Five favourite fictional spacecraft

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Blame or praise fajrdrako for this one. She posted a list of her own this morning - or was it last night? - on the subject and it got me thinking. So, in no particular order of importance...

1. The Eagle Transporter, Space: 1999 - a classic workhorse design, it's a proper heir to the roles of the NASA space shuttles of these past three decades. One of the first fictional spacecraft I ever learned to recognize, much less attempted to draw as a kid. The "roll bar" spinal superstructure of the ship was something that always bugged me back then, as I was lazy enough to draw those roll bars as simple lines. I didn't start paying attention to their true nature until years later. Loved the multi-tasking, modular nature of those beasts, too.

2. USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D - The starship as work of art. The curves are a bearcat to draw, but it's like a swan or a Canada goose in flight on the TV or movie screen.

3. Millenium Falcon - easier to draw, with all its odd geometric shapes, nooks and crannies. Eccentric in its piratical tendencies, and a true reflection of her crew.

4. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, 2010: Odyssey Two - a pragmatic design for long-range intra-system spacecraft. Loved how Syd Mead worked it out from Arthur Clarke's novel for the movie of the same ilk. One could understand quite easily why the Babylon 5 people cribbed/saluted the design for their Earth Alliance Omega-class battlecruisers.

5. Galactica, Battlestar Galactica(2004-2009). I don't know quite how to explain this one.

I wish I had at least one comics-related example to add in here...

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