5 DEADLIEST Starship in Science Fiction 

A HERESY IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@jozefkozon4520 think the World Engine and Phalanx qualify more as mobile stations than actual ships, just like the Death Star... necron Cairn tomb ships don't though, and those things are HORRIFYING

40k wins so much on countdowns that you have to exclude it to give all the other franchises a fair shot. The winner’s trophy might as well say your #1 (next to 40k)

Burn the heretics!!

@@thorveim1174 necron anything is horrifying. That's why we try to eliminate them as fast as possible whenever we get the chance.

More like the USS Discovery. That _did_ kill a franchise.

It did kill the TNG movie franchise

it did come close ;)

@@ArtifexAnimations deploy the capital weapon *comment now*

Then mushrooms finished off the job.

A shadow battlecrab would be a good contender, as just one or two could effortlessly wipe out fleets of tye younger races

Exactly!!! Also the title has "starships" and the Amun Ra is never shown to have any form of interstellar nor FTL capability. One deadly ship not mentioned was Blake 7. Another was the Space Battleship Yamato with its Wave Gun and also the dreaded Asguard ships from Stargate and had transgalactic ability. What about Macross? Sorry not the best ships chosen for this video.

@@deathstrike, I agree the Argo (Yamato) and the Aluus (S.D.F. Macross) not included Blasphemy!

@@marsar1775 I like the battle crab, i chose the vorlon ship because it can destroy a planet by itself.

@@deathstrike To be fair, no human ship in The Expanse has ftl. I don't know much about Yamato or Blake's ship, it was the Liberator i think, odd looking ship.

Exactly

Omg funny you mention Lexx ive just started to watch it again.

I was wondering if anyone would mention Lexx. One of the greatest TV shows. I need to re-watch it again.

I destroyed a Universe! I destroyed a Universe! I destroyed a Universe!

Im hungry stanley

Surely by this Metric, Atlantis is a more powerful ship as it managed to travel from one galaxy to another within seconds and destroyed it

@@HighLatencyEmu The ship was destroyed because of the nuke that was planted inside of it.

not really. the wraith even at the end were barely beating the SG team and were getting their butts whooped on by the replicators. their ships also were limited in terms of ftl and weaponry. I'd say the Ori were more deadlier. they were actually the Atlanteans, and as such were practically gods.

How about an Ori Warship? (Stargate SG-1)

@@sunny-sq6ci You are not trading well, the wraith -super- hive is the series finale wraith ship, it outmatched at least two BC-304 with Asgard weapons

Hell Yeah! That is really a fucking deadly Ship!

or lexx

''Most'', meaning some are, but not all.

Mean while, in fluidic space : THE WEAK WILL PERISH! (Undine bio-ship)

@@grindcorejoe6661 yeah, but it was only deadly to its own crew.

Yeah, people have basically forgotten Andromeda. Loved that show.

Kevin Sorbo! Criminally underated actor!

It got weird in the middle when the show runners changed. Entire plot lines were dropped, remember the whole engine of creation thing? The consensus? They dropped that in favor alternate dimension aliens ... lame

And the Magog worldship.

Would be great if Andromeda was redone again by Netflix, HBO, Amazon, or some channel/streaming service like them. Given a good budget. And they ignored all that alternate dimension crap and went with the Sentient Suns/Stars story that was suppose to be done.

Damage output for a ship that size is high.

Agreed! The Yamato (and other Wave-Motion Gun equipped ships from that series) are much more deadly than several ships on this list. The long range of the weapon and its ability to destroy (at maximum energy) a continent-sized land-mass, punch a hole through a solar prominence or destroy an artificial star all give it much more firepower than something like the Scimitar and though I adore the Expanse, the Amun-Ra class is a joke compared to the Yamato.

@@robertkreutzer9186 There are a lot of extreme ships out there, for instance, xenosaga's Durandal I think it is called, has so much firepower it rivals stars at some points, wiping whole fleets of god creatures out. Or what of the ships in Star Ocean 3?

