I found this ranking list pretty interesting. The author lists his top 10 coolest sci-fi ships. I don't know how old it is, but it must be fairly recent since he alludes to the "upcoming" new Battlestar Galactica:

www.plexico.net/ b4/coolships.html (http://www.plexico.net/b4/coolships.html)

I wholeheartedly disagree with his comments on the original Enterprise, and I would tweak the ranking of some of the ships. Any thoughts? What are your top 10?

Obviously a big B5 fan but didn't include the Star Fury(?).

My top ten (but I'm sure there are some I've forgotten):

Klingon BOP
White Star
Vorlon cruiser (Kosh's ship - B5)
X-Wing
Romulan Warbird
Dropship ("Aliens")
Protector ("Galaxy Quest")
Excalibur ("Crusade")
Serenity
Moya
Jim

The only thing I don't undestand is why so many people can't simply say "I like x" without feeling they must justify their preference, at least in part, by saying, "I like x because it's so much cooler than y." Sheesh. I like Batman, but I don't feel I have to defend that statement by coming up with reasons he's cooler than Superman. I like Superman as well, but even if I didn't, the flaws I might hypothetically find with Superman don't have a thing in the world to do with why Batman is cool. It isn't as if Superman was an attempt to create Batman that went horribly awry.

Qapla'

SSB

Jim - That kind of got me too. It's such a cool, little versitile ship you can't help liking the thing. Years ago we had a discussion in Cult's old forum about which ship you'd rather pilot:

1) Runabout
2) Colonial Viper
3) B5 Starfury
5) X-Wing

And IIRC the Starfury won hands down

Here's my top 10:

1) Star Trek TOS Enterprise
2) Star Wars Super Star Destroyer
3) B5 Starfury
4) B5 Shadow Ship
5) Galaxy Quest Protector
6) B5 Omega Class Destroyer
7) The Galactica (new and old)
8) The Klingon capital ship between the K'Tinga and the Vor'cha (drawing a blank here)
9) Star Wars Slave 1
10) Dropship

Odd.

No mention of this in either the linked top ten or the prior posts...

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Freddo6/BuckComp2.jpg

The old BR Starfighter would be in one of the top 3 slots in my list. ( still compiling...)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Millenium Falcon.

The Nostromo
The Moonbus
The BSG Viper
Serenity
The Valley Forge (Silent Running)
The 2001 Orion
The Blade Runner Spinner
The Valkyrie (Titan AE)
The Last Starfighter
The Aliens Dropship & APC

Or this beauty...
http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/quark/galery1/quark21.jpg

1.) USS Enterprise (refit)
2.) Millenium Falcon
3.) Battlestar Galactica (TOS)
4.) Andromeda (Starblazers)
5.) USS Enterprise (TOS)
6.) Imperial Star Destroyer
7.) Super Star Destroyer
8.) X-Wing
9.) Yamato/Argo (Starblazers)
10.) Eagle Transporter (Space 1999)

I don't think people are 'justifying' their choices.
Just telling us what it is that makes that ship unique to them.

No one has mentioned any of the Andromeda ships. Say what you will about the series (which sucked outside of Harper and Tyr), the Commonwealth ship designs were utterly gorgeous.

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So there.

Balok's ship is the best ever bar none!

I want to drop my drop ship and replace it with the SDF-1 from Robotech...

1. Vorlon battle cruiser
2. White star
3. Minbari "Angelfish" battle ship
4. TOS Refit
5. Millinium Falcon
6. Empire Star Destroyer
7. Shadow Battlecrab (wouldn't wanna be the pilot though)
8. Jupiter 2
9. Klaatu's saucer
10. Polaris (Space Explorers)

No particular order.
Serenity
MF
USS Enterprise(all, even the NX-01 :rolleyes: )
Prometheus
Daedalus
F-302
Reliant
Orion II(non-cannon) &III
Aries
X-Ray Delta One(USS Discovery)

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So there.

I admire your passion! :cool:

Hey, El Gato,

Thanks, for the great thread idea! I doubt I can think of ten designs I like, all at once, so I'll take this incrementally. So, in NO ORDER at all, here are the first I can think of:

-Jupiter 2/Gemini 12. A most elegant flying saucer design, and the only one I know of flown by the 'good guys', i.e., us humans.

