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The 16 Most Iconic Spaceships in Science Fiction

By YPB Team

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 — ranked #11
    USS Enterprise
    Star Trek's saucer-and-nacelles starship, the design every fictional spacecraft since has answered to.
    1000pts
  2. Millennium Falcon — ranked #22
    Millennium Falcon
    Han Solo's battered Corellian freighter from Star Wars, famously fast and famously unreliable.
    952pts
  3. Star Destroyer — ranked #33
    Star Destroyer
    The Empire's wedge-shaped capital ship, introduced in the opening shot of Star Wars.
    898pts
  4. Rocinante — ranked #44
    Rocinante
    The corvette-class gunship crewed by the protagonists of The Expanse.
    659pts
  5. Nostromo — ranked #55
    Nostromo
    The grimy commercial towing vessel from Alien, sci-fi's definitive haunted house.
    571pts
  6. Heart of Gold — ranked #66
    Heart of Gold
    The Infinite Improbability Drive ship from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
    571pts
  7. Planet Express Ship — ranked #77
    Planet Express Ship
    The delivery craft flown with reckless enthusiasm throughout Futurama.
    571pts
  8. Battlestar Galactica — ranked #88
    Battlestar Galactica
    The last surviving warship of the Twelve Colonies, shepherding humanity's remnant fleet.
    467pts
  9. Event Horizon — ranked #99
    Event Horizon
    The gravity-drive research vessel that came back from somewhere it should not have gone.
    467pts
  10. Serenity — ranked #1010
    Serenity
    The Firefly-class transport that gave Joss Whedon's series its name and its heart.
    467pts
  11. TARDIS — ranked #1111
    TARDIS
    Doctor Who's police box, bigger on the inside and the most recognisable silhouette in British sci-fi.
    467pts
  12. Death Star — ranked #1212
    Death Star
    The moon-sized battle station that made a weapon out of a spacecraft.
    343pts
  13. Normandy SR-2 — ranked #1313
    Normandy SR-2
    The stealth frigate the player commands across the Mass Effect games.
    343pts
  14. Slave I — ranked #1414
    Slave I
    Boba Fett's distinctive vertical-flying bounty hunter craft from The Empire Strikes Back.
    343pts
  15. Discovery One — ranked #1515
    Discovery One
    The elegant, deeply unsettling craft from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
    0pts
  16. Sulaco — ranked #1616
    Sulaco
    The military transport that carried the Colonial Marines in Aliens.
    0pts

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Comments

Paramount donated the 11-foot filming model to the Smithsonian in 1974, and it hangs in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: https://youpick.best/articles/star-trek-ranked-many-ways

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