History Main / StarshipLuxurious

** It's implied being assigned to Spacelane Protection Star Dreadnaughts is highly desired, because they are even ''[[UpToEleven more]]'' well-fitted than your average heavy cruiser, being small cities with creature comforts to match.

** The same goes for [[ActualPacifist Pemalite]] ships, only UpToEleven. Their vessels are described as toys, created for amusement. Again justified since the Pemalites were advanced enough to be able to build those types of vessels... and naive enough to forgo equipping them with weaponry or any defensive systems.

* The aptly named ''Titan'' in Creator/StanislawLem's ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot'' is a luxury liner taken UpToEleven and [[DescriptionPorn described in loving detail]],[[note]][[LongList Bars. Casinos. Four movie theaters. A department store. A concert hall. A copy of and old-fashioned city lane complete with gas lanterns, a moon and genuine back-alley cats.]] [[{{Zeerust}} Eighteen direct communication lines to Earth serving the passengers]]. (And the ship's communication also apparently [[EveryoneKnowsMorse operates in Morse]], although this can be just a backup emergency method.)[[/note]] and its contrast with usual cargo spacecrafts in Pirx's rather [[UsedFuture gritty universe]] is lampshaded.

** And they've actually turned to be ''too small'' for the increasing traffic on the Northern Sea Route, with their successors, the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-60Ya-class_icebreaker New Arktika]]'' class boats being a whole 50% larger and 20% more powerful, with the [[UpToEleven still larger and more powerful]] icebreakers being on the drawing boards.

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has a ship which is designed to resemble, and is ''powered by'', an Italian restaurant. Specifically, the strange and improbable mathematics that go into divvying up the check are extrapolated to allow the ship to move in strange and improbable ways.
** Arthur even points this out when he arrives on the ''Heart of Gold'' in [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the TV Series]].

** That said, while Human ship do have ill-advised command center placement, given the tech gap between then and the Covenant it doesn't really matter where they put the bridge.

** The Akula/Typhoon sub mentioned above is actually a subversion. It is, in fact, a very inefficient design, nicknamed ''[[FanNickname water tanker]]'', due to most of its size being just empty space: its outer hull is a thin shell covering an awkward assembly of pressure hulls and capsules, forced by truly enormous size of its missiles. And then its designers thought: "Hey, if we have to make the damn sub so huge anyway, why don't we spend some of this space on crew amenities?"

* Zigzagged in Alexei Panshin's "Rite of Passage". Four levels of the ship are quite comfortable and well-equipped, including one that has been at least partially designed to simulate a planetary surface. The young people being trained for a survival trial on a planet learn that the ship has two other levels which have been stripped to provide resources for the four in general use.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. The ''Axiom'' is a perfect example of this. Though it is intended for people to live on it as long as needed and taking up all of Earth's remaining resources so you would imagine it should look nice. The ''Axiom'' is specifically the flagship of the line, and all the ships are intended to transport a broad cross section of Earth's population. You can get away with much less pleasant surroundings for a careful selected crew than for just any random million people. The ship being ''too'' luxurious is a big part of the plot; the human passengers are so coddled that they never have a reason to leave their chair.

This trope is usually justified in cases of "cruise spaceships", where the wasted space is part of the point, as the passengers are wealthy enough to absorb the cost. Another major justification is how technological progress made our ships go from cramped and dirty boats to massive and luxuriously "wasteful" ocean liners, referencing SpaceIsAnOcean. For {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s (or humans at the CrystalSpiresAndTogas level with access to AppliedPhlebotinum), cost would naturally be nearly not an issue. This trope can also be somewhat justified in the case of spaceships that are constructed and operated entirely in space, with no intention of ever making planetfall. Most of the space issues on current spacecraft are due to the fact that it takes an obscene amount of money per pound to lift something out of the atmosphere. Another justification is when the ship is meant to be lived on for extended periods of time, for a less claustrophobic (and thus mentally healthier) environment, along with better comfort for the crew.

* ''Literature/MyTeacherIsAnAlien'' has the ''New Jersey'', so named because the ship is as big as the aforementioned state. Occupants have to get around via teleporter. Not only are there thousands, perhaps millions of aliens aboard, but each one gets his/hers/its/dxwje's own pod/room, and there are facilities on board that will make them anything they want and have it delivered at a touch of a button. Notably, that's the ''smallest'' ship in the fleet. Their FTL drive works only with ships [[ThatsNoMoon large enough to have a certain gravitational field]]. The abundant space seems to be largely incidental.

* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', the Trans-Galactic Republic's starships are viewed as this trope by technologically-inferior Citadel races. Steak? Check. Huge quarters, no hot-bunking? Check. ''Massive, opulent bridge windows that could be blown out in a fight?'' (Except not, due to extremely strong DeflectorShields)? ''Check.''

* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'': the Leviathan is the gigantic, mobile pleasure palace of the fantastically hedonistic Emperor Calus, who may have been ousted and exiled from the Cabal empire but at least got to do so aboard it. Every surface that isn’t polished white slate is plated with gold and elaborately trimmed, and onboard luxuries include public baths, pleasure gardens, vast libraries, and gladiatorial deathmatches. Also, the ship itself is a PlanetEater engineered to swallow planetoids whole and process them into wine.

