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Spaceships are often one of the key plot devices in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft.
M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959; Milka – Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 Pequod – American whaling ship searching for Moby-Dick; Bouton de Rose – French whaler ...
By contrast, in 2019, SyFy ranked the refit design of the Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A) as the franchise's best, ranking the original design as only the fourth best version of the starship. [9] Time described each iteration of the Enterprise as "a character in its own right". [29]
Volume 322 of the German Perry Rhodan magazine series, first published in November 1967, marks another very early appearance of the bioship concept in science fiction. The Dolans are powerful bioengineered combat spaceships that are grown from the same synthetic genetic material as their extraterrestrial commanders.
From '2001: A Space Odyssey' to 'Star Wars,' it’s a medium where anything goes and nothing is off limits. Now, with the release of 'Dune: Part Two,' the canon of classic sci-fi films has a new ...
The sci-fi shows on this list, all available to stream on Peacock, range from hopeful time-hoppers like Quantum Leap to fun space dramas like Farscape. Read on to see which series made it onto our ...
From anthology series to inter-space mysteries, see the best sci-fi TV shows of all time, including SIlo, Severance, Andor, and more.
The basic design of the original Enterprise "formed the basis for one of sci-fi's most iconic images". [93] In 1992, the National Air and Space Museum curator said "there is no other fantasy more pervasive in the conceptualization of space flight than Star Trek". [94]