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== Live Action TV ==
 
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has not only the new series [[Christmas Episode]] "[[Doctor Who (TV)/2007 CS Voyage of the Damned/Recap|Voyage of the Damned]]", one of the aforementioned Space Titanics, but also the 1983 Fifth Doctor serial "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S20 E5 Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]", where he and his companions find themselves on board a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] Edwardian ship in space, powered via solar sails, which is participating in a race around the planets, along with other such ships from different periods from human history, including a Greek trireme...with ''rowers''.
** Voyage of the Damned could be justified, though, since the aliens purposely made it to look like the Titanic, and many other spaceships in the series look nothing like boats. In other words, it doesn't look like a boat because space is an ocean, it looks like a boat because they wanted it to. The aliens, that is, not just the script writers.
* ''[[Star Fleet]]'' gives us the Skull, a space going pirate ship complete with sails.
* Gokai Galleon from ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', the [[Space Pirate]] ''[[Super Sentai]]''. It's the Red Ranger's mecha, the central piece to the [[Combining Mecha]], and the team's ride.
* Commander Sisko from ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' built a lightship that employed a solar sail for propulsion - Bajorans had even traveled [[Faster -Than -Light Travel|faster than light]] with these contraptions. At one point in the episode, Sisko even talks about "tacking" with his solar sailing space ship -- something impossible to do without a denser medium (like an ocean surface) to sink a keel into.
** One can argue about whether it should be called tacking, but you *can* use solar gravity to sail 'upstream' against the sunlight. (I almost said the solar wind, but those are charged particles, not the photons solar sails use.)
 
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