WHAT Are Your Favorite Spaceships from Movies And Television?

[AE35Unit]

I loved the ship in Battle beyond the stars . Sador's ship was one the ship's in the fleet in Battlestar Galactica .

I always thought it looked...feminine...

 

[BAYLOR]

I didn't know that! was it the celestra?

It looks like but they added too it for the film . Sador's ship also reused up in Space Raiders and another B Movie film

The film story was based loosely on Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai

 

[psikeyhackr]

The funny thing is I remember how weird looking I thought the Enterprise was in 1966.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

It looks like but they added too it for the film . Sador's ship also reused up in Space Raiders and another B Movie film

The film story was based loosely on Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai

It looks like Space Raiders lifted the entire VFX shots from Battle beyond the stars, and the music too (parts of which were re-used for wrath of Khan). I loved that music!

I vaguely remember Space Raiders as a kid - in my brain it's all mushed together with Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Krull, and, strangely Hell comes to Frogtown!

 

[paranoid marvin]

I loved the ship in Battle beyond the stars . Sador's ship was one the ship's in the fleet in Battlestar Galactica .

Yes and his 'thing' about taking parts of defeated victims and grafting them onto his own I think was unique.

 

[BAYLOR]

It looks like Space Raiders lifted the entire VFX shots from Battle beyond the stars, and the music too (parts of which were re-used for wrath of Khan). I loved that music!

I vaguely remember Space Raiders as a kid - in my brain it's all mushed together with Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Krull, and, strangely Hell comes to Frogtown!

In the case of the music , not at all a surprise since James Horner did mural score for Wrath of Khan too.

Other interesting reuse use of props . Do rmeber the Domed Agro ships Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 ? Those ships were in the 1972 science fiction film Silent Running staring Bruce Dern. I don't know if they were reused in other films tv shows byword that.

 

[JunkMonkey]

In the case of the music , not at all a surprise since James Horner did mural score for Wrath of Khan too.

Other interesting reuse use of props . Do rmeber the Domed Agro ships Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 ? Those ships were in the 1972 science fiction film Silent Running staring Bruce Dern. I don't know if they were reused in other films tv shows byword that.

Shots of the Valley Forge were used in promo stuff for the ill-fated Starlost TV show but Douglas Trumbull was involved in setting that up so I guess that was legit. The oddest use of them I know of was shots of the domes separating used in the American dubbed re-edited version of Spermula - which turned a particularly weird arty French soft core porno into an SF invasion comedy.

By the purest coincidence the Valley Forge was referenced in the episode of Andromeda (season 2 episode 3) which I watched with my son twenty minutes ago. It's a small universe.

 

[AE35Unit]

The funny thing is I remember how weird looking I thought the Enterprise was in 1966.

It looks even cooler upside down

 

[REBerg]

 

[Vince W]

I prefer this resource for size comparisons.

Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS

 

[Don]

Red Planet's Mars-1:

Passenger's Avalon:

 

[AE35Unit]

The ship from Space 1999. Watched a couple of episodes recently on the Horror Channel (of course)
Not seen it since I was a kid. Back then I loved that ship!

 

[Venusian Broon]

The ship from Space 1999. Watched a couple of episodes recently on the Horror Channel (of course)
Not seen it since I was a kid. Back then I loved that ship!

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Dinky had a fantastic metal model of this ship. I had one in the late 70s:

You could also get ('cause I had one as well!) the 'Hawk' as a plastic model which, all I remember was that they appeared in one episode.

Still a great 'upgrade' on the Eagle:

 

[BAYLOR]

Dinky had a fantastic metal model of this ship. I had one in the late 70s:

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You could also get ('cause I had one as well!) the 'Hawk' as a plastic model which, all I remember was that they appeared in one episode.

Still a great 'upgrade' on the Eagle:

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And the Mark 9 Hawk .

 

[Vince W]

The Eagle transport is one of my all time favourite sf ships. Completely utilitarian and dead sexy at the same time.

 

[AE35Unit]

Dinky had a fantastic metal model of this ship. I had one in the late 70s:

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You could also get ('cause I had one as well!) the 'Hawk' as a plastic model which, all I remember was that they appeared in one episode.

Still a great 'upgrade' on the Eagle:

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Oh cool

 

[Rodders]

Venusian Broom, Sixteen12 do a nice line of metal eagle ships which includes a decent reproduction of the Dinky Eagles. One of my favourite memories is running around on Christmas day with my Transporter and Freighter. Alas, i tripped and broke one of the landing feet. Still, they were my toys for a couple of years after that.

In another thread, someone posted their Sci-Fi hates as spaceships with aerodynamic styling in space. Personally, I must confess that i do have a preference for a more aesthetic design.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Eagle transport is one of my all time favourite sf ships. Completely utilitarian and dead sexy at the same time.

I wonder if it would possible to build an actual working ship like the Eagle or the Mark 9 Hawk ?

 

[BigBadBob141]

It's possible that Space 1999 Eagle might work, of course you could only use it a vacuum, which means you could redesign the life/control pod at the front, no need for aerodynamics.

 

[Vince W]

You need the aerodynamics to give it at least a cursory predatory look.