Top 15 Fastest Ever Spaceships In Fiction

[@robertdalhart7827]

Spaceball 1, they've gone plaid!

[@miguelcastaneda7257]

Thought ludicrous was faster

[@Darigahz]

@@miguelcastaneda7257 ludicrous is the engine setting plaid is the visual wake left behind

[@Fenrir8897]

I was gonna say...those are some huge numbers listed, but none of them qualify as "Ludicrous"

[@timelikeinfinity5142]

@@Fenrir8897 you're kidding, right? XD IK its SF but still!

[@levargrah1477]

How about doing something to naturalize that damn AI narrator so it sounds more realistic & less like a grinding, toneless rendition of Mandarin?

[@udasai]

WTH is all this AI narrated drivel anyway? How hard is it to just talk into a mic and not mispronounce words differently in the same sentence? I never upvote when I hear it.

[@russward2612]

This. No, just no.

[@christoph4977]

Reading is obviously a lost art. Instant downvote from me and "Don't recommend channel" ...

[@remeyrune6009]

on these I always turn the volume off and the speed to 2x

[@alexandrupascu5970]

No Daedalus from Stargate? Or any of the Asgard ships? Atlantis city ship?

[@viktor-kolyadenko]

In SG - Asgard ships or Atlantis with 3 ZPM.

[@Multors]

nothing but destiny would have been enough to be in the ranking, I remind you that it crosses a galaxy in 1 year and that the other stargate ships can cross the inter sideral void in a few weeks, no stargate or star trek ship leaves their galaxi

[@viktor-kolyadenko]

@@Multors , As I understand it, Destiny flew the galaxy for a year only because of a specific route. The flight between the galaxies itself did not take very long.

[@TattooedHoodlum]

@@Multors Daedalus class ships could fly between the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies in about a month's time. Far faster than most listed here.

[@Multors]

@@viktor-kolyadenko oh yes and the Azgarde ships go even faster, we saw when we towed the prometheus to earth in what second while in hyper space the ship had been flying for a long time, we note that this moment there the Azgard ship does not use hyper space

[@bishop5537]

Honorable mention. The ships from the dune universe, called Highliners. They travel anywhere in the universe instantly by "folding" space. Id say thats pretty damn quick...

[@shermanlee4037]

The folding business is from the books Frank Herbert didn't write. We don't know how fast Herbert thought of the Guild ships as being,.

[@bishop5537]

@@shermanlee4037 Well, like I said, travelling to ANY point in the UNIVERSE, INSTANTLY. Pretty self explanatory...

[@shermanlee4037]

@@bishop5537 Yeah, but in the original Dune stories, there was no indication that the Guild ships were that fast. Leto I said that the ships were quick, but it would still take them some time to travel from Caledan to Arrakis.

[@Variable-2-actual]

Folding is faster than light yes but I don't think those kinda drives are measurable to the chart. The fastest 2 ships are always. 1: Heart of Gold 2: TARDIS. They both can arrive before they leave.

[@Allosaurus87]

some star trek ships in this list use the wrong warp factor so the speed reported here are wrong

[@sh4d0wfl4re]

Yeah, the TOS era warp factor only applies to the first Enterprise... the other ships use a different exponent for their equation. Also she had the star wars' hyperdrive confused, a higher hyperdrive factor is slower not faster, the death star should have been the slowest of the ships slower even than the borg cube using it's non-trans warp drive that she referred to earlier

[@DeathBYDesign666]

It was point per point in the original so warp 10 was 1000 times light speed, that's the scale they are using here.

[@sh4d0wfl4re]

@@DeathBYDesign666 that’s not the equation Star Trek uses at all. TOS uses the cubed root of velocity divided by the speed of light. TNG increased the exponent to 3.3 for speeds up to warp 9 then curved upwards to infinity by warp 10 www.ex-astris-scientia.org/treknology/warp/eq61a.png

[@DarthSpock1]

"Some"? Dude most of the list is wrong, looks like they pulled it from a bunch of wiki's and random forums.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

@@DarthSpock1 Not even that, most of it is just completely made up but close in some instances. I've seen most of the wikis for this list and none of them say these speeds, they are pretty accurate actually. We don't know the actual speed of most Star wars ships to be fair but to put the death star above an ISD is absolute nonsense. We know they are in the hundreds of thousands to millions of times light speed range, the death star had a class 3 hyperdrive I believe if not a 4.

[@janreznak881]

No SG-1 Asgard ships? The old Biliskners can cross our Galaxy in seconds, and between Galaxies in a couple of days. O'Neills are even faster.

