The Rocinante
One of my favourite things on the Roci are the point defense cannon (PDC).
In space they make a little brrrrrt noise
In atmosphere they sound like artillery. BOOM BOOM BOOM. And they act like artillery too, all you can do is try to cover your ears.
Just fun to think how powerful those “little” PDCs need to be.
+1 for the Roci
Finished the series this week and am already suffering from withdrawal.
Read the books! There’s tons more. Unless that’s what you mean.
Ah that book ending though. chef’s kiss
It was pure perfection. Like if you’ve only seen the tv show, the book ending isn’t something you need to read, it’s something you deserve to read.
Yeaah, I really need to get to them! Especially since the last 3 didn’t make it to the TV series, from what I’ve read.
I assure you you won’t regret it.
Definitely the Rocinante!
Should have known I’d already find the Roci here.
This ship inspired me to ask this question :)
Oh that’s a good ship.
I was going to say the Trimaxion Drone Ship from Flight of the Navigator. Seems lame now. lol.
ahem
Definitely not the Chetzemoka lol
Although as much as I love the Roci, I might have to go with the Donnager as my real favorite. It’s just so damned intimidating.
Love seeing Roci up top!
I’m a huge Expanse fan, but come on. Compared to the Enterprise, the Roci shouldn’t even be hauling garbage, it should be taken away as garbage!
Seriously? Someone named a spaceship after an old horse?
Cool.
Romulan Warbird or the Saturn 5 rocket.
Nice choices.
The Heart of Gold, from The Hitchhikers Guide. Plot armour taken to its most literal extreme.
Yeah, passing though all points of the universe at the same time is so much better than mucking about in hyperspace.
I love the seriousity of a “improbability drive” shame such a banger idea is turned into a stupid joke machine.
The Apollo Lunar Lander. The only real space ship we ever built. (I guess we built another one for the next trip now, though, so I’ll go with “ever flown”)
People can say it’s ugly all they want, but, as an engineer, it’s exquisitely designed for its purpose. That’s true beauty to me.
Lexx is one of my favourite ships. It was such an oddball show as well.
Given how raunchy and insane that show is, the ship being an enormous dick and balls is so fitting. And I know it’s supposed to look like a dragonfly.
Ha! I literally never thought of that until I read your comment. I always hoped in the end that it would grow some giant wings but I moved out to work in another city and didn’t have cable so I never saw the end of the show. I guess I could download it and find out.
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OP ass bullshit spaceship! It is pretty cool though.
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Not sure in what context you’re asking this question, but my answer is the International Space Station. I love how it’s possible to see it at random sometimes at night, and the way it crosses the sky just looks different compared to a regular airplane flying at night.
Pedantic question! Does the ISS count as a spaceship? I feel like something that travels in an orbit is kind of the equivalent of something stationary on a planet… so it feels like more of a, uh, station, than a ship to me. It’s a good answer, though!
Feels like a tomato fruit situation. It’s technically a ship, but we know it as a station?
A marine equivalent might be a floating structure with its own propulsion system. Technically a boat, but it doesn’t move around that often and it let’s other boats dock/undock from it.
The ISS’s propulsion is just for small orbital adjustments, right?
I think so, not sure if it can do much more.
It has boosters. If it can move, it is a spaaaceshiiip!
True but it still has to be a ship!
Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
I’m not going to say Meatfucker did nothing wrong, but I always liked A Frank Exchange of Views .
I’ve always liked Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints
I dunno, man, their names all seem to have a lack of gravitas for some reason
Sleeper Service.
How did the quote go? Are we in danger? Nah you’re looking at a slow motion replay.
Killing Time is my all time favourite Culture warship. Especially because Peter Kenny gives it a pissed off London geiser accent.
xROU Killing Time: “Missed, fucker!”
Does the TARDIS count as a starship? That’s kinda cheating though.
Being capable of both time and space travel honestly makes it less implausible than a ship that just goes FTL. The whole “is infinite” thing is pretty speculative even if it’s cool, though.
I’m torn between the Defiant and Serenity
Serenity as a reaver ship is hard to beat
While not exactly a space ship, I’d say Thunderbird 2
The Red Dwarf :)
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere…
We’re all alone, for all time
The Red Dwarf? Mate, you must be outta your smeggin’ mind!
On my Facebook feed there was a Transformer toy in the shape of Starbug called Smegatron.
I can’t decide between The Planet Express ship and the space Van from Spaceballs.
What about the one at the very beginning of Spaceballs that went on and on?
The Kestrel Cruiser from FTL. Even though it’s not even the coolest ship in the game, The Kestrel is still the most nostalgic for me.
It brings me back to when I first played FTL a decade ago. I was a kid back then and loved the game so much, I even built and painted a cardboard Kestrel model.
When it comes to FTL, The Lanius Cruiser is my favorite, but Kestrel was fun to play too. I remember going back to it several times, after unlocking new ships.
BC-304. The Prometheus was so ugly in comparison.
Shout-out to the basic cable show that was giving us Hollywood-level visual effects effects as early as 2004.
Atlantis gets visual effects Emmy nomination
The Atlantis Effect: An Interview With Mark Breakspear
GW: Visually, which is your favorite episode of Atlantis so far?
MB: “The Eye.” The Rainmaker team created their own CG software to create the stormy water for the ocean. The level of detail and control has never been seen in TV effects before. Dan and Jose at Rainmaker pulled out all the stops and created mind-blowing shots. I think we went about 3.5 times over budget on that one — but you can’t get away with crap. You guys can spot that a mile away, and nothing kills a show quicker than cheap looking effects.
The Prometheus may have been ugly, but it was my favorite because it was Earth’s first. It was kinda janky and totally experimental, but it was absolutely a necessary step in our advancement of science enabling better and cooler ships like Daedalus. It was usually outgunned and outsized by everything it went up against, but still managed to leave a mark. It saved the day in the battle of Antarctica enabling the discovery of Atlantis.
Do I think it was a better ship? Of course not, it was totally inferior (and ugly). But it made for a better story. For a good portion of the show it was all we had and it was barely enough, but it became more of a character than a tool. The moment the Prometheus was blasted in half was just as serious as any character death (and not just because of Pendergast). It was a huge blow to us and let the viewers know the Ori were a real threat.
Earth’s first
The 302 would like a word 😅
That doesn’t count! It didn’t work!
It did, for very short periods of time. And from that, we got the epic scene where they opened a window through a ship’s shield for a
Death Star runshot at Anubis.Well the 303 worked!
Sure, with a salvage hyperdrive from an Al’kesh. At least until that broke down and they had to upend an entire planet’s beliefs to get home. The original hyperdrive had the same problem as the one from the 302. And the working one came from the Asgard.
Idk. I just couldn’t get over the captain doing his best James Carrey Kirk impression.
Earth: Give us things!
Asgard: lol no
Earth: Give us things!
Asgard: Give back the things you stole!
Earth:
sudoWe saved your skinny butts from the Replicators! Give us thing!Asgard: Okay.
Asgard: Aight imma head out. We’ll leave the light on for you.
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