What is sci fi's most beautiful spaceship?

[Gollum]

The White Star

 

[Mooch]

I'd say the Enterprise-A or the Enterprise-E.
Star Destroyers are cool but not exactly pretty.

 

[Starkers]

The Liberator from Blakes 7. It's like a gothic fantasy castle in space, all turrets and spires.

Amen to that, my favourite too.

Anyone mentioned Event Horizon yet? Come on seriously a scary gothic cathedral in space it's fantastic!

 

[flipjack]

The Hammerheads from Space: Above & Beyond. Because they look like something the Marines would actually fly.

 

[MANT!]

From the Communist Sci-Fi Classic..First Spaceship on Venus

The Cosmostrator..

1st Spaceship on Venus.
http://flash-candy.com/2008/06/02/first-spaceship-on-venus-1960/

 

[Siwilliams]

AWESOME

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

thanks! always loved it since i was a kid

 

[Solariabsg25]

Andromeda Ascendant. Beautiful design, and I challenge any other sci-fi ship to take on a warship that measure combat ranges in light minutes!!

 

[Neroon]

The White Star

As much as I love the show, and the White Star itself, there are some angles from which it isn't as beautiful. Where even jms himself likens it to a "plucked chicken".

The Liberator from Blakes 7. It's like a gothic fantasy castle in space, all turrets and spires.

I can see the castle analogy, definitely. But... it always reminded me of a collection of medical syringes from some fantastic laboratory. No offense intended.

 

[Orac Zen]

[...] some fantastic laboratory.

Might be as good a way as any to look at the System.

I never got the "plucked chicken" thing people talk about with the White Star, though. I suppose it's all in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Neroon]

I didn't really see that myself. It's an analogy that was used in "A View Form the Gallery", and I think jms himself used it in a comments.