[@jtrevor99]

This list is missing multiple ships from the Stargate series that are faster. The Lantean city-ship, for example, is at least 300,000,000,000 x the speed of light, and the Replicator Cruiser is about 17,500,000,000 x the speed of light. Destiny (Stargate Universe) is likely even faster.
There's also that Voyager episode where they achieved Warp 10 (infinite velocity)...but we don't talk about that :)

[@PKPhoenix83]

And the calcs for the Star Trek ships are wrong too.

[@Loxly1888]

The Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide also goes the the equivalent of Warp 10 with weirder, though temporary, results.

[@g.k.1669]

@@Loxly1888 Especially if you were converted into a whale.

[@ShadowDevotion]

Many Ships are missing, from many more Series and Movies.
Battlestar Galactica, Star Gate, Andromeda
Also the fastest from Star Trek is weirdly missing: USS Discovery. Destiny from Star Gate, Super Hive from Star Gate - Beliskner too. Or the Ori Ships.
Several Ships from Babylon 5.

[@rwboa22]

What, no Spaceball One??? It can travel at Ludicrous Speed and "go to plaid" at the same time.

[@JakkFrost1]

Plaid IS ludicrous speed.

[@gerdtekath5862]

I'm just wondering where the Glorious Heritage Class is with the Andromeda Ascendant. It has a slipstream drive that goes over galaxies. Or the ancient spaceship Atlantis with the Galactic Hyperdrive, which travels 2 million light years within an hour.

[@Prisoner_849]

Glad you mentioned Andromeda. Beka Valentine is a great Slipstream pilot.

[@lasarith2]

2:42 enterprise D warp 9.6 =1909 x C TNG ( Enterprise TOS - warp 11.8 1643 x C ( or warp 9.2 tng(1649x C)
Voyager 9.975 (somewhere between 4500-5000x C)
If you’re going to do warp speeds get it right .

[@maxdefire]

Enterprise NX-01 achieved average speed of warp 9.9946 during it's first flight to Qo'noS.

[@wolfwilkopter2231]

@@maxdefire
Yeah ofc, an Warp 5 Ship that couldnt really get Warp 5 to run, not to mention hold, till some upgrades and refinements were done by Trip and co, has gone Warp 9.99+...
Did you even read what you wrote?
Inconsistencies depicted in the show, dont mean that they could've acieved this and then suddenly dropped to 4.9 and later just slightly over warp 5...and later needs 3 months to the Delpic Expanse at warp 5...

[@erics8192]

They really need to go back to the original warp scale. Warp 13 sounds way cooler than warp 9.995 or whatever it would be.

[@lasarith2]

@@wolfwilkopter2231 in 4 days the Nx-01 would’ve only traveled 0.99 lightyears, were as Qo’noS is like 200 lightyears from Earth .

[@wolfwilkopter2231]

@@lasarith2 As i said, the inconsistencies are fail, but that doesnt mean the ship could go as fast.
In the very same episode "Broken Bow", the speed varies massivly, ranging from taking 6minutes from earth to Neptune and back resulting in a distance of almost 60AU at warp 4.5...which would only result in 83times the speed of light (c) to making the about 90ly trip to Qo'nos at 4.5 in just 4days meaning a slight jump to just over 8200x c...!?
And when you look at "The Expanse/The Xindi" full on warp 5 isnt the same also...taking 3 months to go about 50ly into the expanse meaning just 200 x c while in "Rajiin" the need 2 days for 0.5 ly at warp 5 resulting in just about 93 x c...
Meanwhile in "Damage" they make the 4ly trip at warp *3* in just 3days which would mean that warp 3 is comfy sitting at just 487 x c... you see their warp's are f'd up all over the place and dont make any sense...

[@terencecluttey8302]

The TARDIS should be first, because enjoy only can it travel anywhere in the universe instantly, it can also travel backward in time. So even if the infinite probability drive could get you somewhere instantly too, the TARDIS could have been at the destination before you even leave the starting point.

[@jw8160]

The infinite improbability drive also can time travel. For instance, the probability that the Heart of Gold can arrive before the TARDIS is highly improbable and therefore the infinite improbability drive will allow the Heart of Gold to arrive first.

[@scotthodgins7975]

The heat of gold, according to Douglas Adams (who by the way was at least partially responsible for Dr. Who's success) can travel anywhere, anywhen providing you know how improbable it is to get there. So it will always beat the Tardis, providing you know how improbable it would be to be there before the tardis.

[@VPWedding]

@@scotthodgins7975 But working out the various different kinds of infinity would usually be impossible, due to the answer having an infinite number of digits, and thus being impossible to describe to the improbability drive. So only a finite subset of destinations are actually possible.

