Live Poll: Congratulations Starfighter, What Small Fighter Ship Do You Want to Command

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@K_PAXTON what is it and from what film or tv series? I got to search for it.

@dgranger

You will not find it. I am submitting it to IMDb for approval.

@dgranger

See!!!!

@K_PAXTON

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118480/mediaviewer/rm4008768257/

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/F-302_fighter-interceptor

The F-302 fighter-interceptor is the production model of the X-302 hyperspace fighter, an air and space superiority vehicle operated by the United States Air Force, the Russian Federation and possibly the People's Republic of China. It is Earth’s first viable space-worthy fighter-interceptor.

Added. Nice job!

Thanks

@ACT_1 why not? Just joking. What is worse is that I can’t find one for Star Trek. I don’t ever remember them ever using one. It was always a starship vs starship which would equal cruiser or battleship vs battleship. Oh they had shuttles. But the smallest thing I have ever seen was the Klingon Bird on Prey scout ship (12 man crew) used in Star Trek 5 and 3. Maybe a runabout (Star Trek Deep Space 9). I haven’t screen Star Trek Discovery yet. Did they have something there?

@dgranger

I gave you the two new images below and their links??????????? Please look at them................

Here is the last one.

@dan_dassow I got to work on this latter because your post suggested Bajoran ships (runabouts) and the Marquis.

@dgranger , damn, I can’t use the Maquis raider - crew of 33.

@dan_dassow thanks Dan. Got one! The Maquis fighter, not the Raider used in Voyager.

oh, the real reason why Star Trek didn’t used small fighters was money. When the series first came on, they had a tight budget. Until CGI came along in the eighties and nineties, it was just cheaper to do a battlestar or battleship than a fleet of small fighters and a battleship. And the tv shows that did do a fleet of small fighters recycled their footage a lot.

@dgranger,

Even if Star Trek had enough money to use fighters in their shows, the technology to make fighters look convincing did not exist prior to 'Star Wars'.

That is true.

Waite, I got to amend that. I would place the technology slightly existing a bit earlier but still it was expensive. “2001: A Space Odyssey” showed what could be done with special effects at that time. Also the pretty realistic effects in “Marooned” were not that bad either. I would say special effects were coming near the landmark of blue screen effects in “Star Wars”. But they were expensive. 

@K_PAXTON they both caught my eye with the x wing configuration and the other looking suspiciously like the Klingon/Romulan birds of prey with the long nose like command section cut off. But then, I suspect they were influenced by the spaceships use in The War of the Worlds (1953) and Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) which were based on the Manta Rays. Hey, the ones in WotW are flying down city streets which mean they are not that big and they constructed (3) from the ships the martians arrived in. Are they fighters? Not much is known about the ones in RCoM but they don’t look that big ether.

Hey thanks for inadvertently reminding me of the older films. It always pays to check the old with the new. It is just forget about Flash Gordon. I have already checked and their spaceships are to huge.

@dgranger

You got this? Correct........

Here is the last one.

All this is still is going to go on.  I haven’t forgotten. I just have to check my copy of The War of the Worlds (1953) for what the ship does (They describe it in the film). It is funny that what we call “Shields” today that called it “Electro-magnetic covering/ Protective Blisters”.

I thought of two other films, Independence Day (1996) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

i can’t use “The War of The Worlds” machines because the used 3 electro magnetic beams as legs to walk. But I can still use “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”. They flew!

@K_PAXTON they are on but I had to used liberated because most of them were used to attack the force that was shown as the good guys.

@dgranger 

The Suliban ships and the Jaffa piloted ships were indeed stolen on occasion and used by the good guys!!!!

@K_PAXTON I put them on but someone removed them all

@Peter_pbn somebody removed the images from the database. I hated losing them. They were great suggestions by K Paxton.

@dgranger Do you want to add them again, or do you consider the poll to be ready? 

Yes, but I’m not exactly done yet. I’m scrolling through “Independence Day: Resurgence”. Got two at least, maybe three.

Boy, I’m getting stupid here! I forgot about “Space 1999” and all it’s spaceships! Mark IX Hawk, 2-3 man fighter. This site is dedicated to Space 1999 and lists all the spaceships used in the show. Now just to find their pictures on the IMDb!

@mariojacobs added though not the best picture because it doesn’t really show the ship. Yeah checked out when I also checked out Flash Gordon.

@Pencho15 more like forgotten about. Yeah, it is done unless you got some to add. Do you?

@Jessica done.