There's several brackets to vote in. Some are pretty slanted one way or the other and, in many cases the pairings are ludicrous. Like, how the heck can you even compare the SS Normandy from Mass Effect to an X-Wing? That's just dumb. Anyway, here's the link. I'm curious to see which Star Wars ship takes it all.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/coolest-spacecraft-bracket-game.htm

Naturally, Star Wars and Star Trek will win everything just because people are voting as fans rather than on he actual coolnees of the ships. I'd just like to add, how the hell can you have "cool" and "spaceship" together and not have the Millennium Falcon nowhere in sight?



Ghidorah

crossing my fingers on Serenity

No Borg cube?

No Slave 1?

No Nostromo?

Enterprise and Star Destroyer square off in the semi-finals, winner of that series takes it all. Nothing even remotely interesting in the bottom conference.


EDIT: Also, no Event Horizon? No Death Star?

No Whitestar, no Defiant, no Lexx... No Fething Liberator?!?!

What is on the list, it wont load for me. Probably stuck trying to pass an ad through my firewall before it loads fully.

Cmon Moya, cmon!

I started this thread, thinking, Normandy, all the way, then I remembered Serenity, then I remembered Defiant! How can anyone really choose just one!

They were wrong about spaceships not coming more gothic or full of hostile aliens than the Aliens derelict. A Space Hulk would be more gothic, and more hostile.


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It should be the Normandy VS the Millennium Falcon. Those ships are more comparable.

Votes:

USS Enterprise
Planet Express Ship
X-Wing
Imperial Star Destroyer
Romulan Warbird
Didn't care about TARDIS or Heart of Gold so w/e
Galactica
The Alien Derelict (didn't care much about this one either)

They lose points though for not having the Slave 1, Klingon Bird of Prey, or the Prometheus (SG1). Oh, or Whitebase!

Serenity

The Heart of Gold is the correct answer.

Well my pick is the SDF-1 Macross. I mean it's a mile long ship with a gun that destroys EVERYTHING in its path, that launches F-14 Tomcats that turn into robots AND it turns into a robot itself with aircraft carriers for arms.

But it's up against the Star Destroyer so it'll lose.

Maybe I'll start a survivor game with better options.

Jihadin wrote:crossing my fingers on Serenity

Totally

KingCracker wrote:

Jihadin wrote:crossing my fingers on Serenity

Totally

Nice show, but coolest star ship EVAH?

Not even close.

The Defiant which is armed to the teeth, can turn matter into energy, travel through time and turn invisible is the only one I'd rank even close to the SDF-1.

Everyone knows this contest will ultimately be a battle of franchise, not the ships.

Indeed

Well that was a super slow app of some kind, but I eventually got the votes in. No Red Dwarf, or Defiant? Aww well, cmon Moya and Yamato!!

Serenity crew with guns...not just any ole guns...but a rifle someone willing to trade for his wife!!

Chosen ships.

Enteprise, simply because it'd class not only the original but all enteprises presumably.

The serenity, just cause I hate the planet express ship....lame.
X-wing over the normandy because I don't like ME
ISD over macross.
moya over the warbird.
Heart of gold over the tardis
Martian war machine easily over the Galactica. Thats impervious to NUKES
Finally, the discovery, because we can make it.

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BlapBlapBlap wrote:.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

I refuse to do that poll.

No B5 ships on it, no poll.

My vote would be the Omega class destroyer.

Bah, why did they put the Yamato against the Enterprise?

Seriously? No Millenium Falcon?

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:Seriously? No Millenium Falcon?

wouldnt want the competition to be unfair now would we???

I liked the human spaceship in that Larry Niven book about a bunch of aliens that invade the earth.

It was cobbled together from spare parts off old navy battleships and powered by nuclear pulse drive.

Huffy wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:Seriously? No Millenium Falcon?

wouldnt want the competition to be unfair now would we???

True...

LordofHats wrote:

They lose points though for not having the Slave 1, Klingon Bird of Prey, or the Prometheus (SG1). Oh, or Whitebase!

I preferred the Aurora (SGA)
And An emperor class Battleship is more gothic and hostile, never mind a space hulk

Deathshead420 wrote:I refuse to do that poll.

No B5 ships on it, no poll.

My vote would be the Omega class destroyer.

