Most beautiful spaceships in fiction

[Nazulu]

I was immediately fascinated with the idea of this one -

I couldn't remember where I found this. Took me around 20 minutes

Looks like the ship from '79 movie Black Hole. It's basically studying a black hole and the commander is an insane scientist with his robot henchmen running the ship. It's pretty entertaining.

Ha! Yeah, the image was even called Black Hole. It sounds interesting, thanks for letting me know

 

[Jute88]

I was immediately fascinated with the idea of this one -

I couldn't remember where I found this. Took me around 20 minutes

Looks like the ship from '79 movie Black Hole. It's basically studying a black hole and the commander is an insane scientist with his robot henchmen running the ship. It's pretty entertaining.

Ha! Yeah, the image was even called Black Hole. It sounds interesting, thanks for letting me know

No problem! Just hope that the movie is entertaining to you as well =)

 

[DefunctTheory]

Another one: Jumpships in general from Battletech, a series that was unafraid when it came to make penis shaped ships.

Invader Class Jumpship​

 

[Leg End]

I'm going to be a special snowflake and say without a doubt the 'Rainbow' from Zenon the Zequel, a ship that in the pure 'oh my god it's so beautiful' department, wins against every other ship in an unfair matchup by literally being a rainbow in space.

It's like some orgasmically beautiful quadmanta swimming through space. Absolutely all of the shoestring budget they had likely went to it. Here, have a gif for ants of it in action.

And entering warp, it just slaps the wings together and darts off. Absolutely beautiful and double absolutely my favorite sci-fi ship, and the screentime for it doesn't even add up to a minute. It's a painful cocktease and I wish it wasn't only in a DCOM that no one remembers. I highly suggest that anyone interested looks for the movie and skip to the end just to see the thing.

But if I had a second example and as a runner up to being my favorite...

Enterprise NCC-1701-D

This ship can make me feel good just by seeing it but that is just my relationship with the show itself.

If the Rainbow Manta and the Enterprise-D could just have rainbow space sex and have a baby, It'd be the best of both worlds.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I like-

That Bird of Prey cruiser (the aqua colour one) from Star Trek.
The Rebel transport ship from Star Wars (I like the round design to it).
Those wooden Jurai ships in the Tenchi series.
Most of the ships in the DS game Infinite Space.

 

[Gorrath]

I like-

That Bird of Prey cruiser (the aqua colour one) from Star Trek.
The Rebel transport ship from Star Wars (I like the round design to it).
Those wooden Jurai ships in the Tenchi series.
Most of the ships in the DS game Infinite Space.

Scrolled through the whole page making sure no one had posted it already and bam, last post is you horning in on my Tenchi ships!

In which case I am going with another living ship, who's beauty and grace struck me from the first episode to the last.

I'd captain the hell out of Moya, if you know what I mean.

 

[pookie101]

for me it would be the akira class starships from star trek.. fast, sleek, and pack a definite punch

 

[Gorrath]

Another one: Jumpships in general from Battletech, a series that was unafraid when it came to make penis shaped ships.

Invader Class Jumpship​

Naming a penis shaped ship "invader" sure doesn't leave much to the imagination!

 

[bluegate]

Enterprise NCC-1701-D

This ship can make me feel good just by seeing it but that is just my relationship with the show itself.

Personally, I never liked how thin the ship looked and how flimsy the supports for the warp nacelles looked, it looks so... fragile.

Therefor, my vote goes to the more compact and robust looking Intrepid class vessels, for example the USS Voyager;

Especially shots of its belly with its ever happy looking deflector.

 

[renegade7]

From EVE Online, the Maelstrom:

I almost decided on the Hurricane, but there were two reasons I picked the Maelstrom instead:

-Biggest subcap is best subcap (The Maelstrom is about 1300 meters in length on its long axis and the only larger subcap, the Machariel, literally looks like a piece of poo)

-The sound of eight 1400MM cannons on a high-fidelity surround sound system. Seriously, CCP has really done a good job in the last few years of improving the audio.

The Maelstrom also has a special sentimental place to me. One of the first times I undocked from my starter station in my tiny little Reaper frigate (about 30 meters in length) I was right next to one of these going only slightly faster, and flying right next to it and turning the camera towards it the Maelstrom filled up the entire screen for almost the entire 20 or so seconds it took me to fly past it. That tiny green mark I made on the picture represents the size difference. It was just epic.

And to round out the sense of scale, if you were to take a picture of a Titan at the resolution of that picture and draw an only slightly-larger line, you would have a fair representation of the difference in size between a battleship like the Maelstrom and a Titan.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Spoiler

Another one: Jumpships in general from Battletech, a series that was unafraid when it came to make penis shaped ships.

Invader Class Jumpship​

Naming a penis shaped ship "invader" sure doesn't leave much to the imagination!