* ''Argo'' from ''VideoGame/BattleTech'' is... spaceworthy when you get her, and that's about the nicest thing you can say about her. However, if you pour a little TLC (and a buttload of money) into her, you can soon have one of the nicest ships in fiction, including a fully stocked bar and library, an arcade, a hydroponic garden and a low-g swimming pool. Given that the ship's original purpose was to be an exploration and colony ship whose crew (which would have been substantially larger than it is when being used by your player character's m,ercenary company) would be spending months or years away from home it was probably justified. And many of the upgrades serve a purpose beyond the game's MoraleMechanics: Upgrading the library makes repairing and upgrading your mechs go faster because [[MrFixIt Yang]] stocks it with battlemech service manuals and other technical reference works and uses the space as a training facility for his rookie techs, and the hydroponic gardens reduce your running costs because they're supplying food and absorbing CO2 from the air.

** Possibly as a reaction to the Galaxy Class, in all later series, this Trope is [[AvertedTrope strongly averted.]] The enlisted crewmen's quarters on the USS ''Voyager'' seen in the LowerDeckEpisode; a 2-person room is about the size of a walk-in closet. ''Defiant''-class ships are described as being cramped, and the crew quarters we have seen have stacked bunks instead of the spacious apartments afforded to everyone on Galaxy Class starships. The same goes for the ''Enterprise'' NX-01 of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', which has very few windows and looks far more like the inside of your average warship than a ''Galaxy''-class starship. The captain's quarters are only slightly larger than enlisted crew quarters on the NCC-1701.

* ''Argo'' from ''VideoGame/BattleTech'' is... spaceworthy when you get her, and that's about the nicest thing you can say about her. However, if you pour a little TLC (and a buttload of money) into her, you can soon have one of the nicest ships in fiction, including a fully stocked bar and library, an arcade, a hydroponic garden and a low-g swimming pool.

* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': The title ship was built for a crew of thousands rather than the five or six who currently crew her. And the ballroom and dining hall are for hosting diplomatic functions.

* The battleship ''HMS Agincourt'' was originally ordered by Ottoman Turkish Navy. When WWI began, RN quickly confiscated it. The luxurious living quarters were something special for the Royal Navy seamen, used to do with very little comfort, and the lavish interior got her the nickname ''Gin Palace''.

** Civilian freighters, having far smaller crew requirements than warships, typically have large, spacious bridges, compared to the crowded bridges of their military counterparts.

* The aptly named ''Titan'' in Creator/StanislawLem's ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot'' is a luxury liner taken UpToEleven and [[DescriptionPorn described in loving detail]],[[note]][[LongList Bars. Casinos. Four movie theaters. A department store. A concert hall. A copy of and old-fashioned city lane complete with gas lanterns, a moon and genuine back-alley cats.]] [[{{Zeerust}} Eighteen direct communication lines to Earth serving the passengers]]. (And the ship's communication also apparently [[EveryoneKnowsMorse operates in Morse]], although this can be just a backup emergency method.)[[/note]] and its contrast with usual cargo spacecrafts in Pirx's universe is lampshaded.

* Appears in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', and illustrates the difference in wealth and technology between the {{Protagonist}}s and the [[TheEmpire Alliance]].
** Averted with the {{Protagonist}}s' ship, ''Serenity''. The ship is compact and utilitarian much like a submarine, complete with visible pipes and bulkheads and airlock hatches between sections of the ship and individual crew quarters. Even the opulent quarters of the [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold companion]] Inara are only larger than the other crew members because they encompass an entire detachable shuttle. Fortunately, the crew can get away from the cramped conditions of the ship relatively frequently, as most trips between worlds only take a few days, instead of months or years. The cargo hold would seem to be the exception, though ''[=Serenity=]'' '''is''' a cargo hauler.

** This is lampshaded in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. In the first novel of the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'', Kirtan Loor is invited to Ysanne Isard's office. It is huge and nearly empty. Kirtan wonders why Isard doesn't have more stuff, if for no other reason to flaunt her wealth, until he realizes that empty space on Coruscant, the crowded CityPlanet, is one of the most expensive commodities in existence.

* The SSL ''Martian Princess'' in ''VideoGame/TicketToEarth'' has large sections of it dedicated to entertainment, shopping, and recreation, even though everyone is supposed to spend the ten-year journey to Earth in cryostasis. It's heavily implied that all starliners are this opulent. No wonder the ticket price is set at half a million, which is well outside the range of what an average New Providence citizen can afford.

* The interior of Anime/SpaceBattleShipYamato is much roomier than the actual Battleship Yamato, at least if IJN battleships were similar to contemporary American ships. Especially when one considers that half the ship's volume is occupied by the WaveMotionGun. They also can put up some kind of force field that allows crewmembers to walk around on the deck of the ship without spacesuits. This field is sometimes visible to the audience, and sometimes its existence is just implied, so it almost looks like the animators just forgot they were in space.

* Most Franchise/{{Gundam}} meta-series ships large enough to carry HumongousMecha seem to also have room for pretty nice cafeterias, IIRC. The Argama in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' features a sign proclaiming (in English) the availability of "Beer".

*** Real Luxury space in the Gundam series is in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', where they modified the Archangel class space/air battlecarrier to go underwater as well and not only have a large enough public bathroom on top of self shower space in living quartres, but also an imitation hot spring area completed with Japanese style gardening scenery.

* VideoGame/StarshipTitanic has it all, luxury restaurant with big windows, first class rooms.. One Problem, the ship has lost its mind as well as most of its crew (robots) and its up to you to set things right.