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The Coolest Spaceships Of All Time
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20) The Battlestar Galactica is only shepherding the last remaining living human beings to a new home. No big deal.
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19) The Nostromo from ‘Alien’ is one of the most popular cinematic space ships amongst hard-core fan boys.
20th Century Fox
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18) Leave it to Luc Besson to set the most brutal battles in ‘The Fifth Element’ on the Fhloston Paradise, a slick luxury liner on an alien world.
Gaumont Film Company
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17) The Discovery One from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is big, impressive and boasts a (literally) killer robot.
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16) The Vipers from ‘Battlestar Galactica’ might look like your average combat space ship, but Viper pilots have a certain edge of cool that you have to think comes from the craft itself.
SyFy
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15) Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and his cohorts hop around the galaxy in the majestic Milano in the new film, ‘The Guardians of the Galaxy.’
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14) In ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ Douglas Adams describes the Heart of Gold as looking like a shoe, but no matter how it looks on the outside, what makes this ship so awesome is what’s on the inside: The Infinite Improbability Drive.
Everett Collection
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13) Between his dark blue leisure suit, devil-may-care attitude and martial arts mastery, ‘Cowboy Bebop’ hero Spike Spiegel oozes interstellar cool. Naturally, his ship, the Swordfish II, is equally as fly.
Sunrise
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12) Sure, the Nostromo in ‘Alien’ is pretty cool, but it’s got nothing on the design of the imposing warship, Sulaco, in ‘Aliens.’
20th Century Fox
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11) Count Dooku isn’t the coolest of ‘Star Wars’ villains, but his Solar Sailer might be one of the sweetest rides in the Old Republic.
Lucasfilm & 20th Century Fox
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10) The X-Wing is the dogfighter of choice of the ‘Star Wars’ universe. Can you imagine Luke Skywalker in anything less ragtag cool?
Everett Collection
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9) Klaatu’s ship in ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ may not have had a name, but its iconic design has influenced every flying saucer and spacecraft made on film since.
Everett Collection
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8) Yeah, the Eagle 5 from ‘Spaceballs’ is just a space Winnebago, but that’s what makes it so cool!
Everett Collection
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7) The Serenity on ‘Firefly’ was more than just a cool spaceship with a lot of character — it was a character.
Fox
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6) The TARDIS might look like a dusty old police box, but it can take the heroes of ‘Doctor Who’ anywhere they want to go in all and space and time. Oh, and did we mention that it’s bigger on the inside?
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5) Yeah, Boba Fett’s cool because he barely talks in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ and because he wears cool Mandalorian armor, but really the coolest thing about Fett is his ship, the Slave I.
20th Century Fox
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4) The Klingon Bird of Prey doesn’t just have a cool sounding spaceship name. It’s also cool to look at — and cool not to look at. Its biggest tactical advantage is that it’s usually the one class of ship in the ‘Star Trek’ universe with a cloaking device.
Paramount Pictures
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3) ‘Star Trek’ broke new ground for science fiction storytelling on television and the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) set a high standard for what our ideas of space travel could be.
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2) We’re giving the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ a slight edge over its namesake if only because it’s got Ten Forward, sweet holodecks and more upscale interior design.
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1) If you don’t think that the Millennium Falcon from the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy is the coolest spaceship in history, then you are clearly either dead inside, or you’re trying to prove a pretentious point about how much you know and love spaceships.
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