[@jw8160]

@@scotthodgins7975 yep! In addition, it is highly improbable that the TARDIS wouldn't make it to the destination so.... 😋

[@scotthodgins7975]

@VPWedding from what I remember, all you need to do is tell the computer where you want to go, and the Heart of Gold will tell space to "get knotted" and park itself exactly where you wanted to be... when you wanted to be there.

[@penelopegreene]

Sorry, In "Cosmos", Carl Sagan's "Ship of The Imagination" could go anywhere in no time at all, powered as it was by Human Imagination itself... 🌝

[@audioelitist3677]

People with no imagination had to call a space-taxi, costing them MILLIONS and MILLIONS of space-bucks.

[@penelopegreene]

@@audioelitist3677 This is, in fact, entirely plausible, and existed in the DC comic universe... 🤔

[@penelopegreene]

@@audioelitist3677 th-cam.com/video/su5B48218WA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=iRW0UiSlX_bZUWPl

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

Forgot the Planet Express ship from Futurama

[@timdoyle3028]

Planet Express ship doesn't move at all. It moves the universe around itself.

[@JemieBridges]

​@@timdoyle3028that's how all warp drives works, just to a lesser degree. Hyperspace same thing different method.

[@bentup.]

It goes faster if you rub cheetah blood on it... So I've heard.

[@tomascernak6112]

Startrek ships has wrong speeds. TNG ships use different formula. So meanwhile Warp 8 of USS Enterprise-A is indeed 512×c, Warp 8 of USS Enterprise-D is 1024×c, and Warp 9.975 of Voyager translates into 5552×c.

[@markmullins8622]

This list is as useful as trying to use a roll of toilet paper to soak up an ocean. So many errors😂

[@cryptocoinkiwi8272]

Heart of Gold doesn't move.
It moves the universe around it.

[@itsjohannawren]

NX-01 was the first Starfleet vessel to be named Enterprise. Literally a show about it called "Enterprise".

[@masere]

But it wasn't a Federation vessel, so the D was the fifth Federation ship to bear the name, but the sixth Starfleet ship.

[@-Gothicgirl-]

​@@masereyou are wrong nx01 exist before and After the founding of the Föderation. That makes IT one of the first Föderation ships and without archer there would not be any federation

[@stephanepoirier5582]

The Death Star has a class 4 hyper drive? Okay, I'll take your word for it. But that would make it slower, much slower than any warship in the imperial fleet - certainly far slower than an Imperial Class Star destroyer with its class 1 hyperdrive.

[@AkronBaja]

I was looking for this. I was thinking that they thought larger numbered class hyperdrives were faster until they had the falcon on there.

[@KKEM641]

That is correct, a class 4 drive is slower than class 1.

[@mreboric8406]

A fun little secret side story of the improbablity drive is that the reason the old radio show, the bbc show the book and the movie are all different is because the drive doesnt just change things around it, it changes the entire universe.

[@Clinton448]

The shuttlecraft Cochrane from the USS Voyager also deserves a mention. During Voyager's experiments with transwarp, the Cochrane did achieve infinite velocity, which meant it could be everywhere at the same time!

[@seanpoll2040]

The USS Enterprise NCC 1701 was not the first ship you forgot the NX Enterprise 01

[@justinmurphy2227]

Actually the NX-01 was the first Federation starship to be named Enterprise.
From the show "Star Trek - Enterprise".

[@bluevalkyrie2517]

The NX-01 Enterprise will be a Starfleet vessel, designed and commissioned well before the founding of the "Federation".🤓

[@shauljonah6955]

Very true then b4 then was listed cvn-65 aircraft carrier now waiting for the new ships 🚢 number. But it's cvn-80 next enterprise aircraft carrier.

[@justinmurphy2227]

Oh my goodness. Yes we can nitpick and pick and do the cannon things.
And then it will change and change again.
Are there awards given for trying to be right and outdo each other? Because I never received them but I guess I don't try hard enough to do that lol.

[@sergioaccioly5219]

NO, she was the first Starfleet ship. Was she in service when the Federation was formed and Starfleet stopped being an Earth organization?

[@ManePaleon]

The deathstar was slower then an X Wing...

[@cgi2002]

It's ok, they basically got every single one of the "speeds" listed here wrong anyway, quite a few by insanely large margins. Also its not just slower than an X-wing, its slower than an ISD, considerably so. The 1st death star had a class 4 hyperdrive (2nd didn't have one when destroyed), an ISD has a class 2, an Xwing for reference is a class 1 and the Falcon is a class 0.5

[@CYCO1631]

And yet its so small, it evades our turbo lasers!

[@walksfarwolf_sl]

*than

[@klaxoncow]

The Heart of Gold doesn't travel, per se. It just selects the universe, amongst the multiverse, where you're already at your destination.

