Science Fiction

I wish more sci-fi would come up with ships where the direction of thrust is perpendicular to the decks. There's not many of them and most of them are ugly. The design space is criminally under explored.

Even if you have artificial gravity, for a spaceship that never lands, it makes no sense to have to cancel out the g-forces produced by the thrust, then expend additional energy to reorient gravity to deck plates.

I've always been fond of the (seemingly) abandoned generation ship Thistledown from Greg Bear's Eon.

Nostromo from Alien, it was such an awesome industrial looking design.

Gotta be spike’s ship from cowboy bebop. Instantly recognizable silhouette. Gorgeous design.

As a scale modeler and scifi enthusiast, this thread is torture. All these dope designs that have no scale models...

To me the most beautiful ship I've ever seen is the Baudo Star Yacht from Star Wars. Now, there's two very different kinds of ship called this, and the one I mean is the sleek, smooth one that's all curves and huge engines, not the blockier version.