Top 75 spaceships of Science Fiction

[Miss Chicken]

the TARDIS - as cool as it clearly is - shouldn't be on there, it's a time-machine.

It's a spaceship, too.

Agreed.

I think that the fact that the Doctor was from Gallifrey and used the Tardis to travel around the galaxy sorts of proves that it was spaceship. Otherwise how did he use it to get to Earth?

It should be much higher than #65.

 

[RAMA]

This subject is ripe for proper Trekbbs debate and a definitive answer for all time (or until the next great ship design comes along).

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Can't say I agree with their rankings, but the detail in that article (in the two pages that I perused) makes for a good read.

Yeah, a lot to be desired and a lot that probably shouldn't be there (I like Enterprise, for example, but it definitely seems over represented just from the first couple of pages on the list. I'd argue the same can be said of the Prequel Trilogy ships). But it's a fun read and it covers a wide range of sci fi history to get what it gets (and let's face it, any list is a monumental task, so the author deserves credit here).

 

[Turtletrekker]

Neither of the Galacticas made it? No Borg Cube? The Discovery is #16 after the fucking Betty from Alien: Resurrection and the Moonbase Dildocepter? The Star Destroyer is #21? The Millenium Falcon is not #1 and the Enterprise not #2?

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?

Agreed with everything you said.

EPIC fail.

 

[RAMA]

Im confining this to visual fiction..animated and live...otherwise it would be RAMA!!

1. Ambassador Class E-C-STNG

2. Leonov-2010
3. Minbari Cruiser-B5
4. Vorlon Dreadnaught-B5
5. V'Ger-STTMP
6. Nihydron ship-Voyager
7. Super Star Destroyer-SW:ESB
8. Dominion Battleship-DS9
9. Cheyenne Class-STNG
10. Romulan Warbird-STNG
11. Relativity-Voyager
12. Yamato-Space Battleship Yamato

13. Borg Cube-STNG
14. Shadow Ship-B5
15. Earthforce Omega Class Destroyer-B5
16. Alien Mothership-CETK
17. S'ona Battleship

http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/the-sona-battle-ship/
18. Alien Solar sailer-Outer Limits

19. Icarus 2-Sunshine

20. Companion Cruiser-Earth:FC
21. Bajoran Solar Sailer-DS9
22. Sulaco-Aliens

23. Battlestar Pegasus-BG
24. Gomtu-STNG
25. Brittania-Lensman

Round 2:

26. T'Plana Hath Vulcan-ST:FC
27. Enterprise D-STNG
28. Basestars-NuBSG
29. Narada-ST09
30. D'Kyr Class cruiser Vulcan-ST:ENT

31. X-Wing-SW
32. Argonaut-Heroic Age

33. Mars-1-Red Planet
34. Nightingale 229-Supernova
35. Alien ship-B5 Thirdspace
36. Explorers ship-Explorers
37. Promelian Battlecruiser-STNG
38. Enterprise Refit-STTMP
39. Tie Fighter-SW
40. Discovery-2001
41. Valdore-Romulan-STNEM
42. Explorer Class-B5
43. Lectroid ship-Buckaroo Banzai
45. Enterprise E-STFC
46. Excalibur-B5 A Call to Arms
47. Antares-Defying Gravity

48. Mars 2-Mission to Mars
49. Cygnus-Black Hole
50. The Machine-Contact

 

[Zachary Smith]

No Jupiter II?

BAH! to the whole sordid affair . . .

 

[kv1at3485]

Meh. Obviously catering to people who had never set foot in a library before.

 

[Technobuilder]

While not necessarily prolific, I always thought the "Ancient City-Ships" of Stargate were cool.

The Goa'uld Cargoships were pretty neat too.

 

[Marc]

Have to admit the Odyssey from Ulysses 31 was very much an out of left field inclusion. How many other people here actually saw that series?

 

[Sykonee]

Babylon 5 isn't represented at all? No Minbari battle-cruiser, White Star, or Shadow ship? Blasphemy!

They seemed to favor 'ugly practicality' designs the most. Still, why no love for the Omega Class then? Did they figure the Leonov was close enough?

 

[Blue_Trek]

I think you need split the list up.
Top 25 Capital type ships (Example: Enterprise NCC-1701-E)
Top 25 Medium type ships (Example: Millennium Falcon)
Top 25 Small type ships (Example: Delta Flier)

That way you can compare similar ships.
That list has some real odd ones on it. Where are all the DS9 ships, that series had some the best space battles with all kinds of ships.

 

[captcalhoun]

Have to admit the Odyssey from Ulysses 31 was very much an out of left field inclusion. How many other people here actually saw that series?

me. yoooooooo-la-seee-eeeeee-eeeee-eeees...

 

[Cyke101]

I'm pretty shocked nuBSG's basestars aren't somewhere on the list. They'd probably wind up close to #1 for me. Sure, it turned out that show sucked, but the basestars were outstanding designs.

I feel the same way about Babylon 5. I'm definitely not a fan of the show, but it's deeply unfair for them not to have any representation on the list. And if the article was going for practicality, the Starfuries in most cases would be a sure bet for top 10, nevermind top 75. But that's what happens when Star Wars is overrepresented.

(And for the record, I'm a Trekkie who loved nuBSG )

 

[Starkers]

Have to admit the Odyssey from Ulysses 31 was very much an out of left field inclusion. How many other people here actually saw that series?

me. yoooooooo-la-seee-eeeeee-eeeee-eeees...

I watched it. Can't for the life of me remember what the ship looked like though.

 

[Myasishchev]

I'm pretty shocked nuBSG's basestars aren't somewhere on the list. They'd probably wind up close to #1 for me. Sure, it turned out that show sucked, but the basestars were outstanding designs.

I feel the same way about Babylon 5. I'm definitely not a fan of the show, but it's deeply unfair for them not to have any representation on the list. And if the article was going for practicality, the Starfuries in most cases would be a sure bet for top 10, nevermind top 75. But that's what happens when Star Wars is overrepresented.

(And for the record, I'm a Trekkie who loved nuBSG )

The Shadow ships would be in my top ten, too.

I also really like the Earth ships in B5, although you could potentially justify their exclusion from a list like this, since they're essentially the Discovery with guns.

 

[Marc]

Have to admit the Odyssey from Ulysses 31 was very much an out of left field inclusion. How many other people here actually saw that series?

me. yoooooooo-la-seee-eeeeee-eeeee-eeees...

I watched it. Can't for the life of me remember what the ship looked like though.

It was a ring design with a large globe in the middle what would open like an eye when the ship was travelling.

 

[Meredith]

X-304 for the win, a ship that would seem comfortable in both Star Trek and Star Wars.

And no ships from the sekai no senkai..... Shame on them.

 

[Davros]

the TARDIS - as cool as it clearly is - shouldn't be on there, it's a time-machine

It moves in both time and space.
Thats what the T and S in TARDIS stand for.