One of the staples of many science fiction movies and TV shows is the spaceship. Not merely a vehicle, the spaceship seems to take on a personality of its own through a combination of unique design and the way it is perceived by the characters around it. It can be home for some, or a fighting machine, but a character's spaceship often defines them. Your intrepid crew had so many ships to choose from, over the many decades of sci fi films and TV shows, we each made our own top ten lists, and then through arcane methods, pulled together a combined list from our many picks to create quite a varied group of ships.
Who made the list? What ship is our number one pick? You're going to have to listen to find out!!
But - we will say that our oldest ship is from the 1950s, a number of ships are from non-American productions, and only one pick on our list was on all three of our individual lists! So give it a listen and let us know your thoughts. We will also go over our individual lists too.
Our Sensor Sweep focuses on a Bay Area legend, John Stanley, who took up hosting Creature Features from Bob Wilkins in 1979 and continued until 1984. During his tenure on the show, Stanley interviewed tons of celebrities, and he shares those interviews in his new book, The Career that Dripped with Horror. Stanley reminisces about his times hosting Creature Features and later appearances at conventions and other shows, and has transcripts of his interviews with folks like Carrie Fisher, Mark Hammill, Christopher Reeve, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adam West, and tons more. Whether you're a fan of Creature Features, or never heard of it, the interviews alone are worth picking this one up!
All right cadets, that's it for this go round. Make sure you keep your engines energized and your defensive shields charged.
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Good show, everyone, and good lists.
ReplyDeleteI think my top pick would also be the Enterprise: the 1701 (from both the original series and the refitted movie version), but also the 1701-A. I'm also partial to the 1701-D from TNG, and I like Voyager as well.
Otherwise, as I mentioned in the comments to a similar post many years ago at Karen's old digs (Bronze Age Babies), I tend to like 'bad guy' ships. Thus, I love the Klingon Bird of Prey (better than the battle cruisers, which I nonetheless like), the Cylon saucers/raiders from the original TV series, and TIE figthers and Imperial destroyers from Star Wars. Heck, I even like the Borg cubes - like Imperial destroyers, they have a simple design, yet they're quite menacing.
The fighter craft in Buck Rogers is a good call on Bob's part - I'd almost forgotten how much I like those ships. In that regard, I'd also add the fighters from the short-lived '90s SF show Space: Above & Beyond (which I recall Karen liked as well).
-Edo Bosnar
A very cool Episode with only two nit picks for me: Bob's pick of the Martian War Machine which was never a spaceship. and Larry's pick of the Buck Rogers Thunder Fighter It may have flown in space, but is a Star Fighter. Cool Designs though, and I can understand why you want them on your lists.
ReplyDeleteMy Top 10 Spaceships are:
10.) C-57D - Forbidden Planet
9.) The Liberator - Blake's 7
8.) U.S.S. Cygnus - The Black Hole (who can't love a ship that looks like a spooky. gothic cathedral?)
7.) Battlestar Galactica Original & Remake (Pretty Much the same spaceship)
6.) Star Destroyer
5.) Slave 1
4.) U.S.S. Reliant
3.) Klingon D-7 / U.S.S. Enterprise 1701 (Refit) Tie
2.) The Phantom Cruiser - Space Ghost
1.) Space Battleship Yamato
Honorable Mentions (Fighter craft & Spaceships:
1.) The Gunstar Last - Starfighter
2.) Darth Vader's Tie Fighter
3.) U.S.S. Enterprise E (Best Redesign of the Enterprise after the Refit Version, and a Beast of a ship!
4.) Cylon Raider
5.) Cylon Basestar (Original)
6.) N.S.E. Protector - Galaxy Quest
Thanks for another fun episode folks!
Kevin deAntonio