Cool but can't top the Membari cruiser, preferably named Blackstar.
Shadow cruiser is awesome too. Whats not to like about a ship that looks like a crab from hell?


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Kilkrazy wrote:I liked the human spaceship in that Larry Niven book about a bunch of aliens that invade the earth.

It was cobbled together from spare parts off old navy battleships and powered by nuclear pulse drive.

You're not talking Footfall are you?

Yes, that's the one.

Omega destroyer from B5 will always be the coolest in my book.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Jihadin wrote:crossing my fingers on Serenity

Totally

Nice show, but coolest star ship EVAH?

Not even close.

The Defiant which is armed to the teeth, can turn matter into energy, travel through time and turn invisible is the only one I'd rank even close to the SDF-1.

Oh I should of specified, I didnt mean it will win, I was more agreeing with beating the ship it was with in that bracket

Kilkrazy wrote:Yes, that's the one.

Thats a good book. America and er USSR HURR!

Where is the Vengeful Spirit?

Cool but can't top the Membari cruiser

That would be my second favorite.

I like pretty much all the Babylon five ships over Star Trek/Wars, Firefly ....etc.

Oh come on the Imperial Destroyer is just its own level of cool (same for TIE Fighters).

But yes B5 ships are generally much more organic. I like the Narn ships as well, although the Drazi ships and the flying saucer thing were meh to me.

I never understood the appeal of the enterprise. It's a saucer with engines only connected by spindly neck and wings. It's looks like it could easily fall apart.

To be honest, if anything in the star trek universe was in that. BORG CUBE.

A thousand kilometer wide/deep cube, with literally millions of adaptive, self-aware drones who can reproduce given an hour and which also can destroy the universe.

Krellnus wrote:Cmon Moya, cmon!

I love Moya, but the D'deridex is one of my favourite ships ever!

Also Serenity FTW!!!

I voted for Moya over the Romulan ship.

Can't trust ANYONE in that "chickenship" outfit.

... But I worked on Farscape, so my bias might be showing (and I didn't like TNG anyway).

So, a co-worker and I were discussing the poor pairings of this list. Our main debate was whether or not the Tardis should be on this list. I don't think so, as it's a phone booth that travels through time. He contends that it travels through time AND space, thus qualifying it as a space vessel just like the rest.
I think it's just a glorified "magical" phone booth. Albeit one with an olympic swimming pool inside.

When I see or think of that thing, I don't see' "spaceship."


Ghidorah

To be fair it really doesn't look like a phone booth, its just what the doctor chooses it to look like.

I know at one point its chameleon circuit was broken leaving stuck as a PB, but I remember some of the old ones where it could change shape and appearance.

Does it belong on the list ......no.

But if you take into account the number of deaths caused by the tardis and the Doctor ( who i believe is the grim reaper ) it should be on the list, shet it might have killed more then them all combined.


That poll kinda blows, it has no criteria and method to it.

It's like saying who was the best human being ever, Michael Jordan or Einstein ......fight.

Jordan clearly.... unless the Heat win tonight, and then it is Lebron James.


Oh, on topic- I've always been partial to the SDF-1 myself. The SDF-1 could totally own every other ship on the list with its Reflex Cannon.

Only if a fickle Chinese girl is singing.

Frazzled wrote:Oh come on the Imperial Destroyer is just its own level of cool (same for TIE Fighters).

Does it turn into a robot with aircraft carriers for arms?

Does it launch F-14 Tomcats that also turn into robots?

Does is have a gun that destroys EVERYTHING in its path?

Sure the ISD is cool, sure it's iconic, but at the end of the day it was a bad guy ship, it couldn't even catch one smugging vessel.

SDF-1 clearly trumps it.

Does the SDF-1 have Darth Vader?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Well my pick is the SDF-1 Macross. I mean it's a mile long ship with a gun that destroys EVERYTHING in its path, that launches F-14 Tomcats that turn into robots AND it turns into a robot itself with aircraft carriers for arms.

But it's up against the Star Destroyer so it'll lose.

Quoted for extreme truth.


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Frazzled wrote:Does the SDF-1 have Darth Vader?

No, but it has giant robots that can squish Sith Lords with their metal feet.

I think they were going with a variety. Otherwise the whole thing would be nothing other that Star Wars and Trek.

