Just think about what would have happened, if that ship had crashed into ancient amazonas instead of eternal ice. Before anything would have had the chance to adapt against this mimickry amoeba, the whole planet would have turned into a monstrosity.
"The first rule of space travel is to always check out distress beacons. Nine out of ten times it's a ship full of dead aliens and a bunch of free sh*t. One out of ten times it's deadly trap, but I'm ready to roll those dice."
It's pretty much been adopted by the 40K fandom at this point. The only thing missing is not being able to tell where the crew starts and the ship ends, because more often than not you're going to end up melded with the bulkheads due to warp fuckery.
The ending of that movie was long something that haunted me in nightmares. The psychological idea of everything beeing an illusion is both, wonderful but also terryfying for me.
Well that'd be a mote point if they had been Orks. See, everything can be solved by a low-level gestalt psychic field that allows you to warp reality with simple belief.
Considering it was the first human manned ship to ever enter the Warp and the machines sent in previous tests had no issue, I don't think they knew they needed the Gellar Fields, that was a later development. Even if they had sent animals previously they might not have noticed anything a re small psychic signature would not have drawn predators on short jumps. Once a group of humans entered though, especially if various Warp predators were now sniffing around near by because of previous animal trials, well we know what happened next.
It's not technically a derelict tho during dead space 1. A reasonable portion of its crew were still alive at the time of arrival. It does however become a derelict after the events of dead space 1, which are shown in Dead space: Salvage.
@@cgi2002 derelict means basically non functional not abandoned. You are sent to the ishimura to repair it and bring it back to working order enough to be taken back to earth for full refurbishment.
I wonder why reapers never take back that reaper...i dont remember if the game explain how could be 37m years there without reapers clean the evidence.
I'd rather board the Reaper than the Event Horizon, a Spacehulk, or a Flood infested ship, but maybe that's because I have a higher chance of just straight up dying ON the Reaper and not suffering a fate worse than death.
All the way man! there is no solution for the Event Horizon, it is a demon ship. It comes from another universe so not even the infinity stones can't effect it
@@mikesmollin8908 There is a solution, just shoot a cyclonic torpedo at it like any good Imperial Navy admiral and be done with it. It's just a Daemon Ship, not a damn Blackstone Fortress or Spacehulk it CAN be destroyed.
@@kabob0077 i was under the impression it can just spawn back out of the hell portal if you blow it up, I am not sure if they were really out at the end. Also, scary and dangerous are different but similar. The Event Horizon can get into your head and generate the most raw fear and personal torture, the ease you can destroy it with doesn't change that it can terrify you by showing you wife or kids die over and over. A powerful enemy ship can be scary, but demons are scarier, cuz you can't see them and they get to you personalty
@@mikesmollin8908 A Spacehulk is arguably worse than the Event Horizon, it's literally a mass of ships all clumped together in a mass of rock, metal, and whatever else the ever growing Behemoth can gather in both Real-Space and the Warp, it can be packed with all manner of Genestealers, Daemons, Orks, and other things equally or more dangerous than the last. And, a ship like the Event Horizon is nothing special compared to what an unfortunate accident in Warp Travel could cause, everything from a daemon possessed ship, the crew fusing to the hull, daemons seeping in through the cracks in the ship's Gellar Field, and more untold horrors that make the Event Horizon seem preferable. Besides, this is something that some Ordo Malleus Inquisitor would have to clean up with a squad of Grey Knights and be done in an hour.
Less wise was saying that he was going to blow up the ship out loud while he was still on it. All he had to do was lie about leaving her to drift in space and then blow her up when he got back on and the ship wouldn't have reacted defensively.
@@kennethjohnston1593 Because he was thinking it already and the ship didn't know. As soon as he said it out loud, the ship started draining power to the core and attacking the crew directly.
Tv: Colony transporter from Firefly episode "Bushwhacked." Song: The "Christian," captained by Jamie Dawson. IRL: USS Eldridge (used in original Philadelphia Experiment).
