Top 100 Sci-Fi Spaceships

[Rhodes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lmVxvRaXU

[Takeda Shingen]

I have never even heard of most of those.

[Thomen]

Looking at this clip, I am not sure if I ought to be ashamed or... proud that I recognized most of them. It certainly shows that I have to too much free time at my hand. :shifty:

[MH]

In Star Wars i just loved the how the spaceships were designed.
It wasn't much of SF movie but they had the fleet just right.
(not that i would know for sure:D)

[STEED]

Here's five not on that list.

101

http://www.sixtiescity.com/Ufo/11a089.jpg

Space Intruder Detector...SID for short from UFO.

102

http://ufoseries.com/models/shedUFO.jpg

The Aliens UFO from UFO.

103

http://homepages.tesco.net/d.sisson/SPACE/Hawk1.jpg

Mark 9 Hawks from Space1999

104

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/images/space/dd/spdd071.jpg

Altra Probe from Space1999

105

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_k4__zh4GdZA/TCwVHmJ287I/AAAAAAAABa4/vvVFa_F1t3w/s400/Invaders1.JPG

The Space ships from The Invaders

[Oberon]

I didn't see the Enterprise-E on that list:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/7/71/20100512170945%21USS_Enterprise_E_First_Contact.jp g

Nor the Akira class:

http://www.st-intelligence.com/ship_database/dom/images/Aki_main.jpg

The Negh'var and Galor class deserve an honourable mention too:

http://members.lycos.nl/sovereign001frontier/hpbimg/2797neghvar-warp2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Galor001.jpg

[MH]

Here's five not on that list.

101

http://www.sixtiescity.com/Ufo/11a089.jpg


That looks like something capable landing on the moon:D.

[Platapus]

Here's five not on that list.




UFO awesome TV series. One of my favourite SF programs. :yeah:

I think it still has the best opening title sequence. :up:

[nikimcbee]

The satalite of love made the list:yeah::haha:

[STEED]

UFO awesome TV series. One of my favourite SF programs. :yeah:

I think it still has the best opening title sequence. :up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4nMFHXxro

Damn good show for it's time. :DL

[Platapus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4nMFHXxro

Damn good show for it's time. :DL

And it took place in the future. 1980 ohhhh

So how come none of the female NASA astronauts have purple hair? Answer that NASA!

[nikimcbee]

@steed, did you ever watch the original battlestar galatica? (not the new PC version)

[STEED]

@steed, did you ever watch the original battlestar galatica? (not the new PC version)

Started off alright but went daft latter in the series I felt.

[STEED]

Don't mess with S.H.A.D.O.W.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbf4qD_Hi48

[Torplexed]

And it took place in the future. 1980 ohhhh

So how come none of the female NASA astronauts have purple hair? Answer that NASA!

And where are those sexy silvery suits for female personnel we were promised? :D The future...it ain't what it used to be.

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/images/ufo6.jpg

[nikimcbee]

And where are those sexy silvery suits for female personnel we were promised? :D The future...it ain't what it used to be.

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/images/ufo6.jpg

You must martyr yourself to allah to get those:haha:.

[Platapus]

I hope that the 2012 movie won't suck but I fear it will. :nope:

[TLAM Strike]

I was glad to see the SA-43 Hammerhead made the list.

But no ISSCV/ISSAPC?
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7500/isscv.gif
oh well I guess I should be glad that at least someone besides me remembers that show...

[Platapus]

oh well I guess I should be glad that at least someone besides me remembers that show...

Sorry, never heard of that show. I must have missed it in 95-96. What network was it on?

[TLAM Strike]

Sorry, never heard of that show. I must have missed it in 95-96. What network was it on?
Fox

The show has been out on DVD now for a few years.

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1q-IlxGrk

[Jimbuna]

Thunderbirds 1 and 5

[MH]

דTARSHIP TROOPERS
http://www.gator.nl/images/Starship%20Troopers%20Rodger%20Young.JPG



DISTRICT 9
http://www.thinkhero.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/district-9-trailer-grab.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

I was tickled to see the Swine Trek in there. I got about half of them.

דTARSHIP TROOPERS
The Rodger Young, from Starship Troopers, appears in the video at 3:40.

[Fish In The Water]

Some good looking ships, but not all that aerodynamic...

I guess they're mostly designed for show and no real go... :D

[Torplexed]

Some good looking ships, but not all that aerodynamic...

Aerodynamics are irrelevant in the vacuum of space, so you can get some funky form follows function shapes. The ungainly looking Apollo Lunar Excursion Module is a good example.

