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Spaceship names

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bluesatin · 28/12/2023 21:34

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....?

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AdaColeman · 29/12/2023 09:27

Journey into Space ~ Luna and Discovery

TheTecknician · 29/12/2023 11:15

Captain Jean Luc Picard needs to command this ship to remind him he's really a Yorkshireman, not French.

                          The U.S.S. Heckmondwike
hellojelly · 29/12/2023 11:17

The Matrix - Nebuchadnezzar

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DanFmDorking · 29/12/2023 11:22

Thunderbirds
Thunderbird 3: 🚀 a single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft.
..Piloted alternately by Alan and John, with Scott as co-pilot.
Thunderbird 5: 🛰 a space station that relays distress calls.
..Manned alternately by "space monitors" John and Alan.

Morningfog85 · 29/12/2023 12:55

Blake's 7 series 4, the new spaceship that Avon & co use is Scorpio.

Ridingthegravytrain · 29/12/2023 13:26

Event horizon

lorien9 · 29/12/2023 19:48

bluesatin · 29/12/2023 00:23

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 🙂

Start on The Player of Games - great novel and as others have commented above, ace 🚀 namesSmile

festivetinseling · 29/12/2023 19:50

DadDadDad · 28/12/2023 22:34

How can you forget the Millennium Falcon?

😮

MistletoeandMoccasins · 29/12/2023 20:19

Does Capricorn One count?!

festivetinseling · 29/12/2023 20:24

Karrak · 28/12/2023 23:46

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.

I guess the useful word 'spacecraft' might cover all eventualities...

James Bond - Moonraker

OctoblocksAssemble · 29/12/2023 20:36

Anyone remember the old computer game Elite? All the ship types were named after snakes, and I think the playable ship was a Cobra Mk 3

SinnerBoy · 30/12/2023 12:06

DadDadDad · Yesterday 08:50

Thanks! I've probably got the username wrong, to boot!

I saw him give a talk in 2004, at the theatre in Durham. He signed my 'Consider Phlebas," which I later left in a hotel at Schiphol Airport.

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cardibach · 30/12/2023 12:12

@Tescos02 the chameleon circuit is the bit of the TARDIS that allows it to change its outward appearance, not an alternative name for it, isn’t it?

anothernamechangeagainsndagain · 30/12/2023 12:15

So who fancies signing up for mastermind - specialist subject of fictional space vehicles ? Think it would be a fun one, beats obscure renaissance painters

Ineedwinenow · 30/12/2023 12:18

Hubby has just said Terrahawks :- The Battlehawk

PebbleDashAtOne · 30/12/2023 12:27

Battle of the Planets - Fiery Phoenix

SinnerBoy · 30/12/2023 12:30

Ulysses 31.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 30/12/2023 13:20

cardibach · 30/12/2023 12:12

@Tescos02 the chameleon circuit is the bit of the TARDIS that allows it to change its outward appearance, not an alternative name for it, isn’t it?

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Just read this out to DH, who points out that the chameleon circuit on the Doctor's TARDIS is broken & so it never changes its appearance (he thinks John Pertwee's Doctor said so), while the Master's TARDIS can appear as anything because his circuit is working, & it was a horse box once.

Most of the time DH keeps this sort of stuff to himself, bless him.😀🚀

cardibach · 30/12/2023 13:23

ifIwerenotanandroid · 30/12/2023 13:20

Just read this out to DH, who points out that the chameleon circuit on the Doctor's TARDIS is broken & so it never changes its appearance (he thinks John Pertwee's Doctor said so), while the Master's TARDIS can appear as anything because his circuit is working, & it was a horse box once.

Most of the time DH keeps this sort of stuff to himself, bless him.😀🚀

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I think I’d like your DH. That’s exactly the sort of stuff I know!

ifIwerenotanandroid · 30/12/2023 13:29

@cardibach But he couldn't remember the names of the spaceships in:

Dan Dare (Anastasia)

Event Horizon (er, Event Horizon) - I googled them.

Otherwise, I think you'd get on fine with him!

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