Poor Image: Eldritch Starship

When I originally made the YKTTW for this trope I specifically pointed out that a ship like the Narada in the 2009 Star Trek movie really shouldn't count, because the only thing weird about it are your typical spikey tentacle blade things that every villains' spaceship has these days (even the last Trek movie before 2009 had an enemy ship with this). I was really hoping to provoke the imagination farther than that and I vehemently oppose the use of the Narada picture as the image on that page. The Narada, IF it even counts, is an extremely mild example. I don't care if expanded universe material says it has Borg tech or not. It deserves a mention in the examples, but I think we could find a more bizarre looking spaceship than yet another some big boring spikey bladed thing that falls into the spikey villain spaceship category, not Eldritch Starship.

And no this is not a hate post about the 2009 movie. I just don't think the Narada is suitable as an image for that page. The Narada is not what Eldritch Starship is about. The Narada is actually the kind of sci-fi vehicle that this article is about surpassing in weirdness. We need something weirder than the Narada. Seriously it doesn't take that much imagination to stick a bunch of CGI spikes together and call it weird. Weird-looking, maybe, but conceptually weird? No. Just villain-y. The Void Ship or the TARDIS from Doctor Who would make much better page images, for example, or any other non-Narada suggestion that accurately captures what the article is actually about (ships whose weirdness goes PAST aesthetics which dictate that a villain's spaceship must look aggressive).

edited 12th Apr '14 4:01:08 PM by fulltimeD

Keep Until Better Image Suggested, I would say.

So, a suggestion...

A Krypt Pod◊ from Escape Velocity.

I can't see what that's supposed to be.

Even if the current image (selected through this IP thread) is not really an example, it looks weird/omnious enough to appear as one.

Therefore, I would say "Keep Until Better Image Suggested"

I think last time I suggested Sovereign or Harbinger from Mass Effect.

But the Narada really fits the look of it more.

Keep it unless something better comes along

edited 12th Apr '14 10:40:17 AM by LeGarcon

But that isn't really a bad thing for an Eldritch trope.

3 is better than the current - much more eldritch looking than current.

Even a bog-standard Borg Cube would be a better pic than the Narada, IMO.

I'll do some research and try to find a good picture of the Voidship from Dr Who and some other of the more bizarre mentions in the examples list

There's got to be a picture of a spaceship out there that shows more imagination than big, bland and spiked. I don't mean to make this a personal crusade but spaceships like the Narada are everything I hate about computer generated imagery.

edited 12th Apr '14 3:59:06 PM by fulltimeD

I can't see 3 well enough on my phone to adequately judge it right now.

^ I think 3 is a little too ambiguous

@6: But that image doesn't even look like a starship. I first thought it was a planet, honestly

Big to 3. I'm open to suggestions, but definitely not a pull.

Here's the Ship of Light◊ from Battlestar Galactica, original flavor.

And a Heighliner◊ from the Spacing Guild of Dune.

The Voidship from Dr. Who:

Closed: https://www.google.com/search?q=Voidship&newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&hs=vLt&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yhZKU7fcAeKM0AGImoDYAw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1366&bih=609#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=bmVsKbWTOsOMHM%253A%3BYRqItxgzBur2dM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fi1.ytimg.com%252Fvi%252F4rY9rkJckrg%252Fsddefault.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ftardis.wikia.com%252Fwiki%252FVoid_Ship%3B640%3B480

edited 12th Apr '14 9:57:00 PM by fulltimeD

Found another image of a Krypt Pod (with a Pegasus)◊, better png version of 3◊.

The Terminus Est,a chaos spaceship◊

That looks like Living Ship. This is gonna have a pretty lofty Image Links page. Might as well add the suggestions from the previous thread as well.

edited 13th Apr '14 5:49:18 AM by Rethkir

What Rethkir said. Still, I think that picture is better than the current image in Living Ship because the current one simply looks like a squid-shaped ship and little indication that it's alive.

I agree; I like the Hive Ship on Living Ship but the Chaos ship is a pretty good replacement. Honestly, I'm not really crazy about any of the suggested replacements for Eldritch Starship.

edited 13th Apr '14 6:56:04 AM by Willbyr

Not keen on any of the suggestions. Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

A few of them work, but I'm not sure any of them is a decent improvement.

One of the First Ones' ships from B5, built from the core of a former planet: [1]◊

Another ship of the First Ones: [2]◊ Another Angle, using F.T.L. drive: [3]◊

The Bubble Ship from "The Fountain": [4]◊ A closer view: [5]◊

Thirdspace Alien Cruiser (Babylon 5): [6]

edited 14th Apr '14 9:44:10 AM by fulltimeD

[1]◊

^ The Pathfinder's spiral-shaped ship from "Farscape" rematerializing after traveling in a wormhole.

[1]◊

^ The Whale Probe from Star Trek IV

Proof that spiky blandness isn't the only way to be weird

[1]◊

^ The Fesarius from Star Trek TOS... with the Enterprise for size comparison

[2]◊

^ The ship from the classic "It Came From Outer Space."

[3]◊

^ The Planet Killer, Star Trek TOS

edited 14th Apr '14 10:08:30 AM by fulltimeD