"Best movie and TV spaceships: The star craft..." Topic

… that defined our childhood

"Science fiction films and TV shows have graced us with some amazing spaceships over the last few decades, often becoming as iconic as the characters and stories themselves…"

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Armand

That was a terrible list.
Thunderbird 3?
The Mars Attacks saucers?

Really?
No Millennium Falcon? No Space 1999 Eagle, No Babylon 5 Whitestar, No Starblazers Argo/Yamato?

Wot!

No Liberator!

No Original Cylon attack craft?

No Viper!

No X-Wing?

No TIE Fighter????????

I mean, no TIE Fighter ??????????????????????

Imperial Star Destroyer…Gouald ships and human ships from Stargate…

No Galactic Sanitation Patrol Cruiser? Disappointing…

Starships that Defined Our Childhood…….making the list are ships in movies 4 years ago???? Just….NO…

No ToS Star Trek Enterprise or Klingon D7 cruisers?

This is, as noted above, a very unsatisfactory list. How about the classic sharp-nosed ship from "Destination Moon?" This was the epitome of space vessel in the 1950's. Then there is the saucer from
"Forbidden Planet." Whoever made this list is just too young.

How about the Andromeda Ascendant..

Bloody heck. Shot long before I was born, but played on TV when I was a child, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials, with Zarkov's tube of toothpaste and Ming's flatirons…

Many of the above were after I was an adult, TOS was a high school staple, but I have adult friends who would be yelling as loud as all of us.

Possibly a war criminal, but Von Braun explaining multistage rockets on Disney was for me very formative.

And if you want to bring up Heighliners…

Many thanks… looking forward for a best list…

Armand

That was a terrible list." -- and everyone else

Agreed!

Also, where is Fireball XL-5?

"That was a terrible list.
Thunderbird 3?"

Hey hey now! There's plenty of other crap on that list without ragging on Thunderbird 3! It was definitely part of my childhood growing up.

I mean, Max? The Prawn ship? The Heart of Gold? The Mars Attacks saucer? These really defined kids' childhoods???

Can't get the site to load. So screw it. Here are THE Best SF Spacecraft from Film and TV of the 20th Century:

USS Enterprise from Star Trek (TOS)
Millennium Falcon
X-wing Starfighter
TIE Starfighter
Viper from Battlestar Galactica (TOS)
Battlestar Galactica ship (TOS)
Klingon D7 (TOS)
Romulan Bird of Prey (TOS) from "Balance of Terror"
Y-wing Starfighter
Imperial Star Destroyer
TIE Interceptor
Cygnus from The Black Hole
Cylon Raider (TOS)
TIE Advanced/Vader's fighter
Klingon Bird of Prey (Star Trek III, VI, et al)
USS Enterprise refit/-A, from the movie era.
Eagle class Space: 1999
Buck Roger's Starfighter (aka Thunderfighter) 80's TV show
TIE Bomber
Tholian web vessels Star Trek (TOS)
Borg cube
Cylon BaseStar (original series)
War Rocket Ajax, Flash Gordon (1980)
Slave 1 (Boba Fett's craft)
USS Defiant, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Federation Runabout class, Deep Space Nine
USS Voyager ST:V
Nebulon-B Frigate class, The Empire Strikes Back
A-Wing starfighter
B-Wing starfighter
Imperial Super Star Destroyer Executor
Botany Bay DY-100 class (Khan's sleeper ship) Star Trek (TOS)
The TARDIS (Doctor Who)

Honorable Mention: Lief Ericson Galactic Cruiser plastic model kit. link
If you had one of these, you imagined all sorts of space adventures with it, making movies in your own mind.

I do not list the various Thunderball ships (and their close British kin) solely because I never saw these shows, except as brief clips. Though even today, I just can't get into the puppets.

That Lief Erickson dredges up a ferry foggy childhood memory.

Cool!

Thanks!

Armand

Now Parzival has made a better list. Still could have used a Space 1999 Mk9 Hawk there, Brian Johnson was really good at his craft before Star Wars and after Star Trek defined starships.