best cruiser from sci-fi

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2002-11-20 11:16pm

My personal favorite is obviously the imperial star destoryer II with the mars battlecruiser a close second, I love their excallent all-around abilites.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-11-20 11:45pm

SSD followed by IDS mk2 followed by VSD mk2(I like missile salvos)

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2002-11-20 11:57pm

I go with the Warlock class destroyer from B5. It looks nice, also good fire power for a B5 vessel.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-11-21 12:05am

starfury wrote:My personal favorite is obviously the imperial star destoryer II with the mars battlecruiser a close second, I love their excallent all-around abilites.

Yeah, the ISD is relatively well designed. It makes for a good Heavy Cruiser. The Aliegance SSD would be a Battle Cruiser or Pocket Battleship while the Executor, Sovereign, and Eclipse would be varrying levels of Battleship. The VSD is likely a Light Cruiser while the Strike Cruisers, Carracks, Nebulons, and Interdictors take the Escort Destroyer and Light Destroyer roles. The Corellian Corvette would be a Frigate while anything between frigate and fighter is likely a Corvette type ship.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-21 12:06am

ISD2, Aliegance, Warlock

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-11-21 12:08am

paladin wrote:I go with the Warlock class destroyer from B5. It looks nice, also good fire power for a B5 vessel.

The Warlock is very nice. But I also really liked the Saratoga and others from S:AAB.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-21 12:21am

Honorverse Reliant-class Battlecruisers!

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2002-11-21 12:23am

I've always found the Minbari Sharlin Cruisers to be beautiful!!! Its gorgeous with a smooth organic look and looks different from most cruisers we see in sci fi. After that I would have to say the Constitution Refit Ent Nil and A. The best looking ship in sci fi ever.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-21 12:27am

Stravo wrote:I've always found the Minbari Sharlin Cruisers to be beautiful!!! Its gorgeous with a smooth organic look and looks different from most cruisers we see in sci fi.

And built of Structure Tissue Paper (Tm). It's seriously fragile, perhaps the black star was a freak hit but they're too easly broken for me.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-21 12:29am

If we define a "cruiser" to be a midsize ship (as per a modern "cruiser"), that eliminates any fighters or light warships with a crew of a dozen or less (like a BOP, which is basically a space PT boat). It would also eliminate monster starships such as the Death Star.

I'd say my favourite is the ISD (of course). Its design is one of the better ones, and I love the heavy-metal look. I also liked the look of the Colonial Battlestars in BG. In Star Trek, I am emotionally attached to the E-A because I was a longtime TOS fan, but it's still a piss-poor design (come on, those ridiculous long skinny struts are awful; the design is so bad that they make it hard to build a scale model of the Enterprise which holds together, and the toys invariably lose their nacelles). In B5, my favourite is the Narn heavy cruiser; it's got clean lines and it doesn't have the rotating section of the E-A ships or the silly fragile fins of the Minbari ships.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2002-11-21 12:30am

The ISD and the Ent-Nil/A

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-11-21 12:37am

Darth Wong wrote:If we define a "cruiser" to be a midsize ship (as per a modern "cruiser"), that eliminates any fighters or light warships with a crew of a dozen or less (like a BOP, which is basically a space PT boat). It would also eliminate monster starships such as the Death Star.

I'd say my favourite is the ISD (of course). Its design is one of the better ones, and I love the heavy-metal look. I also liked the look of the Colonial Battlestars in BG. In Star Trek, I am emotionally attached to the E-A because I was a longtime TOS fan, but it's still a piss-poor design (come on, those ridiculous long skinny struts are awful; the design is so bad that they make it hard to build a scale model of the Enterprise which holds together, and the toys invariably lose their nacelles). In B5, my favourite is the Narn heavy cruiser; it's got clean lines and it doesn't have the rotating section of the E-A ships or the silly fragile fins of the Minbari ships.

