Can't say I disagree with any of your picks on this list, except maybe the first since I don't know the movie it's from. That said, love that you included 'Pandorum' in this list. Not the best, but still a solid B sci-fi film.
@@Thurgosh_OG No, I get that. It's just I've never watched that film, or even heard of it, so I'm not personally convinced it belongs on the list. Then again, this isn't my top five list, so I can't really criticize much.
"And the characters realized it, leading to the single most sensible line ever uttered in any horror film." I think that statement alone proves how scary the ship was. Still, fantastic video.
@@anthonykearney608 The second it drags you into the Warp; hide your kids, hide your wife, they're [g]raping xenomorphs in here **sudden screams of alien pain** [Pinhead becomes your guide to the entry level funhouse] Enjoy your stay in the Daemonculaba.
I'd like to put an honorable mention out there for the Borg Cubes, especially as they're originally presented in *Q Who?* They were held back a little by the 1990 TV budget, but they still have an absolutely skin-crawling atmosphere. The ambience, the weird cavernous chambers, the way borg drones just walk around and completely ignore the boarding party until they make a move, the little servo noises as they walk past, it's all so creepy. And then on the outside, the way the cube just hangs there with no clear forward, backward, bridge, or any sort of identifying marks, but you somehow know it's just watching and waiting... ugh, it's perfect.
When I watched TNG first (I was about 10 years old) I had nightmares of the Borg so bad that I stopped watching TNG on TV. I continued to watch Star Trek a few months later, when DS9 was on TV. Happy Halloween! 😂👻
The implications of being absorbed into the collective. It was enough to have an episode dealing with the immediate consequences on Picard's psyche and a movie about the long term consequences.
I'd say the "First Contact" reboot tbat added tbay HR Gieger aesthetic was amazing. Switching out the cyborg vibe to into having nanobots acti g like a systemic cancer metastasizong throughout the entire body was HORRIBLE to contemplate!
i love me some trek and the borg but i have to give the spookiest ship in trek to the glenn especially on rewatch as we see how it was supposed to look (in the discovery) and we see how it actually does look and it gives it this creepy everything is right and wrong at the same time vibe
Bit of a weird honorable mention here but... the TARDIS. Most of the time you never leave the console room, but nearly every time an episode is set solely on the TARDIS itself, you get a sense of how unknowably *vast* it really is. And the fact it can dissolve, assemble and rearrange its rooms means that however carefully you explore it, you'll never actually know just how deep those corridors go.
Then there's the episode where the TARDIS gets taken over and turns hostile, and then you find out just how horrible living in an infinitely large time-bending spaceship can be. Or you get a taste anyway, the episode didn't really get time to focus on that part.
@@shaggycan It's called the Eye of Harmony. In classic Doctor Who, the Eye was on Gallifrey and powered all TARDISes via some sort of connection. It seems that's been changed/retconned.
The Shadow ships from Babylon 5, is one of my votes and should be mentioned. It's not just the spider shape that creep most people out, but the mystery of first contact. Then the realization they are crewed by living psychics and that they a nearly unstoppable.
Personally, the spookiest ship, heck, the scariest ship is the Shadows's spider ships...they are creepy to the extreme, and are one of the few ships that just creep me out whenever they appear on screen.
certainly has d7 vibes. which is certainly in my top 5 favorite trek ships. it just screams aggression. but then take the layout and make it evil and gothic and you got event horizon.
0:54 USS Cygnus from "The Black Hole" (1979) 2:18 Elysium from "Pandorum" (2009) 4:10 Event Horizon from "Event Horizon" (1997) 6:26 UCSS Nostromo from "Alien" (1979) 7:35 Collector Vessel from "Mass Effect 2" Game (2010) -Honourable Mention. 8:10 USG Ishimura from "Dead Space" Game (2008)
Have to add the Derelict from Alien with the Space Jockey, mummified in its chair. Also, the derelict ship graveyard from the Space:1999 episode ‘Dragon’s Domain’ is still terrifying, especially when you dock with one of the ships.
Dragon's Domain was so terrifying when I saw it when it first came out that I deliberately bought the video as an adult to purge the ghost. It was still incredibly effective and one of the finest pieces of science fiction I've seen.
@@NimbleTack Right there with you. Some years back I bought the VHS set of the series and rewatched that episode. While it didn’t scare me as much as it did before, it still gave me a shudder down my spine, even after all those years.
Agree. It's the ship you WANT to explore, except for the fact that disturbing the wrong thing at the wrong time has extremely unpleasant consequences. Ignore Prometheus; the mummified crewmember has been there for so long you don't want to think about it, and is he stuck there post-mortem or are he and the ship one and the same?
Surprised that the Borg Cube wasn't mentioned. The dark alien interior and the air of inherent menace add wonderfully to the effect of "wrongness" of the Borg and their Collective.
@@axel4196, pity really, the main horror of the Borg, besides their adapting to weapons so you can't even fight them, is when they catch you they turn you into one of them. Techno-zombies if you will.
I was wondering the same thing... huge industrial interiors, mostly empty or occupied by "dormant" alcoves and the occasional drones going about their business completely ignoring everything around them. It really gives a feeling that you don't belong there, that _no one_ should be there.
I have to agree with you, AJ Jones. Also the flickering lights, the ever-present danger of either a drone getting towards you or you running into a forcefield ads to that flavor imo.
I was surprised a Borg Cube didn't make it onto the list. What makes it extra eerie is that the drones will ignore you and go around doing their thing. Until they suddenly notice and all stop what they're doing.
I was really hoping that the gorgeous Derelict Space Jockey ship from Alien would be on this list too. The design is so overscaled and truly wrong feeling; Giger was a strange man and a genius. But I guess you can't have two ships from the same movie (even if it IS Alien!) on the same list, so gotta go with the Nostromo. Glad to see the mother of all spooky ships on here!
I would suggest an honorable mention: The SDF1 from Robotech when the Terrans were first examining it. Dark, giant corridors and hatchways, an attack by a giant automoton, a 60 foot humanoid skeleton, one member being disected by the ship's active technology and the time dilation.
A possible honorable mention is the Ultra probe from the season one episode of "Space:1999", "Dragon's Domain"; although, it is spooky for the alien that invades it, not for the ship, itself.
Great example. Making a virtue of a limitation, the way the creature is able to just materialise from a blast of noise and wind makes it feel like something supernatural that you just can't fight.
