Best Sci-Fi Ghost Ship?

[YARN]

The Icarus I?

The Event Horizon?

The alien ship from ALIEN?

The Discovery in 2010?

Another ship?

 

[Deckerd]

The ship Serenity found in Serenity.

 

[Mistral]

Discovery. Hands down.

 

[Scout101]

Gotta go with Event Horizon here. Rescue mission, no people, finding out what happened, etc...

 

[Leroy]

Would the Cygnus from The Black Hole count? It was spooky even though it wasn't entirely abandoned.

 

[Klaus]

The Defiant from TOS... with the dead bodies at each others' throats and slowly fading away.

 

[The Comedian]

I vote the Cygnus as well.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

The Cygnus was filled with reanimated corpses, a homicidal robot, and a psychopath who wanted to take everyone with him on a one way ticket to hell. What's NOT ghost-spaceship about that?

Though I vote Event Horizon, becuaes it was designed to LOOK like an old sanitarium though it had no particular reason to do so. Discovery is a close second though, however in 2010 they spent so little time aboard her it didn't quite surpass the "salvaged derelict" feel, IMO...

Mark

 

[Scout101]

well, it WAS a salvaged derelict. No ghosts, or even dead people (all spaced or evolved), just an empty hulk and an insane (but generally powerless) computer

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The Zelbinion in the Farscape episode "PK Tech Girl" perhaps? Perhaps not.

Deckerd The crashed ship that they found on Miranda in "Serenity" has the registration C57D, which is the same as that of the starship in "Forbidden Planet".

I'm sure there must be good examples in literary SF but none really spring to mind, except the one near the beginning of Iain M Banks "The Algebraist".

 

[Scout101]

Sphere could sorta qualify for that...

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

USG Ishimura

 

[Davros]

The Madame Pompador from Doctor Who's The Girl In The Fireplace.

 

[Hyperspace05]

The Event Horizon. No contest, IMO.

 

[YARN]

I'm surprised that the derelict ship from ALIEN isn't getting any love.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The holoship Enlightenment from RD. It is literally a ghost ship (an all-hologram crew)!

 

[Blip]

And no-one thought to mention the USS Brattain?


Discovery, without a doubt. Event Horizon would've been better if it wasn't for all the excessively green "trying too hard to be eerie" lighting...

 

[Starkers]

Event Horizon, although you have to wonder why the fictional designers based the first FTL ship on Notre Dame...

 

[Pauln6]

Cygnus in Black Hole and the ship in Alien for me.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The crashed derelict in Alien, hands down.