Prison Ship: Difference between revisions

 

For the purposes of this trope there are two types of Prison Ship:

# The Jail: often a setting in and of itself this vessel is usually purpose built to hold prisoners permanently (often for unscrupulous deeds outside of jurisdiction) needs things like guard stations, plumbing, cafeteria, life-support, or stasis pods to function.

 

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== [[Anime]] ==

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode "Black Dog Serenade". One such ship gets hijacked by prisoners.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''The Adventure of the Gloria Scott'' concerns a prison ship to Australia.

* Over the first few books in the [[X Wing Series]] we hear talk of Lusankya, the Empire's secret prison and brainwashing facility, but only later is it revealed to be the ''Lusankya'', a Super Star Destroyer. Even after the pounding it takes in ''The Bacta War'' there's enough left to salvage, and the New Republic captures and makes use of it until the [[New Jedi Order]], where it goes out in a proper blaze of glory for [[Ramming Always Works|Operation Emperor's Spear]].

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Doomsday". The Doctor discovers that the Genesis Ark was a Prison Ship built by the Time Lords during the Last Great Time War. Being of Time Lord origin, it's [[Bigger on the Inside]] and contains a small army of Daleks.

* In ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]]'', the villains hijack a Prison Ship and name themselves after it.

* On ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', {{spoiler|the ship itself serves a secondary purpose as a prison transport ship}}. Apparently only a few people are aware of that floor.

* One episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' had Captain Archer and Trip aboard one of these. The other criminals launched an escape and killed the guards, forcing them to make themselves useful to the criminals in order to survive.

* The premise of ''[[Seven Days]]'' is the use of technology from the [[Roswell That Ends Well|crashed Roswell UFO]] to develop [[Time Travel]]. In one episode, one of the inventors finally translates the markings on the ship and finds out that it is a prison transport. Unfortunately, the [[The Greys|Grey]] prisoner has just escaped and is hell-bent on paying the humans back for putting him in a coma.

 

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

* ''[[Traveller]] Adventure 1 The Kinunir''. The Kinunir class starship Gaesh was converted into a Prison Ship and used to hold Imperial political prisoners.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* An early episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has a Fire Nation Prison Ship.

* The ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' animated series featured a two-part episode with a "Spirit-drinker" that Lady Deathstrike accidentally released from an alien Prison Ship.

 

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