Those Mass Effect ships you mentioned ALWAYS give me the heebie-jeebies even though I know whats going to happen. The look, the music, it all makes it so damn atmospheric.
The alien ship from the Space:1999 episode 'Dragon's Domain' scared the hell out me as a kid. It's literally floating in a space graveyard with dozens of other ships...the nightmare on board is terrifying.
the Elysium reminds a lot of the Laconian ships from The Expanse books with its eerie mixture of natural and man-made elements. It looks more like it was grown rather than built
Always got creeped out by the truth and reconciliation. It was unsettling the first time you fight through it then downright terrifying the second time through
My Expanse addiction is obligating me to mention the first time we see the Laconian ships in Persepolis Rising. The consistent mention of organic looking asymmetry and bonelike structure and the tone of total defeat felt by the roci crew and the reader made me go, wow, this is a bit of a horror story. The ships lose that feel in later books, but I really enjoyed the sense of terror for that book.
The Nostromo from 1979 movie Alien is my favorite. It's dark and shadowy even before things get bloody. With stuff dripping and things dangling, clanking, and hissing all on its own.
I feel that an Honorable Mention would go to the RAS Prosecutor from Star Wars: Republic Commando. In that game, the mission of the four veteran Clone Commandos of Delta Squad is to investigate the fate of this Republic Assault Ship that had been lost for two weeks and had been discovered so far away from its original mission. As the Deltas investigate, they find butchered and slaughtered clone troopers, heavy damage all over the ship, and inevitably the unsettling revelation of a Trandoshan/Separatist Alliance.
Not nearly spooky enough for this list but the initial stages onboard the ISA Cassandra from Killzone: Shadow Fall kept me on edge a lot more than I expected. Something about the ship’s atmosphere, the biohazard warnings and piles of corpses killed by the bioweapon, the darkness. I half expected a necromorph to pop out at me which kept making me more nervous when it never did.
I was just about to start watching a review for The Sojourn V1 after listening to V3 and then I get a notification for this... You're not spying on me now, are you Spacedock? I love the Sojourn btw, I only hate that I had to wait so long for V3 and now I have to wait again for V4.
Homeworld: Cataclysm video game. The Beast was a bio-mechanical virus that would dissolve and reduce the crew to gore. On the sides of the ship, you could see the red from the remains. Vessels would be able to talk using those same remains to speak to other ships (essentially zombie ships that would go after you). Plus it could easily spread using various means, giving the sense of death as they try to close in on you.
I'd say the Derelict from Alien is even _more_ creepy than the Nostromo, because to quote Cat: _What is it?_ Everything about it gives me the creeps, from the dank, ribcage-like structure to the surrealness of the pilot's seat itself. It's like he's... _Biologically fused_ to the control interface?? Now _that_ is a ship I can call alien.
You know, weirdly, I'd pitch some of the locations from Red Dwarf as good horror locale's, including Big Red herself. When that show decides it wants to dip into horror, it has the same industrial, grimey vibe as the top ships here. Shoutout to the Prison Complex where they are being chased around by the Agonoid/Simulant in "Justice", though, got great atmosphere during the actual chase.
The RAS Prosecutor level in Republic Commando is a favorite spooky ship of mine. The game creators did an excellent job spookifying the ship not only through the usual dark, abandoned aesthetic but also seperating you from your squad shortly after you really started working well together. It raised the stakes as you could no longer get revived adding to the fear.
The Borg don’t get a mention? Every time you see their utilitarian geometric constructs on screen, they’re terrifying. This is especially true in the 2-parter Scorpion. When they first discover the vessel where the Borg have been dismembered and used as building blocks by the Undine. The inside of a Borg cube is terrifying at the best of times, but this was on another level.
A friend watched Event Horizon while sick. Had a 105° temp, started hallucinating that he was in the walls of the ship. He's still screams in his sleep sometimes.
I think the Von Braun from System Shock 2 is up there too. Between the isolation, the mutated crew, and... something else (not to spoil), it's a pretty creepy setting.
This. System Shock 2 creeped me out more than Dead Space did. If we expand to include space stations, I say Citadel Station from System Shock with an honorabke mention to Sevastopol Station from Alien: Isolation.
So glad the Cygnus made it in. That's been a favorite film of mine for 30 years now. It's slow and it has problems but it has an atmosphere to it that not many films can achieve. It's oppressive. Gothic. And yeah, the Event Horizon is an absolutely gorgeous looking ship that manages to also look extremely unfriendly in every way possible. With the corridors above engineering being shaped like the outline of a coffin even.
40 years for me. I was privileged enough to see it in a cinema (the one we used to have in Downtown Canton, Texas) when I was just a boy, and the murmurs and gasps rolling through the audience as soon as all the lights in the Cygnus suddenly came to life was an experience which I hope I'll never forget. ☺
I have some honorable mentions. One of the freakiest of ships for me was a ship from the WarHammer 40,000 Universe, I can't remember the name of it but is was Human ship with an entire complement of space Marines and crew aboard her when she disappeared into the warp and didn't show up again until several hundred years later, old rusted and although still ornate with its neo gothic style as all human WarHammer warships are; she was totally corrupted by the warp and the forces of darkness and it showed not only on the outside but definitely on the inside, and the overall effect is outright spine chilling, the other ship (okay, not just one ship, but a group of ships) I want to mention are the Reaver ships from the movie Serenity. The way those reavers "decorate" their ships, with the uneaten remains of their victims, and knowing just how manically violent and insane their occupants are fills you with a sense of panic and a visceral, instinct driven need to flee makes those ships perhaps the scariest of all. they are much different than the ships you're talking about, which are creepy but appear to be regular ships and only after you board them do you discover you're in for some serious pain and fear, but the Reaver ships inspire that fear and uncontrollable need to flee just by showing up, because it is already known what is inside of them and their reputation precedes them. that is all. Oh BTW I liked your choices very much and I think I have to agree with your choices too, excepting the two more that I mentioned, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the Warhammer ship, I want to say that it was in the game with Inquisitor Eisenhorn in it, but I cannot remember correctly if it truly is or if it's from another game.