[@Thornbloom]

Problem is that for all practical purposes a lot of ships move at the speed of plot.

[@KnightRanger38]

I feel it would be an interesting exercise to compare the fastest "sublight" engines... In many cases the distances and times mentioned imply that they can propel their ships many times the speed of light.

[@stephendarroch5565]

Sorry but a TARDIS can arrive at its destination BEFORE it left its original point so wouldnt that actually be quicker than the Heart of Gold?

[@jw8160]

@@stephendarroch5565 The probability that the Heart of Gold can arrive before the TARDIS is highly improbable and therefore the infinite improbability drive will allow the Heart of Gold to arrive first.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

It can arrive billions of years before or trillions of years later, so in some instances it is going infinitely fast and sometimes you could crawl to its destination faster. It's real travel time is the time it takes to do the gaa wheew, gaa wheew, ga tic it, ga tic it. 😂

[@CYCO1631]

So can the HMS Bounty, assuming it picks up enough speed to get into time warp.

[@simongreen9862]

Any FTL ship can arrive at its destination before it leaves its origin. That's pretty much the definition of FTL: it breaks causality.

[@-Gothicgirl-]

The tardis doesnt move! Only the Portal moves. The Real tardis is not Part of Our universe. The tardis doesnt fly! Ist in its Name "Time and Relative dimensions in space

[@johnbrobston1334]

Warshowski sails? Streak drive? Bergenholm? Hyper spatial tube? There are these things called "books" . . .

[@CYCO1631]

I'm with ya... didn't mention Guild Highliner's either.

[@mattc3581]

Bergenholms? Now that is a blast from the past!

[@TheCyberloki]

how is the heart of gold faster than the Tardis? A Tardis travels via the time vortex. Space and time travel are not really distinguished here. The Tardis arrives exactly when the pilot is wanting it to arrive even if it is in the relative past. So while the Heart of gold may travel instantanous so does the tardis. Even more so because the tardis can arrive before the race even started. Something the Heart of gold is incapable of.

[@jw8160]

The probability that the Heart of Gold can arrive before the TARDIS is highly improbable and therefore the infinite improbability drive will allow the Heart of Gold to arrive first.

[@mattc3581]

The Heart of Gold can clearly time travel, it took them to the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.

[@HsvSciFiGuy]

Wrong. The warp scale changed between Star Trek TOS and TNG. You’re using the original TOS warp scale of warp factor cubed for all Trek ships. TNG and later used a different warp scale that goes asymptotic between warp 9 and 10, so Voyager’s warp 9.975 would be much faster than 992 c, and Prometheus’ warp 9.99 would be way more than 5 c faster than Voyager.

[@notluzn]

The 2004 Galactica could FTL to anywhere in the universe, but the set back was you had to know where you were landing and that’s something all the other Sci-fi’s neglected

[@-Gothicgirl-]

Thats no ftl thats folding space

[@notluzn]

@@-Gothicgirl- if you knew the show, that’s what they call their Drive “FTL”. We know what it does.

[@ChrisReise]

If the USS Sulaco was so fast, why did the crew have to sleep during flight?

[@Endurius]

because food , air etc is to cost intensiv for the corporation/army...

[@user-jn7bq8wh1e]

Because the distances between planets/systems were also huge ..duh!😅

[@bobblebrad]

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. :)

[@Variable-2-actual]

It was going 16 galaxies over, ten years round trip (?) iirc ... I think it says it somewhere. Crap, now I don't remember where I heard that.

[@davidward3991]

No there was a Warp 5 enterprise 10 years before enterprise 1701 you do not know Star Trek. whoever did this chart did not know what they were writing about.

[@donaldstinnett5630]

Agreed. Johnathan Archer's NX-01 Enterprise was the first warp-five Earth vessel. NX-01 was much earlier than Kirk's NCC-1701 Enterprise.

[@a-blivvy-yus]

They specified that the NCC-1701 was the *FEDERATION'S* first Enterprise. The Federation didn't exist yet when the NX-01 was in service, and it was a pre-Federation Earth Starfleet ship, not a Federation vessel. If you're going to count pre-Federation human ships named "Enterprise" as Federation ships named Enterprise, you may as well include the ones that sit on the water and are powered by wind in their sails.
It *WAS* a spaceship named Enterprise which existed before the NCC-1701 but the first Federation ship of that name was the NCC-1701.

[@tenchraven]

AI knows nothing, and doesn't care if it's wrong. That's why is going replace all customer support in the next few years.

[@a-blivvy-yus]

@@tenchraven you say that, but on this particular point, the video was right (technically).

[@Jim-pq9pm]

Voyager is actually the fastest, it went warp 10 one time, which put them simultaneously in every point in the universe at once.