Tie fighters turn F14s into bantha fodder.

Star Destroyers have shields. The SDf only had those tiny little shields they had to play Missile Command with. They can't react to turbolasers.

Star Destroyer crews have better uniforms.
Star Destroyers have much better theme music. Now we were talking Zentraedi theme music then yea you'd have a fight but, the UN Spacy theme -hahahahah

Later in the series, the SDF-1 had a full force field to go with its far superior firepower.

You have a point with uniforms, but the guys wearing the giant dome helmets hurt the Imperials' effort there, while the bridge crew in short skirts help the PDF's cause. Are there even women on Imperial ships?

Star Destroyers are just so ponderous and boring. Even Spaceball One beats Star Destroyers. Megamaid FTW!

Spaceball 1 beats EVERYTHING.

I stopped voting after I saw that the Heart of Gold was losing to the Tardis. People have no taste.

gorgon wrote:Later in the series, the SDF-1 had a full force field to go with its far superior firepower.

You have a point with uniforms, but the guys wearing the giant dome helmets hurt the Imperials' effort there, while the bridge crew in short skirts help the PDF's cause. Are there even women on Imperial ships?

Star Destroyers are just so ponderous and boring. Even Spaceball One beats Star Destroyers. Megamaid FTW!

hey I like those dome helmets! Plus stormtroopers.
Ok I'll give with da wimminz on SDF. On the down side, and what a horrible downside it was, it had Lin MinMei on it too. Oh the humanity!
And whats with the hair?
Plus the SDF couldn't even leave the solar system.

Star destroyers have some of the coolest command decks in sci fi. You have to go to Adama Galactica to get that level of epic cool.
SDF1 doesn't even have proper chairs. Whats the deal people?
On the positive very few sci fi ships have carriers for arms and "Mega Karate Punch!" enemy ships - opening up and blasting them from inside. Thats hard core.


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Squigsquasher wrote:Spaceball 1 beats EVERYTHING.

This...in Mega Maid Mode!

CDK wrote:I think they were going with a variety. Otherwise the whole thing would be nothing other that Star Wars and Trek.

Considering that both those series got on the ballots twice, it already kinda is. If they wanted variety, they should have replaced the X-wing with a Starfury(or other B5 ship/fighter) and the Romulan Warbird with something from a different series(or even a novel).

As it is, they already know people are going to be voting by fandom and franchises that they know, which is why they didn't start out with any Star Wars vs Star Trek brackets.

A novel would be difficult, but yea, lots of series, lots of ships. You could have had one with just snub fighters
*Starfury (B5)
*Starfighter (the last starfighter)
*X wing (or TIE fighter)
*Viper (BSG)
*Cyclon raider (either series)
*Buck Rogers fighter
*Veritech Fighter
*DS9 armed runabout
*Lost in space Saucer
*War of the Worlds attack ship (1950s version)
*Day the Earth stood still saucer
*STOS shuttle

Frazzled wrote:A novel would be difficult, but yea, lots of series, lots of ships.

Sorry, I meant one of the various novels that have accepted or official artwork to go along with them.

Gotcha

Hmm, this also appears to be missing The Phoenix from Battle of the Planets.

For shame!

Frazzled wrote:A novel would be difficult, but yea, lots of series, lots of ships. You could have had one with just snub fighters
*Starfury (B5)
*Starfighter (the last starfighter)
*X wing (or TIE fighter)
*Viper (BSG)
*Cyclon raider (either series)
*Buck Rogers fighter
*Veritech Fighter
*DS9 armed runabout
*Lost in space Saucer
*War of the Worlds attack ship (1950s version)
*Day the Earth stood still saucer
*STOS shuttle

Seem to be missing the F-302 (Sg1/SGA)

What about the ship named Dahak and all of the other ships of similar size in that universe. It was a ship the size of the moon with guns that had guns built onto them. It launched Battleships that in turn launched their own fighters. And the best part is, that it was one of thousands in exsistance in the universe.

Frazzled wrote:Tie fighters turn F14s into bantha fodder.

Yes-, it turns F-14's into Bantha Fodder. But it can't turn a Veritech into Bantha fodder.

The only weapon I cna think of with comparable firepower to the Reflex Cannon is the Super Laser on the Death Star.

