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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Book about two boys who crash into a cave, and an alien life form protects them but wont let them leave?
Trying to find a book I read in highschool in the early-mid 90's, and it may have been part of the highschool reading list (in australia) .I vaguely remember that one or two boys crash into a cave (or ...
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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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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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A book about a girl with a computer in her head
I'm trying to find the name of a book I read about 15 years ago. The cover had a picture of a girl standing in front of a bunch of rockets. The story was about a girl who finds out that a computer ...
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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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Story about prisoners on a spaceship forced to perform repetitive tasks
In this short story, the main character is locked in a small plain room. Creatures of different "shapes" enter the room each "day" and monitor him as he is forced to watch a bubble in a tube and ...
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Old kids book about boy who builds a spaceship to travel to mars
I can't remember when I read it - but likely the 70s. The young boy was so enamoured with travelling to the Mars that he built his own ship (which I think was box shaped) and flew there and came back.
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Identify YouTube trailer for Sci-Fi Show
The plot involved a woman waking up alone on a spaceship in uncharted space. The spaceship has an A.I. which tells the woman that she is the only one on board. When she finds a man asleep she wants to ...
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Looking for a Sci-fi comedy on TV about spaceship in the style of Metropia from 2001-2010 I think!
There was a TV series on sci-fi channel I think about a spaceship crew that were trying to get back home I think. I was very funny but got canned after 1 or 2 seasons. It was in the style of the movie ...
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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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How do command authorization codes work in Star Trek?
In Star Trek franchise there are command codes that seems to give you access to the ships systems, can you change or at least disable them?
In one episode of ST:VOY the captain, B'Elana and Tuvok are ...
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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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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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Lorentz contraction in sci-fi?
In particular, I'd like to remember the title of a SF novel that I read a thousand years ago. Unfortunately I have forgotten almost every detail, except one that's stuck in my mind: after encountering ...
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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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(80's-90's) Spaceship heading for earth with pods containg a small robot that can build a cyborg/robot from the surrounding enviroment
A film (rented VHS I think) from the late 80' or early 90's, some kind of pods found their way (don't remember how) into an spaceship heading for earth. These pods were egg/walnut shaped and ...
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A spaceship repair story in which alien-communication tapes are destroyed
When I was quite young I read a science fiction short story about a spaceship crew that made an emergency landing on a planet they'd never been to before. Ordinarily this would be no problem because ...
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Why did flagship starships all get the name Enterprise?
All of flagship starships of humanity/federation get the name Enterprise: Enterprise NX-01, USS Enterprise NCC-1701, USS Enterprise NCC-1701 D, etc. How did they get this name? Is there a history of ...
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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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Trailer 2012 end of time [closed]
I can't find this trailer. I saw it this year. In it you can see an astronaut awakening from hypersleep and he's informed by the boardcomputer that it's the year 19999999 or something like that. His ...
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Looking for a Japanese UFO Movie with a mission to Venus
This has been a old live-action movie from Asia, most likely Japan. I've seen it some time in the late 80's and I think it's been black/white only.
Earth is invaded by UFOs (small and round, like ...
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Apollo and Space Shuttle in the movies [closed]
I am trying to think of movies portraying either Apollo or STS Space Shuttle spacecraft or missions. By this I mean feature-length, non-documentary films, either in theaters or on TV, either ...
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Please help me identify a sci-fi short story
A group of astonauts travel to a mysterious plant where they find an empty city. One of the crew is stung by a "bee" and when they begin travelling back to Earth the swollen sting area hatches and ...
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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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Looking for the title of a graphic novel featuring a spaceship shaped like a bird and a gigantic earthworm
I am trying to identify a book that I read in the mid 1980's. Some details:
It was a graphic novel, or comic. All black and white, if I remember correctly.
The main character was a human, though I ...
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Name of futuristic novel with humanoids and a starship
I remember a novel I read back in the nineties that involved a futuristic war between two opposing humanoid factions that have settled various planets in the solar system. I remember there being ...
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Looking for a comic book about space travel and a royal family
I read this probably 15-20 years ago. It was a large comic book, probably called a graphic novel now. Maybe half an inch thick or a bit less. It opened with the interior of a royal throneroom in a ...
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In Doctor Who, has India become a super power by the year 2367?
In the last episode of Doctor Who (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship) we see the ISA launching missiles at a spaceship on a collision course with the Earth. It's the year 2367.
At first I thought that ISA ...
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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 ...
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Novel where alien prisoners crash on Earth and are hidden in a remote prison
In the book, an alien Captain ends up on a transport ship as a prisoner. He and some of the others manage to get enough control of the ship to make it crash on Earth instead. If I remember, he also ...
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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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Is there a work where a spacecraft lands using a skycrane like the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiousity)? [closed]
I'm just asking whether a book, film, comic or other work of art has had a spacecraft land using a skycrane mechanism. Has someone though of this before the public was told how it would be done?
I ...
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Movie name where in the end the earth-spaceship ends up shooting earth itself after rotated
The movie should be at least a decade-old, and perhaps even a TV-movie. In the end of the movie, the heroes launch the weapon in their ship, probably against their enemy ship, but unknowingly, their ...
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What is the ‘beam’ in Cherryh’s Heavy Time?
In C. J. Cherryh’s Heavy Time & Hellburner (also published together as Devil to the Belt), there seems to be some sort of propulsion used by in-system ships called a “beam”; it’s controlled by ...
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From where can I get 3D models of USS Enterprise?
I want to include USS Enterprise in my personal non-commercial 3D projects. I can always create a 3D model of USS Enterprise by myself. But, I think, there's no point of re-inventing the wheel again.
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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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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 a man who can interface with computers; travels on spaceship
I read the first of what I think was a trilogy back in the 1980s, as a child. It was about a man, set fairly far in the future. He was travelling on a large spaceship. He had one companion, a ...
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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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After the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, are the people doing well?
In Close Encounters of The Third Kind, what happens with the people that leave the earth with the spaceship in the ending? Are they staying there with the extraterrestrials and living happily?
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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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Were Klingon Starships originaly supposed to be able to “cling on” to Federation Starships?
The Klingon Battle Cruiser looks like it was designed to "cling on" to the saucer sections of Federation Starships. Was that the original concept, and is that where the name "Klingons" came from?
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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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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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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'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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How come a star ship such as the Enterprise houses children and a school while also being a heavily armed war ship? [duplicate]
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Why would any Federation starship (such as the Enterprise) have any spouses or youth onboard?
It seems quite illogical to house a fully fledged community on a ship that ...
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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 is a TV series on Disney where people wake up on a spaceship but can't remember its name?
I tried hard but can't seem to find the answer.
Basically, 4 or 5 people wake up from hibernation (or something similar) one day to find themselves on a spaceship.
I remember one episode when they ...
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SF novel featuring a ship called Kraftwerk II
There's a novel I read years ago but I can't remember the title. Here's what I do recall, hope it rings a bell with someone....
It begins with the 2 main characters in ship called Kraftwerk II - ...
