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15 greatest spaceships of all time

post #1 of 42
1/30/08 at 8:41pm
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Decent list, a few I didn't recognize.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/01/...ll_timephp.php

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Powered by a baby universe, able to teleport people anywhere on earth and with room for all the ultra-violence the Authority needs (which is a lot), the Carrier’s really impressive ability is how it can traverse theoretical dimensions like moving through the “Devanchanic realm at the speed of twenty-five dreams per second.” How many other spaceships out there can actually move pretentiously?
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post #2 of 42
1/30/08 at 8:43pm
The list is bullshit due to lack of TARDIS
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post #3 of 42
1/30/08 at 8:44pm
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And of course, the 10 worst.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/01/...f_all_time.php

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Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer the spaceships I get into to not be alive. (It’s too much like crawling around inside a giant fat person.) But if I had to travel in a living something, I’d prefer one that wasn’t so clingy that it had to bond mentally with it’s host. That what dames are for.
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post #4 of 42
1/30/08 at 8:51pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
The list is bullshit due to lack of TARDIS
The lack of TARDIS immediately negates the list.
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post #5 of 42
1/30/08 at 9:02pm
While I feel this list is missing both the original Galactica from Battlestar Galactica 1978, and the Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato/ StarBlazers, I find the inclusion of the Super Robot Grendizer from Ufo Robot Grendizer at #7 to be a terrific inclusion as one of the greatest spaceships of all time.
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post #6 of 42
1/30/08 at 9:46pm
This list is shit. Where's the Forbidden Planet spacecraft? How about Unicron from the Transformers movie? The Death Star and M. Falcon not 1 and 2? Heck, where are Tie Fighters and X-Wings?

Tardis is a tough one because there's been so many versions. I'd slap the original in there and call it a day.
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post #7 of 42
1/30/08 at 9:48pm
They forgot the Event Horizon. Sure it killed it's crew first trip out, but it was powered by rotating evil! That's either the greatest idea ever or the worst, but it should have been on one of the lists.
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post #8 of 42
1/30/08 at 9:50pm
'2001: A Space Odyssey' - THE DISCOVERY.

The absence of it fully negates this list much more than TARDIS.
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post #9 of 42
1/30/08 at 10:24pm
Where's the original Enterprise?!?
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post #10 of 42
1/30/08 at 10:35pm
That list is flat out retarded.
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post #11 of 42
1/30/08 at 10:37pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Where's the original Enterprise?!?
Sitting at a corner table with the mothership from Close Encounters, Discovery One and the other obvious choices discussing how they never get picked because it doesn't invite enough discussion, controversy and page hits. The Enterprise just totally felt up the CE mothership while the others weren't looking.
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post #12 of 42
1/30/08 at 10:42pm
Nothing but hate for the retarded genius of Flight of the Navigator? It's a sad, sad day for America.
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post #13 of 42
1/30/08 at 10:45pm
This joke of a list is missing:

Discovery - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Nostromo - ALIEN
Derelict - ALIEN
Sulaco - ALIENS/ALIEN 3
Star Destroyer - STAR WARS SAGA
Cygnus - THE BLACK HOLE (...on the worst list? WTF?!)
Mothership - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Sphere - THE FOUNTAIN
Reliant - STAR TREK II

For starters...I'm probably forgetting several...
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post #14 of 42
1/30/08 at 11:07pm
Slave 1 - Star Wars
Imperial Shuttle - Star Wars
The Eagle 5 - Spaceballs
Serenity - Firefly
The Thunder Road - Explorers
Klingon Bird of Prey - Star Trek
Gunstar - The Last Starfighter
The Planet Express - Futurama
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post #15 of 42
1/30/08 at 11:12pm
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Originally Posted by Uncle Cthulhu View Post
Slave 1 - Star Wars
That thing always seemed like it would've been a real bitch to park. Kinda the space equivalent to parallel parking, but without mirrors...
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post #16 of 42
1/30/08 at 11:26pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
The list is bullshit due to lack of TARDIS
Seconded. Thirded. etc.

Seriously - no mention of many of the classics (original Enterprise, Discovery, X-Wing, etc.)? What were they smoking? I love the Heart of Gold, but the Yonada World Ship? Who's ass did they pull that one out of?

Fuck it - Ed, favorite TARDIS interior? I'm down with the 9th/10th Doctor's current "desktop theme" but I did like the spartan set of the 4th/5th Doctor.
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post #17 of 42
1/31/08 at 12:35am
There are literally an infinite number of choices that should have been included before Andromeda.