Tha Yamato has the most powerful weapon THE WAVE MOTION GUN

the Yamato was not only powerful; it was tough, fast, had its own fighters, and proved itself battle after battle against varied opponents

Larche Osborne-Simmons more so than the expanse, which I never heard of. Even the Excalibur is far better.

Strictly speaking you didn't need the Andromeda to use Nova bombs, since those could be slung under a fighter

@@weldonwin Yeah, but a fighter can't carry enough to make a white hole!

Or world ships?

@@sotek2345 And Magog's World Ship used blackholes as a weapons. That series was crazy :)

bad writing killed the series

Now we need a list of Bob Semple like ships of scifi

@@animedude34 The Endeavor Space Shuttle comes to mind, as it was featuref in Stargate SG-1, and their main firepower comes from a grappling arm. It was used as well, albeit for recovery rather than combat, as well as a psychological deterrent...well, at least ONeill tried to make them sound impressive when Bratac asked if they were powerful.

Anime_ Fan123 one Bob Semple tank, at maximum velocity!

The usa defiant can take out a planet with 2 torpedoes

@@willt3223 and it's crew will serve the Reapers nicely. >:)

@@christopherdriscoll6628 What's the reaper gonna do? Hug the ship? Indoctrination doesn't work if it's not close quarters.

@@danielawesome36 Starfleet always hails new vessels to open communications. Starfleet always attempts diplomacy. This plays ludicrously hard into Reaper favor. Looking at the case with sovereign, who knew it was outclassed by itself, sought to establish agents before revealing itself as the threat it was. Mass Effect universe had the best luck imaginable that Shepard responded to Saren's actions on Sovereign's behalf. Deep Space 9 leaned HARD into how cells within Starfleet had, and would abuse, authoritarian power with extrajudicial means. From an infiltration and political perspective, Starfleet is, hands down, the most vulnerable faction to Reapers due to thier philosophy.

@@christopherdriscoll6628 Only the mortal factions of Star Trek might fall to the Reapers... Any militant sci-fi settings will rape the Reapers, and I'm not even counting the factions who "throw" galaxies like ninja stars...

Any Enterprise lol

I was thinking about voyager from the future that was 1 shotting Borg cubes lol

Yes, first thing i thought about was that Temporal Weapon Ship

@@gerhardadler3418 The Temporal Weapon Ship would have to be able to target the Scimitar to hit it with its main weapon and Voyager was heavily damaged by the time it engaged the time ship so its possible voyagers ability to evade the weapon was compromised, the time weapon didn't look like a very accurate weapon for ship to ship combat.. Now of course if it caused a temporal change that might affect the Scimitar since time itself changed, but in a battle scenario the Scimitar's cloak would allow it to cut the Krenim ship to pieces. Also if we are taking crew into consideration the Scimitar had a very powerful psychic character on its bridge, which could allow for unpredictable advantages. As for the Borg and 8472, by this time in the story both had been reliably defeated by Voyager, which brought its tech back to the alpha quadrant, and the talshiar probably procured said tech, meaning the Scimitar had access to it. It is very possible that anti-borg or 8472 tech may have even been shared openly with other alpha quadrant species in an effort to get them to fight such threats for the federation (though maybe not since such tech could of been turned into other weapons that could be used against the federation). Also we see in Picard that the captured borg cube had been harvested by the Romulans for decades by the time picard takes place, so it is possible that effort had already begun during Nemesis, but we don't know. Vger is really hard to compare to Nemesis level of technology since it was from such a different era.

Everybody always forgets about the Voth. I really enjoyed this outing and Chakokay got a rare chance to shine. I'd like to see more of them. You could easily bring them back and have had their society undergo some changes since Voyager and the realisation they come from elsewhere. Or maybe it's like as a small group of effective hippies / zealots decide to bring a few ships back "home" and this upsets the Alpha Quadrant balance and creates for some interesting scenarios. Maybe this "small" group of just a few million Voth decide to further uplift humans as they have a warped sense of legacy - either genuinely or with ulterior motives - etc etc.

The bioships were also able to blow out planets!

Then, Voyager in last episode should be there, because it killed cubes with one shot, and scared species 8472 back to fluidic space, before they got their future tech. The one shot cube thing was after they got their future tech.

