Tell me about your favorite starship
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Timerover51
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Hmmm, this is a tough one, as there are three that I like, and none of them is the NCC-1701, USS Enterprise, and one of them is not a star ship.
First is the Luna (I did have to look up the name) from the movie Destination Moon. It is not a star ship, but it looks the way a space ship should look like.
Second is the Solar Queen of Andre Norton. While she never totally described the ship, through the interaction of the crew, you get a good feel of what it must look like inside. I use the crewing of the Solar Queen as the basis for my crewing in my own Traveller Universe.
Lastly, there is the United Planets Cruiser C57-D, from the movie Forbidden Planet. Aside from being a great science fiction movie, the star ship just has the right feel about it, and looks great.
First is the Luna (I did have to look up the name) from the movie Destination Moon. It is not a star ship, but it looks the way a space ship should look like.
Second is the Solar Queen of Andre Norton. While she never totally described the ship, through the interaction of the crew, you get a good feel of what it must look like inside. I use the crewing of the Solar Queen as the basis for my crewing in my own Traveller Universe.
Lastly, there is the United Planets Cruiser C57-D, from the movie Forbidden Planet. Aside from being a great science fiction movie, the star ship just has the right feel about it, and looks great.
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Dreadnought
She's boxy, and unsafe. Like the bomb in Dark Star, Dreadnought is an AI flying bomb. In this episode of Voyager, B'ellana has to stop the weapon she herself programmed to be unstoppable. It's got decent Trek dialog and though you know she will come out alive, how Dreadnought acts is really fun.
She's boxy, and unsafe. Like the bomb in Dark Star, Dreadnought is an AI flying bomb. In this episode of Voyager, B'ellana has to stop the weapon she herself programmed to be unstoppable. It's got decent Trek dialog and though you know she will come out alive, how Dreadnought acts is really fun.
Enoff
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Yes timerover51 its a tough question, there are so many cool starship when you start to think about them. But if you could only have one starship which would it be?
I love Andre Norton's stories and I agree the Solar Queen is an interesting starship.
Yes is it just the ship or is the crew also important?
Its OK to also speculate about other starships while you think which one is most special to you.
I have to think about it even though I asked the question
Maybe its an impossible question to answer?
I love Andre Norton's stories and I agree the Solar Queen is an interesting starship.
Yes is it just the ship or is the crew also important?
Its OK to also speculate about other starships while you think which one is most special to you.
I have to think about it even though I asked the question
Maybe its an impossible question to answer?
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Supplement Four
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If you're talking Traveller, it's the Beowulf class 200 ton trader. Part of falling in love with the game came with my love of the line drawing of that ship in Starter Traveller, my first Traveller purchase back in 1982 or 1983, as a Sophomore in High School.
If you're talking captial ships, nothing still beats the original Galactica from the 1970's TV show, Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, the Star Destroyers in Star Wars are neat, but, for me, it's the Galactica.
If you're talking fighters, again, it's the orignal Vipers from 1970's Battlestar Galactica. Yes, Star Wars has many very cool fighter vessels, but nothing beats that tri-dart design of the Viper. Hit your tubos! (The starfighters from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century used to make me smile, but the design has since worn on me. It looks like it should be a atmospheric and close atmosphere/close orbit vessel.)
Babylon 5's Starfuries are pretty damn cool, too.
But, yeah, if I had to pick one, it's the original Vipers.
If you're talking captial ships, nothing still beats the original Galactica from the 1970's TV show, Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, the Star Destroyers in Star Wars are neat, but, for me, it's the Galactica.
If you're talking fighters, again, it's the orignal Vipers from 1970's Battlestar Galactica. Yes, Star Wars has many very cool fighter vessels, but nothing beats that tri-dart design of the Viper. Hit your tubos! (The starfighters from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century used to make me smile, but the design has since worn on me. It looks like it should be a atmospheric and close atmosphere/close orbit vessel.)
Babylon 5's Starfuries are pretty damn cool, too.
But, yeah, if I had to pick one, it's the original Vipers.
Enoff
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Its wide open, doesn't have to be just Traveller. I agree I really enjoyed the original Battlestar Galactica and the Vipers. I am in a quandary now that I've thought about it. I go from perhaps a TOS Klingon D7 battlecruiser, it had such menace to it: to Heinlein's "Roger Young", as described in his novel not the movie; perhaps Baron Lucas Trask's "Nemesis" in Space Viking by H. Beam Piper, which would be the most Traveller like starship. Maybe I should have said name every cool starship you can think of LOL.
