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SOL Included in EW List of Coolest SpaceshipsThe Satellite of Love ranks no. 9 in Entertainment Weekly’s list of coolest spaceships.
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Various cult hits get a good deal of representation on this list. I thought I was the last person to remember Space Above and Beyond. And seeing Robotech here is cool as well. And of course Star Wars get multiple entries!
Good list, missed only one ship I thought The Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space.
Instead of the smart-aleck quip about the moon from “Space:1999”, they should’ve chosen either the Eagle or Hawk spacecraft.
And I figure the Klingon cruisers from “Star Trek: TMP” merited a mention.
Oh, well. Nice that they included the S.O.L.
Yeah, glad the SOL made the list, but there are some iffy entries here. The “new” Galactica makes it, but the old Viper doesn’t? No X-Wing? Princess Ardala’s ship from Buck Rogers? The Klingon cruiser, definitely. Ok, I’ll stop showing my age now.
Sadly,yet inexorably I descend to the realm of those who were the last picked for baseball teams,dateless, and had rooms with Frazetta posters on the wall and Marvel comic treasury editions strewn on the bed and offer my choice.
Spaceship Yamato from the cartoon Starblazers.
I await my wedgie….
Cambot… Give me Rocket Number… 9! 8-)
Respect the Bone!
(That came out wrong…)
I don’t want to know what THAT is (re #7)
Where’s the big space ship in 2001? The circular one. Me likey.
All things considered, I think I’d rather have Pearl’s VW Spacebus.
Geek-out time:
1. Prometheus is clearly just a modified Firefly-class coach. ;-)
2. I love the movie design of Heart of Gold (and Marvin, too). Give that movie a second chance, Hitchhikers – it’s better than you remember.)
3. Where’s Bebop?
4. Space Titanic, really? I would’ve gone with the Nimbus myself. Same captain.
Agree about Pearl’s spacebus. You can just backup easily,
and if Bobo has to go…
But where’s the Planet Express Crew’s ship. Futurama’s Titanic
gets in but not the delivery vehicle?
@ 4 and 5
Hey, I’m a generation or two behind some of those references, but even I agree that Ardala’s ship is surprisingly respectable for that (amusingly) tacky show.
And while I’m no anime fan, I’m at least loosely familiar with the Yamato.
Criminy, how many starships could I name? So much Star Trek, Babylon 5, Stargate, Farscape, Star Wars (including way too many expanded-universe ones) . . .
All I know is, I like the dolphin mothership that decloaked off the SOL’s bow. : )
Yeah, the Planet Express Ship before Titanic. After all, she was voiced by Sigourney Weaver for an episode–when she tried to kill her crew.
I guess it was too much to hope for that the Yamato/Argo would make the cut. I can see why a lot of semi-worthy ships didn’t. As much as I love many of the designs in that barrage of ships that Hollywood pooped out in the Great Post-Star Wars Cash-In (“The Black Hole,” “Buck Rogers,” “Superman,” the old “Battlestar Galactica” and “Battle Beyond the Stars” come immediately to mind), the majority of them are too derivative of something seen in “A New Hope” (“Make a big, big, BIG starship! …But add ta-tas! Big, big, BIG ta-tas!!” “Nice fighter craft! Now, ‘weather’ it! Oil leaks and scrapes everywhere!!”). Likewise, they didn’t want “Star Wars” itself to overwhelm the list, or everything this side of Dooku’s Solar Sailer would be on it.
I would’ve passed on Pearl’s VW. I love it, of course, but it’s a regular vehicle with a couple of boosters slapped on, come on now.
Guess they’ve forgiven the SOL for hitting the Hubble….
Mike broke the Hubble.
Mike broke the Hubble.
(Boys!)
The SOL is used to conduct the most important experiment in the history of science: testing the effects of horrible movies on the human mind. That statement alone moves it to the #1 slot.
When is someone going to make a model kit of the SOL? I’ve got the model of the bridge, but not the dogbone itself.
Way to state the obvious! Of course the Satellite of Love is cool, it’s boss! It’s shaped as a dog bone for Clu Gallagher sakes!
I’m not a big nerd nor geek, so I don’t have an extensive knowledge of spaceships, but I dig the old rocketships from the pulp days.
I can’t endorse a list that doesn’t give an entry to the Veritechs from Robotech and Skyfire from The Transformers, even if it does have the SOL on it.
So, where are the actual SOL models now? (The movie one looked spectacular on the big screen.) I’m pretty sure they were not auctioned off on Ebay a decade ago…
I liked the ship J.C. and Cooch (aka gooch) used with a sidehack to rag on Joel and the bots about their Rommel hats!!! But 3 cheers anyway to the Sat O’ Love!!!
:cowboy:
THe biggest problem with these so called “EW Lists” is that they seem to be done for 18 year olds BY 18 year olds. That they remembered ST:TOS is almost mandatory and stretching it. Anything older than 2001 is in the dark recesses of the past and if they go into the 90s they might as well talk about Georges Méliès and “A Trip to the Moon.”
What about any of the Ships from Anderson’s UFO? (Even the alien craft was cool.) Fireball XL-5, Thunderbird 3, Thunderbird 5, The USS Defiant from DS-9, Valley Forge from Silent Running?
I don’t mean to list every ship there was, but even Vorlon and Mimbar ships beat out 2/3 of this “list.”
#19 – The original SOL model fell into the hands of a very good fan who treated her right. :)
http://m-skirvin.deviantart.com/art/The-SOL-Restored-151910348
@22 Thanks for the link, noordledoordle. :)
I hope the movie version is also in safe hands somewhere.
@ Shaktopus- THANK YOU! I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks the ship in the new Prometheus movie looks like Serenity!
I’m okay with that list. Not necessarily what I’d have for my list, but it’s a good list.
Nifty picture of the Red Dwarf they had, too.
On the entry for BobaFett’s SLAVE I (number 11 on the list) they call Jango his ‘Clone-daddy,’ to me a clear coinage term from MST’s PARTS: The Clonus Horror. (Will you change me, Clone-Daddy?)
After seeing the restored SOL model as highlighted on an above post. Two thing come to mine. One, we really need a photo guide of all the original props that were sold on ebay somewhere on this website. And two, I hope who ever owns the restored model of the SOL eventually donates it to the Smithsonian museum so in the future all the fans of show can appreciate it.
noordledoordle #22 – Thanks for the link! It warms my heart to see such an ICON (let’s face it, it is) skillfully restored and so beautifully displayed. There’s owning, and then there’s loving. These people obviously participate in the latter.
big61al #27 – YES! That would be amazing! It would literally give me goosebumps! It could be like a “MST3K Scrapbook” sequel! Exclamation points!!
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