fannish5: Name your five favorite spaceships.
1.) The Liberator. (Blake's 7). "I - have - failed - you" is all I'm saying, and B7 fans know whereof I speak and sob with me in our virtual hankerchiefs. If you want to know what the Liberator would look like with decent GCI, Crusade's Excalibur is basically a more modern version. I like the Excalibur as well, but not Top 4-ish.
2.) The TARDIS. (Doctor Who) Duh. Maybe the Doctor and I cheat on her with Bessie once in a while, but really, the TARDIS is the most wonderful ship through time and space ever. To quote Jackson Lake, "what marvellous nonsense". When I was in Edinburgh two or three years ago and spotted my first real life blue police box, I squeed in an unbecoming manner, and my Aged Parent whom I had dragged through Britain with me was much bewildered at the sight.
3.) Serenity (Firefly). "She's still flying." Out of Gas is one of my favourite Tim Minear episodes in any Jossverse show, because of the way crew and ship come together in the flashbacks. And am I ever glad the ship wasn't one of the casualities in the Big Damm Movie...
4.) Moya (Farscape). Moya, the leviathan, and her offspring Talyn were as real characters as any of the actor-performed ones in that show, and could break your heart and make you love them in just the same way. Awww, Moya.
5.) The Enterprise-D. (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Yes, yes, I know, it should be the first Enterprise, but you can't control your emotions, and I just love that Galaxy Class cruiser that decisive Top Five bit more, with its Ten Forward bar and its Holodeck and its comfy command chairs. And Picard's gold fish Livingstone in the Ready Room. Never mind Kirk, the D crashing in Generations was the big loss. (Nothing against the E, but it just wasn't the same.)
2.) The TARDIS. (Doctor Who) Duh. Maybe the Doctor and I cheat on her with Bessie once in a while, but really, the TARDIS is the most wonderful ship through time and space ever. To quote Jackson Lake, "what marvellous nonsense". When I was in Edinburgh two or three years ago and spotted my first real life blue police box, I squeed in an unbecoming manner, and my Aged Parent whom I had dragged through Britain with me was much bewildered at the sight.
3.) Serenity (Firefly). "She's still flying." Out of Gas is one of my favourite Tim Minear episodes in any Jossverse show, because of the way crew and ship come together in the flashbacks. And am I ever glad the ship wasn't one of the casualities in the Big Damm Movie...
4.) Moya (Farscape). Moya, the leviathan, and her offspring Talyn were as real characters as any of the actor-performed ones in that show, and could break your heart and make you love them in just the same way. Awww, Moya.
5.) The Enterprise-D. (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Yes, yes, I know, it should be the first Enterprise, but you can't control your emotions, and I just love that Galaxy Class cruiser that decisive Top Five bit more, with its Ten Forward bar and its Holodeck and its comfy command chairs. And Picard's gold fish Livingstone in the Ready Room. Never mind Kirk, the D crashing in Generations was the big loss. (Nothing against the E, but it just wasn't the same.)