@@ArtifexAnimations There wouldn't be enough time to arm the weapon and fire it before Species 8472 destroyed it. The Theleron weapon was designed to use on mostly stationary targets.

@@martinhanke1670 Voyager never one shot a Cube before the future tech was mounted.

Your talking about the Nucor & Dactylis class Undine Bioships which work in tandem to destroy a planetary body

Eclipse is actually still canon...and canon at this point is questionable considering Disney's butchering of their timeline and inconsistencies all over the place...canon things are not even canon... Sorry...everyone who argues for Disney's timeline being canon clearly is lacking in the brain department... But i will agree with part of it being WRONG...Eclipse armament was larger than they stated...carried twice the fighters....but was NOT designed to ram anything...

the yamato could one shot any of these ships with wave motion gun

But he has deadliest in the title, that's good for some clicks, even when it's a bad top 5

At the end of the day, all these lists are subjective.

Plus Reapers are not ships, they are living entities part biological and part mechanical, the smaller reapers were ship controlled by them remotely, and Sovereign was just posing being a ship in Mass Effect

or sci-fi

FK DRoNe what about tyrands then since each and every single thing is a living entity including they space ships that transport the ground forces and carry the Queens but they are also all controlled by the hive mind

Don’t forget the lack of mercy because to them the mercy is collecting/destroying. Reapers would destroy even the empire by force

@@brandoncook1123 Not really saying much mate, the Empire's kind of a pushover. Now put the Reapers against the UNSC...oh whats that, MACs ignore thermal shielding?

Awol991 That seems improbable...

@@brianflowers4217 HHGttG is fun. But its not really well-designed for 'realism'.

Brian Flowers I see what you did there “ improbable”

Well you’re only turned into a yarn version of yourself *briefly*. And reality is a bit overrated, especially if you enjoy reading Douglas Adams.

@@MrJinglejanglejingle nor are any of the designs listed elsewhere...

Fire the wave motion gun

Wave motion gun かいほ

Macross class vessels.

I remember seeing that movie 28 years ago or so when my dad brought it home... Aaahhhh the memories

I used to draw terrible pictures of that ship obsessively as a child.

don't forget White Base and her kin from the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise's those ships took a beating and still survived

Ori Toiletships are in a class of their own. Their shields were implied to be powered by the Ori ascended. They shrugged off head-on collisions with Pyramid ships! They were only ever broken by 1: A wormhole vortex or 2: The most high-tech weapon in the series finale: Asgard shield-piercing high-energy plasma beams. And even then it took a volley.

Definitely missing the SDF-1 on this list

with the bs disney has doing on star wars, number one deadly´s ship any star wars ship with lightspeed jump

XeeLee and Culture would wipe the floor with every ship in 99% of other franchises combined.

Species 8472 :)

Against the Sharlin, I'd bring up the IAS Victory class

The Vorlon capital ship that destroyed planets was more powerful than a Sharlin

excalibar class vessel volon planet killer and shadow planet killer

@@andrewlocke4609 The Excalibar was really rather limited compared to the Vorlons, Shadows and other first one ships.

@@andrewlocke4609 it has been a long time since I watched A Call to Arms. Did the Shadow Planet Killer get classed as a ship? I never got the impression that it had a bridge as it was a cloud that fired missiles. Though I remember there being something about linkages and they destroyed it by targeting a critical link.

Licking it’s wounds after what happened at Vigilus I suppose.

And I suppose 40k is kind of sci-fi/science fantasy. And they are likely tired of 40k.

@@rustkarl It is a fair point. Have a list of the deadliest ships from other sci fi franchises for a bit of variety. The Imperial Navy/Astartes Fleets/Ad Mech Fleets can be addressed another time. There is more than enough material there to do a 'Top 10 Deadliest Imperial Ships' list if the Genration Tech guys wanted to, all the more so if you broaden it out to include ships from all 40K factions.

No mention of 40k? Fuggen heresy!!!!!!

Any Gloriana Class battleship could kick the ass of any SW, ST ship.

Exactly, how did they overlook such a stand out monster.