[@TheBillOrtiz]

You forgot Discovery and its spore drive. opps.....

[@TechPorkChop]

Spore drive requires the Mycelial network. As stated in DIS. The network only spans the Milky Way Galaxy.

[@tomascernak6112]

STD does not exist. Even fanfiction is more canon that that shit.

[@Ultra_YT_]

@@TechPorkChopuhh no, the mycelial network just gets thinner in the galactic barrier BUT it does exist far beyond the Milky Way, in the very end the mycelial network is another universe within ours. Even inside the wormhole where the Discovery-A went through, there was a mycelial network (disorganized, mixed and messed up but it was there, kind of what happened with TransWarp conduits by that century)

[@keirfarnum6811]

Opps indeed! 😂. Oops!

[@jeffwenberg4321]

​@tomascernak6112 take a freaking pill

[@thatsfxguy]

If the Sulaco is faster than light why do the crew need to be in hyper sleep for the journey??

[@user-jn7bq8wh1e]

Coz even light speed or faster is slow compared to the scale of the Universe!
Eg: if u want to travel to Alpha Centauri 4.24 light years away and ur ship can travel @2x light speed...
It would still take u 2.12 years to reach ur destination!
What r u gonna do for over 2 years awake??

[@lordsetarurare]

USS Discovery, spore drive - instantaneous.

[@Elenesski]

Totally missed the Spore Drive from Star Trek and the Blink Drive from Dark Matter.

[@ebonlibra]

I agree the Raza with its blink drive would make it probably #2 behind the Tardis but just before the Discovery

[@EricSchoutens]

I was going to add Raza's blink drive, but you beat me!

[@Elenesski]

@@EricSchoutens That was a great show, trying to figure out who those people were.

[@Concreteowl]

The TARDIS popped in and out of the universe in minutes in several stories.

[@viktor-kolyadenko]

Warp 9.8 - more then 2000 speed of light.

[@Variable-2-actual]

Slow af

[@scotthodgins7975]

Thank you for giving first place to The Heart of Gold. I was thinking that i would have to complain.

[@dogwalker666]

Yet the Bistro math drive is faster,

[@dogwalker666]

It’s also the wrong Heart of gold which should be shaped like a running shoe,

[@scotthodgins7975]

@@dogwalker666 agreed, but the poster may not have read the books.

[@dogwalker666]

@@scotthodgins7975 The radio series!
HHG is a Radio series primarily,
BBC Radio 4, I have all 5 series.

[@TechPorkChop]

USS Enterprise was not the first to bear the name. Starfleet originally had NX-01 Enterprise.

[@matthewsvideos8235]

To be picky, NX-01 as a Starfleet ship was named Enterprise, but was pre-Federation. NCC-1701 was the first Federation ship to be named Enterprise.

[@Sephiroth144]

@@matthewsvideos8235 Disagree; its highly unlikely the NX was decommissioned before the Federation Starfleet existed (since it was still in service in 2161), and we know Earth's Starfleet was the core of that organization. So the 1701 would be the first Federation BUILT ship named Enterprise, but not the first (Federation) Starfleet ship to bear that name.

[@robertlobue1628]

Nerding out with fellow Star Trek fans makes me happy! I was thinking of both of your replies as I flew to the comments...lol

[@matthewsvideos8235]

@@Sephiroth144 Good point about the NX. One of those topics with predecessor timelines that can never be fully solved.

[@jamiehasted1265]

​@@Sephiroth144If you look at the timeline, and in the final episode of ENT, Archer says they are heading back to earth where the Enterprise will be decommissioned in 2161, at the same time that he made his speech forming the Federation. So both events happened in the same year. Hence why the NX in the fleet museum in Picard was not the NX-01, as why refit a ship that has been decommissioned.

[@TobysKpopTop50]

What about Discovery with the spore drive?

[@-Gothicgirl-]

Jepp the Woould be faster then the heart of gold

[@CYCO1631]

Voyager was also equipped for a short time with a Quantum slip-stream drive, though I don't know if it's faster than a borg vessel in trans-warp. USS Dauntless (STV) was equipped with a similar, and more stable slip- stream drive as well.
Also, forgot anything from Stargate, either the ZPM Equipped USS Odyssey, with its Asgard Hyperdrive, or the Tri-ZPM equipped Atlantis City ship, and it's wormhole drive.

[@novtek]

I would put the TARDIS as #1 because it can actually reach its destination before it departed its origin. Therefore, it it traveling faster than infinity or factored by the range of imaginary numbers (the square root of a negative number). Discovery should be #2 because it was instantaneous. Heart of Gold took a fraction of a second, but still a positive number greater than zero. That it how I see it.

