# WORST starship? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868 "2001-03-13T23:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868/41 "2001-03-16T02:24:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*But how about the ships in the Wing Commander movie? The ones with the crew loaded torpedo tubes? The snazzy moniters with the vector graphics? The aliens that looked like El Tigre, the Mexican wrestler? There’s just no excuse for that. \*\* That movie pissed me off! How dare they make a half-assed movie of one of the best damn computer game series ever? GODDAMN HOLLYWOOD! Sorry. I get a little excited about this. Especially since the Raptors looked like turds with gatling guns, and the Tiger’s Claw looks like a friggin’ dildo in space! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868/42 "2001-03-16T02:48:59Z")
> [@](#): > > How about the crappy looking pile of junk in “ALIEN”. This thing travels at faster than light-and it looks like a tramp steamer (on the inside) from 1920! Water is constantly leaking around, the crew looks like a bunch of derelicts from a waterfront bar. And, when the monster gets loose inside the thing, noby can figure out where it is! Hey, now… the _Nostromos_ was a mining vessel if I remember right. I suppose you think the interior of the _Edmund Fitzgerald_ looked like the _Titanic_? Besides, accoring to _Aliens_, the _Nostromos_ (I’m using a lot of italics tonight) only cost about $2 million to make. Apparently, inflation won’t be much of an issue once the Company starts running things. Though I have to admit that its control room looked like someone just glued about 50,000 LEDs to the walls and placed a TRS-80 on the counter. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868/43 "2001-03-16T03:52:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > **When I was a little, little kid there was a cheap-O TV movie called “Battle Beyond the Stars”. The spaceship in it was named “Nell” (which is lame enough in itself) but the thing also looked like a cross between a banana slug and a hammerhead shark, so it had like zero chick-pulling prospects.** Actually, it looks just like those biology textbook pictures of a woman’s uterus and ovaries. Maybe “Nell” and the ship from “Flesh Gordon” could get together… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868/44 "2001-03-16T05:23:14Z")
I have to nominate the “light up” candy dish thing that turned into a weird rubber shark (sort of)thing from one of the Gamera movies. [sub]I have been drinking and can’t recall the exact name of the film, but it was on one of the MSTK Turkey Day Marathons I taped[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868/45 "2001-03-16T05:32:52Z")
Hey Lumpy, great idea. I wonder what their kids would look like though ? BTW, did you knw that James Cameron and its first Gale Anne Hurd (sp.?) both worked on this movie ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-starship/57868.md?page=2)