I know that experiment it’s where the U.S. tried to make a ship that was invisible not only to radar but visually as well according to what I can remember reading about it it vanished and then reappeared in the middle of a town no water or lake around in that it could of done that. Also the crew were welded to the hull all but one was accounted for.
@@nickfenix3892 that was the movie, which sucked btw. There were experiments in radar invisibility but those didn't work. And none were ever performed during ww2 at the Philadelphia Naval shipyard. My Grandfather was US Navy ww2 and was stationed out of the Philadelphia Shipyard at that time period. Conspiracy theories, time for your tinfoil hat there.
You forgot about the “U.S.S. Discovery” from ‘2010’ and the rescue mission sent to investigate. (C’mon now, you can’t forget the HAL 9000) There needs to be a part 2 to this video. Please. “My god, it’s full of stars...”
One deadly derelict ship that I wish you added was the derelict reaper from mass effect 2 on top of the fact that it's a living ship that isn't fully dead as ground troops they use husks which are cyberneticaly inhanced humans which essentially turn them into techno-organic zombies with only one objective to tear apart everything in its path and the reaper is filled with them
I would almost rather that than the Mona Lisa haha. By the way, wasn't it a prison ship? I haven't read the novel... just got obsessed with the thought of zombie stormtroopers lol
@@jacksondavis8940 And then they docked onto the star destroyer. Literally the worst thing they could‘ve done if you don‘t know what happened to the crew and if the thing that did it might still be on board
@@Lectrikfro The Deathwing are essentially the Elite of the Dark Angels Legi- I mean Chapter and its descendants, they use Terminator Armor and are usually sent to board Spacehulks... Mainly because their armor is the only kind that can survive the environment of a Spacehulk and the attacks of one's... _Inhabitants..._
You missed so many derelicts from *Red Dwarf* Hell their own ship would probably qualify. To sum up their experiences boarding derelict ships (and bases) *Lister:* Why is it we never meet anyone nice? [as Hex vision psychic bolts wiz pass them] *The Cat:* Why is it we never meet anyone who can shoot straight? You could do a video just on the worse derelicts they have discovered, counting down from ten to the most dangerous - which could be the Psirens, the virus research laboratory ("most gross danger") along with Mr Flibble, the many many Rogue Simulants they've encountered, the Polymorph, or even the Despair Squid and the female Despair Squid. The DNA modifier and Legion were only risk cause they are idiots. Does anyone have a suggestion for any others that should be considered for the top spot.?
How about the mutated cold virus that spawns Lister's confidence and paranoia as physical beings, that tries to kill him through flattery and/or insults? That was quite a smegging scary concept. XD
"It's probably a derelict for a reason captain, cancel the Guard's boarding orders, and send 1st company Terminators and Dreadnaughts instead, may The Emperor preserve their souls."
@@thedyingmeme6 ≡][≡ "Sadly, they are a very small organization in a very, very large empire - are you questioning my "request"?" ≡][≡ 3 weeks later "How much exterminatus grade weaponry is this ship carrying, captain? It's the only way to be sure."≡][≡
Great list, I'm familiar with all of these and they're all excellent examples of the trope. But to single one out, I'm so glad to see the Ishimura remembered. The first Dead Space is an absolute classic (the others are fun but not as good) and the setting of the Ishimura is a huge reason for that.
Honorable Mention(?) : The U.S.S. Cygnus from Disney's first PG rated feature film, 1979's "The Black Hole". Technically, it was a derelict, as the crew of the U.S.S. Palomono seemed to think so.
To be fair Space Hulk is less a derelict ship(s) and more a giant blob of "Bad Times", "Rape" and "Fuck You" that want you... yes, specifically *you*... dead.
It's obviously Event Horizon. Only the USG Ishimura from Dead Space comes close to that level of f*cked up. Having said that, Pandorum is a great movie.
