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Lexx is one of my favourite ships. It was such an oddball show as well.

I’m torn between the Defiant and Serenity

Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath

Not sure in what context you're asking this question, but my answer is the International Space Station. I love how it's possible to see it at random sometimes at night, and the way it crosses the sky just looks different compared to a regular airplane flying at night.

The Kestrel Cruiser from FTL. Even though it's not even the coolest ship in the game, The Kestrel is still the most nostalgic for me.

It brings me back to when I first played FTL a decade ago. I was a kid back then and loved the game so much, I even built and painted a cardboard Kestrel model.

The Swordfish from Cowboy Bebop. I recently bought a rather expensive model of it. Totally worth it though.

The Red Dwarf :)

I can't decide between The Planet Express ship and the space Van from Spaceballs.

Daedalus.

The Intrepid class of star ships.

I am mildly obsessed with the Saturn V. It's just such a feat of engineering and human cooperation.

The Hail Mary currently. Just such a cool ship from a fun book. To think about what would go into building it and what that means to humanity is humbling.

Other notables:

• Enterprise E from First Contact because it looks cool.
• Cygnus from The Black Hole
• Sulaco from Aliens
• Trimaxion Drone Ship from Flight of the Navigator
• The Abominator-class Offensive Unit Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints (my usual favourite lol)

Erebus class titan from EVE Online

BC-304. The Prometheus was so ugly in comparison.

Shout-out to the basic cable show that was giving us Hollywood-level visual effects effects as early as 2004.

Atlantis gets visual effects Emmy nomination

The Atlantis Effect: An Interview With Mark Breakspear

GW: Visually, which is your favorite episode of Atlantis so far?

MB: “The Eye.” The Rainmaker team created their own CG software to create the stormy water for the ocean. The level of detail and control has never been seen in TV effects before. Dan and Jose at Rainmaker pulled out all the stops and created mind-blowing shots. I think we went about 3.5 times over budget on that one — but you can’t get away with crap. You guys can spot that a mile away, and nothing kills a show quicker than cheap looking effects.

What? No love for the Millennium Falcon?

I really like the Nostromo from Alien (1979). The Icarus II from Sunshine (2007) is pretty cool, too.

Gotta go with the Normandy SR-2

And her crew 😢

There's a lot of ships I like in sci-fi, but the one that comes to mind at the moment is the garfish-class cruiser in robotech

Or if we're talking about real spacecraft here, I like the soyuz (and really the whole r-7 derived rocket family to be honest), as I like the look of it's side boosters and the four engine bells on each engine

Certainly not the Event Horizon 😈

“I’ll take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I'm satisfied she's vaporized. Fuck this ship!”

Definitely the Enterprise-E absolutely perfect.

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/enterprise-e-c68e0b0a794446a1ae04ebf564b41b16

Honourable mention to the Roci though

The Yggdrasill from Hyperion.

The one from The Fountain was kinda similar. It was unique enough to stick with me over the years anyway.

I don't know if Ringworld really counts as a ship but I loved that too. The Out Of Band 2 from A Fire Upon The Deep seemed like it would be pretty baddass. Or the alien ship from Rendezvous with Rama.

My pick was already mentioned (Rocinante) so for second place I'm gonna mention the Galactica.

Space Battleship Yamato, original model

Serenity. Just the nicest "home" you can keep flying.

Penny Royal, from Neal Asher's Technician and Dark Intelligence.

Hard sci-fi: The Rocinante

Floppy sci-f: The A-Wing

The Yamato!

https://youtu.be/zNT3un2JmJU?si=t0GrB3x07IsN-5Rn

Despite the many, many problems with the show, I'd say The Lexx.

The Thunder Road

The lexx of course it's the most powerful ship in both universes.

Lakon Spaceways Diamondback Explorer. Hands down. Like a little cicada with huge fucking engines hanging out of it. Cozy way to map the galaxy.

The wedge ships belonging to the Chitzas in the books from the "quantum series" by Douglas Phillips. they were bad ass ships ran by badass little porcupine dudes. They were able to travel beyond the visible universe in hours. The books were so much fun.

While I know it's easy to hate on everything MCU these days, I do still absolutely love the Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2. The design doesn't feel practical at all, but it's still a really fun to look at and agile ship, which is something a lot of sci fi doesn't really depict very well.

The USS Defiant. Coolest ship in Starfleet.

The Kiith Somtaaw Archangel-class Dreadnought

I'll pick the Bowie from Guardians of the Galaxy.

It's a fast ship that can flown solo, but also comfortably carry six people with their own quarters. It's fast, can cloak itself and defend itself from anything it can't outrun or hide from.

I don't want a big starship that needs a big crew to fly. But, I don't want a small ship that can't carry guests.

While not exactly a space ship, I'd say Thunderbird 2

Discovery (2001) and Leonov (2010).

Or, from system shock 2, the Von Braun and the Rickenbacker.

... you know what, they're spaceships, so all of them.

The Nomandy from Mass Effect

Mega maid. Commence suction.

Odyssee class!

The Millennium Falcon ofc.

I've always had a strange affinity for Dark Star.