What is/was your fav ship in any sci/fi film or series?

azezil

I really like the Romulan Warbird, Defiant, and the Enterprise E. I suppose my fav is the Warbird its just so cool :cool:

Goodshape

hmmm.. a pole would be handy, so I could remember some nice ships.

....a suppose the melenium falcon was sh!t cool, but I'd have to say the best was the S.S. Heart of Gold from H2G2... infinite imporbability drive... hoowhoow baby! :cool:

http://www.boards.ie/members/goodshape/heartofgold.jpg

as for star trek; the enterprise e was the best 'main' ship. always liked the Klingon Battle Cruser though, which ever one was in Star Trek VI... with the huge cannon on the front.

http://www.boards.ie/members/goodshape/bop2.jpg

Pepe LeFrits

Those Goa'uld hataks in Stargate are just so damn cool, and big

rar

Xterminator

Ah, I remember fondly those motherships in V, with the big butcher shops!

EvilGeorge

Have to agree V is a personal favorate - cheesy but a classic!

Lemming

From Startrek I loved the Klingon ships .. sooo predatory looking. My fav HAD to be the new Klingon ships .. "Negh'Var" class I think?? Those absolute monsters that made their entrance in DS9 ep.4.1 during the attack of DS9 by the Klingons.
I also liked the Romulan WarBird, the Defiant and Enterprise E


I also liked the "U.S.S Sullaco" and the Dropship in Aliens. They just looked like military ships!

I also liked the Hammerhead fighters and the big carrier ships in "Space: Above & Beyond"

Manach

My favourite style of ship would a Ranger Whitestar from B5, with a close second a Klingon Bird of Prey.

azezil

You can find most of the Startrek Ships here

Snaga

Agamemnon

azezil

Originally posted by Snaga
Agamemnon

What! those big chunky B5 ships! no way man too, how should I put it ammmmmm ! 'chunky'

Pepe LeFrits

Yea, the Negh'Var was pretty cool. It made its first appearance in TNG: All Good Things, altho it was slightly different to the one that was introduced in DS9.

The Entreprise E would still be my favourite ship from Star Trek though. The Defiant is pretty nifty too

azezil

The ships in DS9 were vor'cha class 'attack cruisers', and if I remember correctly the ships in All good things were Negh'var class 'strike cruisers'

c0y0te

Gotta say there are two ships that stand out for me, for different reasons...

In ALIENS, the dropships really kicked ass. Serious 'dont **** with me' design, particularly the transition from space to atmospheric changes. Massive firepower, cargo/personnel capability and great interiors. Gotta love all that metal

However, for sheer asthetic qualities, and 'trim' lines I'd have to go for the ship featured in the animation 'Final Fantasy'. The lead (female) character has a seriously capable ship with great features.

Hmm.. come to think of it.. I could go on and on with different ships from different shows, for different reasons. Best I shutup now then instead

c0y0te

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by azezil
The ships in DS9 were vor'cha class 'attack cruisers', and if I remember correctly the ships in All good things were Negh'var class 'strike cruisers'

Uh, there were a load of Klingon ships in DS9, including the Negh'Var (first featured in DS9 in the Way of the Warrior).

azezil

hmmm aparently you were right... found a cool pic features a Vor'cha and Negh'Var class ships :cool:

GoneShootin

its amazing really howsize difference the of Ent D and Warbird was not made clear all the time

but this version of the Enterprise D will always be my fav. If anyone can find a shot of the cannon as it rips thru the klingon hull id greatly appreciate it....

azezil

I tried to find the image you were talkin about Gone Shootin but couldn't I remember it well, great shot!

but i did find these:


which are pritty cool and this site has some cool pic's, spec's n other stuff :cool:

WhiteWashMan

i was 5 yeas old.
sitting in a huge old cinema in australia.
the screen seemed to take up about 2000 feet of viewing space in front of me.
the credits roled.
a small rebel ship passed in front of me, guns blazing. being chased.

the cinema started to physically rumble as a larger ship came into sight returning fire. the larger ship was a star destroyer. it passed.

and passed.......



and passed.......



and passed.......



and then it passed some more.

it was huge, it fired many guns. it made my seat into a big rumble pack and my ears bleed.
and it looked like a big triangle.
but it was cool.

apart from that id want an x-wing.
the one seater convertable of the galaxy

Lemming

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
i was 5 yeas old.
sitting in a huge old cinema in australia.
the screen seemed to take up about 2000 feet of viewing space in front of me.
the credits roled.
a small rebel ship passed in front of me, guns blazing. being chased.

