A spaceship(or 'spacecraft') is a vehicle designed for traveling in/to 'outer-space'. Spaceships are a common trope in many science-fiction stories. There are many stories based almost-exclusively around spaceships.
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How many different Enterprises were there?
How may different Enterprises were there?
How many were featured in TV or film?
The last I heard there was a 'J' in the show 'Enterprise'.
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Why is there a lot of low-tech in Battlestar Galactica?
On one hand, residents of the Twelve colonies perfected travel in spaceships and FTL jumps, but on the other hand, they have some really low-tech technologies, such as disconnecting a network by ...
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Does a spaceship lose air reserves every time an airlock is opened?
Something seemed to me a little bit bizarre when watching some movies or series that take place in space.
When someone wants to leave a ship (either alone or with a smaller vehicle), there must be ...
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Why are all Federation starships similar in design?
All Federation starships I have seen have a very similar configuration. Is there any in-universe explanation for this?
I know this configuration comes from human ships like the NX-01, but why was it ...
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Is there a difference between a spaceship and a starship?
Is there a difference between a spaceship and a starship?
I've been wondering... is it like boats and ships?
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Are there any Vulcan ships?
This Star Trek question popped up in chat today. Setting aside Enterprise, do we ever see in a Star Trek show or movie a Vulcan designed and built ship that was built after the Federation was ...
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Film about a spacecraft AI trying to breed a new mechanic
I need help finding the title of a film which features a spacecraft that has an AI.
There is only one man and one woman in the movie.
The man is the only one on the spaceship and he is just there ...
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Why do Star Trek vessels always approach each other on parallel planes?
Space is just open 3D space, right? In Star Trek, ships are always coming from somewhere else: different solar systems, galaxies, etc. However, when they meet, they always seem to be on parallel ...
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What fuel/resources are used to power engines in the Star Wars universe?
What kind of fuel or resources are used to power most engines in the Star Wars universe? They often reference engines as "reactors". Fusion, fission, something fantasy? Is there a waste product and if ...
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What's the technical explanation for gravity to exist inside a spacecraft in science fiction?
Specifically, spacecraft that are not obviously using centrifugal force to simulate gravity the way that the space station from 2001 does.
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What was the function of Ring-shape module in 22nd century Vulcan ships?
I've noticed that all 22nd century Vulcan ships have a ring-shape module. Not just star ships but small shuttle pods have this module, too. As Vulcans do everything logically, there must be some ...
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What's the approximate crew size of a BC-304 cruiser?
The Stargate wiki says that the crew size of a BC-304 cruiser is about 200 people. Where does this number come from? The BC-303 is stated to have a crew size of 115 at one point in the show, but the ...
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What are the Firefly Specs
Are there any canon specifications about the Firefly ship?
Including (but not limited to):
speed
cargo capacity
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What film/TV program was set on a spaceship and…? (I can only remember the ending so have kept the title uninformative!)
Like the title says, I only remember the end of this. I think it was a film, but may have been an episode of something like The Outer Limits. I saw it on TV around 1999 (ish), and I think it was quite ...
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First use of the term “WARP” to denote travel/speed?
I have just watched Space Battleship Yamato (2010) and they used the term "warp" to denote a type of drive. I think Star Trek is the obvious place where this term was first used to describe faster ...
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Identify this novel about a female space mercenary/pilot
I am looking for this novel as I quite enjoyed the exerpt I read. Opens with a woman traveling from one planet to another; other passengers include a wealthy, somewhat imperious old lady and her ...
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Book about an isolated space ship where a new society/religion develops after order collapsed
I don't remember much of this book and may misremember some of it but essentially the setting was a fully self sufficient ship that was out in space and at some point there were officers, scientists, ...
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A TV show about Space Station
I watched a TV show about space station back when between 1995 to 2005 (Sorry I can't remember the exact time).
The episodes that I remember:
A guy created a fruit which was a mix between coconut ...
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Trying to find a book about a military prison spaceship written in the 80's
From what I remember, Humans were just starting space travel and got into a space war with a warrior race and got beaten badly. The warrior race were so disgusted with how poorly the humans fought ...
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Sci Fi short story with aliens who only mate every 7 years
Space faring human race encounters one highly advanced spaceship. The one ship tells the human space fleet to go away and leave them alone. We don't listen and our ships are destroyed. Human spy is ...
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Children's book about child on failing generation starship saved by Cygnus The Swan?
In the late 1970s I bought a book at a school book fair (likely published by Scholastic) about a young boy who lived on a generational starship. The ship was failing. I remember some bit about an ...
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Want to identify a short story about a fake spaceship/station
In this story an astronaut is questioned regularly by a psychiatrist. He thinks he's on a spaceship, but he's actually in an experiment. The astronaut also thinks the psychiatrist is part of the crew, ...
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Generation starship with kids raised by robots
There's a book I remember reading sometime around 1981 or 1982 about a colony/generation starship where kids were raised by robots who gave them something in their food that kept the kids from ...
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What is the outer hull of Enterprise (NCC-1701) constructed from?
What is the outer hull of Enterprise (NCC-1701) supposed to be constructed from? Are the later vessels in the franchise made from the same material(s)? I'm hoping for a Gene R. answer, but if not, ...
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Feline alien race, crashed human starship
In an anthology that I read in high school (1980s), there was a short story which had a feline alien race from a wrecked starship that was cooperating with humans. It took at least one human ...
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Story about an alien invasion that could neutralize Earth's spaceships
I'm looking for a story I read about 20 years ago. It was about Earth and its people were able to create star ships capable of real space flight. Not long after this happened we were visited by a ...
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Book involving small scale spaceships which are used to power an economy?
I'm looking for a novel I read whilst at high school 1996-2000. It involves a young child who accidentally discovers the truth behind a stellar war being fought by 'miniature' humans created ...
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A book about space travel using the power of the mind
Read a book a few years ago (though I think the book itself is more than tens years old) about a woman who captained her own starship and used some odd type of star travel that involved pretty much ...
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In “Silent Running”, why blow up the Domes?
In the — pleasant — 1970s film “Silent Running”, it has been decided that the space ship will “return to commercial service”. But why blow up the Domes? The workers are in a hurry, and this operation ...
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Novel in which warships are shielded by superconductors and ice
Trying to remember a scifi novel where the warships were protected in part from enemy lasers and such by superconductive shielding that was in turn connected to a superconductive wire run through a ...