Also, I'm suddenly feeling way too nerdy.

Easy E wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Tie fighters turn F14s into bantha fodder.

Yes-, it turns F-14's into Bantha Fodder. But it can't turn a Veritech into Bantha fodder.

The only weapon I cna think of with comparable firepower to the Reflex Cannon is the Super Laser on the Death Star.

Also, I'm suddenly feeling way too nerdy.

you forgot the Nova Cannon, how dare you feel nerdy before considering it's mighty wrath

If the Tardis wins this, then the internet proves that it's useless.

Round 2 is open now. Go vote again.

I forsee the next bracket as: Enterprise vs. Imp I-Class Destroyer & TARDis (boo) vs. Battlestar Galactica.



Ghidorah

GO SERENITY! GO YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!!!

Hate to tell you King but I think Serenity got hosed by being matched against the Enterprise.

Final bracket will probably end up being Enterprise vs TARDIS (and I agree, its not a space ship).

Why isn't the Ark (original cartoon or new movie) here? A giant space ship filled with GIANT FREAKING ROBOTS that turn into vehicles. Come on.

I admit I'm biased, as I'm a huge Transformers fan.

Squigsquasher wrote:Why isn't the Ark (original cartoon or new movie) here? A giant space ship filled with GIANT FREAKING ROBOTS that turn into vehicles. Come on.

I admit I'm biased, as I'm a huge Transformers fan.

I am too(I geeked out earlier today when I finally received SDCC 2008 Nemesis Prime for my Shadow Commander armor and last week when I received all 3 MakeToys set to build my G2 colored Giant/not-Devastator), but honestly, the Ark is a little bland(the original is just half a disc with some panel lines and viewports and spends the majority of the series in a volcano with its ass hanging out). The Bayverse version is a bit cooler(yes, I have the Cyberverse playset version), but it's still pretty blah in comparison to many of those posted(some of which are also blah IMO).

Monster Rain wrote:The Heart of Gold is the correct answer.

That seems highly improbable.

X-Wing and Star Destroyer tied at 50% each.
Also, how dare HAL lose.
Again.

Ghidorah wrote:There's several brackets to vote in. Some are pretty slanted one way or the other and, in many cases the pairings are ludicrous. Like, how the heck can you even compare the SS Normandy from Mass Effect to an X-Wing? That's just dumb. Anyway, here's the link. I'm curious to see which Star Wars ship takes it all.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/coolest-spacecraft-bracket-game.htm

Naturally, Star Wars and Star Trek will win everything just because people are voting as fans rather than on he actual coolnees of the ships. I'd just like to add, how the hell can you have "cool" and "spaceship" together and not have the Millennium Falcon nowhere in sight?



Ghidorah

Mate, I just have to ask...where did you get your sig?

Anyway, Avenger from X-COM. Friggen badass.

Excalibur from B5 is not int here.....



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Oh Hell.....Mal better get on the stick and pump some votes in

Discovery One is the coolest because it doesn't require any "science fiction" mumbo jumbo (science fiction in brackets because it is in fact no science and all fiction). You want gravity on your ship? Then you need a big rotating ring, not a "warp drive core" whatever the hell that is.

Also, no Rama? I am disappointed, obviously you have to have appeared on TV or in a film to be considered cool.

obviously you have to have appeared on TV or in a film to be considered cool

I guess so because I've been a huge scifi nerd my entire life and have no clue what either of those two ships are from. I'm guessing a book.

You want gravity on your ship? Then you need a big rotating ring,

Yeah B5 should have had at least one contender,

Looks like next round ti could be TARDIS vs. Galatica

If the TARDIS wins that....................................................

Serenity is whipping some Star Trek butt!

As it should.....those trekkie lulus!

KingCracker wrote:As it should.....those trekkie lulus!

No it shouldn't. The actual design for the Firefly class isn't that interesting compared to the Constitution class. The Constitution is also very iconic, you can do a vague drawing with similar features and even non-fans will be able to recognize it. The same can't be said of a Firefly.

No Slave 1?

Maybe they knew if that was listed, it would be no contest...

Was hoping to see the Gunstar from Last Starfighter. Cutting edge CGI back in the day LOL.

Gotta say, surprised Firefly is winning. Some serious fan action going on that

Nothing wrong with Firefly. Its the little guy vs the universe that appeals to me

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:As it should.....those trekkie lulus!