Not to mention a Borg Tactical Cube can still function even if 80% is destroyed.

@@itschrisritter And not to mention that a Species 8472 bioship one shots a Borg cube ;)

and a simple x-wing from the bs disney starwars franchise just lightspeed jump through everything

Xeelee stuff is made to laugh on other sci-fis, so people don't really take it seriously

@@Genesongx Would you say its the One Punch Man or the Gurran Lagann of scifi novels?

Hmm, Dahak 2 post-boot-strap would certainly be a contender. Though this is Armageddon Inheritance. Ima hafta concur with all these. @Noble713: you win at SciFi destruction

So what everyone is saying is Xeelee is what I should read next, thank you.

Oh yes, say, an Apollo-capable Invictus-class podnought would be one of the deadliest ships in space, short of an Imperial planetoid. Short of those Imperial planetoids, there is nothing that can outrange their missiles...

Just deal with the fact that we will never see any stargate on any of these videos :(

@@mccvargues7792 imagine not seeing his Stargate videos and inclusion of the Asgard hyperdrive on the fastest FTL methods

Vorlon Planet Killer ,Shadow planet Destroyer and even EVE online Titans can and do not forget the Lexx!

@@Tonydjjokerit Not even close - the Glorious Heritage class Andromeda Ascendent can destroy 40 entire solar systems on her own - and before the Fall, she was one of a fleet of hundreds.

That thing was a glass cannon. Could 1 shot most things, but not take damage itself.

The MD from the book could be, and was, mounted on fighters. The fighter version had shorter range than the capital ship models, but stopping the entire swarm of fighters was more than Formics could handle.

careylymanjones they could also go kamikaze and fire the MD without opening the gunports, essentially turning the ship into an MD missile, using the ship’s own mass to power the initial MD field. That’s what Bean tells the fleet to do during the final run

@@artembentsionov In the book, MD-armed fighters hit the planet, and were caught in the chain reaction. Hitting the planet with fighters was like using a hand grenade in an elevator.

careylymanjones in the original or Ender’s Shadow (basically the same events but from Bean’s POV)?

Things for and against lexx, for it's as powerful as the death star and smaller and faster, against it can be damaged

Yea they’re actually protecting organic life in their own way haha

Like a good fisherman You only catch it when it is matured

It was more like culling an invasive environmentally destructive species like cane toads.

Really, he doesn't seem that convincing. He's a decent speaker but eh

The chance for something like this is extremely low

@@nobleman9393 one could say.... *astronomically* low ;) :D

Sir Isaac Newton remains the deadliest sonofabitch in space.

@@Taliesyn42 Once you fire this chunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something.

casbott I think that was the natural evolution of humanity’s “well fuck you. You’ll regret raging this war even though you are winning” strategy. What with all the nuclear mines and planet scorching moon cracking nova bombs.

Except, that the Asgard Beam equipped Daedalus class ships outmatched them.

Remember Unending? Even then the Asgard Plasma Beam equipped Odyssey was destroyed when cornered. The Asgard Plasma Beam equipped ships were the only things that could stand up to them and there were too few to beat the Ori in open combat.

@@galbert117 If you wanna add a Stargate ship, wouldnt the Aurora Battleship or the Cityship make more sense?

@@DLordSadow I would argue that Daedalus shields were still subpar compared to Ori shields.

Totally

Also Deimesen is awesome :D But one must not forget the Mistake Not...

@@ThomasTee Yes, lets not forget Mistake Not....

I clicked on this video expecting to see SOMETHING from the Cultureverse in the Top 2 and was sorely disappointed.

Banks also wins simply on the grounds of naming conventions. Some make me smile just from memory, *Hand Me the Gun and Ask Me Again, Appeal to Reason,* and *Frank Exchange of Views.*

@@derekburge5294 one could say Culture names have *Zero Gravitas*

[The Tyranid Hive mind is looking to recruit species 8472]

Apocalypse 8 biohips equal one dead planet. Plus they massacred the Borg.

E Man that would be an interesting battle for sure.

@@JeanLucCaptain exactly. A borg cube is easily worse than the Scimitar, and 8472's bioships could beat the cubes.

