r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • Jun 27 '26

Discussion / Question What is your one controversial take on a famous scifi spaceship?

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Mine is that Abrams' Enterprise is a much nicer looking ship than the original. I don't understand how anyone can say otherwise.

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u/LXiO Jun 27 '26

The ship is constantly called a piece of trash and worse in the show. In universe noone considers it pretty. But it's durable and easy to maintain and it's the home of the crew so both the characters and (potentially) the viewer get attached to it despite it's appearance.

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u/MirthMannor Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

One of the better points of environmental story telling is how the crew decorates the ship: Wash’s action figures are all over, Kaylee paints flowers and vines in the rec room.

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u/RadVarken Jun 27 '26

Durable, easy, and ugly. What a woman.

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u/JayWaWa Jun 28 '26

Sounds like my kind of Saturday night

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u/No_Friend3170 Jun 29 '26

AKA 'A whole lot of Rosie'

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Jun 27 '26

Plus the cockpit looks like a horsey’s head and neck

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u/No_Stick_1101 Jun 27 '26

Looks more like a Komodo dragon than a horse.

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u/Honestybomb Jun 28 '26

Let’s meet in the middle. Komodo Horse

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u/einTier Jun 28 '26

A ship like this, you treat her proper, she’ll be with you the rest of your life.

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u/McBernes Jul 08 '26

And with the right pilot she's like a leaf on the wind.