Great choices, especially Space: 1999. I think I would have included the Nostromo from ALIEN and the Discovery from 2001. And most of all, Spaceball One.
Great choices, especially Space: 1999. I think I would have included the Nostromo from ALIEN and the Discovery from 2001. And most of all, Spaceball One.
Ooooo. Nostromo! Good one! That would be another great one to live in.
Not sure if I would list Sky One as I don't believe it actually went into space. Did it?
Definitely The Discovery from 2001. It looked absolutely real as if it were being shot on location in space. Not surprising since the large model was ~55 feet long!
I would include the United Planets Cruiser C-57D from Forbidden Planet myself.
And from CE3K...
I know Charles Thaxton will show up in this thread at some point!
Great choices, especially Space: 1999. I think I would have included the Nostromo from ALIEN and the Discovery from 2001. And most of all, Spaceball One.
Ooooo. Nostromo! Good one! That would be another great one to live in.
I liked the refinery that the Nostromo was towing better than the Nostromo itself.
I guess you folks have never heard of or seen the COMET before. It's the spaceship of CAPTAIN FUTURE, a Japanese animation series dating back to 1979. It was a big success in Germany in the early 1980s. We even traded Captain Future stickers for a collector's album back then.
I was a teen at the time of "Space: 1999", obsessed with everything Sci-Fi, and still hated the show. Those goofy reaction shots, always the same. Ick.
That said, this particular ship design was not bad at all, inspired by then-contemporary, weight and material saving designs for space-station structures – it had something.
Neil, I definitely agree with you on #1. I love the way it looks, especially in the ST:TMP redesign. It's sleek, smooth, and I loved the way that the SFX team lit it, using lights from the ship itself.
I still like TOS version of the ship, but the TMP refit was great.
I don't particularly care for the Trek XI redesign - the warp nacelles were just too retro and top heavy. Whatever, sleek beauty was in the TMP refit was lost.
Also, to whoever added the Mothership from CE3K, thanks. That would be my #2.
Here's my #3 (probably because it was my very first spaceship):
I guess you folks have never heard of or seen the COMET before. It's the spaceship of CAPTAIN FUTURE, a Japanese animation series dating back to 1979. It was a big success in Germany in the early 1980s. We even traded Captain Future stickers for a collector's album back then.