My honorable mention: the GFS Valhalla from Metroid Prime 3. A ship that was raided, torn in two, having its Aurora Unit removed by force. (Theres even a secret final message from the AU thats pretty amonous) Troops and space pirate corpses strung about, and disintegrate when touched. And that music...both versions are terrifying, especially as a 12 year old playing it for the first time. Underrated ship, and that goes for metroid as a whole. The entire series was based off ridley scotts Alien, with several nods to the film. Would love to see some metroid representation on spacedock.
I'd add The Probe from Star Trek 4. It literally shuts down any craft approaching it without a shot fired, can alter an entire planets weather pattern, and for the most part no one actually knows what to do but hunker down and hope a time travel hail mary works.
Dead Space really nailed the spookiness vibe, for me. When I first played it I even had a piece of sweetcorn pop from my bum. I'd got shorts on as it was a hot summer day, so I left the piece of sweetcorn on the chair. As I went home I pointed to my chair and said "I'll leave that. I don't want it". My mate looked at it, frowned, and asked what it was. I pointed at my bum as I left the room and said "it came out of there. You can have it. If you don't want it, throw it away, I won't mind". Just then his dog, Keith, a tiny chihuahua, walked up to the chair and ate the piece of vegetable, looking gratefully at me as he enjoyed the small morsel of food. My mate frowned at me as I said "see? He gets it!" That was a good day. Thanks for the reminiscence.
The Event Horizon is clearly the prequel to Warhammer 40K. They are at the stage where the warp drive has been discovered, but not the Geller Field....thats scary. The design features you pointed out (Vaulted ceilings, wall sconces and gothic arches) are well done....you can see how they could develop over time into the features common in 40K. I' add (as others have) the Shadow ships from B5, and totally agree with the Ishimura in Deep space 2. Great vid.
I feel like Farscape's Rovhu is worth a mention. A ship transporting the criminally insane with a cannibal that breaks free and clones everybody. Of course, once someone's been cloned a few times, mental degradation becomes a factor and they become cannibals themselves. The Pilot on the ship has its arms eaten over and over again as they grow back.
You beat me to this comment by a day. I'd like to remind you, however, that he didn't exactly "clone" his victims. He split them, so tehre were two identical selves. Neither was a clone of the other. This had repercussions in the series afterward for a while, and it was pretty great.
In a Star Trek The Next Generation movie, Cpt. Picard enters a borg ship alone, that was one of the most unnerving and scary segments I’ve had to watch for a space ship setting, the borg are former people who have been captured and turned into cyborgs, they have eccentric behavior because they think almost like computers or a hive mind. Picard is able to avoid attracting attention as he walks past them but you never know when they’ll see him as a threat and attack. Very unnerving, the atmosphere of the ship matches the terrifying look of the borg.
I'd say Tarak Nor from DS9, but that was technically a station, and it was only unsettling when Garak got high on murder juice. Mayhaps, the Leviathan from Destiny 2? The thing was infected by space fungus that can grow inside people, is now controlled by said fungus which is metaphysically linked to the space tetrahedron of doom, as well as the ships master. Not to mention the personally tailored projections of Trauma and internal woes that manifest as phantoms that follow you around and torture you.
Cannot agree more, the Ishimura the first time was scary enough. But walking through it the second time in dead space 2 was so terrifying and satisfying at the same time.
I seriously didn't realise that the large room on board the Nostromo we see in the Alien movie is one of the huge landing struts. I can clearly remember previously watching this movie and thinking 'volume is a premium on a spaceship and yet this room is huge and what is that big tall thing in the middle?'. Now I know and it makes perfect sense!
I agree with the first choice. I have yet to encounter a ship with a similar feel. It was supernatural horror meet sci-fi, and the fact that you can't run away until you exterminate every monster.
The spookiest ship I ever heard of was one a friend of mine pitched me for my sci-fi space fantasy. The ADF Eclipse, one of the biggest warships ever built in the galaxy that was lost in a war, to sum it up it gets damaged and disabled helplessly drifts through space for years the crew succumbed to madness killing each other and other horrible things happened on the ship. Overtime because of what happened it became cursed and eventually a ghost ship that attacks everything that comes across it.
Forseti Station from the game Run Like Hell is definitely a creepy place, but not because of the station itself: because of how it's slowly consumed and transformed into a living thing.
Oh the Black Hole is an excellent movie. Your statement made me look it up, that movie actually came out in 79, I thought it was a lot older than that. I thought it was from the time frame of the '50s around Forbidden Planet.
Honourable mention: Lots of things in 40k. Space Hulks, Tyranid Bioships, and Chaos Warships are all absolutely terrifying and dripping with atmosphere.
I always loved the Destiny from SG Universe and at least the potential spookiness of it... But they never went into that direction in the short span of the show (too busy jumping between tones I guess). Apart from that, I have to agree on your choice, the Ishimura is truly 3 spooky 5 me.
Honourable metions: the Orcus from a space horror movie who's name I forgot, and the Origin from Origin. I like the Origin because it's so mysterious. Every passage leads to a new horrific discovery that takes the cast down another conspiracy rabbit hole.
Going back on the Ishimura in Deadspace 2 was the most terrifying part of Deadspace 2. the pure dread of reliving the first game. It was legit the "best" part of Deaspace 2 for me. pretty much the only thing i remember about the game.
Love this list. If I had to add one it would be High Charity from Halo. After the flood took it over and transformed it into a moon sized hive of parasitic lifeforms. HaloVFX has recently done some high quality shorts set in High Charity and they're incredibly creepy.
I guess it doesn't count, as we never see it in space flight, but I think the alien derelict as seen in the original Alien is the spookiest ship I ever saw on screen.
I agree with the Ishimura. I remember when I played Dead Space for the first time, in the dark of course, when I came to the first hallway that was exposed to space and there was no sound except your breathing and a creature came from above. Scared the crap out of me. That doesn't happen to me very often so I very much appreciated the experience.
I would say: The Reaver Ships from Serenity - or better the Firefly series. Crazy people in spaceships... And since you mentioned the 40k universe... Dark Eldar/Drukhari ships as well as the Chaos vessels and Tyranid ships seem to be places where noone not being part of those outfits should be staying.
