Your favourite TV / film spaceship.

[eltawater]

Strangely Brown said:

Another favourite...

Ah Chiggy Von Richthofen

[V1nce Fox]

It’s the falcon, hands down.

Big fan of the mandalorian’s ship too.

[DodgyGeezer]

I think I've got an unmentioned one....



from Tripping the Rift

[AlexC1981]

I still remember how nicely the Excalibur's quad tachyon guns would tear through Kilrathi ships, though it's been 25 years since I last flew one.

[carl_w]

Rocinante was pretty good

[Fast and Spurious]

Has to be this one... the first one..79 years ago...


Complete with the "Frau im mond" painting, inspired by the 1929 film.

Some of the actual footage here..got to 85km...
https://youtu.be/oZNOOZJZaSk

[TheAngryDog]

CornishSquire said:

TheAngryDog said:

The Enterprise D with all its might always came across as a weak ship to me.

what about the Galaxy dreadnaught, still one of my all time faves

That's how powerful it should have been from the start. It got it's arse kicked by a 25 year old Klingon Bird of Prey ffs!

[Ash_]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Strangely Brown said:

I think I have to go with the Saratoga (if I haven't already).



http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aboveandbeyond...

Shame it got cancelled.

It always used to annoy me they used the pilots as grunts in some episodes, although I guess that gave the producers scope to vary the show. But from a military standpoint it would be madness due to the cost of training pilots.

That was the same in BSG though, Starbuck off doing grunt work quite regularly (leading a team of Marines for example), I always put it down to the need to have a small number of main cast members for everything, as the audience wouldn't care about a no-body that was brought in for a single episode every now and again when they needed the ground troops to do something.

[L_G]

Ash_ said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Strangely Brown said:

I think I have to go with the Saratoga (if I haven't already).



http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aboveandbeyond...

Shame it got cancelled.

It always used to annoy me they used the pilots as grunts in some episodes, although I guess that gave the producers scope to vary the show. But from a military standpoint it would be madness due to the cost of training pilots.

That was the same in BSG though, Starbuck off doing grunt work quite regularly (leading a team of Marines for example), I always put it down to the need to have a small number of main cast members for everything, as the audience wouldn't care about a no-body that was brought in for a single episode every now and again when they needed the ground troops to do something.

I have recently been watching the original series of Star Trek on Netflix (last watched it when it was broadcast on BBC when I was a teenager) and for the most part the landing parties contains members of the cast such as Bones for no obvious operational reason.

IIRC they tried to address this in The Next Generation.

[DodgyGeezer]

L_G said:

I have recently been watching the original series of Star Trek on Netflix (last watched it when it was broadcast on BBC when I was a teenager) and for the most part the landing parties contains members of the cast such as Bones for no obvious operational reason.

IIRC they tried to address this in The Next Generation.

Yeah away teams have the chief sugeon/doc, captain, chief science officer, head of security.... hmmm

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Ash_ said:

That was the same in BSG though, Starbuck off doing grunt work quite regularly (leading a team of Marines for example), I always put it down to the need to have a small number of main cast members for everything, as the audience wouldn't care about a no-body that was brought in for a single episode every now and again when they needed the ground troops to do something.

Oh, absolutely. I assumed the same.

However, operationally it makes no sense. Just like DodgyGeezer says for Star Trek too.

But, as you say, I can see why the producers would do it.

[rider73]

didnt they flip that for Babylon 5 though, where 2 "grunts" cleaning up turn off the lights of the station?

[RacingBlue]

I know it's predictable, but it's always this for me. Love the extended space dock shots from the Motion Picture (the rest of the film can get in the bin though), and the nebula battle from the Wrath of Khan.

[xeny]

RacingBlue said:

I know it's predictable, but it's always this for me. Love the extended space dock shots from the Motion Picture (the rest of the film can get in the bin though), and the nebula battle from the Wrath of Khan.

I'm also rather partial to the Constitution class refit, although I prefer the 1701 to the 1701-A.

Looking forward to seeing what the Strange New Worlds variant looks like, as I can't face watching Discovery.

[Speed1283]

Can't disagree with the Falcon given its iconic status and the pilot plus the movies... Although aesthetically the asymmetric position of the cockpit bothers me sightly... Can't help but think it would be a bit of a nightmare for really tight manoeuvres.... Lol.

Not sure if games are allowed but I've always been a fan of the covenant ships in the halo franchise, they look so much better than the Human ships. Pick of the bunch has to be the CSO supercarrier which I believe only features in Reach (a great game).