What are your favorite spaceships from science fiction shows, movies, games, comics, anime or anything?

The Swordfish from Cowboy Bebop is probably my top favorite. I like the idea of small compact ships meant for a single person and going fast.

For that same reason I love the Razorback from The Expanse. Except the engine to ship ratio in this universe probably makes more sense realistically. The cockpit 360 swivel system is also really clever.

The Outlaw Star from… Outlaw Star is not a small ship. I just like it because it looks cool despite its goofy unrealistic grapple arms that hold weapons.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, it was always Picard’s Enterprise (D I think…?) from TNG.

    I always really liked that take on a capital ship. They’re usually military vessels or logistics craft, what else do you need something that big for? The Enterprise was well-rounded though, and perfect for deep space serial adventures around more complex moral and ethical issues.

  • IonAddis@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’ve always liked just about any sentient/thinking ship. Oddly enough, I can’t think of any examples where a thinking ship has been paired with a wicked design. Although I might just be overlooking something.

    But some examples from sci-fi fiction:

    • Gay Deceiver (Robert A. Heinlein - he was using the term “gay” in its original sense)
    • Helva, from Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sang (she’s technically a human “Brain” installed in a ship…but the series is written as if she’s the ship in many ways)
    • Zora (Star Trek: Discovery . I really wish she’d gotten more time, a Star Trek ship that is sapient is something we should’ve been able to explore in lots of detail)
    • ART - Asshole Research Transport, aka Perihelion, from Martha Well’s Murderbot Diaries

    Edit: Sorry about the spam, all us social media lemmings are making things slow and buggy, poor lemmy.world can’t keep up with us.

  • dudinax@programming.dev
    5·
    2 years ago

    The Y-Wing. It’s old, it’s run down, it’s clunky, but it’s not totally obsolete and can still get the job done.

  • OrganDonor@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’d have to go with the Galactica from Battlestar Galactica.

    Basically an aircraft carrier in space, and it didn’t hurt that I grew up on watching the original series. Watching the vipers launch out of the Galactica was pretty cool when you’re young.

  • Dave@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    The R-9A Arrowhead from the R-Type games. I remember thinking that the blue canopy looked so unexpected and elegant as kid.

  • zzap@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    “Terran Trade Authority Handbook: Spacecraft 2000 – 2100 AD” - it is full with cool spaceships like this… I love this book.

    from the wonderful book "Spacecraft 2000 – 2100 AD"

  • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 years ago

    From Halo, my favorite ship is probably the Heart of Midlothian, followed by the Spirit of Fire. There’s something I like about the slabbed, angular bow.

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    From Mass Effect, the Tempest, bar none the most attractive ship I think I’ve ever laid eyes on. I think she looks better when you can walk around her, it’s hard to get a good angle on.

    And an odd one out, the Taiidan Destroyers from Homeworld are particularly badass, even if their gun layout is objectively hot garbage. Could say the same about most Taiidan ships, they look less functional and more like the product of an unchallenged imperial navy. Kushan vessels feel comfortably realistic but aren’t visually distinct.

    (HD artwork by Jayden Morris on Artstation)

  • LeZero@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I really like the ship designs of Legend of the Galactic Heroes

    Especially the flagship Brünhild

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    The Normandy SR2 from Mass Effect.

    The Defiant, Sovereign, and Akira classes from Star Trek.

    The Pegasus from Battlestar Galactica.

    Yes, I have a type. Big gun beauties who stomp into a fight not giving AF are my thing.