-Original version U.S.S. Enterprise. I HATE how everything is re-designed for subsequent incarnations of a story. In the Motion Picture, they made few, or no changes to the Klingon battlecruiser. The Enterprise should likewise have not been changed. That we know as the refit design should have been a different, newer Federation ship.

-Both versions of Battlestar Galactica

-Original version of Cylon raider

-Darth Vader's TIE fighter

-Orion III from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

-Moonbus from 2001

-Eagle transports from Space: 1999

-Valley Forge from Silent Running

OK, so that's ten. But, don't be surprised if I replace some of these, if other designs I like are brought to mind.

-Jupiter 2/Gemini 12. A most elegant flying saucer design, and the only one I know of flown by the 'good guys', i.e., us humans.Don't tell me you've forgotten this beauty!

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Don't tell me you've forgotten this beauty! (The ship from Forbidden Planet)

It is one of ours, isn't it? :o

However, I don't care for the design.

In the Motion Picture, they made few, or no changes to the Klingon battlecruiser.

You're kidding, right? The numerous changes between the D7 (TV) and K'Tinga (TMP-onward) have been extensively documented and discussed to death on the internet.

You're kidding, right? The numerous changes between the D7 (TV) and K'Tinga (TMP-onward) have been extensively documented and discussed to death on the internet.

Well, they looked pretty similar, to me.

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Well, they looked pretty similar, to me.

The outline is similar, but the details are quite different. I'm sure a search here would turn up a discussion or two.

1 Starship Enterprise (Refit and TOS)
2 Proteus (not a spaceship... but close enough)
3 Nautilus (also not a spaceship... but I don't care)
4 Discovery and Pod from 2001
5 Orion Spaceplane from 2001
6 Millenium Falcon
7 Imperial Stardestroyer
8 x-wing fighter
9 Lunar Module (not sciFi... but way cool)
10 Jupiter 2

Don't tell me you've forgotten this beauty!




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Wasn't it in a Twilight zone ep. too?

Wasn't it in a Twilight zone ep. too?

Yep! Agnes Moorehead pounded the poop out of it and some of the crew too.

The "To serve man" episode had it too. The were REAL galloping gormets!

I always liked this one. Be sure to click on larger image.

BattleBeyondTheStars (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055ZF1/ref=ase_imdb-adbox/002-9766931-0999254?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130&tagActionCode=imdb-adbox)
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055ZF1/ref=ase_imdb-adbox/002-9766931-0999254?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130&tagActionCode=imdb-adbox)

Hey, El Gato,

Thanks, for the great thread idea!


No problem, man! :wave:

I always like this one. Be sure to click on larger image.

BattleBeyondTheStars (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055ZF1/ref=ase_imdb-adbox/002-9766931-0999254?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130&tagActionCode=imdb-adbox)

Hmmm... let me guess why.......

Yep! Agnes Moorehead pounded the poop out of it and some of the crew too.

The "To serve man" episode had it too. The were REAL galloping gormets!The Forbidden Planet spaceship (full-size set, miniature, and/or stock footage) also showed up in the TZ eps:

"Third From The Sun"

"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" (footage of saucer printed upside-down)

"The Invaders" (the one with Agnes Moorehead)

"Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"

"On Thursday We Leave For Home"

"Death Ship"

Didn't we do this thread several years ago? I said the LEXX, because it can eat planets.

"I always liked this one. Be sure to click on larger image."

Pretty stacked for a spaceship.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Freddo6/hmspacecraft.jpg

" Is there any of that Plutonian Niborg left? "

" Yeah man. Only about a bag. It's in the transmitter compartment..."

Didn't we do this thread several years ago? I said the LEXX, because it can eat planets.

So did the doomsday machine, from the original Star Trek. I don't think of it as aesthetically pleasing, but I do find it convincingly scary. :eek:

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That's a correctamundo, Model Maker. :thumbsup: You're cleared for landing, in the circular parking spot...

:thumbsup: i saw a nice landing spot from way out here, then landed here. thanks for the landing clearance toyroy, it was a long flight

I'm getting to like ships that look like they could actually work more and more. The Enterprise is pretty, but it runs on magic essentially. My current fave is The Nostromo, big, industrial, and with those 7 huge engines it looks like it could work.

Love the Eagle for the same reason, it looks like a real spaceship.

The Betty is in the same category.

...thanks for the landing clearance..., it was a long flight.