the cinema started to physically rumble as a larger ship came into sight returning fire. the larger ship was a star destroyer. it passed.

and passed.......



and passed.......



and passed.......



and then it passed some more.

it was huge, it fired many guns. it made my seat into a big rumble pack and my ears bleed.
and it looked like a big triangle.
but it was cool.

apart from that id want an x-wing.
the one seater convertable of the galaxy

*lol* I wasn't even born when StarWars ep.4 was released (1976 I think - I was 3 years later .. just in time for "Alien"). But I went to see the special edition version when it was released in the cinema a few years ago. Picture this ....

the Savoy (screen 1 ), half-empty lunchtime showing, large bucket of popcorn sitting on seat arm beside me ... and it starts!!

The bucket was shaking as the star destroyer passed over head. 15 mins later .. still shaking as the damn things passes over the screen!!!

Inspector Gadget

I like the Defiant (pulsed phaser cannons, quantum torpedoes, ridiculous power-to-weight and firepower-to-weight ratios,etc.). After that, the modified Enterprise D from the TNG episode "All Good Things" (nice choice Gone Shootin), and possibly, from a conceptual standpoint rather than an implementation standpoint, the Prometheus from the Voyager episode "Message In a Bottle" (mmm, multi-vector assault mode ). The modified Delta Flyer II with the enhanced "fold out" extra impulse engines (from the Voyager episode "Drive") should also get a look in.

Moving outside the Star Trek side of things, probably the other ships I'd go for would be, er, the PeaceKeeper Prowlers from Farscape, and, oh, okay, the B5 White Stars.

Gadget

GoneShootin

perfect

thanks mr community moderator

azezil

NP I'm still lookin for the shot where it rips tru the Klingons hull, now that was nice :cool:

Shinji

The Super Star Destroyer from Return of the Jedi - highlight of an otherwise weak movie.

Other than that... None of the Star Trek ships have ever been particularly interesting, although I quite like the new Enterprise in, er, Enterprise. What are we designating that one? The Enterprise A-minus-1 ?

The White Stars in Babylon 5 rocked quite a lot, but you do kinda have to hand it to the Excalibur from Crusade - that is a MOTHER of a ship.

Stargate doesn't use ships much, but when it does... Both the Asgard and the Goa'uld have bloody impressive ships at their disposal. Gotta love the Goa'uld Pyramid ships (kaids probably knows the proper name)...

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by Shinji
The Super Star Destroyer from Return of the Jedi - highlight of an otherwise weak movie.

Other than that... None of the Star Trek ships have ever been particularly interesting, although I quite like the new Enterprise in, er, Enterprise. What are we designating that one? The Enterprise A-minus-1 ?

The White Stars in Babylon 5 rocked quite a lot, but you do kinda have to hand it to the Excalibur from Crusade - that is a MOTHER of a ship.

Stargate doesn't use ships much, but when it does... Both the Asgard and the Goa'uld have bloody impressive ships at their disposal. Gotta love the Goa'uld Pyramid ships (kaids probably knows the proper name)...

Oops, nearly forgot about the good ol SSD, pity we didn't see much of it though

I think we can call the new (old :P) Enterprise the "Enterprise NX-01", great name innit ?

Hataks rob, hataks (forgive spelling). The sheer size of those babies (and the even larger Asguard ships) is what makes them so cool imo, especially in scenes when they are landed on a planet or entering/leaving the atmosphere. A lot more fearsome looking than most sci-fi series ships i can think of.

Kairo

Fs, I'm too lazy to read everyones post..but has anyone mentioned any Star Wars ships?

X-Wings all the way!

seamus

I'm a bit of a voyager man meself, simply because it's the latest stuff.

3 ships from that:

The experimental USS Prometheus:
http://home.t-online.de/home/ulrichisluke/PromSchema2.gif

The slipstream (but not real hmmm) USS Dauntless:
http://www.startrek.com/content/PHOTO/voy/194pic02.jpg (terrible pic)

But nothing beats the Delta Flyer, it rocks:
http://www.bravofleet.net/avalon/runabout-deltaflyer.htm

Some people are really sad, just look at the sites I got above :rolleyes:

_CreeD_

The Corsair ship from Battle Beyond the stars, you can't beat a moose with lasers for antlers and a cleavage.