Reaver ships from *Firefly* are a good option, but that’s on the basis of what’s been done to them. They’re more about the crew than the ships. Same with the places in *Doom*. But I wonder how well the alien ships in *Babylon 5: Thirdspace* would fare…
The Homeworld franchise has some great spooky ships. Most that know the series would say that The Beast Mothership or The Naggarok are the two. But I'd say while plotwise, those are spookiest. That The Ghost Ship in Homeworld 1 is not to be understated. It's an ancient relic ship that resembles no known species' ships. It's sat still, silent, unmoving for untold amounts of time. It looks like a derelict, a rusty wreck in disrepair. And yet it somehow lives. Any Frigate or larger size ships that enter a designated radius around it you suddenly lose control of and they just float there, doing slow, robotic barrel rolls. UNTIL any of your other smaller ships enter that same radius. Then every single ship under its control comes to life and moves in to attack them. Even the dust clouds in space that are normally scattered about as one might expect are in a strange halo that the player would never notice unless they looked at the clouds in the zoomed out overview map. Formed in a strange halo with arcing tendrils swooping away like a jellyfish, the Ghost ship sits dead center within the halo. Each mission in the game has its own music track, but the Ghost Ship's has no music. It's just an eerie humming ambience. There is no explanation for the ship, where it came from, who made it. And it is never mentioned again. Even still it sits there, a mystery older than the races of the Homeworld franchise.
It would only be an honorable mention, given that we don't see the interior (which is a mercy!) for the Naggarok. [Homeworld Cataclysm] The combination of incomprehensible age, horrifyingly advanced technology and the knowledge that none of that saved the crew from the horror that befell them, that their own layers of redundancy betraying their sacrifice to contain the Beast they encountered? That is horrifying. The fact it can jump between galaxies in addition to this massive vessel that maneuver's like a strike craft speaks nightmarish volumes of the horror it was capable of. Perhaps the most chilling thing about it is, the Naggarok was basically the same as the Enterprise from Star Trek, an exploration vessel. A reminder that no matter how powerful your civilization thinks it is, exploring the unknown doesn't just risk you, but all things.
A ship I like to mention is the Glykon Volatus from Destiny 2. That ship disappeared and then sometime later reapeared and a SOS signal coming from it. So you go in and notice that power is off. You search fro alternative routes and then ... you are not alone anymore. Also there is this weird black fungus. The deep you go it is clear that this ship go ripped apart and put back together, no section really connects to the other and such. Via lore snippets you find out why. The Darkness itself LITERALLY CHANGED THE REALITY OF THE SHIP ITSELF during communions between Calus and ... well the Darkness. The mission itself is fun, but challenging and there a lot of moments when you can clearly hear, that you are being noticed and stalked.
I see a bit of being a copy cat with the movie Event Horizon having a scene exactly like in the movie Alien when the crew is all sitting around a common dining areas shooting the breeze.
The Thargoid ships in Elite Dangerous, especially when you get pulled out of FTL by one, while jumping *between systems*, which is normally a glorified loading screen. It would be like suddenly attacked in an elevator ride in Mass Effect...
I agree with this list, though I do think another honourable mention should go to the Borg cube in star trek, those ships are pretty eerie in my opinion.
Not a ship really but the space station from The Orville season 3 episode 2 "shadow realms" was a scary ass station. Especially with the Krill giving them warning about it before hand.
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Can't say I disagree with any of your picks on this list, except maybe the first since I don't know the movie it's from.
That said, love that you included 'Pandorum' in this list. Not the best, but still a solid B sci-fi film.
@@palladin1337 He did say the first ship was from the film 'The Black Hole' and as added trivia it was made by disney of all companies.
@@Thurgosh_OG No, I get that. It's just I've never watched that film, or even heard of it, so I'm not personally convinced it belongs on the list.
Then again, this isn't my top five list, so I can't really criticize much.
Oh, my first though was Ishimura and second Nostromo. But do not forget Sevastopol station from Alien: Isolation. My idea from 2006.
What does the term meddling mean when it comes to movies I keep hearing that term and I feel like it doesn't mean what I think it means.
"And the characters realized it, leading to the single most sensible line ever uttered in any horror film." I think that statement alone proves how scary the ship was. Still, fantastic video.
Loved the realistic reaction to the Event Horizon from some of the crew, particularly Smitty... as he says, "I can tell you... this ship is f**ked."
i agree, i would put event horizon as my no 1 on this list
@@anthonykearney608 The second it drags you into the Warp; hide your kids, hide your wife, they're [g]raping xenomorphs in here **sudden screams of alien pain**
[Pinhead becomes your guide to the entry level funhouse]
Enjoy your stay in the Daemonculaba.
Wow. I didn't think Pandorum would get a mention. It's underrated af
This is a good list every film i thought of before watching was on it ...
I'd like to put an honorable mention out there for the Borg Cubes, especially as they're originally presented in *Q Who?*
They were held back a little by the 1990 TV budget, but they still have an absolutely skin-crawling atmosphere. The ambience, the weird cavernous chambers, the way borg drones just walk around and completely ignore the boarding party until they make a move, the little servo noises as they walk past, it's all so creepy. And then on the outside, the way the cube just hangs there with no clear forward, backward, bridge, or any sort of identifying marks, but you somehow know it's just watching and waiting... ugh, it's perfect.
Agreed! Borg Ships are simultaneously simple and approachable but utterly ALIEN; in that sense of the whole ship vining with “YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE”
When I watched TNG first (I was about 10 years old) I had nightmares of the Borg so bad that I stopped watching TNG on TV. I continued to watch Star Trek a few months later, when DS9 was on TV. Happy Halloween! 😂👻
The implications of being absorbed into the collective. It was enough to have an episode dealing with the immediate consequences on Picard's psyche and a movie about the long term consequences.
I'd say the "First Contact" reboot tbat added tbay HR Gieger aesthetic was amazing. Switching out the cyborg vibe to into having nanobots acti g like a systemic cancer
metastasizong throughout the entire body was HORRIBLE to contemplate!
i love me some trek and the borg but i have to give the spookiest ship in trek to the glenn especially on rewatch as we see how it was supposed to look (in the discovery) and we see how it actually does look and it gives it this creepy everything is right and wrong at the same time vibe
Bit of a weird honorable mention here but... the TARDIS.
Most of the time you never leave the console room, but nearly every time an episode is set solely on the TARDIS itself, you get a sense of how unknowably *vast* it really is. And the fact it can dissolve, assemble and rearrange its rooms means that however carefully you explore it, you'll never actually know just how deep those corridors go.
At the very least, we know it had a swimming pool
@@weldonwin We never did learn if it was in the library.
I love the episode when they reveal that the power source is a collapsing star almost frozen in time. So yeah there is a star inside the TARDIS.
