Ship / Vessel↕ | Source↕ | Captain / Pilot↕ | Type↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Millennium Falcon | Star Wars | Han Solo / Chewbacca | Light freighter / smuggling ship | She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy |
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) | Star Trek | James T. Kirk / Jean-Luc Picard | Constitution-class starship | To boldly go where no one has gone before, most iconic spaceship in sci-fi, multiple versions across series |
Black Pearl | Pirates of the Caribbean | Captain Jack Sparrow | East Indiaman galleon | Nigh uncatchable when the wind is right, crewed by the cursed undead, black sails, the ship that made Jack a legend |
TARDIS | Doctor Who | The Doctor | Time And Relative Dimension In Space | Bigger on the inside, stuck as a police box, travels through time and space, the Doctor stole it (or it stole them) |
Serenity | Firefly / Serenity | Captain Malcolm Reynolds | Firefly-class transport | A leaf on the wind, space western aesthetic, held together by love and duct tape, home to the best cancelled TV show's crew |
Nautilus | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Captain Nemo | Submarine | Jules Verne predicted submarines in 1870, Captain Nemo's escape from civilization, powered by electricity, the original sci-fi vessel |
Battlestar Galactica | Battlestar Galactica | Commander Adama | Battlestar (carrier/battleship hybrid) | Last hope of humanity after Cylon genocide, so say we all, old warship that refused to die, analog systems saved it from hacking |
Heart of Gold | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Zaphod Beeblebrox | Infinite Improbability Drive ship | Powered by improbability, stolen by the President of the Galaxy, can become anything at random, Douglas Adams' genius creation |
Going Merry | One Piece | Monkey D. Luffy | Caravel | The Straw Hat Pirates' first ship, developed a spirit (klabautermann), funeral at sea scene made millions cry, replaced by Thousand Sunny |
Argo | Greek Mythology | Jason | Galley (50-oar ship) | Carried the Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece, built by Argus with Athena's help, beam from Dodona could speak prophecy |
Event Horizon | Event Horizon (1997) | Captain Miller (rescue) | Experimental faster-than-light ship | Gravity drive opened a portal to a hell dimension, disappeared for 7 years, came back wrong, Warhammer 40K accidentally |
Red October | The Hunt for Red October | Captain Marko Ramius | Typhoon-class nuclear submarine | Silent caterpillar drive, defecting Soviet captain, Sean Connery's accent, Tom Clancy's masterpiece, one ping only |
Planet Express Ship | Futurama | Leela (pilot) | Delivery ship | Dark matter engines, piloted by a one-eyed mutant, good news everyone, delivered to the most dangerous places in the universe |
Flying Dutchman | Nautical Legend / Pirates of the Caribbean | Davy Jones | Ghost ship / cursed galleon | Condemned to sail the seas forever, Davy Jones' locker, appears before storms, crew fuses with the ship over time |
Nostromo | Alien (1979) | Captain Dallas | Commercial towing vessel | In space no one can hear you scream, hauling 20 million tons of mineral ore, Ripley was the survivor, industrial space horror |
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