As bad as the E-A design was from an egineering standpoint, it still looked like a real Naval warship and still looked damn good at the same time.

A good ST canadite for cruiser would be the Miranda.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-11-21 12:43am

Darth Wong wrote:In B5, my favourite is the Narn heavy cruiser; it's got clean lines and it doesn't have the rotating section of the E-A ships or the silly fragile fins of the Minbari ships.

Warlock class is quite nice, some spindly bits, but a clear design philosophy.

http://www.b5tech.com/earthalliance/ear ... kviews.jpg

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-21 12:51am

Stormbringer wrote:Honorverse Reliant-class Battlecruisers!

Was that the class Nike was in, or the class Fearless was in? I prefer Nike myself, even if it had that fusion reactor problem on trials.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-11-21 12:53am

The Allegiance, one of the best looking Imperial dagger's of doom.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-21 12:54am

The Dark wrote:
Stormbringer wrote:Honorverse Reliant-class Battlecruisers!
Was that the class Nike was in, or the class Fearless was in? I prefer Nike myself, even if it had that fusion reactor problem on trials.

Nike, was a subclass of the Reliants. Fearless 1 was an old Corageous-class, Fearless 2 was a Star Knight

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » 2002-11-21 01:08am

favorite SW Cruiser : ISD
favorite ST Cruiser: Romulan Warbird ( TNG type not the valdore)
favorite B5 Cruiser: Tie between Nova-Class Dreadnaught and Mimbari War Cruiser
favorite other Sci-Fi Cruiser: Battlestar Galactica

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-21 01:33am

ISD. Powerful and a classic.

[BL]Phalanx · Post by **[BL]Phalanx** » 2002-11-21 04:19am

It could be argued that the struts for warp nacelles in ST are akin to the masts for sails in ancient ships. Sure, you don't *want* to have such a weak structure if you can help it... but perhaps they can't help it? LOL...

Likewise, I think the "fins" on B5 ships are there for "gravimetric" propulsion instead of the usual action/reaction drive.

The Warlock is a "destroyer" in B5, but it really is one of their largest front-line warships. The Omega-class is the only EA warship with a rotating section. None of the other warships feature it (Olympus-class corvette, Nova-class Dreadnaught, etc).

I rather liked the Nova... it's lined with massive guns all over. It's also able to fire 16 of its 22 guns in its forward arc.

Stormbringer wrote: And built of Structure Tissue Paper (Tm). It's seriously fragile, perhaps the black star was a freak hit but they're too easly broken for me.

Minbari Sharlins are the only Younger Race ship observed to have their hull stop a Shadow Battlecrab's beam weapon (see "Into the Fire", when two Shadow beams hit roughly the same area on the lower part of the top fin for half a second. The beams don't penetrate).

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-21 04:52am

weemadando wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:In B5, my favourite is the Narn heavy cruiser; it's got clean lines and it doesn't have the rotating section of the E-A ships or the silly fragile fins of the Minbari ships.
Warlock class is quite nice, some spindly bits, but a clear design philosophy.

http://www.b5tech.com/earthalliance/ear ... kviews.jpg

Yeah well that diamond texture, fugly.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-21 04:54am

My fav, the ISD ofcourse.

From B5 I think the Omega just rocks in coolness.

ST, I dunno really, maybe the Romulan ship.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-21 04:57am

The obligatory answer is the original ISD.

But I really really like the Confederation-class Dreadnought Concordia from Wing Commander 2.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2002-11-21 06:21am

Edward-Saganami cruisers are quite nice.
And of course an Alpha-Synth just rocks...

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-11-21 08:34am

Hmmm....
My favoirite cruiser which is also designated as cruiser is definetely the dominator class.
Battleship level firepower and this awesome nova canon!

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2002-11-21 09:17am

Il be a smart arse and say the HMS Thunderchild from Well's the War of the Worlds...

Its still sci-fi...its just not a spaceship...

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