6) SpaceBalls
Who knew that a pure spoof on Science Fiction Movies would feature some great ship designs though there are only two.
SpaceBall 1 was a great design a massive ship designed to riff on the Imperial Star Destroyer, its massive and heavily armed and frighting, the opening pass over the camera felt like it took forever for it to pass.
Just when you thought you had it figured out, its also a transformer turning into a mighty maid with a vacuum used to harvest air from planets.
Spaceball 1
Eagle 5, the ship owned by LoneStar and his copilot Barf, was built around a battered Winnebago, and the design worked and looked like a functional spaceship that was meant to be a riff on the Millenium Falcon.
Eagle 5
5) Mass Effect
One of the greatest Video Game series of all time until the fourth one. But Mass Effect had some great designs. From the SR1 Normandy a sleek stealthy Alliance Frigate that carried Sheppard from Planet to Planet and flown by the best pilot in the Galaxy Joker. It looked like a high speed race car and packed some punch. On the other side were the Reapers, massive AI driven ancient starships who repeated a cycle of annihilating all living creatures ever 50,000 years to in a sense preserve life. Heavily influenced by HP Lovecraft, the Reapers were based on ancient god like Sea Creatures who built them only to be betrayed and destroyed by their creation. The Reapers have everything to make them look like villains.
SR-1 Normandy.
Sovereign Reaper
4) Babylon 5
There are so many ship designs to choose from in this series, from the Earth Alliance Cruisers to the Narn Cruisers, or the White Star ships, but the best design because it was so alien, and so outright evil looking as a bio mechanical ship with an engine that sounded like a scream. The Shadows were just a devastating combination of fire power, speed and stealth and were the absolute embodiment of Death.
Earth Heavy Cruiser
White Star
Shadow Destroyer
Coming soon, the tough fight between the top 3.