Movie and TV Spaceships you don't like

[Obibob]

The Phoenix warp ship (from First Contact) - an ICBM with warp nacelles?
The Ferengi ships from ST:TNG
The Kazon ships from ST:Voyager
The Borg Cubes from seemingly every Trek series/movie
Voyager from Space:1999 (the one with the "Queller Drive" that kills people)
The Doomsday Machine from ST:TOS (great concept, but lousy execution)
Other than the classic Jupiter 2 & Space Pod on Lost in Space, nearly every other ship on the series (with the possible exception of the Derelict from the episode of the same name)

[thunderbolt]

The biggest for me is Boba Fett's Slav I. I've never understood why that thing was always so popular.

I agree with the Ep-1 thru 3 Star Wars ships. They're too sleek looking. PLus the Jedi starfighter is so blah.

Just like Boba Fett, never understood why he was so popular a character from the movie. He had a lame death scene, just like his pop.

[Mikey]

Deep Space Nine Defiant

Love the show, but the Defiant looks like the Millennium Falcon with a dustbuster glued to the front.

All Trek sequels had lousy ships

The hotrod look ended with the classic movies

[Brazoo]

2001 A Space Oddessy shuttle pods - just never liked them

I'm such a nerd for anything 2001. I love that design - it looks like how Apple would design a shuttle pod to me.

[david_b]

I thought Hawk's ship was.. so-so. Clawed feet, for rescuing other disabled ships....???

Seriously, for Buck's show, I didn't like any of their ships except for the Earth Starfighters.. Those were awesome fighters.

I loved the original BG Vipers.. Despite mimicing X-Wings, they, just like the show, really grew on me.

[Mikey]

The biggest for me is Boba Fett's Slav I. I've never understood why that thing was always so popular.
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I agree, it looks like Mickey's Mouses shoe

[jimsmegos]

The biggest for me is Boba Fett's Slav I. I've never understood why that thing was always so popular.

I agree with the Ep-1 thru 3 Star Wars ships. They're too sleek looking. PLus the Jedi starfighter is so blah.

[Gorn Captain]

I know i'm going to get some heat for this one but Hawk's ship on Buck Rogers

Who would build a space ship with robotic clawed feet ?

Everything is better with robotic clawed feet!

[enyawd72]

I always found it ironic that The Black Hole had one of the most awesome ships ever (Cygnus) and the lamest one ever (Palomino).

Never liked the V fighters/shuttles.

The all time worst though? The mutant ship from the New Adventures of He-Man animated series.

The thing literally looks like a flying booger.

[Mikey]

I know i'm going to get some heat for this one but Hawk's ship on Buck Rogers

Who would build a space ship with robotic clawed feet ?

[jds1911a1]

not something I think of alot but I'll kick in some I don't like

BSG (modern) cyclon ship with the big head just silly especially compared to the classic series raiders

STTNG enterpise d with that giant sauce it just looked like an unmgaingly hippo compared to the classic gull shape of the TOS version - and when they detack both sides look worse

Buck Rogers in the 25th century - Searcher - it was just a rip off of the design for Discovery from 2001 A Space Oddessy

2001 A Space Oddessy shuttle pods - just never liked them

STTNG romulan ships - a bad evolution of the classic klingon crusier with a big ring on the back which seems to have been inspired by the ferging ship design

Star wars prequel trilogy most of the ships are too modern looking to have been designed 30 years before the chunkier desings of the original trilogy ships (if anything you'd expect the ships to be almost all rebel ships since that force would have used what was available as a covert army). another example where CG fails the SW franchise

Babylon 5 - while I was never a fan of the show I did watch pretty much all of it in reruns on tnt in the mid to late 90's but the x shaped ships are just odd looking ungainly designs

[david_b]

Wow.. NICE TOPIC. Ya don't think about that question too often...:

1) Buck Rogers' Draconian Fighters: What was THAT design about? Was that seriously the BEST they could do...??

2) Space:1999's Hawks: My All-Time FAV show, but even that design was a bit phoned-in from the basic Eagle design..

3) UFO's Moonbase Interceptors...: One big missile in the front. Whoopty..

4) Trek NextGen/DS9 Runabouts...: For a BIG Shuttle-geek (always have been..) and having lots of $$ to buy 'em.., never bought the Playmates version. Style was just dull and mundane.

5) LOTG Spindrift: Another big Favorite Show for me, loved the interiors but it just never liked it's outer shape.

6) Space Academy's Shuttles (then morfed into Jason's Star Command ships): Mom & Dad's Van/RV, anyone..?? The ARK-II in space.

7) Trek TOS Romulan ships..: As even back as far as the original Third Season, Rodenberry determined that they didn't fit in well.

8) And last, certainly not least..: Any Next Gen Enterprise design after the Series ended.. From the wrong angle underneath looking up, they ALL looked like turkey's on their backs ready to be stuffed for Thanksgiving.

Those are my 'top-of-my-head' pics.

[Mikey]

We always do lists of ship we like .....

How about a list of ships we don't like .... with a brief reason why.

My list in not in any kind of order

1. Battlestar Galactica (Classic) ... I just never liked it - can't explain why.

2. Battlestar Galactica (Classic) Vipers ... Too much of a ripoff of X-wings

3. New Star Wars --- too many to name ... most just dont look like they were made BEFORE the ships of the classic movies

4. Classic Star Wars Y-wing fighter .... To me it always reminds me of a ripoff of the Enterprise.

5. Star Trek TNG Romulan ... I just don't like it.

6. Star Trek -3 Grissom ... How do you get from the primary hull to the secondary hull ? ... transporter ?

7. Star Trek Botany Bay ... It looks like a submarine model kit.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head