Don't forget the ship in Sphere. Human ship, travel backward in time, crashed with alien sphere on board that gave people weird uncontrolled magical powers. The crew was not found, but the ship knew it had traveled through time to a date unknown, and the people who found the ship had to learn about the sphere the hard way.
dude that's only bad if you imagine bad things if you go into the sphere and you're a horny perv all that happens is you end up in a heavenly orgy that give you more pleasure then you thought possible that is if you can control your thoughts like that which you can if you go in knowing your thoughts control your reality
"When our sun shuts down, because it's a complete Pansy and doesn't get enough animal protein" Jesus Alan, that line could only have been more psychotically awesome if Sgt Slaughter himself had said it.
Space 1999 Episode 8 "Dragon's Domain" Moonbase Alpha is near a Sargasso with a spaceship graveyard that hides a Cosmic Horror. The lone survivor of a prior expedition that boarded one of the derelict ships is also aboard MB Alpha. He has amnesia about the encounter but starts having nightmares that lead him to face his past. The monster's devourer scene is still the scariest in Scifi.
Good review. Thank you for including LV-426. If you're going to include "waking up on derelict ships" you should also include the Avalon from Passengers (which would make a third film with Laurence Fishburne on this list). Do derelict space stations count? If so, you could include Empok Nor from season 5 of Star Trek: DS9.
Personal pick: the Infinite Succor from one of the old Halo comics. A Covenant Support ship that suddenly lost contact with the rest of the fleet, so a spec ops team is sent to reclaim the ship and search for any survivors. Turns out to be infected by the Flood and only one Elite makes it off alive.
I was still in primary school when I first saw Event Horizon. And it is still one of my absolute favourite movies. Such a concept and a wicked cool execution. Makes you wonder what the survivors might have brought back to Earth with them from that ship. Especially Justin, he's stepped through the portal.
I really expected the Direlect Reaper ship in mass effect 2, when you have to get the iff. Or even the collecter ship. Granted that wasnt really direlect, but the crew thought it was when they boarded
The fact that Space Hulks weren’t on this list is actual heresy. Entire companies of 7ft, neigh-impregnable armor clad super soldiers that are equipped with the most brutal weaponry imaginable get routinely wiped out while aboard them. Daemons, Genestealers (think xenomorphs but actually scary and tough), legions of Orks and countless outer human munching monstrosities.
Sunshine was such an annoying movie. It turned from a last ditch effort to save the Earth into a run-of-the-mill slasher film and back to a last ditch effort to save the Rarth, but now everyone aboard the Icarus-II now has to die. It also can a feels like the ship was just a little bit jinxed. It is after all named for the main character in a cautionary tale. When literally flying too close to the Sun, maybe don't name a ship after someone who flew too close to the Sun.
Oh, it wasn't perfect, and there's too much non-scientific bullshittery to mention, but it did give us John Murphy's 'The Surface Of The Sun', which is the only track it's acceptable to save the world to.
The Ultraprobe from the "Dragon's Domain" Episode of Space 1999. This aired on 23rd October 1975 so is older than Alien and as a young kid I remember this being pretty scary. Even though the special effects are so massively outdated they do sometimes have a Star Wars original hope sort of look to them. Plus I bet there are a lot of old Dr Who episodes that were based in derelict spaceships too.
My grandfather told me three things about space travel: 1 never investigate distress signals, 2 if the signal is coming from a ship that has been crashed for a while ignore it, 3 if you do go onto a derelict spaceship avoid any weird looking eggs.
MUTHUR on the Nostromo did figure out that the “distress call” was actually a warning to avoid the planet and not try to rescue anyone. If memory serves though Ash told the crew it was actually the location of delicious cookies on the surface.
Well done. This is the first video of yours I have seen. You have the technical aspects down which is often not the case. Key is the sound. Why do so many fail with good mic and sound? Your speach is good, also important. Video integration also quite good. I'm not sure about your Seattle grunge look, but that is not a negative. I will definitely see what more you have produced.
