Top 3 Favorite Non-Trek Spaceships

[CorporalCaptain]

Well, if we're doing cars in space, I'm going add this one to my list of honorable mentions.

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Heavy Metal | Soft Landing | Corvette 1959


Speaking of projects involving Dan O'Bannon, I'd also like to add for honorable mention

the scout ship Dark Star,

and, even though it never flew on screen (in that film), the derelict ship from the original Alien certainly deserves a shout-out.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Well it survived reentry

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

From Babylon 5: White Star

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From Macross Delta: Macross Elysion

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From Martian Successor Nadesico: Eucharis

 

[Maurice]

1. The Liberator
2. The original Galactica
3. Gunstar

Runners-up

1. Mk.IX Hawk
2. Eagle transporter
3. TIE Fighter (original)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Space pod from Lost In Space
Gunstar
And another vote for the Eagle transporter as it really did seem like a practical idea.

 

[diankra]

Nice choices. If only Thunderbird 2 had gone to space....

May I also pick my next 3 or runner up list? There's just too much to choose from.

2 did in the reboot!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

2 did in the reboot!

What reboot?

 

[adv1701]

Well, if everybody else is doing their runners up:

1. Defiant-DS9
2. Pegasus -NuBSG
3. Akira-ST
4. Andromeda- SBY

 

[diankra]

What reboot?

The recent Thunderbirds are Go.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The recent Thunderbirds are Go.

Oh ok never watched that.

 

[diankra]

Oh ok never watched that.

Rather good, sort of a sequel (2069 is four years after the original, Jeff is believed dead, Tintin has grown out of her teenage nickname and is now know as Kayo - copyright maybe being a big point in that - and the Hood has been inactive for years...) but also a reboot (Grandma is now an ex-spy who knows all about it. Gordon isn't old enough to drive). Other Anderson series get passing references (Stingray is in TB4's waterpen, Shadow Moonbase Alpha mixes the UFO and 1999 designs).
Largely recast (Lee Majors voices Jeff in flashbacks), but David Graham still voices Parker and Braiman.

 

[Marc]

David Graham still voices Parker and Braiman.

He and Matt Zimmerman (Alan) are the only surviving cast memebers from the original series.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh that reboot, still no haven't seen it but have heard about it. Is it true there's tons of little easter eggs like a hand holding the model of Thunderbird 1 to stop it falling over and such, I read something about little gags like that on the show.

 

[publiusr]

even though it never flew on screen (in that film), the derelict ship from the original Alien certainly deserves a shout-out.

I have this theory that the Engineers designed it to look like a near Abrahamic font…a 3D glyph they used for death….the saucer at the beginning of PROMETHEUS being a standard craft.

Now—I liked the Snark concept better than the Nostromo it became.

Jodo’s Dune book just sold..nice ship art there.

In terms of the TIE fighter, one concept I had in mind would be the Empire’s answer for the B-Wing. Looking at the bow of the fighter, it would look like the weather symbol for a hurricane…the solar panel arms curved and rotating around the central cockpit of the T.I.E. Phun.

 

[maneth]

Moya, Farscape
Andromeda Ascendant, Andromeda
Tardis, Doctor Who

I have a thing for sentient ships.

Cool just because:
White Star, Babylon 5
X-Wing, Star Wars
Starfury, Babylon 5

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Honorable mention to Tin Man Star Trek TNG