The Top 10 Spaceships - Ever
There are a couple of lists of the top 10 spaceships ever. Not very good lists.
Here is mine (in no particular order) - but there is no question about it books need to be included too.
Discovery One (2001: A Space Odyssey) - Nothing much needs to be said. The discovery sets the benchmark.
Valley Forge (Silent Running) - A wonderful mechano monster - space flight as heavy engineering. The Joan Baez soundtrack is awesome.
Sulaco (Aliens) - The giant prawn is great look for a spaceship and has been copied many many times. Pretty Cool.
Warlock Class Destroyer (Babylon 5) - Also into the giant prawn look - there is certainly a degree of homage to the Sulaco - we used to get wasted and watch Babylon 5 at university.
Cygnus (The Black Hole) - I still think this is one of the scariest films (don’t laugh) ever made - I saw it one Christmas when I was about five. A wonderful gothic nightmare of a spaceship.
Nostalgia for Infinity (Revelation Space) - The gothic spaceship against which all others must be judged.
Lady Macbeth (The Reality Dysfunction) - It probably doesn’t look very exciting but who can tell. No pictures I’m afraid.
Harkonen Flagship (Dune) - From the much (and unfairly) maligned David Lynch film Dune - based on the Frank Herberts classic novel. The shot of all the Harkonens charging out of the spaceship in those great rubber suits… wow.
Serenity (Serenity / Firefly) - The wild west with a slightly bigger horse.
Pictures to follow.
November 12th, 2007 at
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