Space 1999's episode Dragon's Domain Survivor's guilt and PTSD explored way before the general public knew what those things meant. And there is an astronaut eating creature.
How about an honorable mention to Space: 1999, Dragon's Domain...crew finds Many derelict craft board one, and one by one get consumed by tentacle-being......Scared me from boarding other ships!!
Excellent points here, both in the video and the comments. Everyone's nailed the ones I would have suggested, from the Reavers in Firefly to most things in Warhammer 40K. Other people have mentioned it in passing, but I understand the makers of Event Horizon actually approached the Games Workshop to tie the movie into the universe. Sadly, they were rebuffed, and we ended up with a standalone now-classic sci fi horror. But it can still be inferred by anyone who wants to connect the dots. Here's to that "ship full of dead aliens and a bunch of free sh*t" rather than a deadly trap.
I feel like it’s also worth mentioning that Morpheus was also the captain of the doomed ship Nebuchadnezzar which even before it’s demise was known to come back with less crew than it departed with. So I suppose the lesson is whether he’s for you or against you when you’re on a ship and see Lawrence Fishbourne you should probably turn around
Cool vid. Why go on a derelict ship myself when I have these really cool things called drones to do the job for me? When the drones inevitably find the horrible xenoscum/xenozombie/humanxenolover I can safely shoot the ship to atoms from 10k kilometres away.
@@richardarriaga6271 But the Event Horizon is a Daemon possessed ship, either way you're screwed just in different ways. Slow descent into madness and debauchery or the Fast Lane to Galactic Zombie God Domination?
Should have mentioned the U.S.S. Cygnus from the black hole. A ship missing for 20 years found on the edge of a black hole, hows captain lobotomized his crew and turned them in to robot just so he can see what was on the other side of the black hole
Captain Mal profited quite well from derelict ships. Just saying. Love the "countries I've been to" poster in the background, btw. We have one as well.
It's like battle of Coruscant but infinitely more baffling... Also horse riding boarding party, also ships can't go up... Also it mostly happens in a turbulent atmosphere, the thing which Palpatine could have easily prevented... Ships rise from the literal ground... I can't even.
In the STAR TREK animated series of the early 1970s, one episode involved Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy boarding a derelict spacecraft in orbit around a dead star for several million years. It is discovered the ship had been destroyed deliberately by her own crew after a malevolent pure-energy life form had seized control, and now Kirk & company had to deal with the being as well. Not bad at all for a Saturday morning cartoon of that era. Even starred most of the original cast except (notably) for Chekov. BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR is the title of the episode, by the way.
I liked the ship from the Space:1999 episode Dragon's Domain. It was modular, and the same command pod used on an Eagle also could dock with and command that ship. The episode was a gore-free version of the Event Horizon (7), and it was plenty freaky to my young self.
Don't forget The Liberator from Blakes 7. Although derelict once the intruder alarm had been deactivated, with the help of the onboard computer Zen this derelict gave the Earth Federation quite a headache for three series.
I'm sure people would like to forget this game. But, I'm surprised he didn't mention the Ozymandias, from Dino Crisis 3. Story wise, it fits the theme of this video. Plus, who'd be dumb enough to board a ship with a crazed A.I. and seemingly endless bio-engineered Dinosaurs.
Errr, where's the Cygnus from The Black Hole? Don't fancy running into Max or any of the other nasty things on that one either, especially as it's precariously balanced on the rim of a black hole!
Hmm, would the Botany Bay, the ship Khan Noonien Singh and his crew were exiled on, count? Certainly not haunted or spooky in any sense as the video presented, yet Khan was still a threat and did cause a significant amount of damage and lives lost for his actions after being rescued...