My original thought was a small personal starship like the Solar Queen, that a small group of characters would like to pilot.
My original thought was a small personal starship like the Solar Queen, that a small group of characters would like to pilot.
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For me, I agree, the old BSG was one of the best looking side-thrust designs.
For fighters, the Starfury from B5 is the most realistic, best looking, and totally awesome fighter.
But I've also a soft spot for the B5 Hyperion and Omega classes, and From Niven's Mote in God's Eye, the UNSS MacArthur.
I've also a long held soft-spot for the Starbird. Tho' the turret being the escape pod does seem a bit silly...
Enoff
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There was an awesome scout ship drawing on Deviant art
http://arcas-art.deviantart.com/art/1248-Scout-350261227
I love this 100 ton commercial courier drawing as well
http://sabakakrazny.deviantart.com/art/Commercial-Courier-348865607
I'm torn between ...
(a) Destiny (from Stargate Universe). A ship robust enough to take on a mission lasting millions of years, perhaps tens of millions. Capable of operating unsupervised or with an inexperienced crew.
(b) Serenity (from Firefly). Small, beat up, yet surprisingly agile and still feels like home.
(c) The TARDIS (from Doctor Who). Go any where, any time.
(d) Any of the Azhanti High Lightning class, though preferable either type FI of CF. A tough ship for the OTU with long legs. Large, yet still capable of independant operations.
Honourable mention for the Liberator (from Blakes 7) ... for Zen, it's various toys, and the external aesthetics.
(a) Destiny (from Stargate Universe). A ship robust enough to take on a mission lasting millions of years, perhaps tens of millions. Capable of operating unsupervised or with an inexperienced crew.
(b) Serenity (from Firefly). Small, beat up, yet surprisingly agile and still feels like home.
(c) The TARDIS (from Doctor Who). Go any where, any time.
(d) Any of the Azhanti High Lightning class, though preferable either type FI of CF. A tough ship for the OTU with long legs. Large, yet still capable of independant operations.
Honourable mention for the Liberator (from Blakes 7) ... for Zen, it's various toys, and the external aesthetics.
Timerover51
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Yes timerover51 its a tough question, there are so many cool starship when you start to think about them. But if you could only have one starship which would it be?
I love Andre Norton's stories and I agree the Solar Queen is an interesting starship.
Yes is it just the ship or is the crew also important?
Its OK to also speculate about other starships while you think which one is most special to you.
I have to think about it even though I asked the question
Maybe its an impossible question to answer?
If I can only name one starship, then it would have to be the Solar Queen. When I think of or design a star ship, the first one I think about is Solar Queen.
I would agree that Lucas Trask's Nemesis in Space Viking is a good one as well, but not for more of a knock-about ship. Then there is the un-named Bald Space Rover patrol ship in Galactic Derelict as well. I guess that I am more of a small ship universe type of guy.
ShapeShifter
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A couple of repeats.
For me first and for most it will always be Galactica, because of an article about ILM just before the show aired. Then comes Nostromo because it was so lived and worked in. Moya would round out the list since she is the meme of living ships for me.
Since we got ships on the positive scale let me inlcude the bottom, and while it may get me marked out for the Purple Belly I am (face it kids, the Union always wins
) I dig Firefly, but I hate the Serenity. Gak, what an ugly ship.
For me first and for most it will always be Galactica, because of an article about ILM just before the show aired. Then comes Nostromo because it was so lived and worked in. Moya would round out the list since she is the meme of living ships for me.
Since we got ships on the positive scale let me inlcude the bottom, and while it may get me marked out for the Purple Belly I am (face it kids, the Union always wins
) I dig Firefly, but I hate the Serenity. Gak, what an ugly ship.
mike wightman
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I want a System class GSV.
leo knight
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The Original Star Trek Klingon Battlecruiser. I had an AMT model of one hanging from my ceiling at a kid, and a second that I would 'fly' around, while making warp drive noises.
leo knight
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Ah yes, the Leif Ericson (or the 'Mystery UFO' in glow-in-the dark 70s finery). Cool stuff!
OMG! Yes! That model was awesom. The little scout craft and the docking bay were bonus coolness.
However my one true love (as far as starships goes) is TOS Enterprise. All the updates and redesignes are interesting but nothing beats the classic.
leo knight
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The Enterprise, the Klingon ship, and the Leif Ericson were all designed by Matt Jeffries. Genius.
