This gives me such nostalgia for infinity.

You won't need eyes where you're going.

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You won't need eyes where you're going.

If you design a starship like a gothic cathedral, you'll get everything you deserve.

See Also...

Ahem...see also

Highly improbable.




/looks like a shower head

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Man... I've been wanting to see a Quark reboot for ages.

American Decency Association: i loved the banter between Orac and Avon

Avon and Villa was also good, let alone Servalan running around desolate ice planets in 6" heels and a ballgown.

List Fail!

dittybopper: Vodka Zombie: GypsyJoker: [application.denofgeek.com image 450x300]

Man... I've been wanting to see a Quark reboot for ages.

I don't know if it would translate well. The best thing about Quark was that it was unabashedly 1970's schlock comedy.

Some things are just best left for dead. We got a handful of episodes. Let's not spoil it.

I suppose. Once you dip a toe in that world, you open up the door for a Mork and Mindy reboot, and the world just doesn't need that.

As usual with lists, it's crap. How can you even defend ships like 21, which looks horrible and has a jogging room as its "coolest feature," 17, which has 2 shuttles as its "coolest feature", and 12, which is a 20 minute gimmick with its only cool feature being its name? I'm as much of a Firefly fan as anyone, but that doesn't make the ship any cooler. It's very clear the author tried to come up with a list that would make the list look balanced, THEN tried desperately to come up with justifications that made them look cool, rather than looking for actual cool ships.

No "Event Horizon" on the list? It was a spaceship that traveled faster than the speed of light by taking a shortcut through Hell. How is that not cool?

dittybopper: Vodka Zombie: GypsyJoker: [application.denofgeek.com image 450x300]

Man... I've been wanting to see a Quark reboot for ages.

I don't know if it would translate well. The best thing about Quark was that it was unabashedly 1970's schlock comedy.

Some things are just best left for dead. We got a handful of episodes. Let's not spoil it.

Agreed, but has it ever been broadcast again?
I bought the entire series from some guy who had recorded all of them off broadcast when they first aired.
Copies of copies of copies....
still fun to watch again.

Not technically a ship, but...

What about --



/hot like a death ray

dittybopper: Vodka Zombie: GypsyJoker: [application.denofgeek.com image 450x300]
Man... I've been wanting to see a Quark reboot for ages.

I don't know if it would translate well. The best thing about Quark was that it was unabashedly 1970's schlock comedy.
Some things are just best left for dead. We got a handful of episodes. Let's not spoil it.


I also would also be very hinky about a Space: 1999 reboot like BSG & Hawai'i 5-0 (or a continuation like Doctor Who, ST:TNG & Degrassi). Space: 1999 had remarkably good sets (the standing sets anyway, not so much the temporary ones), miniatures, props, special effects, scoring, dialogue and storytelling. The writing and directing suffered some in the second season, but the show was still way ahead of its time. All of the improvements that the other reboots/continuations take advantage of, Space: 1999 already had for the most part.

Gay bounce!

Excuse me... What does Entertainment Weekly need with a starship?

Nobody has posted this yet...really?

0MGWTFBBQ: What about --

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/hot like a death ray

Everyone knows the Plasma cannon was the best weapon in that game.

sniderman: toddalmighty: Starship Shapiro begs to differ with you, Subs.

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We're Jews out in space
We're zooming along
protecting the Hebrew race

We're Jews out in space
If trouble appears
we put it right back in its place

When goyim attack us
We give 'em a smack
we'll slap them right back in the face

We're Jews out in space
We're zooming along
protecting the Hebrew race

i used to run into people all the time who swore up and down they saw part 2

Tarl3k: Nobody has posted this yet...really?
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No, not really. See Gordon Bennett's post way back at 2012-06-22 01:00:46 AM.

Great Janitor: They probably could have knocked The Heart of Gold off that list and put another Trek ship up there.


And why use that idiotic design from that terrible movie adaptation. Adams described the HoG as shaped like a running shoe. This design just pisses on Douglas Adams' grave.

Not that he was overly concerned about geeky details or anything, but respecting the source material is the first step in making a decent adaptation.

6. The X-FLR6

Sounds like a future Harley-Davidson model.

Great_Milenko: Great Janitor: They probably could have knocked The Heart of Gold off that list and put another Trek ship up there.


And why use that idiotic design from that terrible movie adaptation. Adams described the HoG as shaped like a running shoe. This design just pisses on Douglas Adams' grave.

Not that he was overly concerned about geeky details or anything, but respecting the source material is the first step in making a decent adaptation.

I am inclined to agree with you, however, Douglas Adams had quite a lot to do with the Movie before he died and might well have approved the design. After all, no two versions og Hitchikers are the same so it is hard to say what the source material is: radio, book, TV?

This is going to be whiny, but it's a huge irritation for me, and I'm putting here in case anyone reading this might be called themselves one day to write anything like this.

