Here are the top 10 most iconic spaceships in science fiction movies:
Millennium Falcon – Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
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Premise: A group of rebels embark on a mission to destroy the Death Star, a powerful space station that can destroy entire planets.
USS Enterprise – Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Premise: The crew of the starship Enterprise must stop a powerful alien entity from destroying Earth.
Nostromo – Alien (1979)
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Premise: The crew of a commercial towing spaceship investigate a distress signal from a nearby planet and encounter a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
Discovery One – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Premise: A team of astronauts on a mission to Jupiter encounter a sentient computer named HAL 9000.
Serenity – Serenity (2005)
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Premise: A crew of smugglers aboard the spaceship Serenity must evade a powerful government agent while protecting a young girl with telepathic abilities.
Sulaco – Aliens (1986)
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Premise: A group of marines investigate a colony on a distant planet and encounter a swarm of deadly alien creatures.
Battlestar Galactica – Battlestar Galactica (1978)
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Premise: The last surviving humans flee their home planet after it is destroyed by a race of robotic beings called Cylons.
Heart of Gold – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
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Premise: A human and his alien friend journey through space in search of the meaning of life.
Elysium – Elysium (2013)
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Premise: In a dystopian future, the wealthy live on a luxurious space station while the rest of humanity struggles on a polluted, overpopulated Earth.
Starship Avalon – Passengers (2016)
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Premise: Two passengers aboard a spaceship traveling to a distant colony awaken from cryogenic sleep 90 years too early.