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* The Hyper Galaxy Dai-Gurren from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' looks much like a ''HUGE'' aircraft carrier.
** As does the [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]], and the ''Explorer'' from the vehicle-team [[Voltron]].
* Had [[Toei Animation]] accepted the [[Toon Makers Sailor Moon
* ''[[Sol Bianca]]'' revolves around a space "submarine", which "dives" and "surfaces" to enter and leave its cloaking effect.
* ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' has the Mother Vanguard, which has broadside beam cannons, a sail that mounts more cannon plus missiles and a high-speed flight system, and a masthead statue of a woman made of gold. This fits with the series' general pirate aesthetic, even if the ship was built before the heroes decided to become [[Space Pirate|Space Pirates]].
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* ''[[WALL-E]]'' featured the Axiom, a "Starliner" with a design evoking that of a sea-going cruise ship.
* The Fhloston Paradise hotel in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' actually does double as both a space and a (hovering-just-above-the-) sea vessel. It looks like a futuristic version of a steam paddle boat. The steam-stacks, however, may be just for show -- it is a luxury toy meant for the amusement of rich tourists, after all.
* There is a B-Movie called ''[[Message
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** 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 ''[[
* Commander Sisko from ''[[
** 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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* The [[Douglas Adams]] game/novel ''[[Starship Titanic]]'', one of the aforementioned Space Titanics. This particular ship also got a mention in ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Life, The Universe, And Everything]]''.
* The [[RPG]] ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''.
* The airships in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Galaxy]]''? Usually found in the sky, the game has Bowser's airship fleet flying through space in quite a few of the levels, notably Bowser Jr's Airship Armada.
* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' has [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/Vessel:Hidalgo Hidalgo]. It's a luxury yacht made by [[Feudal Future|Highborn faction]], so extra-extra-fancifulness is to be expected.
* At least one freighter model in ''[[Tachyon the Fringe]]'' has a strong resemblance to oceangoing ships.
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* ''[[Futurama]]'', the Space Titanic episode "A Flight to Remember". It survived Zapp Brannigan's decision to take it through a field of comets ("Ah, yes, comets, the ice-bergs of the sky!"), but then he had to steer it near "that black-ish, hole-ish thing". Also, a Dark Matter Tanker appears in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" and a Pirate ship at the beginning of "Godfellas".
* ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' featured a spaceship designed to look like an eighteenth-century [[Space Pirates|pirate ship]] assaulting a spaceship designed to look like a nineteenth-century cruise liner. Also, the Klunkian ([[Alternate Company Equivalent|not Klingon]]) warship resembles a Viking longship, complete with oars.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' had this when the candy pirates "modified" their ship for space travel (modifications consisted of an air bubble...thing and engines
* The ''[[
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