![]() When Gareth Edwards went to make Rogue One, he tried to emulate the same grungy, gritty tech the Falcon had in spades. ![]() The flaws make it endearing, and give it a human element that cold steel and digital lights can’t evoke. The Falcon’s appearance (and malfunctions) imply a long history of jury-rigged systems, sloppy wiring, and a series of pilots who scraped by on the bare minimum. RELATED: Star Wars Movies, Ranked from Worst to Best ![]() It’s only later, over the course of space battles, daring escapes, and badly timed short-circuits, that the Falcon starts becoming The Little Starship That Could. Sci-fi is dominated by sleek, high-tech ships with fancy chrome interiors and working hyperdrives, but the Falcon doesn’t have that cool factor off the bat-instead, Luke takes one look at it and calls it a piece of junk. Not just because it’s arguably the most iconic ship in Star Wars, but because it’s got the most character. We could have put a lot of ships here, but the Millennium Falcon still beats all of them. RELATED: The Top 5 Science Moments in The Expanse Secondly, the bridge of the Navy’s fully autonomous stealth destroyer ship, the USS Zumwalt, appears to be partially inspired by the bridge layout of the Enterprise-the US government even found that the navigator-helmsman-captain chain of command used in the show would be an effective way to run a ship. Here are just a couple cool facts about the original Enterprise, in case you needed convincing:įirst off, the Physics Department at the University of Queensland tested the design of the Enterprise in a wind tunnel-like device that simulated Mach 5 speeds and extrapolated that the ship might actually be able to handle the stress of Warp Speed. RELATED: 7 Huge Hazards of Living in the Star Trek Universe With all that in mind, we’re going to play it safe and say the Enterprise that started it all, the original NCC-1701, is the coolest of the lot. Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic named one of their commercial spacecraft “Enterprise” of their own volition (though that ship crashed in 2015). In fact, the name “Enterprise” has become so synonymous with space travel that a write-in campaign convinced NASA to name a Space Shuttle after it. There have been a lot of Enterprises over the years, from the weird, squat-looking NX-01 to The Next Generation's NCC-1701-C.
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