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 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 12:14pm 

Foss

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 02:56pm 

Some out of the top of my head

The Naboo starfighter. Very sleek and I really like the retro design

The X-wing. While not as beautiful as the one above, it has the looks as something that can take on the Empire on its own.

Tin Tin's Moon Rocket. Simply iconic.

The Romulan D'deridex

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 03:34pm 

I also rather like the D'deridex. It looks so powerful and menacing and mysterious.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 03:49pm 

Omega class starfury from babylon 5, I always liked the X wing, but the Starfury as a slightly more rugged design.


While we're talking B 5 there's of course



I am a huge fan of the Sovereign class design in star trek, though I like the constitution refit as well. I will second the nBSG Pegasus and add

Mk VII viper


and last but least Fuzzy's Enterprise, which i still say should have won.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 04:00pm 

The saucer looks okay on that, but the aft section looks strange at times. No worse than the Sovereign-like ship with a mutilated neck they ended up going with, though. And it does have a sort of dangerous, elegant look to it.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 04:45pm 

Now Foss is classy.

One reason I listed him as an example of a possible type of just plain beautiful ship in the OP.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 06:39pm 

Thanks to Victory of the Daleks, the best-looking military aeroplane ever built also counts as a spaceship:



Failing that, the Earth Alliance Hyperion-class heavy cruiser:



or the chromed Naboo Royal Yachts and the works of Chris Foss mentioned earlier.

The Kushan mothership from Homeworld is also rather lovely, too.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 06:45pm 

Wow SOMEONE ripped off the idea for a Covenant battle cruiser O.o

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 08:26pm 

I'll add the USSS Discovery[i] from [i]2001/2010. Long, graceful, elegant.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 08:29pm 

...and the front looks like a face FTW?

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 08:35pm 

Ever read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics? We humans are excellent pattern matchers and incredibly vain. We see our faces everywhere we look. And our penises.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 09:26pm 

Maybe to a cylon it does.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 09:30pm 

The light in the window gallery is the wrong colour but yeah, that was my first thought too.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 11:37pm 

Yes to the Dalek/A good man goes to war Spitfires

and I love the Discovery

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 11:52pm 

No ship can ever quite compare in fanciful wonder as with the TARDIS:


Also Serenity's durability and long life makes it beautiful in my eyes:

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-22 11:57pm 

I always saw it as a careless kind of "I have what you expected, and also what I need. I am badass enough to be practical AND look good."

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 03:54am 

This thread, predictably, turned into "my favorite ship".

Half of the crap posted is not only not beautiful, but they are down right ugly. Some of them are basically two shapes connected together.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 04:54am 

The Coronet from the Clone Wars cartoon, it's meant to be decadent and beautiful, and it shows.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 07:23am 

who are you to question a nerd's preferred space dildo that they use while thinking about world building

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 07:30am 

Some one that knows the difference between "OH MY FAVORITE" and an atheistically pleasing design.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 07:34am 

I think the spaceship from The Fountain is beautiful. Style over substance for the win.




I also think the SOL from Perry Rhodan looks good.

(by Dirk Schulz)

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 07:51am 

I like it how the OP explicitly disqualifies the an ugly fat little thing like the Serenity from the running - and yet its posted here anyway

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 10:41am 

It's almost as if some people don't even bother reading the OP.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 10:42am 

It's almost as if some people have different standards of beauty than others.

 Post subject: Re: Just Plain Beautiful Spaceships

Posted: 2012-02-23 11:06am 

The way I figured it, Serenity and ships like her have the other thread. But Serenity's aesthetic appeal comes from... the lack of any deliberate effort to make her appealing.

The other thread was all about "endearingly ugly" ships, and had plenty of them. So I was wondering, what about ships that just plain look good, and are not "endearingly ugly?"

There are a lot of "atheistically pleasing design" ideas out there- you can take the chrome-rocketship Golden Age look, or the multicolored Chris Foss things that look like space insects that Shroom was pointing to, or a bunch of other options. But yes, I was hoping that people would avoid just saying "my favorite ship," and possibly that we might see discussion of aesthetics. What do people like in ship design, in terms of appearance? Geometric simplicity, or complexity? Straight lines or curves? All the ship's functions integrated into the hull, or a modular appearance with things like engine nacelles?

Do you actually consider a 1960s British police box to be the gold standard of architectural beauty? For that matter, does lordofchange? Or was he just missing the point with "my favorite ships?"