We come to it at last, the finale of the webseries BSG: Blood & Chrome! And much like with the rest of the show, my feelings were largely positive, with just a few rejoinders. There were some flaws, some weaknesses; mainly things that pointed to some writing and/or production issues. But overall, it was a […]
Cool Ships (volume VII)
by storiesbywilliams on May 14, 2012 in Cool Ships, Series, Video games and tagged admiral ackbar, admiral cain, Babylon 5, battlestar, Battlestar Galactica, bentusi, blockade runner, bsg stealth ship, captain kirk, captain lee adama, centauri battlecruiser, chapterhouse dune, colonial fleet, commander adama, corellian corvette, cr90, cylon fleet, Dune, earth alliance, earth-minbari war, g'quon class heavy cruiser, genesis project, harbor ship of bentus, heretics of dune, homeworld, ixian no-ship, khan noonien singh, mon calamari cruiser, mon remonda, mothership, narn cruiser, narn-centauri war, no-chamber, president laura roselyn, primus-class battlecruiser, princess leia, raptor, resurrection ship, Star Trek, Star Wars, star wars episode IV a new hope, star wars universe, starbuck, super star destroyer, the blackbird, the laura, the pegasus, the twelve colonies, thrawn crisis, uss enterprise, uss reliant, vicount-class star defender, viper mark VII
Welcome to volume 7. Nuff chit chat, let’s get started! The Blackbird: Starting this list off right is the stealth ship from the updated Galactica universe. Christened the Laura, in honor of President Roslyn, this ship was the brainchild of engineer Galen Tyrol and his deck hands, who decided to build a new fighter from […]
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Cool Ships!
by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne
God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]
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