Otherwise B5's Minbari Cruiser and Whitestar, followed up by the "O'neal" Asgard ship from Stargate SG-1.

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by _CreeD_
The Corsair ship from Battle Beyond the stars, you can't beat a moose with lasers for antlers and a cleavage.

Otherwise B5's Minbari Cruiser and Whitestar, followed up by the "O'neal" Asgard ship from Stargate SG-1.

O'Neill, two ls! There's another Colonel O'Neil....

Lemming

Actually .. there's a ship in the opening FMV sequence for Quake2 ion the PC .. that is one motherf*cker of a ship!!!

Also .. who here remembers the SDF-1 battle fortress from "Robotech: the macross saga"?? That rocked too

Shinji

The SDF-1 in Macross did indeed rock. 'Course, if we get to include anime in this, I have to vote for the Swordbreaker (from Lost Universe) and the Nadesico (from, er, Nadesico)... And, of course, the Outlaw Star. Which rocks. And has a sarcastic ships computer. Top stuff

Karl Hungus

Has nobody mentioned a Borg cube?

Crash

even better than the heart of gold in The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy is


The good ship "Bistromath".

i mean, come on, how many ships operate on the principal of mathmatics within a restaurant??

bkehoe

Apophis' main ship that he got/built in Season 4 of Stargate was one of the best imho. Destroyed Heru'ur's crappy ha'tak with a single shot (or 2). Pity the replicators got it.

Pepe LeFrits

Yeah that was a cool ship, a bit stupidly large though i thought, it was something like 20 times the size of the great pyramid.

Then again, the SSD in Return of the Jedi was over eight kilometres long

Dave

I have to say the TIE fighter is my favourite ship, or the TIE Bomber



nyom

Pepe LeFrits

I never really liked any of those imperial ships, they look like two pieces of cardboard stuck onto a stick.

entropi

the "O Neill" Asguard prototype ship from Stargate was too cool to be a ship really, loved it though.

From Star Trek, maybe the new prototype ship "Prometheus" that can split in two from Voyager, when the Doctor travels along a network of sattellites and helps take it back from hostiles.

MelKor

klingon Bird of prey it be teh sit

Celt

U.S.S. Saratoga
Hybrid Earth Destroyers
Romulan Scout
Marauder Corvette(pity it was never in a SW film or series )

Saruman

Does anyone here think Enterprise E is a bit.. umm not quite right looking? I think its the very long warp Nacelles.. (that how you spell it?) especially in first contact when they look at enterprise through a telescope it was just crap looking... Enterprise D was better i thought and yes the one in All good things was very cool indeed...

my fave ship would be Defiant though... BUT remember that real big ship in startrek.. the one that was not really there but was a hell of a lot bigger than Enterprise... it was guarding a planet i cant think of the name of the episode... that looked pretty cool too!

Saruman

what about the Naboo ship in phantom menace.. i thought it looked cool, all shiny.. do i sound like a magpie?

Slydice

What about the ship from the 100th episode of Stargate sg1

with the rotating axis thingy phooar!!!

I forget (don't think it was given) the name of the race it belonged to.

love the quote in that ep in the end "This isn't a real tv show" :rolleyes:

Kali

the mothership in close encountersof the third kind.

bkehoe

The Enterprise E was a new generation of ship which, like Voyager, was probably designed to keep subspace disruption to a minimum by having more control over the warp field, something the D couldn't do, thus limited to warp 6 unless in emergencies.

Inspector Gadget

Originally posted by bkehoe
The Enterprise E was a new generation of ship which, like Voyager, was probably designed to keep subspace disruption to a minimum by having more control over the warp field, something the D couldn't do, thus limited to warp 6 unless in emergencies.

Indeed. Nicked this from the "Daystrom Institute Technical Library" website:

The warp engines of the Sovereign are of a new design which eliminates subspace distortion effects inherent to standard warp drives, a feature now becoming common on most Starfleet ships. The Sovereign class is currently the fastest vessel in Starfleet, with a maximum cruise speed of Warp 9.9 and a top speed of Warp 9.99 for up to twenty four hours. The very high cruise speed is intended to allow the ship to deploy as rapidly as possible to potential trouble spots. Her Impulse drive system is the most sophisticated model in production, giving the Sovereign class a manoeuvrability equal to that of a vessel one quarter its size.

For what it's worth...
Gadget

Slydice

MMMMMMM 9.99 eh!

Down to Tesco to buy pringles and Coke 2 seconds before I thought I was hungry MMM