Spaceship names

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Just watching Alien and trying to remember fictional spaceship names

So. - Alien - Nostromo
Dr Who - TARDIS - all capitals since it's an acronym
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy - Heart of Gold
Red Dwarf - Red Dwarf... though they ditched another ship in the intro sequence?
Firefly - Serenity
Star Trek - Enterprise
Thunderbird- Thunderbird 5?
Fireball XL5
Stars Wars - my mind is a blank... ??
Wallace and Grommit... they went to the moon....?

Just remembered an obscure computer game called Albion - spaceship Toronto

How can you forget the Millennium Falcon?

Silent Running - Valley Forge
Solaris - Athena
Prometheus - Prometheus
2001: A Space Odyssey - Discovery One
2010: The Year We Make Contact - Discovery Two (USA) and Leonov (USSR)

My son has supplied some more:
Computer games - XCom2 -Avenger
Subnautica - Sunbeam, and The Aurora
Risk of Rain - UES Contact Light
From Anime series - Nadesico
Arthura (from Nanoha)
The Outlaw Star from Outlaw Star
Ryo-Ohki from Tenchi Muyo

The Expanse - Rocinante

Interstellar - Endurance
Blake's 7 - Liberator

Gravity - Can't remember but think it had a name identical to a real NASA craft. Explorer maybe?

Odyssey - The name of the ship in a Tom Cruise film where he and a female crew member are stationed on a planet (and swim in an infinity pool).

Star Trek is USS Enterprise NCC 1701 and then a letter depending on persuasion. I will always love the D

Star Trek is also Voyager, Discovery and the Defiant. New to the family are the Cerritos and the Titan.

Goodness, how could I have forgotten The Liberator? I have lost all of my fandom cred...
Does Babylon 5 count? I know it's a space station, like Rama...

Was the other one in Red Dwarf 'The Bug'?

OP you need this video:

or possibly this one - it’s longer but in colour:

Spaceship was your subject. I don’t suppose a station is a ship. It’s probably more black and white in space, as opposed to marine definitions on Earth. A craft that can travel through space. It’s not like the definition of a marine ship where there are uncertainties (eg oil rig, semi-submersibles - are these ships or other structures?)

Maybe change the question and include space ships and bases. Moonbase Alpha is the one I remember.

Aliens - the Sulaco

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@Karrak Yup, I don't think a station is a ship, though of course it's constantly moving ... hum... I suppose geostationary orbit is the same as being built on the surface as is being at a Trojan point.
LOL, I had run out of actual "spaceship" names.

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Battlestar Galactica

Babylon 5 had the Agamemnon and the White Star

Wow, @lorien9 just looked that one up, very impressed. Many years since I attempted to read Iain M Banks' sf - and gave up because it made my brain hurt. Pretty sure it's on a bookshelf somewhere, I must try again 🙂

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Episode: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight") - Mars Mission
Bionic Woman - Paradise
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) - Draconia
Space: Above and Beyond - USS Saratoga
Stargate Atlantis - Atlantis (City-ship)
Futurama - Planet Express Ship
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) - Bistromath
The Jetsons - Skypad Apartments (not a spaceship, but a space residence)
Thunderbirds - Thunderbird 2
Doctor Who - The Master's TARDIS (e.g., Type 97 TARDIS)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Searcher
Blake's 7 - Liberator
Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) - Yamato
Black Mirror (episode: USS Callister) - USS Callister
The 100 - Eligius IV
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Seaview (submarine, not a spaceship)
Doctor Who - The Chameleon Circuit (alternative name for TARDIS)
Cowboy Bebop - Bebop
Dark Matter - Raza
The Mandalorian - Razor Crest
Battlestar Galactica - Battlestar Galactica
Stargate SG-1 - Prometheus
Farscape - Moya
Andromeda - Andromeda Ascendant
The Expanse - Rocinante
Lost in Space - Jupiter 2
Babylon 5 - Babylon 5
The Orville - Orville
Space: 1999 - Eagle Transporter
Doctor Who (Classic) - The Doctor's Type 40 TARDIS

Stargate Ships:
Prometheus
Daedalus
Odyssey
Atlantis
Apollo
Sun Tzu
Korolev
Destiny (Stargate Universe)
Traveler ships (Stargate Universe)

Also, The Expanse: the Tachi.

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Rogue One: Rogue One

Karrak · Yesterday 23:46

It’s not like the definition of a marine ship where there are uncertainties (eg oil rig, semi-submersibles - are these ships or other structures?)

Self propelled semi-subs used to be classified as ships, until about 20 years ago. They were reclassified as fixed installations in the UK EEZ.

Unless they were underway, without the assistance of tugs, at which point, they become ships again....

Iain M. Banks had some interesting ship names, I think there's a user on MN - Use of Weapons?

My favourite is Meat Fucker.

@SinnerBoy - Use of Weapons was the title of one of Banks's novels, so I don't think there was a ship of that name.

But I agree that Culture ship names are great fun. There's a whole list of them here: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft which reminds me that Meat Fucker was a name other Minds gave Grey Area because of its terrible crime of reading biological minds.