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Favourite sci-fi Spaceship ?

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Go on then.... what's yours ?

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Some ideas to be going on with there. Mine has to be a Vorlon ship from Babylon 5 though

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So many to choose from.

I love Star Trek, but only the d'deridex class warbird ever stood out as being a cool design.

Starwars was full of cool stuff, Y-Wings, B-Wings, Slave One.

In B5 it's got to be the Starfury.

The Valkyrie (etal) Variable fighters from Macross are pretty cool.
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Eagle Transporter - Space 1999

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Fucking hell...1999 was the future when I was watching it. :cry:


And guess what...I had one of these as a kid. No idea what became of it:
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The Rocinante. Probably not much to look at though...
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:20 am Starwars was full of cool stuff, Y-Wings, B-Wings, Slave One.
Mentions Star Wars, but doesn't mention the Millennium Falcon :eh:
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:41 am
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:20 am Starwars was full of cool stuff, Y-Wings, B-Wings, Slave One.
Mentions Star Wars, but doesn't mention the Millennium Falcon :eh:
It's only a YT-1300.
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:44 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:41 am
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:20 am Starwars was full of cool stuff, Y-Wings, B-Wings, Slave One.
Mentions Star Wars, but doesn't mention the Millennium Falcon :eh:
It's only a YT-1300.
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Skub wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:27 am The Rocinante. Probably not much to look at though...
Same, all guns n engines as it should be;

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With regards to the OP....gotta be the Enterprise D from TNG. Why? Because its got whales on board...mentioned only ever so slightly in two throwaway lines of dialogue throughout the whole series.
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The Event Horizon :twisted:
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Battlestar Galactica's Vipers (mk2)

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Blakes 7's Slave

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And of course the Millennium Falcon, X-wing, Y-wing and B-wing. Not a fan of the Tie fighters though.
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Perihelion from the Murderbot Diaries (also known as ART asshole research transport).

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Sleeper Service, a plate class Culture excentric General Systems Vehicle.
No pics, I just liked it in the book.
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Skub wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:27 am The Rocinante. Probably not much to look at though...
Don Quixote's horse :geek:
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Thunderbird 5
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I like them when they look 'battle worn' and damaged, like a machine would after several series and a movie reboot.

As a kid I recall having a book that my mum got me from M&S. I must have been 7 or 8 at the time I reckon, but it was a big, glossy book with full page illustrations of fictional 'space disasters', with the narrative written in a very factual way giving the history of the ship, the disaster that befell it, casualties, etc. I was transfixed and read it from cover to cover over and over. Can't recall who did the illustrations, but they looked very similar to other stuff I've subsequently seen.
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slowsider wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:31 pm
Skub wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:27 am The Rocinante. Probably not much to look at though...
Don Quixote's horse :geek:
And my trimaran! :thumbup:
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slowsider wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:32 pm Thunderbird 5
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Thunderbird 5 is more of an orbital station, TB3 was the spaceship.
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out-nerded :(