[@-Gothicgirl-]

The tardis doesnt travel only the Portal moves

[@crazedvole]

"The restaurant is at the *other* end of the universe."

[@CYCO1631]

Marvin had to get to Milliways the 'hard' way. No wonder he's depressed!

[@frankmansour362]

Futurama space ship went to the edge of the universe and came back in a week. Beat that!

[@michaelcarter8120]

The fastest spaceship of all time wasn't even mentioned. The "Planet Express Delivery Vehicle" piloted by Turanga Leela and her top notch crew of Bender and Philip J Fry proved over and over it's unlimited speed.

[@mattc3581]

The Excession from the Iain M Banks novel of the same name, was apparently linked simultaneously above and below normal space, which even the Culture ships couldn't do. They thought this meant it was able to travel instantaneously between different universes. Which sounds like it should count as fast.

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

the event horizon was a fast ship as it folded space to another universe in about 30 seconds

[@gregorykiernan7849]

But it only did it twice...
☠️☠️☠️

[@Variable-2-actual]

This chart is for engines that don't fold. Folding engines (Robotech,Dune,Event Horizon) all have the same speed.

[@irolaan292]

From the Ncc-1701D you mix-up warp scales. In TOS and films from that era thay used the formula : warp factor to the power of 3.
In later series they use :warp factor to the power of 10/3 (or wf power 3.3333333) and also included the concept of infinite energy needed to achieve a higher speed.
For Ncc-1701D, max speed would be 1815.85 x c
For Voyager max speed would be 2136.53 x c
For Prometheus max speed would be 2147.26 x c

[@MadBiker77]

no mention of "Event Horizon" that used a singularity drive to fold Space time, although passing through dimensions of hell/evil arent normally calculated in MPH...

[@mastick5106]

Conspicuously absent is an awareness of older science fiction. In E.E. "Doc" Smith's _Lensman_ series, published from 1948-1966, the spaceship Dauntless was said to have an easy cruising speed in galactic space of 80 parsecs per hour (~2,290,000 times the speed of light) and once in intergalactic space cruised at a sustained speed of 100,000 parsecs per hour (~2,860,000,000 times the speed of light). This would put it solidly in sixth place on this list, and possibly fifth depending on how much higher its top speed was than its cruising speed.

[@synchro505]

So many ships. So many speeds. Great to see the comparisons between the crafts mentioned.

[@morrisanderson818]

The Blue phone box wins whichever way you travel,
Forward's or backwards

[@OriginalElbowTactics]

Actually, the book says: the infinite impropability engine allows the heart of gold to be everywhere at the same time... Only thing faster than that is bad news.

[@AvroBellow]

Using Quantum Slipstream technology, the USS Dauntless, built by a member of Species-116 named Arturis, was capable of 2,629,800 × 299,792,458 m/s.

[@SilverStang2005]

Space balls with ludicrous speed is definitely the fastest

[@jameshanlon5689]

The TARDIS is a time machine which can get to its destination a day or so before the other ships arrive.

[@kenshirootomo6993]

this is one month old, so I was hoping to see the USS DISCOVERY with the spore engine.

[@tiberius6090]

little note there. the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 was not the first ship named enterprise operated by starfrleet. that was the Enterprise NX 01 which was capable of warp 5.2 in the prequal to the Original series: Star Trek Enterprise. And there where faster ships in the star trek universe than the Borg cube. For example the USS Protostar.

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

My 1972 Opel would do Warp 45.655 in 2nd gear. And got great mileage.

[@Variable-2-actual]

They don't make'em like they used to.

[@audioelitist3677]

My imaginary spaceship is so fast, it arrives anywhere before it leaves where it's at. It makes where I'm going into where I've been, confusing everybody. Like... this dude made an order for some self-sealing stem bolts... Asked me when they would be delivered... I said... "Last month, and you're late paying for them."

[@a-blivvy-yus]

So not as fast as the TARDIS then? Or a Xeelee ship. Or any of several other time travelling spaceships which can arrive anywhere they want at any time of their choice including well before they left.

[@audioelitist3677]

@@a-blivvy-yus I mean, the answer to faster travel isn't ever increasing speed, but to go up dimensionally to make space and time irrelevant. Sure, it ruins drag racing, but portal accidents could be of reasonable amusement.

[@a-blivvy-yus]

@@audioelitist3677 Just find a setting with 2+ dimensions of time to play with ;)

[@socalpaul487]

In ST:TOS, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" the Enterprise crossed the edge of the Galaxy which is 26,000 LY from earth. That means they traveled 52,000 LY in a couple of weeks? a couple of months? And then it did it again in "By Any Other Name". If it took a month each way, it was, at a minimum, capable of 312,000 times the speed of light. The NCC-1701 Enterprise was far faster than anyone gives it credit for.

