Liberator from Blake's 7 as well. Might have to go watch some of that show again tonight now.

Voyager 1? Still Amazed after 36 and a half years, it's still operational and giving us data.