Then there's the episode where the TARDIS gets taken over and turns hostile, and then you find out just how horrible living in an infinitely large time-bending spaceship can be. Or you get a taste anyway, the episode didn't really get time to focus on that part.
@@shaggycan It's called the Eye of Harmony. In classic Doctor Who, the Eye was on Gallifrey and powered all TARDISes via some sort of connection. It seems that's been changed/retconned.
The Shadow ships from Babylon 5, is one of my votes and should be mentioned. It's not just the spider shape that creep most people out, but the mystery of first contact. Then the realization they are crewed by living psychics and that they a nearly unstoppable.
Personally, the spookiest ship, heck, the scariest ship is the Shadows's spider ships...they are creepy to the extreme, and are one of the few ships that just creep me out whenever they appear on screen.
And that horrible, nightmare screaming sound they make
Those ships are nightmare fuel.
Yep
@@weldonwin I always thought that scream would make an excellent ring tone.
I agree. This list is not very good if it doesn't even give an Honorable Mention to the Shadow vessels.
I loved Event Horizon. Made me uncomfortable the entire time and I never felt like there was any hope or escape.
that's why even now, 14 years later, people still LOVE dead space 1 and 2 (spiritual successor to EH).
I watched EH just yesterday. Along with the Ring, Hellraiser, and Alien, its one of the Halloween traditions 😁
A cautionary tale why Gellar Fields are a need if you want to travel through the warp.
@@Spartan135 unless you're an Orc 🤣🤣
certainly has d7 vibes. which is certainly in my top 5 favorite trek ships. it just screams aggression. but then take the layout and make it evil and gothic and you got event horizon.
0:54 USS Cygnus from "The Black Hole" (1979)
2:18 Elysium from "Pandorum" (2009)
4:10 Event Horizon from "Event Horizon" (1997)
6:26 UCSS Nostromo from "Alien" (1979)
7:35 Collector Vessel from "Mass Effect 2" Game (2010) -Honourable Mention.
8:10 USG Ishimura from "Dead Space" Game (2008)
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No Mona Lisa prison ship from Halo: Mona Lisa
Have to add the Derelict from Alien with the Space Jockey, mummified in its chair. Also, the derelict ship graveyard from the Space:1999 episode ‘Dragon’s Domain’ is still terrifying, especially when you dock with one of the ships.
Dragon's Domain was so terrifying when I saw it when it first came out that I deliberately bought the video as an adult to purge the ghost. It was still incredibly effective and one of the finest pieces of science fiction I've seen.
@@NimbleTack Right there with you. Some years back I bought the VHS set of the series and rewatched that episode. While it didn’t scare me as much as it did before, it still gave me a shudder down my spine, even after all those years.
Agree. It's the ship you WANT to explore, except for the fact that disturbing the wrong thing at the wrong time has extremely unpleasant consequences. Ignore Prometheus; the mummified crewmember has been there for so long you don't want to think about it, and is he stuck there post-mortem or are he and the ship one and the same?
As a 10 year-old home alone, I was not prepared for the horrors of Dragon's Domain.
Surprised that the Borg Cube wasn't mentioned. The dark alien interior and the air of inherent menace add wonderfully to the effect of "wrongness" of the Borg and their Collective.
It seemed fairly spooky, but loss of individuality from cybernetic conversion wasn't gory or scary enough apparently.
@@axel4196, pity really, the main horror of the Borg, besides their adapting to weapons so you can't even fight them, is when they catch you they turn you into one of them. Techno-zombies if you will.
I was wondering the same thing... huge industrial interiors, mostly empty or occupied by "dormant" alcoves and the occasional drones going about their business completely ignoring everything around them. It really gives a feeling that you don't belong there, that _no one_ should be there.
I have to agree with you, AJ Jones. Also the flickering lights, the ever-present danger of either a drone getting towards you or you running into a forcefield ads to that flavor imo.
I was surprised a Borg Cube didn't make it onto the list. What makes it extra eerie is that the drones will ignore you and go around doing their thing. Until they suddenly notice and all stop what they're doing.
Nostromo was a spooky ship even without the alien on the prowl. It has such a claustrophobic feel to it.
The engineer ships in Alien and Prometheus are even spookier. Giant alien ships filled with mystery and of creepy alien design.
And the uncomfortable organic aspect to it, plus HR Giger incorporating sexual imagery into everything he designs to make you even more uncomfortable
shit ships from shit movies. enjoy, kids
And tripping hazards good lord osha would annihilate them
One's a Space Jockey ship the other is an Engineer vessel.
Engineers are not Jockeys. I care not what Scott says.
I was really hoping that the gorgeous Derelict Space Jockey ship from Alien would be on this list too. The design is so overscaled and truly wrong feeling; Giger was a strange man and a genius.
But I guess you can't have two ships from the same movie (even if it IS Alien!) on the same list, so gotta go with the Nostromo. Glad to see the mother of all spooky ships on here!
I would suggest an honorable mention: The SDF1 from Robotech when the Terrans were first examining it. Dark, giant corridors and hatchways, an attack by a giant automoton, a 60 foot humanoid skeleton, one member being disected by the ship's active technology and the time dilation.
The collector ship from Mass Effect 2 is the spookiest for me, and a big part of that is the eerie music when you first enter the ship.
A possible honorable mention is the Ultra probe from the season one episode of "Space:1999", "Dragon's Domain"; although, it is spooky for the alien that invades it, not for the ship, itself.
Ahh, the Ultra Probe. Good choice! Scared me senseless as a kid.
Good call
Great example. Making a virtue of a limitation, the way the creature is able to just materialise from a blast of noise and wind makes it feel like something supernatural that you just can't fight.
Those Mass Effect ships you mentioned ALWAYS give me the heebie-jeebies even though I know whats going to happen. The look, the music, it all makes it so damn atmospheric.
The alien ship from the Space:1999 episode 'Dragon's Domain' scared the hell out me as a kid. It's literally floating in a space graveyard with dozens of other ships...the nightmare on board is terrifying.
That one got me as a kid as well.
the Elysium reminds a lot of the Laconian ships from The Expanse books with its eerie mixture of natural and man-made elements. It looks more like it was grown rather than built
Always got creeped out by the truth and reconciliation. It was unsettling the first time you fight through it then downright terrifying the second time through
By the God-Emperor Event Horizon IS a prequel to 40K and there's nothing anyone can say to change my mind.