​@@meh12345HEY​A Borg Tactical Cube is probably the most deadly ship behind the 8472 Bioships (when linked up). Either should be on this list before the Scimitar.

Thank you. I think this is a popular sci-fi list.

Both Shadows and Vorlons had Planet killers. We also see very little of the other First Ones.

@@brianflowers4217 depending how you look at the Shadow planet killer it is difficult to call it a ship but certainly the Vorlon. The only definitely more powerful weapon in Babylon 5 is not a ship

@@JopardBDS It was self propelled, and had a command center, so I'd call it a ship. It certainly wasn't a station.

@@brianflowers4217 It's a weird an difficult to define one you must agree. Yes mobile but given the way it is portayed in both series and feature I'd say it's a bit more like a station although station doesn't seem to fit it either. If I were to give it a definition I for the moment call it a seige system. The Vorlon one was undeniably a ship. Either way like you I also feel Babylon 5 was an omission

It needs to be excluded from the list for other francies.

Abandons planet killer or the good old space marine bs not much stands up to full chapter drop ship assaulting your ship

@@laurenceunderwood4717 Because a random Culture ROU can eradicate entire star systems with its black hole guns, micro-bombs, or just straight-out Grid-fires...

陳潔明 there is a ark Mechanicus war ship that can also fire black wholes reverse time so its dost miss and a few other nasty surprises

Why does warhammer need to be on here and WHY do you guys say heretic and heresy so much its kinda of annoying tbh

I would love to see a vote of people that have any clue what your talking about.

@@Demobot1 Unfortunately the Culture is mostly confined to novels. Not many people read these days so it's not so well known. Amazon picked it up to turn into a TV series though. I have my doubts how well that will go though.

I was going to say Dahak, which is a powerful ship indeed. But the Culture ships could probably take it. Still, I'll vote Dahak.

@@danieltempas6062 I posted a comment with the Top5 list I expected, features both Culture ships and Dahak. ^_^

And if you manage to destroy it, the next wave will be immune to your weapons...

@@Adzakorrahn And that's a huge "if".

The only significant thing those planet killing star destroyers managed to destroy was the fanbase.

I’d put the super hive for stargate

@@Efeye-s I fully agree with you! Those things are stupid and make no sense! But they are powerfull!

Babylon5: Vorlon planet killer, shadow ship

Wing Commander III: Behemoth class planet killer Wing Commander III: any ship as small as a large starfighter equipped with a temblor bomb Quick google search (which led to Wikipedia) indicates things of similar magnitude as Dalek mothership A number of different options in StarCraft ......

Yeah that ship has a massive gun that can destroy anything, and transform too!

Plus not only did it have it's pinpoint barrier system, it also had a full shield that absorbed all attacks coming in then exploded that energy back out 10 fold around itself.

And when their idol sings it is pretty much a guaranteed win especially if the idol is Basara.

Exactly... not to mention Babylon 5's Shadow cruisers and Vorlon ships

Give me a Dragon starfighter equipped with a flashpack from Wing Commander 4 and some cover fire and I'll take just about any of those out with a single weapon! Seriously, there's got to be at least half a dozen planet killer ships and several dozen one shot big ships or wipe out entire fleets kind of ships and some of these things are doing good to take out a large city in a single shot.

Saraba chikyuu yo tabidatsu fune wa uchuu senkan yamato

Macross Cannon.... Fire!

*2000 Andromedas and 10000 Borodino battleships quietly wait behind it*

Man I used to love watching that show when I was a teen :)

"Expanse ships are bound by physics and don't have magical technology." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@@jesusmora9379 You're an idiot. Have a bad day sir.

@@jesusmora9379 Except they are bound by MORE real word concept compared to other franchises. It makes them less deadly, but they are probably the most realistic scifi ships out there

The Expanse is one of my favorite shows ever but the only ship even worth an honorable mention (and it still shouldn't make this cut) without spoiling anything is the Heart of the Tempest from the books. Those Mangnatar class battle cruisers are no joke for the level of tech in that universe.