There's also the 'Monolith' (Compensating for much) and the 'Star Lord.'

 

[DarthCoercis]

No love for the living ships of the Vorlons?

Spoiler

Planet Killer & Capital Ships

Or the Minbari?

Spoiler

Sharlin War Cruiser

Anla'shok White Star

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

There's something simplistic and nice about the Corvette Class from Starship Troopers

Also gotta' love the the Gloriana Class flagships from 40k, 'cause each one was tailor made for the Primarch of a Legion and each one was like the size of the Citdael from Mass Effect.

 

[sageoftruth]

Well, I can't see anything that tops the 40K Warship from the original post. I had a feeling it would be a 40K ship. Ever since I saw one of those on a Lets Play of Battle Fleet Gothica, I was certain there was no topping that. It's like a flying super-cathedral.

 

[Riddle78]

Take any non-Vasari ship from Sins of a Solar Empire. Any one of them. So long as the Vasari didn't build them. They're all fuckin' beautiful. Like the Halcyon-class Carrier,or the Ankylon-class Titan.

 

[Faaip]

I think the ships of 2001 A Space Odyssey deserve representation.

 

[Zenja]

If the Rainbow Manta and the Enterprise-D could just have rainbow space sex and have a baby, It'd be the best of both worlds.

Perhaps that is where the creatures from Farpoint Station were from. Dimensional time warp result perhaps? We may never know.

Personally, I never liked how thin the ship looked and how flimsy the supports for the warp nacelles looked, it looks so... fragile.

Therefor, my vote goes to the more compact and robust looking Intrepid class vessels, for example the USS Voyager;

Especially shots of its belly with its ever happy looking deflector.

I do like the look of the Voyager too - but I don't particularly like its belly design. I actually love the 'fragile' or 'sleek' design to 1701-D but I heavily dismiss it due to being fiction and the shields almost never fail completely. Even if they do, Picard will talk them out of trouble or outmaneuver/out-think the enemy. Or maybe the enemy torpedo misses the ship because the design fooled the targeting systems and the torpedo went in between all the slender parts. I know it is ridiculous logic, but I am trying to justify the design because its pretty. However, I do like the 1701-E belly design. I also just simply like the updated look of the 1701-E.

Have you seen the USS Veteran before? I found it searching for images and as far as I can tell, it is from Star Trek Online only.

Star Trek Online also has a couple ships that are like if the Normandy and Enterprise had a baby. They are also sexy, but then again they come from really good gene pools. I am surprised the Normandy hasn't shown up. I like it but it feels like the middle section is too plain for my tastes.

Finally, I want to throw out the Romulan Bird of Prey.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Spoiler: space saver

If the Rainbow Manta and the Enterprise-D could just have rainbow space sex and have a baby, It'd be the best of both worlds.

Perhaps that is where the creatures from Farpoint Station were from. Dimensional time warp result perhaps? We may never know.

Personally, I never liked how thin the ship looked and how flimsy the supports for the warp nacelles looked, it looks so... fragile.

Therefor, my vote goes to the more compact and robust looking Intrepid class vessels, for example the USS Voyager;

Especially shots of its belly with its ever happy looking deflector.

I do like the look of the Voyager too - but I don't particularly like its belly design. I actually love the 'fragile' or 'sleek' design to 1701-D but I heavily dismiss it due to being fiction and the shields almost never fail completely. Even if they do, Picard will talk them out of trouble or outmaneuver/out-think the enemy. Or maybe the enemy torpedo misses the ship because the design fooled the targeting systems and the torpedo went in between all the slender parts. I know it is ridiculous logic, but I am trying to justify the design because its pretty. However, I do like the 1701-E belly design. I also just simply like the updated look of the 1701-E.

Have you seen the USS Veteran before? I found it searching for images and as far as I can tell, it is from Star Trek Online only.

Star Trek Online also has a couple ships that are like if the Normandy and Enterprise had a baby. They are also sexy, but then again they come from really good gene pools. I am surprised the Normandy hasn't shown up. I like it but it feels like the middle section is too plain for my tastes.

Finally, I want to throw out the Romulan Bird of Prey.

Romulans have quite a few pretty ships.

Spoiler: D'vorx class

Spoiler: Lukan class

The Dominion as well..

Spoiler: Jem'Hadar super carrier

Though one of my personal favorites is not from that universe..

Spoiler: For the love of jove

 

[Zenja]

I also want to mention that some of the best ship designs I have seen are actually from Galactic Civilization players. For example:

This ship, I like the idea of if it having this crazy awesome plasma/rail gun that uses the hull as a sort of 'barrel'.

I could post these all day.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Depending on m y mood..

Spoiler: That darn cat Futurama

Spoiler: Nyan

Spoiler: Speeder Cat