Its complicated as it's not technically a derelict. But then thats true of parts of this list. To be derelict it has to either be abandoned entirely by its crew or have been neglected for long enough for it to decay. Having the crew (or passengers) in suspended animation but the ship still in mostly working order just means its adrift, as was the case with the botany bay.
@@AlexandarHullRichter yes and no. The Alyssum was significantly damaged and no longer capable of space flight having technically already crashed/landed. As i said, most of the ships on the list are borderline in the description as derelict. The Ad Astra is still intact, but its crew are all dead, so that makes it a derelict with a major pest problem. The Scopuli is definatly a derlict, no "living" crew aboard. The USG Ishimura is at the begining of dead space not a derlicit, its damaged sure, but some of its crew are clearly alive and its still flight capable, also you work for the company that owns it and are attempting its recovery. It does however later become a derilict after the ending of dead space and before its recovery in DS2. The Icarus 1 isn't a derelict, its intact, fully flight capable and has a crew member aboard, that he's gone mad is a seperate issue. The Derelict on lvl 426 is definatly a derelict, crew dead, ship incapacitated perminatly. Ronald Nolans home is also a derelict, its crashed or possibly landed long ago, its original crew is dead/missing, basically tho its a wreck. Event Horizon is a derelict, original crew dead, and the ship itself is no longer controllable (not by humans anyway), it been possessed by a demonic warp entity changes little, would note however as the crew of the Lewis & Clark were sent specifically to recover it and rescue the crew there is an active attempt by the ships owners to recover it so the legal definition is "ship in distress" not a derelict. Going by the law of the sea (under UK law) "Derelict describes property, whether vessel or cargo, which has been abandoned and deserted at sea by those who were in charge of it without any hope of recovering it." I'd say that means no crew and with no active attempts by the crew/owners to recover it, so crashed and abandoned would be fair calls. Would note a ship on auto-pilot/AI control may not be derelict, merely "uncrewed", and would only become derelict if a disaster/accident occured rendering the ship incapable of completing its mission and no attempt is made to recover it by its owners. Should note a salvage crew recovering it before the owners were aware it is lost or unable to find it, still not technically derelict, but a salvage fee must be paid then.
I love this channel's videos and I really want to watch this one but I haven't seen Ad Astra and I havent finished watching The Expanse, I have to go watch those first!
I’m surprised he didn’t list the Acclamator-class assault ship known as the Prosecutor from the Clone Commando video game or the Imperial 1-Class Star Destroyed Vector that was overrun by the Blackwing virus in Star Wars Legends
The Prosecutor ended up on a happy ending. The Commandos retake the ship, repel a massive droid army and a Trandoshan mercenary army, and they blow up a Droid warship because hey, why not?
Others have mentioned the 37 million year old Reaper, the spider infested ship that crashed the Jupiter 2 and every space hulk ever, so here's 1 think we've missed; the derelict transport ship from Firefly (episode 3,"Bushwacked"). Entire crew murdered by Reavers, a single lone survivor, who went completely insane and basically became a Reaver himself. They had a bad day. Also if we're talking about the Expanse, forget the Scopuli, the Amun-Ra that attacked her ended up a derelict herself later, and was potentially even more dangerous. Protomolecule infestation is no joke.
i'd personally have started with the derelict created by the red dwarf crew. forget wat it was called but it was full of Simulants that knocked them out, refitted the starbug for battle, then completely wrecked. They later returned and discovered a blood thirsty survivor about to shoot them, but due to the structural damage they werent able to shoot first with out risking the whole ship just disintgrating there and then, they did manage to make a clean escape (how ever the cowardly crewman decided he'd leave them to their doom and use a nearby escape pod)
I generally don't like horror movies. I sometimes make an exception if it's a _sci-fi_ horror movie. Luckily I did so with Pandorum, because that one's great. Mini spoiler for others who don't like horror stuff: Ready? Here we go: It does _not_ follow the standard horror trope where evil survives in the end, instead it ends neatly with reasons for what's been happening. I liked that.
