The 16 Most Iconic Spaceships in Science Fiction

Warships, freighters, research vessels and one very small blue box — the craft that fans recognise from a silhouette alone. Which one wins?

1

USS Enterprise

Star Trek's saucer-and-nacelles starship, the design every fictional spacecraft since has answered to.

1000pts

2

Millennium Falcon

Han Solo's battered Corellian freighter from Star Wars, famously fast and famously unreliable.

952pts

3

Star Destroyer

The Empire's wedge-shaped capital ship, introduced in the opening shot of Star Wars.

898pts

4

Rocinante

The corvette-class gunship crewed by the protagonists of The Expanse.

659pts

5

Nostromo

The grimy commercial towing vessel from Alien, sci-fi's definitive haunted house.

571pts

6

Heart of Gold

The Infinite Improbability Drive ship from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

571pts

7

Planet Express Ship

The delivery craft flown with reckless enthusiasm throughout Futurama.

571pts

8

Battlestar Galactica

The last surviving warship of the Twelve Colonies, shepherding humanity's remnant fleet.

467pts

9

Event Horizon

The gravity-drive research vessel that came back from somewhere it should not have gone.

467pts

10

Serenity

The Firefly-class transport that gave Joss Whedon's series its name and its heart.

467pts

11

TARDIS

Doctor Who's police box, bigger on the inside and the most recognisable silhouette in British sci-fi.

467pts

12

Death Star

The moon-sized battle station that made a weapon out of a spacecraft.

343pts

13

Normandy SR-2

The stealth frigate the player commands across the Mass Effect games.

343pts

14

Slave I

Boba Fett's distinctive vertical-flying bounty hunter craft from The Empire Strikes Back.

343pts

15

Discovery One

The elegant, deeply unsettling craft from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

190pts

16

Sulaco

The military transport that carried the Colonial Marines in Aliens.

190pts