Roger on that, Model Maker. I'm afraid you've got some 'splaining to do, about that OTHER touchdown in 1947 Roswell... ;)

I'm getting to like ships that look like they could actually work more and more...

For that matter, I've always liked the looks of the Mercury capsule. And, the Apollo command module, with its service module. They kinda look like they might actually work. ;)

I think that people shouldn't be able to count things like
"all the Enterprises" in a single line.

Thats almost like saying "all the ships from Star Wars as a single line.

Since there are differences between the TOS and the TMP Enterprise, even though they are the same ship, they should be counted as different designs.

I would be curious to see two different top-10 lists making a distinction between 'Capital' ships and 'Fighter/Shuttles'.

just my 2.27298 yen.

I think that people shouldn't be able to count things like
"all the Enterprises" in a single line...
I agree. Especially since some, such as the original, are beautiful, and yet others, such as the Next Generation "D" design, suck poo. :dude:

I would be curious to see two different top-10 lists making a distinction between 'Capital' ships and 'Fighter/Shuttles'.
Um...which list would the Jupiter 2 go on? :confused:

I've always been a saucer man.

The original J2
The saucer from "The Invaders"

these are my favorite also, i am glad i have them.

...The saucer from "The Invaders"

Yeah! A great ship, for nefarious aliens. :cool:

Bert,

that "attached thumbnail" phrase gave me the creeps!


HowZ yer hand doing?

lol i just noticed that when you wrote that, it's pretty sore. i cant see under the bandaging but it feels like they had to cut into the back of my hand to find the other part of tendons. the feeling of being pinned by crushing force on your hand and no help anywhere must be like landing the space pod on a planet by yourself and getting your hand crushed and pinned and out of reach of the 2 way radio

My two bits (subs and ground vehicles do try to crowd to the front for mention as well but they are not included in the question being answered here):

1. Ship from "Planet of the Apes" (sometimes known as "Icarus")
2. U.S.S. Enterprise (TOS)
3. Thunderbird 2 (TOS)
4. Jupiter II
5. Space Ark (When Worlds Collide)
6. Disney TWA/Douglas Rocket
7. Lunar Rocket ("Frau im Monde")
8. Red Dwarf
9. Eagle ("Space 1999")
10. Valley Forge

It is difficult to form such a list because only a few are truely "at the top" (the first 4 on my list). The rest are part of a rapidly widening base with little difference between those near the top and those at the bottom. In reality, I love 'em all!

I've always been a saucer man.I always suspected . . .

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1) Millennium Falcon
2) U.S.S. Enterprise (refit version)
3) U.S.S. Enterprise (original)
4) Imperial Star Destroyer
5) Nostromo
6) Incom T-65 (X-Wing)
7) Slave I (either version)
8) Eagle Transporter
9) Narcissus (Alien/Aliens)
10) Jupiter 2 (movie version)

...the feeling of being pinned by crushing force on your hand and no help anywhere must be like landing the space pod on a planet by yourself and getting your hand crushed and pinned and out of reach of the 2 way radio

Sorry to hear about this. Here's wishing you a speedy and complete recovery. And, hope you can keep enjoying your hobbies, while you are healing.

My two bits...

1. Ship from "Planet of the Apes" (sometimes known as "Icarus")
2. U.S.S. Enterprise (TOS)
3. Thunderbird 2 (TOS)
4. Jupiter II
5. Space Ark (When Worlds Collide)
6. Disney TWA/Douglas Rocket
7. Lunar Rocket ("Frau im Monde")
8. Red Dwarf
9. Eagle ("Space 1999")
10. Valley Forge...

I like the Icarus, too. El Gato didn't say, but the list he referred to were all spaceships. So, even though I groove on T-bird 2, I wonder if it qualifies?

And, wow, it's been a long time, since I rode that Disney rocket! Interesting choices, here.

I always suspected . . .

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Qapla'

SSB

1) Millennium Falcon
2) U.S.S. Enterprise (refit version)
3) U.S.S. Enterprise (original)
4) Imperial Star Destroyer
5) Nostromo
6) Incom T-65 (X-Wing)
7) Slave I (either version)
8) Eagle Transporter
9) Narcissus (Alien/Aliens)
10) Jupiter 2 (movie version)

The MOVIE Jupiter 2? Well, I bet you have a better collection of those, than we who prefer the TV version!