Another vote for the Liberator from good ol’ Blake’s 7.
I was a fan of Ship from the X-Men spinoff X-Factor.
If I had my druthers, I’d be flying the Falcon, of course. My second choice would be the Heart of Gold because it periodically redecorates itself at random.
Runners up include Enterprise-D, the Reliant-class ships, the Bebop (it’s a sea plane! Or a sea-spaceship…), and the old-fashioned Romulan Warbird from “Balance of Terror”.
The Eagles from Space:1999
Cylon capital ships
Babylon 5 Starfurys
Klingon Birds of Prey
Star Wars Imperial Battle Cruisers
and the big-ass Spaceballs cruiser?
People, these vehicles crash or blow up EVERY TIME THEY FLY!!
Have a sense of self-preservation.
I want the Red Dwarf, show me any of your more fancy ships that is still functional after being in deep space for 3 million years. plus it has Holly.
Probably the SDF-1, transformations add a whole other dimension of cool to any ship. But seriously, I think I love them all. The Milennium Falcon, the Enterpise, all have their special place in my mind and I can’t really choose between them because I’ve loved them all best at one time or another.
The vipers from BSG. The Galactica itself was a nice design too.
Well, I came in planning to take the Millenium Falcon, but then I saw the Heart of Gold mentioned and was torn, so I decided to be original:
Slave I, Boba Fett’s ship, preferrably with the music selection Fett acquires in Daniel Keys Moran’s “The Last One Standing”
When I saw the topic a picture of the Space 1999 Eagle popped in my head. I got on of those when I was a kid. Found it under the Christmas tree.
Since that was already mentioned, it made me think of other bad sci-fi shows from my youth. That lead to Hawk’s ship from Buck Rogers and the 25th Century. It had feet! And, a beak! I love the way the wings could retract for space flight and extend for flying in the air.
A Vorlon heavy battle cruiser is pretty sweet.
Rama. As in “Rendezvous With.” Nothin’ to look at on the outside (not quite halfway down), but a whole heapin’ pile of mysteries wrapped in riddles makes it extremely fascinating and very, very cool in my mind. (I’m ignoring the disastrous sequels penned mostly by Gentry Lee.)
Though I must say, I was starting to fall in love with the Firefly-class Serenity. They’d obviously taken a lot of care with the design and layout of the ship; I loved the details, like the ladder-down-to-sleeping-quarters thing.
Thanks for the link, dude, but I wish I had a Vree saucer to kill all those popups.