No it shouldn't. The actual design for the Firefly class isn't that interesting compared to the Constitution class. The Constitution is also very iconic, you can do a vague drawing with similar features and even non-fans will be able to recognize it. The same can't be said of a Firefly.

Uh oh! Someone seems butt hurt about me calling them a lulu

Not a single ship I picked moved on to round two. I have no incentive to participate any further.

KingCracker wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:As it should.....those trekkie lulus!

No it shouldn't. The actual design for the Firefly class isn't that interesting compared to the Constitution class. The Constitution is also very iconic, you can do a vague drawing with similar features and even non-fans will be able to recognize it. The same can't be said of a Firefly.

Uh oh! Someone seems butt hurt about me calling them a lulu

I don't even know what that is, KC. I couldn't care less about what the series is(Star Trek can blow me, unless we're talking original, Wrath of Khan, or DS9), coolest spaceship competitions should be about cool ship designs, not their series.

KingCracker wrote:

Awww, is someone butthurt I'm not lining up to worship Joss "Alien Resurrection" Whedon?

The funniest thing is that you think I'm feeling anything but amusement towards this poll.

Like I pointed out on page one. This poll will never actually be about the ships.

Deathshead420 wrote:

obviously you have to have appeared on TV or in a film to be considered cool

I guess so because I've been a huge scifi nerd my entire life and have no clue what either of those two ships are from. I'm guessing a book.

Discovery One is from 2001: A Space Odyssey, that one is in there.

Rama is the name given by scientists to the ship in the book "Rendezvous With Rama" which is written by the same person as 2001, Arthur C. Clarke. I'd recommend it.

You want gravity on your ship? Then you need a big rotating ring,

Spoiler:

Not sure that how that ship would work. The centrifugal force would allow you to walk along some of the inner walls but some of them would be like trying to walk up a cliff. I was meaning more like this

will someone please vote against serenity?

Great show but not an especially cool ship

TBH Kid, I think some hard core Fire Fly fans are just stacking votes as the site doesn't block you from voting more than once. I can't see Serenity winning that match up, and it wasn't until this morning.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:will someone please vote against serenity?

Great show but not an especially cool ship

It can do some cool manoeuvres though. Crazy Ivan FTW

A Town Called Malus wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:will someone please vote against serenity?

Great show but not an especially cool ship

It can do some cool manoeuvres though. Crazy Ivan FTW

But can it appear to be in two places at once like the Enterprise can with the Picard Maneuver?

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Mate, I just have to ask...where did you get your sig?

I made it with the help of a program called Gif Builder by Alchemy Mindworks.


Ghidorah

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Awww, is someone butthurt I'm not lining up to worship Joss "Alien Resurrection" Whedon?

The funniest thing is that you think I'm feeling anything but amusement towards this poll.

Actually....that was aimed at Shadowseer kim above you.......buuut I guess I was ninja'd before that happened

KingCracker wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Awww, is someone butthurt I'm not lining up to worship Joss "Alien Resurrection" Whedon?

The funniest thing is that you think I'm feeling anything but amusement towards this poll.

Actually....that was aimed at Shadowseer kim above you.......buuut I guess I was ninja'd before that happened

I'm too fast for ya!







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That came out wrong...

Kid_Kyoto wrote:will someone please vote against serenity?

Great show but not an especially cool ship

I did.
Also voted AGAINST Enterprise.

Not especially a fan of either design (prefer the Klingon stuff for Trek.) and the plucked chook from Firefly was just lame looking (even after it made a cameo in the Galactica pilot).

Even the Serenity knockoff in Prometheus looks better than the Serenity. The swan-necked Enterprise is clearly superior.

2nd round voted for, my two favourites are still in the list. Romulan Warbird and Battlestar Galactica. Not my favourite ships, but my faves from the list at any rate.

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Awww, is someone butthurt I'm not lining up to worship Joss "Alien Resurrection" Whedon?

The funniest thing is that you think I'm feeling anything but amusement towards this poll.

Actually....that was aimed at Shadowseer kim above you.......buuut I guess I was ninja'd before that happened

I'm too fast for ya!







Wait...


That came out wrong...

Thats what you said..............I think we are both doing this wrong