# Favorite Fictional Spacecraft? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733 "2003-10-05T17:48:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/21 "2003-10-06T01:00:09Z")
But none of the one you’d want to watch… ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/22 "2003-10-06T01:38:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vunderbob \* > \*\*I liked the Russian ship from “2010”. The big balloons used for the atmospheric braking were cool. \*\* Did you notice that the [Omega class destroyers](http://www.tp2b.de/earth_ocd.html) in **Babylon 5** have the exact same configuration? I personally liked the Star Furies in Babylon 5. It’s the most logical and plausible space fighter design I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/23 "2003-10-06T02:05:17Z")
On the balance, I think I’m going to have to go with the RMN battlecruiser _Nike_. Powerful enough to outgun anything faster than it, and fast enough to outrun anything more powerful than it. Bonus points if I get a treecat. But I’ve got a lot of runners-up: The _Skylark_, with matter-annihilation machineguns and the ability to ignore pesky physics whenever convenient… The _Long Shot_, three hundred times faster than anything else… The _Gay Deceiver_, capable of taking you any place that does or doesn’t exist… The _Heart of Gold_, which even if it doesn’t do what you want, is never uninteresting… Obviously, I need my own fleet. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/24 "2003-10-06T02:49:23Z")
Millennium Falcon, which is a custom modified Corellian light freighter. The wookiee’s optional. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/25 "2003-10-06T02:58:35Z")
How about the Bistromath? Who knew you could get so much power out of a fake chicken cacciatore? (or rather the bill for it?) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/26 "2003-10-06T03:58:12Z")
What? No votes for Lazarus Long’s sentient ship, Dora? _sigh_ Poor girl… ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Lehnert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Robert\_Lehnert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert_Lehnert)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/27 "2003-10-06T04:06:48Z")
Pournelle’s 2nd Empire battlecruiser “MacArthur” from _The Mote in God’s Eye_. In an essay, Niven and Pournelle said the design was inspired by a plastic model (ludicously released in a glow-in-the-dark “ufo” version) that vaguely resembled a flattened whiskey bottle. It shows what can be done by creative adaptation from the most unlikely sources. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/28 "2003-10-06T04:12:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*What? No votes for Lazarus Long’s sentient ship, Dora? _sigh_ Poor girl… \*\* If we’re judging ships by personality, I’d choose _Red Dwarf_. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/29 "2003-10-06T05:02:23Z")
I’m torn. I just watched an early episode of Babylon 5, and the Star Fury is a damn cool ship that actually obeys the laws of physics. On the other hand, there’s the dropships from Aliens, which are also very cool. But they’re not counted as spacecraft in the other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mean\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/30 "2003-10-06T05:05:20Z")
The Klingon Bird of Prey from the Star Trek movies: [http://www.planet3earth.freeserve.co.uk/109.jpg](http://www.planet3earth.freeserve.co.uk/109.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/31 "2003-10-06T05:12:11Z")
EE Smith’s “Skylark of Valeron” and “Skylark Duquesne”… all the advantages of the regular Skylark, but over 500 trillion times larger and more powerful, fast enough to cross the universe while you eat dinner, and easily operable by a single pilot. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/32 "2003-10-06T05:16:19Z")
The ROU \*Killing Time. Blowing up hundreds of ships in microseconds, flying at trillions of times the speed of light in bursts, having nanosecond reaction times, and flying badly into an impossible fight, wholly expecting to die, only to emerge victorious and unscathed at the end. Ballsy Mind, that. The _Sleeper Service_ is just as cool, just for building its own fleet of tens of thousands of miniature ships just from the excess matter that it carried about in its fields. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/33 "2003-10-06T05:18:47Z")
Zuh. Stupid coding. Don’t know why I used the URL code. Musta been effectorized. ---
**Author:** ![MusicJunkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@MusicJunkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MusicJunkie)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/34 "2003-10-06T05:20:53Z")
The blackhawks from Peter Hamilton’s Nightsdawn trilogy. I always liked living ships. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/35 "2003-10-06T05:31:39Z")
What? No votes for Lexa Doig? ---
**Author:** ![Trucido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/36 "2003-10-06T06:32:08Z")
The _excession_. Can’t beat it for mysterious cachet or inscrutability. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/37 "2003-10-06T11:41:32Z")
The _Liberator_. If it’s good enough for Blake’s Seven, it’s good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Nangleator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@Nangleator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nangleator)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/38 "2003-10-06T12:45:29Z")
_Gay Deceiver_ is the single-most useful craft around, and the _Whitestar_ from Babylon 5 is the coolest looking, and safest in a fight. The big Shadow vessels kind of rock, but I could do without the neural implants and insanity. Of course, the infinite improbability drive must be kind of fun to use. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/39 "2003-10-06T12:47:24Z")
I’d like to travel the universe in FIREBALL XL 5 ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733/40 "2003-10-06T13:11:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robert Lehnert \* > \*\*Pournelle’s 2nd Empire battlecruiser “MacArthur” from _The Mote in God’s Eye_. In an essay, Niven and Pournelle said the design was inspired by a plastic model (ludicously released in a glow-in-the-dark “ufo” version) that vaguely resembled a flattened whiskey bottle. It shows what can be done by creative adaptation from the most unlikely sources. \*\* Here ya go: [The Leif Ericsson (aka UFO Mystery Ship)](http://http://www.graphiko.com/forbiddenplastic/amt_ufo/amt_ufo_index.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-spacecraft/205733.md?page=3)