[@BigSlick40]

Remember the Nomad space vessel that improved the starships engines?

[@Kraken9911]

Oeft out the ship from TAU. It's a book but the ship had a malfunction and kept accelerating to asymptomatic the speed of light. They witnessed heat death and birth of a new universe before repairing.

[@Nesho1]

Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder (Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr) in Thor: Love and Thunder. Faster than light. And hilarious too.

[@daverhoden445]

The speeds of the Heart of Gold (HoG)and the TARDIS are wrong. Also they should be tied for first place. The Tardis could actually arrive BEFORE it left which is much faster than suggested in the video. As such it is infinitely impossible for the HoG to get there first.... which would make the HoG fast enough to get there first. But KNOWING that the HoG would win would mean that it's no longer infinitely impossible so that would slow it enough for the Tardis to be faster. But if the Tardis is faster then..... ad infinitum.

[@DireW0lf0]

" Oh no, not again!"

[@Braneloc]

I was expecting some Stargate intergalactic vessels before getting to the TARDIS :)

[@mysticunion2350]

You forgot the Liberator from Blake's 7

[@tonyug113]

mmh standard x 5 ... but took time to travel within the galaxy so star treck ship like

[@mysticunion2350]

@@tonyug113 thank you for replying. I believe the top speed of the Liberator was standard x 12

[@FiliusFidelis]

In Disney Star Wars ships can cross half the galaxy in under 3 minutes. Sometimes it takes a an hour or two, it's completely inconsistent as fast as plot dictates. Whereas I believe in Star Trek it takes about 3 months to cross Federation Space at high warp, but even there there are inconsistencies.. but nowhere near the SW level.

[@BillAngelos]

For a ship capped to warp 9.5, they did go warp 9.9

[@romulascott]

How about Space Balls? Ludacris speed!!!!!

[@Digikidthevoiceofreason]

Ok how about the ORVILLE? It has Quantum Drive.

[@shermanlee4037]

This is impressive, they got SO MANY things completely wrong. The Millennium Falcon cannot travel at a quadrillion c, if it did it could cross the Milky Way (and presumably the galaxy Far Far Away) in under _one second_ . Yet we saw that Han needed several hours at least to get from Tatooine to Alderaan. The Death Star is not faster than an X-wing. Etc.

[@alucardbrahmstone6659]

Weight does not factor in space only how powerful your thrusters is and how fast your jump engines are.

[@patrickmurray3846]

i'd say the Tartis would be faster then the heart of gold, as the tartis can travel not only through space, but also through time. While the heart of gold can only travel through space.

[@Variable-2-actual]

Yes but the improbability engine will figure out it's in a race and get there faster than the TARDIS, might be fractions of a pico-second ahead but will still win.

[@glyndaley5844]

Blakes 7s Liberator Could out run anything in the galaxy

[@ebonlibra]

The Raza from the Dark Matter universe with its blink drive it can go anywhere in the universe in an instant

[@matthewcarlson5505]

Aren't the system jumping capabilities of the Milano and the transwarp drive in Star Trek essentially wormhole technologies?

[@meltdown6165]

Fastest ship in hard sci-fi (respecting special relativity): _Leonora_ _Christine_ in "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson. The plot is that the ship (equipped with a Bussard ramjet that extracts all its fuel from the interstellar medium) experiences a malfunction and keeps accelerating with 1g for the whole book. Towards the end, they reach a significant fraction of the speed of light and can pass through a whole galaxy cluster in mere seconds of ship board time, thanks to time dilation.

[@mattc3581]

Einstein would like a word about that last sentence.

[@meltdown6165]

At 0.9999999999999999999999999999999c, 5 seconds shipboard time will be 1,120,343,089 years for an non-moving observer on the outside. So their voyage through the galaxy cluster still takes many billion years, it just feels like seconds on the ship.

[@mattc3581]

@@meltdown6165 You are allowing for the length of time to be different for the ships inertial frame of reference but not doing the same for the distance. From their frame of reference the distance they travel in the 5 seconds is only about 5 light seconds. Thus both they and the outside observer would agree on the speed they were travelling at, but not the time it took or the distance covered. I think that's correct, but special relativity is a mindf**k.