Not everything needs to be witty. And in truth, very few people are authentically witty in the first place. Unfunny or only slightly funny remarks are dismissable most of the time -- we all try to be cute and often fail, and it's okay -- but in context of a piece about something else, it becomes grating very quickly. By the fifth one in, I was gritting my teeth against the writer's mostly unfunny but more unwarranted attempts at misplaced humour that I wanted to turn it off; I only endured it for the vessels themselves.

As a general rule, don't try to be funny all the time. You'll usually fail, and in some cases that's just going to annoy people.

rickycal78: Gordon Bennett: RyansPrivates: cman: That list is BULLshiat

Millennium Falcon as #1? Seriously?

Name one starship more iconic in our culture. The only thing that might come close (if you don't include the rest of star wars) is The Enterprise from the original star trek.

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Eh, I know it does function as a space faring vessel and all, but I think the TARDIS is seen more as a time travel machine than a space ship.


TARDIS =

Time And Relative Dimension IN SPACE

See what I did there?

Everyone else has covered most of the "list fails", but I have an author fails:

"The all-encompassing size of this Super Star Destroyer makes it one of the most imposing ships in sci-fi. But the designers didn't scrimp on the interior. If you're the lucky commander of this vessel, you'll get your very own meditation chamber, complete with a manual open-sesame door function that can create hours of fun."

It was not a meditation chamber. It was a glorified iron lung. Vader's suit serves the same purpose, but sometimes you need a place to not wear a helmet all the time. The room let him breathe without it.

fusillade762: Surprised this one hasn't been posted yet:

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It's not a STAR ship. That whole series was Sol based, a one system civilization.

My favorite starships were in the pre- Golden Age science fiction, before any sort of rockets went stratospheric. John W. Campbell and Doc Smith came up with some preposterously stupid ideas about space travel, although I think Doc Smith was the one most often used for reference material.

I have my doubts as to the nature of the TARDIS. It's more along the lines of portal projector.

Great_Milenko: And why use that idiotic design from that terrible movie adaptation. Adams described the HoG as shaped like a running shoe. This design just pisses on Douglas Adams' grave.

Not that he was overly concerned about geeky details or anything, but respecting the source material is the first step in making a decent adaptation.

I think I read somewhere that Adams himself had very little need for respecting the source material when it came to the production of new incarnations of the Hitchhiker's Guide except for one major point. Arthur Dent must be British.

Tarl3k: Nobody has posted this yet...really?

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You may want to look again, about eight hours prior to your post.

/agree it should have been on the list

Their definition of spaceship is very loose. You could add space stations into that thing and it would work ... blah.

Durandal from Xenosaga
The saucers from Independence Day
Cylon Basestars were pretty damn cool
That ship from Solaris with George Clooney
And if we're going to include civilization ships, how about: Halos
And if we're going to include moss-covered ships from niche games: any ship in EVE-Online
And if we're going to include robots, how about: any Gundam
And if we're going to include ships that transform, how about: any Transformer

shower_in_my_socks: Apollo 11 was pretty F'n cool.

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/I know, I know - not "fiction" but they nailed the "science" part

That's not a starship.

edip1976: rickycal78: Gordon Bennett: RyansPrivates: cman: That list is BULLshiat

Millennium Falcon as #1? Seriously?

Name one starship more iconic in our culture. The only thing that might come close (if you don't include the rest of star wars) is The Enterprise from the original star trek.

[www.zetacity.com image 344x446]

Eh, I know it does function as a space faring vessel and all, but I think the TARDIS is seen more as a time travel machine than a space ship.


TARDIS =

Time And Relative Dimension IN SPACE

See what I did there?

Like I said, I know it is a functioning space faring vessel. But besides us nerdy farkers here, your average joe that's seen Doctor Who would think of the TARDIS in terms of a time machine before thinking of it as a space ship. I was never saying it wasn't a space ship.

Going old-school with the Dauntless Class Superdreadnaught of the Lensman series.



/Hot like the blast from a primary beam
//Credit to the skills of TLBKlaus for the picture

While I enjoyed FF7 as much as the next nerd, why would they put a busted old rocket in the list instead of, say:

The Ragnarok?



Or

The Invincible?

'Ahahaaaaaa....I have no crew.'


Fesarius, the flagship of the First Federation,

nerds

@Kerr Avon

Gordinho: Came here for Blakes7 "Liberator" reference...leaving happy...


DSV2 you mean? ;-)

Fark handle win !

bulsd: While I enjoyed FF7 as much as the next nerd, why would they put a busted old rocket in the list instead of, say:

The Ragnarok?

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Or

The Invincible?

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The Ragnarok by a landslide in that one. We didn't get to see much of what it can do but honestly, the dragon crawling through the tear in the big monolith thing when it docks...
Makes me want to play FF8 again just for that scene.

They included video games, but no mention of the Shivans (and Freespace in general)?

levitcleos: Am I the only one old enough to know that #7 is absolutely NOT the Nostromo?

Nope, you aren't. That's not the Nostromo.

Scooty-Puff, Jr. was more impressive than the Defiant.

Oh and for obvious reasons I agree with you, improvius.