[Fish In The Water]

I was mostly thinking blastoff and re-entry...

Hard to imagine the amount of thrust you'd need to overcome all that extra drag! :88)

[TLAM Strike]

I was mostly thinking blastoff and re-entry...

Hard to imagine the amount of thrust you'd need to overcome all that extra drag! :88)
Most real life space craft have a aerodynamic shroud that protects them on launch. After they leave the atmosphere the shroud is jettisoned.

The everlasting Soyuz operates with that design...
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/724/soyuz15.jpg
http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/3913/soyuztma6spacecraft.jpg

For more info on realistic SciFi spaceship design go visit here (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.php).

[kiwi_2005]

The millenium falcon is a good ship something I would own if I was a starman from the future.

Also the Mothership from PC game Homeworld is a good one

See the mothership around 2.52 Though watch the whole Homeworld intro amazing stuff. When I first played Homeworld I had goosebumps during the intro, made you feel like you were part of this lost civilization and was on a journey to save mankind! :cool: But then come mission 5 I could not beat the waves of enemies millions died because of me. :wah:

http://www.videolica.com/videos/yrW4jkQdmjI/homeworld-%C4%B1ntro-cutscene---mothership-launch

[Rockstar]

Glad to see the Gunstar from The Last Star Fighter on the list. What a great movie that was. <two thumbs up!>

http://bluraymedia.ign.com/bluray/image/article/984/984076/last-starfighter-into-the-blu-20090518003319744-000.jpg

[Growler]

Even though the clip says "from television and movies," I must admit to being disappointed that Pillar of Autumn/Halo/Covenant ships didn't make an appearance, if only because of their import in making that first Halo game the success that it - and as a result, the X-Box console - turned out to be.

Glad to see Red Dwarf and Sulaco made the list, and Nostromo, too... but neither of the latter would have mattered were it not for the Space Jockey's ship... and "cargo."

[Oberon]

I was mostly thinking blastoff and re-entry...

Hard to imagine the amount of thrust you'd need to overcome all that extra drag! :88)

I imagine most of them are built in orbit or in space. I know most of the Star Trek ships are:

http://ussra.sunknight.com/images/exterior/ext_ussr_utopia_planitia.jpg

[gimpy117]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/SX1uc0Bxy5I/AAAAAAAACZ4/_oJSRmmMv7E/s400/battlestar-glactica.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

I imagine most of them are built in orbit or in space. I know most of the Star Trek ships are:
I'm pretty sure they'd want to build the Death Star in space. :D

[MH]

You missed one :D

http://www.driftertoday.com/images/trip.gif (http://www.squidoo.com/manonthemoon)

[AVGWarhawk]

http://kategale.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/apollo-11-moon-landing-4.jpg

[razark]

I imagine most of them are built in orbit or in space. I know most of the Star Trek ships are:

Any civilization with the technology to build any of these ships would have the technology to enter/exit an atmosphere without issue.

@AVGWarhawk:
It's supposed to be sci-fi ships, unless your trying to suggest something...

[Raptor1]

Any civilization with the technology to build any of these ships would have the technology to enter/exit an atmosphere without issue.


Yeah, just a shame that the thrust required to do so will likely devastate most of the surrounding countryside and kill everyone in the vicinity...

[Fish In The Water]

http://kategale.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/apollo-11-moon-landing-4.jpg

How did they fit the Rover inside the lunar module? :hmmm:

[razark]

How did they fit the Rover inside the lunar module? :hmmm:
They took it apart, and brought it up a few pieces at a time. That's why it took four landings before they could drive it.

[Thomen]

They took it apart, and brought it up a few pieces at a time. That's why it took four landings before they could drive it.

Really? :o

:haha:




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Roving_Vehicle

[Platapus]

How did they fit the Rover inside the lunar module? :hmmm:

It was attached on the side part way underneath. It kinda unfolded out. Pretty cool actually :yeah:

[razark]

Really? :o

:haha:
[/URL]
:D

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-M5r2OKPNk"]Apollo 15 unstowing the rover (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Roving_Vehicle)

[Platapus]

I imagine most of them are built in orbit or in space. I know most of the Star Trek ships are:



Unless you watch that POS remake star trek movie that came out in 2009 then you would have seen the Enterprise being made in pieces on earth and "somehow" put in to orbit. :doh:

[Oberon]

Impulse drives have a lot to answer for, with the whole Voyager landing on planets thing. Apparently the Defiant could do that too, but had no need for such a gimmick. The Enterprise D could too, but only when Deanna was driving.