Early forays into warp travel before discovering the absolute necessity of the Geller field.
I won't.... I'm right there with you! 😁👍🏽
@@johnbeck1978Good one! You hit that right on the head!
My Expanse addiction is obligating me to mention the first time we see the Laconian ships in Persepolis Rising. The consistent mention of organic looking asymmetry and bonelike structure and the tone of total defeat felt by the roci crew and the reader made me go, wow, this is a bit of a horror story. The ships lose that feel in later books, but I really enjoyed the sense of terror for that book.
As some one who's listening to Tiamat's Wrath right now, very much yes. The end of Persepolis Rising was A LOT.
My favorite is the Homeworld Cataclysm Beast. That whole game was nuts off the scale fun and spooky for an RTS game.
The Nostromo from 1979 movie Alien is my favorite. It's dark and shadowy even before things get bloody. With stuff dripping and things dangling, clanking, and hissing all on its own.
I feel that an Honorable Mention would go to the RAS Prosecutor from Star Wars: Republic Commando.
In that game, the mission of the four veteran Clone Commandos of Delta Squad is to investigate the fate of this Republic Assault Ship that had been lost for two weeks and had been discovered so far away from its original mission.
As the Deltas investigate, they find butchered and slaughtered clone troopers, heavy damage all over the ship, and inevitably the unsettling revelation of a Trandoshan/Separatist Alliance.
Not nearly spooky enough for this list but the initial stages onboard the ISA Cassandra from Killzone: Shadow Fall kept me on edge a lot more than I expected. Something about the ship’s atmosphere, the biohazard warnings and piles of corpses killed by the bioweapon, the darkness. I half expected a necromorph to pop out at me which kept making me more nervous when it never did.
I was just about to start watching a review for The Sojourn V1 after listening to V3 and then I get a notification for this... You're not spying on me now, are you Spacedock?
I love the Sojourn btw, I only hate that I had to wait so long for V3 and now I have to wait again for V4.
Homeworld: Cataclysm video game. The Beast was a bio-mechanical virus that would dissolve and reduce the crew to gore. On the sides of the ship, you could see the red from the remains. Vessels would be able to talk using those same remains to speak to other ships (essentially zombie ships that would go after you). Plus it could easily spread using various means, giving the sense of death as they try to close in on you.
Thank dude, the Cygnus is awesome, we should have more ships that are just large and open, most ships in scifi look like a small room inside
Let's not forget the time ship in Sphere but only one ship I know of screams. That is the Shadows ships that literally look like a spider from hell.
i thought the wraith hive ships from stargate atlantis knowing what happens in those hive always added a sense of horror to it for me,
The Prosecutor from Republic Commandos. The first part of that mission scared me a lot as a kid.
Any Space Hulk from 40k.
Every ship from 40k, the Imperial ships are powered by slavery and death and Gothic monstrosities.
I'd say the Derelict from Alien is even _more_ creepy than the Nostromo, because to quote Cat:
_What is it?_
Everything about it gives me the creeps, from the dank, ribcage-like structure to the surrealness of the pilot's seat itself.
It's like he's... _Biologically fused_ to the control interface?? Now _that_ is a ship I can call alien.
But what is it?
You know, weirdly, I'd pitch some of the locations from Red Dwarf as good horror locale's, including Big Red herself.
When that show decides it wants to dip into horror, it has the same industrial, grimey vibe as the top ships here.
Shoutout to the Prison Complex where they are being chased around by the Agonoid/Simulant in "Justice", though, got great atmosphere during the actual chase.
The RAS Prosecutor level in Republic Commando is a favorite spooky ship of mine. The game creators did an excellent job spookifying the ship not only through the usual dark, abandoned aesthetic but also seperating you from your squad shortly after you really started working well together. It raised the stakes as you could no longer get revived adding to the fear.
The Borg don’t get a mention?
Every time you see their utilitarian geometric constructs on screen, they’re terrifying.
This is especially true in the 2-parter Scorpion. When they first discover the vessel where the Borg have been dismembered and used as building blocks by the Undine.
The inside of a Borg cube is terrifying at the best of times, but this was on another level.
A friend watched Event Horizon while sick. Had a 105° temp, started hallucinating that he was in the walls of the ship. He's still screams in his sleep sometimes.
I think the Von Braun from System Shock 2 is up there too. Between the isolation, the mutated crew, and... something else (not to spoil), it's a pretty creepy setting.
And the reveal of that 'something else' really ups the terror for the rest of the game, too! It's such a classic and effective 'ohshit!' moment.
This. System Shock 2 creeped me out more than Dead Space did.
If we expand to include space stations, I say Citadel Station from System Shock with an honorabke mention to Sevastopol Station from Alien: Isolation.
So glad the Cygnus made it in. That's been a favorite film of mine for 30 years now. It's slow and it has problems but it has an atmosphere to it that not many films can achieve. It's oppressive. Gothic. And yeah, the Event Horizon is an absolutely gorgeous looking ship that manages to also look extremely unfriendly in every way possible. With the corridors above engineering being shaped like the outline of a coffin even.
40 years for me. I was privileged enough to see it in a cinema (the one we used to have in Downtown Canton, Texas) when I was just a boy, and the murmurs and gasps rolling through the audience as soon as all the lights in the Cygnus suddenly came to life was an experience which I hope I'll never forget. ☺
I have some honorable mentions. One of the freakiest of ships for me was a ship from the WarHammer 40,000 Universe, I can't remember the name of it but is was Human ship with an entire complement of space Marines and crew aboard her when she disappeared into the warp and didn't show up again until several hundred years later, old rusted and although still ornate with its neo gothic style as all human WarHammer warships are; she was totally corrupted by the warp and the forces of darkness and it showed not only on the outside but definitely on the inside, and the overall effect is outright spine chilling, the other ship (okay, not just one ship, but a group of ships) I want to mention are the Reaver ships from the movie Serenity. The way those reavers "decorate" their ships, with the uneaten remains of their victims, and knowing just how manically violent and insane their occupants are fills you with a sense of panic and a visceral, instinct driven need to flee makes those ships perhaps the scariest of all. they are much different than the ships you're talking about, which are creepy but appear to be regular ships and only after you board them do you discover you're in for some serious pain and fear, but the Reaver ships inspire that fear and uncontrollable need to flee just by showing up, because it is already known what is inside of them and their reputation precedes them. that is all. Oh BTW I liked your choices very much and I think I have to agree with your choices too, excepting the two more that I mentioned, but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of the Warhammer ship, I want to say that it was in the game with Inquisitor Eisenhorn in it, but I cannot remember correctly if it truly is or if it's from another game.