[@KDarkmoon1]

This all depends on how you measure speed. Technically the TARDIS can arrive at its destination before it left its starting point as can Star Trek ships by sling-shooting around stars. But if you measure it relative to those on board, then yes they have a more measurable speed.
Also, you gave the hyperdrives of Stargate SG-1 a complete miss. Asgard hyperdives were shown crossing entire galaxies in minutes and Atlantis itself could make the trip from it's place in the Pegasus Galaxy to Earth in 4 hours. Lantean city-ship wormhole drives were the fastest in the Stargate SG-1 universe and could travel 100,000 light years (across the entire Milky Way galaxy) in just seconds. The Asgard O'Neill-class, while towing Prometheus, still managed over 200 light-years per second and was said to be considerably faster when not towing another ship. That would make it over 6.3 BILLION times the speed of light while towing another ship.
You also messed up the hyperdrive speeds of Star Wars. Per the Star Wars Wookieepedia:
Hyperdrives were rated by "class": the lower the class, the faster the engine. Most civilian ships used hyperdrives rated Class Three or higher, while government, diplomatic, and military ships were equipped with Class Two or Class One hyperdrives. With its Class One hyperdrive, the Carrion Spike was the fastest ship in the Imperial Navy, while top-of-the-line capital ships such as the Imperial I-class (and Imperial II-class) Star Destroyer featured Class 2 hyperdrives. The First Death Star, meanwhile, had a Class 4 hyperdrive. The T-14 hyperdrive generator equipped on J-type 327 Nubian starships was rated Class 1.8. The T-65B & T-65C X-Wing starfighters had Class 1 hyperdrives. Some ships, such as Nakari Kelen's Desert Jewel, Boba Fett's Slave 1, and Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, had exceptionally fast hyperdrives-Class 0.8, 0.7, and 0.5 respectively.

[@Nephlim20]

Technically, the NX-01 Enterprise was the first of it's name.

[@mr.frederickson329]

No, the Millennium Falcon can make point five (.5) past light speed. It's in the dialog of the original movie people.

[@TK-ho7zb]

Guild heighliners from Dune fold space, so they move without moving. Can’t get too much faster than that.

[@PlusMinus84]

What about Blink drive of Razza ship (Dark mater series) and Spore drive about Star trek Discovery?

[@robertrichards4930]

But but but.... The death star to 20 minutes to circle the planet so.... huh?

[@Variable-2-actual]

FTL travel generally goes to Lagrange points in "solar systems" Earth has 3 points you might be able to use, but it might be on the far side of where you wanna shoot so you have to move in with "in system drives" and so 20 minutes to get around a planet. Easy.

[@carlosoliveira7727]

Aren't you forgetting Discovery starship ? It can travel the universe in a split second ...

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

The Infinite Improbablity Drive does not travel from place a to place b, it travels EVERYWHERE at the same time.
The TARDIS travels faster then time.
They should be tied in first place.
Also, you're missing the fast ships from Known Space.

[@crs4tlc]

What about spaceball1 where does plaid fall in this list

The data for Enterprise-D is not correct. According to Tech Manual, her regular top speed is Warpfactor 9.6, which is on the TNG-scale arround 1909 times speed of light.

[@blaster-vv8so]

you have missed several, mainly the Daedalus class ships in stargate sg-1 and Atlantis

[@imkluu]

The Milano doesn't actually fly as fast as ids given here. It navigates pre-determined and built warp system gates to travel the distances mentioned.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Does speed really apply to the Tardis, when it essentially moves by 'warping' that is, simply moving from one point to another without crossing the intervening distance?
The same could be said for the Guild Highliners from the David Lynch version of Dune, where they moved by folding space and time, allowing them to travel without moving.

[@tonyug113]

difficult, there is speed getting form place to place , then there is elapsed time on-board --- though i guessth tardis kinda idled till it had somewhere it wanted to materialise at.

[@Marvel83]

This list should've 1 per franchise.

[@ChrisReise]

The USS Enterprise was the SECOND ship to bear the name "Enterprise". There was the NX-01 before that which operated for 10 years.

[@thomasahlenius3251]

If one believe that a x4 Hyperdrive factor of the Death Star is faster than a x1 Hyperdrive factor of the X-wing, one really, REALLY, has to read up a little on Hyperdrive factors... *shrug*

[@EgusSit]

The "Thought Plane" from the book "Journey to the Morning Star" traveled to any star system at the speed of thought. Is that fast enough?

[@scitzmnm]

You can’t count the tardis as a speed. It doesn’t even have an infinite speed. It’s designed to travel through time. It can leave one place and arrive there 1 million years in the past or 1 million years in the future.

[@stevengrice1807]

Hitchikers guide .. with the improbability drive.

[@xjp1998]

I would think the SDF-1 from Macross would be in this list with its Jump capabilities to jump instantly across the galaxy

[@Variable-2-actual]

This isn't a folding engines chart, and all folding engines (Robotech Dune Event Horizon) all travel at the same speed.

[@AngusT.McCraken]

The Sulaco wasn’t in Alien. It was the second movie. Aliens. In Alien the ship was the Nostromo.