@@Ananamitron The Epstein drive is still made up technology that has made fuel a seemingly non issue in the show. So jesus mora was right that "don't have magical technology" wasn't totally correct. Unless you wanna specify what you mean by "magical technology".

Ragnarok Drop Pod Assault on standby on your order Wolf Lord

Borg cube is still a ship. And is the most powerful in the st universe

Gen tech is wrong

A space station couldn't chase and catch the Enterprise. Maybe the Scimitar's special weapon could destroy a cube (or at least it's crew). But the next cube would have learned from the last and adapted.

A borg cube isn't designed to be deadly, even if it is sometimes, but a 8472 ship is able to destroy borg cubes with ease.

@@GodOfWar109 I am not an ST expert, so I cannot tell you the name of the episode, but there is a far superior ship. It is quite small compared to a cube and attaches itself to ships a bit like a parasite. In this episode, the borg and humans join forces, as the borgs are at risk of defeat. They want to 'flush' the entire galaxy with some 'bug' or whatever, but humans object because they don't want to completely extinct any life form bla-bla.... sorry, it's been 20 years or so :) Anyway, the borg ship did not even have a slight chance, all they could do was 'run', but they were not fast enough, either.

I think some of them have those actually. The Nova Cannon.

Destroying planets it’s easy in most of the since fiction universe I’m personally include SGU General Hammond that ship destroy shielded ships make bay practically space gods call Ori.

40K ships are just too silly for what they are and are not as effective as you would think but then that's the whole 40K style turn everything up to 12 and hope it works

Wait for all those boomers gonna go "MHHEE OUR UNIVERSE HAS ALSO SHIPS THAT CAN DO THAT". Well noice, in Warhammer their are countless ships around, able to destroy a planet. Some weird Mass Effect Xenos do every 50K years something, what is considerd a normal tuesday in Warhammer.

@@vapomaster6967 Ahem, Doctor Who - their ships can _steal_ planets…

yeet and many many more

Damn Ark... ripping the princess bride...

Lol

The oberth kills more people than the Miranda class.

Miranda class: the red shirt among starships.

To be fair Khan deployed the genesis device from USS Reliant which was Miranda class and others including Klingon empire regarded it as a super weapon

Planetary defense ships could tank those ships when we are talking 40K.

star wars is not even sci-fi

@@jesusmora9379 Fuck yes, give this guy a medal! Jokes aside, yes id rather call it space fantasy or something.

Xeelee and the Culture topping the list. Forerunner warcraft would also roflstomp everything on this list. The only reason humanity didn't lose in Halo 4 is plot armor.

@@JackR936 Yeah in H5 just 6 Forruner Guardians are used to subdue the galaxy at the end. Their big warships were even stronger. But it was hard for them to fight tier 0 FLood graveminds with a directive from an angry precursor. (they could kill/infect stuff before they arrived with fancy time shenanigans, could control space with their minds and teleport anywhere whilst also controlling indestructible constructs known as star roads. Outside of that shenanigans the forerunners were GOAT).

Actually Marvel Comics and Dr Who ships and races shit on Xeelee and Culture too. So.....

5. Random wh40k ship 4. Random wh40k ship 3. Random wh40k ship 2. Random wh40k ship And on the first place! 🥁🥁🥁 Random wh40k ship

Bitter much?

@@Nothing-1w3 nah man Halo and star wars still could hold their place.

There does seem to be a dirth of vast, space born battle cathedrals on the list, but that is OK. A chance for others to shine without the Inquisition declaring everyone Excommunicate Diabolus and rolling in with the kind of almost comedically OP ships that fire shells the size of ships from some other franchises.

too many to pick i guess. here's a few notable one that i can think of, Talisman of Vaul, the Gloriana classes, 1st legion The Rock, Phalanx, Necron world engine, Eldar craftworlds, ork rok, Planet Killer (exactly as it says on the tin), Abyss class battleships (Our Blessed Lady is such a fine name for a battleship btw), Ark Mechanicus, Imperator Somnium, and ork attack moon.

That isn't a ship. It's a space station.

Wouldn't matter again Species 8472 bioships or Shadow and Vorlon ships...