My honorable mention: the GFS Valhalla from Metroid Prime 3. A ship that was raided, torn in two, having its Aurora Unit removed by force. (Theres even a secret final message from the AU thats pretty amonous) Troops and space pirate corpses strung about, and disintegrate when touched.
And that music...both versions are terrifying, especially as a 12 year old playing it for the first time.
Underrated ship, and that goes for metroid as a whole. The entire series was based off ridley scotts Alien, with several nods to the film. Would love to see some metroid representation on spacedock.
I'd add The Probe from Star Trek 4. It literally shuts down any craft approaching it without a shot fired, can alter an entire planets weather pattern, and for the most part no one actually knows what to do but hunker down and hope a time travel hail mary works.
Dead Space really nailed the spookiness vibe, for me. When I first played it I even had a piece of sweetcorn pop from my bum. I'd got shorts on as it was a hot summer day, so I left the piece of sweetcorn on the chair.
As I went home I pointed to my chair and said "I'll leave that. I don't want it".
My mate looked at it, frowned, and asked what it was. I pointed at my bum as I left the room and said "it came out of there. You can have it. If you don't want it, throw it away, I won't mind".
Just then his dog, Keith, a tiny chihuahua, walked up to the chair and ate the piece of vegetable, looking gratefully at me as he enjoyed the small morsel of food. My mate frowned at me as I said "see? He gets it!"
That was a good day. Thanks for the reminiscence.
The Event Horizon is clearly the prequel to Warhammer 40K. They are at the stage where the warp drive has been discovered, but not the Geller Field....thats scary. The design features you pointed out (Vaulted ceilings, wall sconces and gothic arches) are well done....you can see how they could develop over time into the features common in 40K. I' add (as others have) the Shadow ships from B5, and totally agree with the Ishimura in Deep space 2. Great vid.
I feel like Farscape's Rovhu is worth a mention. A ship transporting the criminally insane with a cannibal that breaks free and clones everybody. Of course, once someone's been cloned a few times, mental degradation becomes a factor and they become cannibals themselves. The Pilot on the ship has its arms eaten over and over again as they grow back.
You beat me to this comment by a day. I'd like to remind you, however, that he didn't exactly "clone" his victims. He split them, so tehre were two identical selves. Neither was a clone of the other. This had repercussions in the series afterward for a while, and it was pretty great.
@@adamsmall5598 The two were clones of each other, so the terminology stands.
In a Star Trek The Next Generation movie, Cpt. Picard enters a borg ship alone, that was one of the most unnerving and scary segments I’ve had to watch for a space ship setting, the borg are former people who have been captured and turned into cyborgs, they have eccentric behavior because they think almost like computers or a hive mind. Picard is able to avoid attracting attention as he walks past them but you never know when they’ll see him as a threat and attack. Very unnerving, the atmosphere of the ship matches the terrifying look of the borg.
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WE'RE LEAVING !
When I watched this movie all those years ago
I burst out laughing when Laurence Fishburne said that line.
Event Horizon is one of the few horror movies that actually scared me.
1. Any Reaver ship from FIREFLY 2. The Borg ship from Star Trek Voyager: Scorpion part 1
The Mona Lisa from Halo Evolutions continues to live with me as best spooky ship
I've been playing Outer wilds echoes of the eye and the stranger and the mystery surrounding it is absolutely very spooky.
Great addition! 👏
The shadow's ships....
..... Still unnerves me to this very day. Damn good design!
I'd say Tarak Nor from DS9, but that was technically a station, and it was only unsettling when Garak got high on murder juice.
Mayhaps, the Leviathan from Destiny 2? The thing was infected by space fungus that can grow inside people, is now controlled by said fungus which is metaphysically linked to the space tetrahedron of doom, as well as the ships master.
Not to mention the personally tailored projections of Trauma and internal woes that manifest as phantoms that follow you around and torture you.
Cannot agree more, the Ishimura the first time was scary enough. But walking through it the second time in dead space 2 was so terrifying and satisfying at the same time.
I'd definitely put the Wraith-Ships from Stargate Atlantis on the list
perfect halloween geek theme I love it thanks for making this.
I liked the idea that Event Horizon is in the same universe as Hellraiser.
I seriously didn't realise that the large room on board the Nostromo we see in the Alien movie is one of the huge landing struts. I can clearly remember previously watching this movie and thinking 'volume is a premium on a spaceship and yet this room is huge and what is that big tall thing in the middle?'.
Now I know and it makes perfect sense!
I agree with the first choice. I have yet to encounter a ship with a similar feel. It was supernatural horror meet sci-fi, and the fact that you can't run away until you exterminate every monster.
The spookiest ship I ever heard of was one a friend of mine pitched me for my sci-fi space fantasy. The ADF Eclipse, one of the biggest warships ever built in the galaxy that was lost in a war, to sum it up it gets damaged and disabled helplessly drifts through space for years the crew succumbed to madness killing each other and other horrible things happened on the ship. Overtime because of what happened it became cursed and eventually a ghost ship that attacks everything that comes across it.
What jumped to mind instantly is Event Horizon, but Ishimura in the first place... yeah, having spent good amount of time there, I completely agree.
Dead Space consistently gave me cold chills/goose flesh while playing it.
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Space Hulks from 40k are scary as hell (quite literally in some cases), your list is awesome though, some really good choices.
Forseti Station from the game Run Like Hell is definitely a creepy place, but not because of the station itself: because of how it's slowly consumed and transformed into a living thing.
Public service announcement: Pandorum is actually one of the rarely good sci Fi horrors! It has Avery original and scary twist!
The Borg cube or any Borg vessel would be spooky and scary.
Bro the Ishimura is the single scariest vessel I've ever heard of. Or the Mona Lisa from Halo
Oh the Black Hole is an excellent movie. Your statement made me look it up, that movie actually came out in 79, I thought it was a lot older than that. I thought it was from the time frame of the '50s around Forbidden Planet.
Honourable mention: Lots of things in 40k. Space Hulks, Tyranid Bioships, and Chaos Warships are all absolutely terrifying and dripping with atmosphere.