And yes, the TARDIS ranks first among them.
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post #18 of 42
1/31/08 at 3:02am
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Originally Posted by Overlord View Post

Tardis is a tough one because there's been so many versions. I'd slap the original in there and call it a day.
There has only been three actually...the original, the American Movie iteration and the new one.
That aside, yeah the TARDIS at least craks the top five , so fuck the list.
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post #19 of 42
1/31/08 at 3:06am
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Originally Posted by Uncle Cthulhu View Post
Gunstar - The Last Starfighter
That's the one!
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post #20 of 42
1/31/08 at 7:39am
The first list lost me when it said that trains had been fairly irrelevant for the past 100 years. That statement was so stupid I think it ruptured my colon. I stopped right there because someone that has obviously never heard of public transportation really shouldn't be talking about spaceships in any capacity.
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post #21 of 42
1/31/08 at 8:15am
And if you're going to pull something from anime, how do you go with the Galaxy Express over the Yamato or the SDF-1?
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post #22 of 42
1/31/08 at 10:20am
Richard Dickson, The SDF-1 is not in the list? It is! The Super Dimension Fortress from Macross...one of three Japanese anime series that were combined and adapted into Robotech. Oh, I also forgot to say The SDF Macross is #1 on the list.
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post #23 of 42
1/31/08 at 11:27am
You wanna talk anime ships? My favorite's the ship from Sol Bianca:



Nice lines, great design. And it's got an all-woman crew!
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post #24 of 42
1/31/08 at 11:50am
I miss the Nostromo. Cool ass ship, the Nostromo.
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post #25 of 42
1/31/08 at 12:19pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
And if you're going to pull something from anime, how do you go with the Galaxy Express over the Yamato or the SDF-1?
You are also forgetting about Outlaw Star.
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post #26 of 42
1/31/08 at 12:49pm
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You are also forgetting about Outlaw Star.
Not to mention the Bebop. It doesn't get enough love.
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post #27 of 42
1/31/08 at 2:30pm
The Liberator - Blake's Seven?
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post #28 of 42
1/31/08 at 4:35pm
I loved the ship from Farscape, I think they called her Maya.
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post #29 of 42
1/31/08 at 4:39pm
Moya
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post #30 of 42
1/31/08 at 4:40pm
I came in here to talk about The Black Fortress from KRULL being the best and what do I find?
It's on the worst list.

Some people just don't understand great designs in travel.
It's the galaxies greatest motor-home.
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post #31 of 42
1/31/08 at 5:44pm
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You are also forgetting about Outlaw Star.
Not to mention the White Base from the original Mobile Suit Gundam:



Granted, it spent a lot of time in the Earth's atmosphere and Gundam's popularity in the U.S. has never been that high (aside from Gundam Wing), but Gundam is like the Japanese Star Trek (in that people that never even watched the show would still recognize names and concepts because it's such a part of the pop-culture fabric).
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post #32 of 42
1/31/08 at 6:22pm
I think the neatest from of space travel I come across in years is from Peter F. Hamilton Commonwealth series. use wormholes to send trains from world to world, instantaneous travel.
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post #33 of 42
1/31/08 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by Timothy225 View Post
Fuck it - Ed, favorite TARDIS interior? I'm down with the 9th/10th Doctor's current "desktop theme" but I did like the spartan set of the 4th/5th Doctor.
I haven't seen every doctor in action but the redesigned one is the best with the one depicted in the American tv movie, it really gave an idea of how big inside it was without that studio look.
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post #34 of 42
1/31/08 at 10:06pm
No classic Enterprise...but the Enterprise-D and Defiant? You gotta be kidding me.
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post #35 of 42
1/31/08 at 11:26pm
No Eagle-1 from Space: 1999?! For shame!
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post #36 of 42
2/1/08 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
I haven't seen every doctor in action but the redesigned one is the best with the one depicted in the American tv movie, it really gave an idea of how big inside it was without that studio look.
Agreed - the 7th/8th Doctor's Tardis had that sense of openess in the TV movie that the regular series one's didn't. The current set conveys that openess to a point; it also evokes the 4th Doctor's Tardis prior to his dropping off Sarah Jane Smith (darker, bit busier looking).

I also must hang my head in shame for momentarily forgetting Space 1999's Eagles - thanks, Mundt! And where's the UFO love?
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post #37 of 42
2/1/08 at 4:06pm
What about organic spaceships?

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post #38 of 42
2/1/08 at 4:15pm
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What about organic spaceships?
Look up about 24 posts ago...
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post #39 of 42
2/1/08 at 6:27pm
Whoops, didn't catch that.

Curse my reading skills!
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post #40 of 42
2/2/08 at 2:21am


How can you ignore a ship that comes with its own built-in boobs?
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post #41 of 42
2/2/08 at 3:14pm
I agree with all the already mentioned ships here, especially:

Nostromo
X-Wing
Tie-Fighter
Cygnus
Serenity
The Star Destroyer
Slave 1

I'd add


The Dropship: Aliens
The Viper Mark II: BSG - especially the slight redesign of the Mark II in the new series - not to be confused with the Mark VII models, which I don't like very much.
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post #42 of 42
2/4/08 at 12:49am


Zarth Arn's ship from Star Crash. It's a giant hand (that turns into a fist for attack mode), and its captain is Joe Spinnell.
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