[Rhodes]

Impulse drives have a lot to answer for, with the whole Voyager landing on planets thing. Apparently the Defiant could do that too, but had no need for such a gimmick. The Enterprise D could too, but only when Deanna was driving.

:haha:

Apparently the refit constituion class could land the 1º (saucer ) hull as a huge lifeboat! Can not recall if the original design had such feature.

[razark]

Apparently the refit constituion class could land the 1º (saucer ) hull as a huge lifeboat! Can not recall if the original design had such feature.
The original Constitution class (the original series) was supposed to be able to do it, but they never got around to ever doing, or mentioning it. If I recall correctly, it was mentioned in some early series documents, but never made it into the show until TNG.


Edit:
Hrm...
KIRK: I'm sick of hearing that word can't. Get that ship out of there.

SCOTT: Sir, we're doing everything within engineering reason.

KIRK: Then use your imagination. Tie every ounce of power the ship has into the impulse engines. Discard the warp drive nacelles if you have to, and crack out of there with the main section, but get that ship out of there!
Take it for what you will.

[tater]

The original Constitution class (the original series) was supposed to be able to do it, but they never got around to ever doing, or mentioning it. If I recall correctly, it was mentioned in some early series documents, but never made it into the show until TNG.


Edit:
Hrm...

Take it for what you will.

I take it to mean the later shows had incompetent crews that lost their ships too often. :)

That was a "meh" list, IMHO. Better to include books :)

[TLAM Strike]

Unless you watch that POS remake star trek movie that came out in 2009 then you would have seen the Enterprise being made in pieces on earth and "somehow" put in to orbit. :doh: Kirk's 1st Enterprise was built at "San Fransisco Fleet Yards" they never mentioned if it was in orbit or Planetside.

Also in the original series episode Tomorrow is Yesterday the Enterprise gets thrown back in time and ends up in Earth's atmosphere and is able to operate normally, it even gets chased down by a 1960's era F-104 Starfighter.
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/7006/ussenterpriseoverearth.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4711/ussenterpriseinearthssk.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

Also in the original series episode Tomorrow is Yesterday the Enterprise gets thrown back in time and ends up in Earth's atmosphere and is able to operate normally, it even gets chased down by a 1960's era F-104 Starfighter.
When's the last time you watched that episode? It's been a long time for me, but I seem to recall they were doing anything but operating normally. I think they even mentioned the ship not being built to operate in an atmosphere.

[TLAM Strike]

When's the last time you watched that episode? It's been a long time for me, but I seem to recall they were doing anything but operating normally. I think they even mentioned the ship not being built to operate in an atmosphere.
Couple of years. :haha:

Then again when was the last time the Enterprise operated normally? ;)

EDIT: Just watched the start of the episode and the only problem was that the Enterprise had was it was sluggish in the atmosphere with damaged engines.

[Sailor Steve]

EDIT: Just watched the start of the episode and the only problem was that the Enterprise had was it was sluggish in the atmosphere with damaged engines.
Hmm...:-?:hmmm:

Maybe I just assume with simple '60s mentality that anything shaped like that would have to be non-atmospheric. No aerodynamics at all, just brute force.

[AVGWarhawk]

@AVGWarhawk:
It's supposed to be sci-fi ships, unless your trying to suggest something...

There has always been a suggestion that this landing was science-fiction and staged.

[MaddogK]

Aww jeez, another Trek fantasy thread. >>> I personally think the Rising Star from the orig BSG should be on the list (at the expense of one of the NUMEROUS Trek ships that never saw more that 5 seconds of screen time).

:cool:
http://www.therpf.com/attachments/f10/part-id-help-rising-star-bsg-recovered_jpeg_4000.jpg-31334d1281252598

[Tchocky]

The Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov :)

[MH]

Solaris:

http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/images/large/Solaris2003-3.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

Mothership Cataclysm


http://images.wikia.com/homeworld/images/0/0a/Kushan_Mothership.jpg

[TLAM Strike]

The Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov :) One of the best spaceships I've seen. :yeah:

Hmm...:-?:hmmm:

Maybe I just assume with simple '60s mentality that anything shaped like that would have to be non-atmospheric. No aerodynamics at all, just brute force. Don't forget the ship's Structural Integrity Field holds the ship together stronger than its bare metal alone. Also the ship's deflector could create an aerodynamic bubble around the ship.