I always loved the Destiny from SG Universe and at least the potential spookiness of it... But they never went into that direction in the short span of the show (too busy jumping between tones I guess). Apart from that, I have to agree on your choice, the Ishimura is truly 3 spooky 5 me.
My favourite spooky ship is the Glykon Volatus, a Cabal Carrier from Destiny 2
The Shadow vessels from B5 should at least get an honorable mention, even if we never get to see their interiors.
Honourable metions: the Orcus from a space horror movie who's name I forgot, and the Origin from Origin. I like the Origin because it's so mysterious. Every passage leads to a new horrific discovery that takes the cast down another conspiracy rabbit hole.
Going back on the Ishimura in Deadspace 2 was the most terrifying part of Deadspace 2. the pure dread of reliving the first game. It was legit the "best" part of Deaspace 2 for me. pretty much the only thing i remember about the game.
Love this list. If I had to add one it would be High Charity from Halo. After the flood took it over and transformed it into a moon sized hive of parasitic lifeforms. HaloVFX has recently done some high quality shorts set in High Charity and they're incredibly creepy.
I guess it doesn't count, as we never see it in space flight, but I think the alien derelict as seen in the original Alien is the spookiest ship I ever saw on screen.
I agree with the Ishimura. I remember when I played Dead Space for the first time, in the dark of course, when I came to the first hallway that was exposed to space and there was no sound except your breathing and a creature came from above. Scared the crap out of me. That doesn't happen to me very often so I very much appreciated the experience.
I would say: The Reaver Ships from Serenity - or better the Firefly series.
Crazy people in spaceships...
And since you mentioned the 40k universe...
Dark Eldar/Drukhari ships as well as the Chaos vessels and Tyranid ships seem to be places where noone not being part of those outfits should be staying.
You should have included the Vortex Rikers from the original Unreal game, that was scary back in the day
Reaver ships from *Firefly* are a good option, but that’s on the basis of what’s been done to them. They’re more about the crew than the ships. Same with the places in *Doom*.
But I wonder how well the alien ships in *Babylon 5: Thirdspace* would fare…
The prison ship Mona Lisa from Halo: Evolutions is pretty spooky.
The Homeworld franchise has some great spooky ships. Most that know the series would say that The Beast Mothership or The Naggarok are the two. But I'd say while plotwise, those are spookiest. That The Ghost Ship in Homeworld 1 is not to be understated.
It's an ancient relic ship that resembles no known species' ships. It's sat still, silent, unmoving for untold amounts of time. It looks like a derelict, a rusty wreck in disrepair. And yet it somehow lives. Any Frigate or larger size ships that enter a designated radius around it you suddenly lose control of and they just float there, doing slow, robotic barrel rolls. UNTIL any of your other smaller ships enter that same radius. Then every single ship under its control comes to life and moves in to attack them.
Even the dust clouds in space that are normally scattered about as one might expect are in a strange halo that the player would never notice unless they looked at the clouds in the zoomed out overview map. Formed in a strange halo with arcing tendrils swooping away like a jellyfish, the Ghost ship sits dead center within the halo. Each mission in the game has its own music track, but the Ghost Ship's has no music. It's just an eerie humming ambience.
There is no explanation for the ship, where it came from, who made it. And it is never mentioned again. Even still it sits there, a mystery older than the races of the Homeworld franchise.
It would only be an honorable mention, given that we don't see the interior (which is a mercy!) for the Naggarok. [Homeworld Cataclysm] The combination of incomprehensible age, horrifyingly advanced technology and the knowledge that none of that saved the crew from the horror that befell them, that their own layers of redundancy betraying their sacrifice to contain the Beast they encountered? That is horrifying. The fact it can jump between galaxies in addition to this massive vessel that maneuver's like a strike craft speaks nightmarish volumes of the horror it was capable of. Perhaps the most chilling thing about it is, the Naggarok was basically the same as the Enterprise from Star Trek, an exploration vessel. A reminder that no matter how powerful your civilization thinks it is, exploring the unknown doesn't just risk you, but all things.
i still have to read Rendezvous with Rama, but what little i know gives off these vibes, from before this art form was even a thing.
A ship I like to mention is the Glykon Volatus from Destiny 2. That ship disappeared and then sometime later reapeared and a SOS signal coming from it. So you go in and notice that power is off. You search fro alternative routes and then ... you are not alone anymore. Also there is this weird black fungus.
The deep you go it is clear that this ship go ripped apart and put back together, no section really connects to the other and such.
Via lore snippets you find out why. The Darkness itself LITERALLY CHANGED THE REALITY OF THE SHIP ITSELF during communions between Calus and ... well the Darkness.
The mission itself is fun, but challenging and there a lot of moments when you can clearly hear, that you are being noticed and stalked.
Lifeforce (1985) Vampire Ship.
Lost in Space (1998) Proteus ship invested with metal spiders
The Reaver ships from Firefly would have been a nice addition. For me, for exterior looks, Event Horizon smashes all of them.
I see a bit of being a copy cat with the movie Event Horizon having a scene exactly like in the movie Alien when the crew is all sitting around a common dining areas shooting the breeze.
The Shadow vessels from Babylon 5 are my take on spooky ships.
Not really a spaceship, but the Talos I space station from Prey (2017) definitely would've been a great honorable mention at least.
Very much appreciate use of the word "spookums" with the USS Cygnus
The Black Hole is a classic and under rated movie and with Anthony Perkins it HAS to be spooky.
Why was the shadow ship from babylon 5 not an honourable mention? Scared the shit out of me in the 90's
"A bit of an incident"
I could fill the molecules of ANOTHER marker full of data on how much of an understatement that is.
The Icarus and Icarus II from Sunshine (2007). The whole movie was pretty creepy but the final sequences inside the massive bomb? Yeah.
The Thargoid ships in Elite Dangerous, especially when you get pulled out of FTL by one, while jumping *between systems*, which is normally a glorified loading screen. It would be like suddenly attacked in an elevator ride in Mass Effect...
The UNN Von Braun from System Shock 2 is my favorite spooky spaceship.
I agree with this list, though I do think another honourable mention should go to the Borg cube in star trek, those ships are pretty eerie in my opinion.
Not a ship really but the space station from The Orville season 3 episode 2 "shadow realms" was a scary ass station. Especially with the Krill giving them warning about it before hand.