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Was thinking of doing a poll, either on the forum or maybe a DITL poll, for the coolest ships in sci fi. 'Coolest' is obviousy a rather undefined term, so take it to mean whatever you like - most badass, most plausible, most beautiful, most original, most quirky. But we will need a giant list of people's favourite ships for poll options, and especially not just the obvious 'Big Franchise' ones.

Some of my favourites...

Space 1999 : Eagle transporter.
The Tardis.
Buck Rogers starfighter.
The Discovery from 2001 : A Space Odyssey.

What are your favourites?

Moya from Farscape.


Gunstar 1 from The Last Starfighter.

GrahamKennedy wrote:Space 1999 : Eagle transporter.

Hell yes. I doubt it'll get many votes, but most definitely.

GrahamKennedy wrote:The Tardis.

Police box TARDIS or #6 upright organ TARDIS?

GrahamKennedy wrote:Buck Rogers starfighter.

I wouldn't have thought of this, but it definitely looked like a starfighter should have.

Others:
the Cygnus from The Black Hole (1979.)
the Vally Forge from Silent Running.
the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter.

The Mothership from Homeworld.

Starbug from Red Dwarf.


The Liberator from Blake's Seven.


The Sulaco from Aliens as well as that dropship thing.

Shadow Battlecrab. The stuff that nightmares are made off.

The Liberator gets my vote - if you thought the Enterprise D looked cushy, that thing had a couch on the Command Deck, inbetween the control stations and the view screen.

Always liked Babylon 5's Earth ships. Don't really feel like searching for pictures on a phone though.

Galactica, from the new BSG.

It wasnt pretty, wasnt new, wasnt powerful. But in the final episode its death touched me more than many a death of a actual character in any series.

Teaos wrote:Galactica, from the new BSG.

The scene where Galactica jumps into the atmosphere of New Caprica and launches its fighters whilst dropping from the sky was one of the coolest things ever.

kostmayer wrote:

Teaos wrote:Galactica, from the new BSG.

The scene where Galactica jumps into the atmosphere of New Caprica and launches its fighters whilst dropping from the sky was one of the coolest things ever.

I love that scene too even the music for it matched the tempo.

Howabout the Motherships from V (the 1983 series).



The special effects haven't held up all that well but its still dam scary, and the opening scene when you first catch sight of a Mothership slowly floating through the sky is still chilling.

I dunno, theres something about the way they just hang there

Some great choices here that I wouldn't have thought of... keep them coming!

For pure grace there are few if any that can beat the Andromeda Ascendant.

Well, for me...

The Hammerhead starfighter from Space:Above and Beyond:



The X-wing from Star Wars. I know it's 'famous', but it's still dead awesome.




The Omega-class destroyer from Babylon five:



The starfury, natch. 8)



And, well... the refit Enterprise: