Which Sci-Fi Show's "Light speed" is the FASTEST? 

The Expanse: "We get there when we get there, sasa que!!"

"Not Thor's Asgard" ... Except the main Asgardian character in Stargate is also named Thor.

Star Wars: "Our ships travel through hyperspace, an alternate dimension where distances are much shorter." Startrek: "Our ships create a warp bubble around the ship, bending space-time to reach FTL speeds." 40K: [Takes long drink] "You don't want to know..."

I'm always glad to see stargate in these types of roundups it's such a good show

"not Thor's asgard" *Inserts clip of Thor talking to SG1

In stargate, the Earth ships equipped with Asgard hyperdrives where very fast, but the Asgard ships where quite a bit faster. However, the fastest thing in stargate, aside from the stargates themselves, was the Atlantis City ship. It had an experimental wormhole drive that can transport the city between galaxies instantaneously. That would put it almost to the level of the Heart of Gold as far as speed and distance.

1.) The TARDIS can arrive somewhere before it even left, so that really kinda fast. 2.) The Highliners in Dune travel without moving, so...

stargate is such a good universe. the lore is amazing and the space battles feel very well thought out in terms of scale and capabilities

The Tardis can arrive at the finish line before it left.

Stargate has faster ships than the Daedalus. The Asgard ships could travel between galaxies in minutes. Atlantis also has a wormhole drive that allowed them to travel from the Pegasus galaxy to earth instantaneously.

The ship Raza from Dark Matter had both FTL and a blink drive. The blink drive could jump anywhere in the galaxy instantly. This was used in the show several years before the spore drive in Star Trek discovery. The blink drive could also jump to parallel universes (although this was due to a malfunction). It could also time travel. The fact that the blink drive was so powerful was one of the story lines of the conflicts in the show, everybody wanted it.

My favorite is the Odyssey, the Daedalus class from Stargate, but the fastest ship in Sci-Fi was the Cochrane space shuttle in Star Trek Voyager, piloted by Tom Paris and reaching warp 10, which corresponds to infinite speed.

*pushes up nerd glasses* But Thor IS in the Asgard in the Stargate universe!

"Prepare ship for light speed!" "No no no light speed is too slow!" "Light speed too slow!?!" "Yes, we're gonna have to go right at... LUDICROUS SPEED!!!" **huge gasp in the background**

In Revenge of the Sith, the Emperor travelled from the center of the galaxy to the edge of it in what looked like under a minute. And that includes customs and boarding and preflight and everything else. Anakin had not moved an inch. 2 minutes tops.

Everyone who does these lists forgets B5 and the speeds that the Shadows and Vorlon could get by truly navigating Hyper.

"going to binge watch stargate" you won't be disappointed

Huzzah! Another convert to the glory of Stargate! Also, the Asgard ARE that lovable!

I'm a huge Starfate fan. I'm happy that you are binging the show. Have you heard of 'Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'? They use a 'Slipstream Drive' to traverse the gap between galaxies. I would value your comparison of the Andromedas slipstream drive and Stargates Prometheus-class hyperdrive.

He: * mentions the heart of gold but references the bloody movie version * Me: * dying on the inside *

Other sci-fi ships: Hey so how long is this thing going to take? Halo: I don’t know, could be three or four. Others: Three or four what? Days, weeks, months? Halo: Yeah… maybe five.

I always thought in Battlestar Galactica that the ability to calculate/plot a safe jump was more or a limiting factor. Hence the whole blind jump thing with Pegasus being a bit of a miracle.

"Not Thors Asgard" -Immediately shows a picture of Thor.

That Asgard "little guy" WAS Thor!

Dang, I'm envious that you get to watch SG1, Atlantis, and BSG back to back for the first time! Add Babylon 5 which just got semi-remastered on HBO and you got a packed month or so!

The Spacing Guild Highliners in Dune - -have no propulsion but can fold space and use this to travel essentially any distance instantly The TARDIS in Dr Who could arrive billions of years before it even left ... so greater than infinity ?

Stargate will always be my favorite. The limitations make sense, the in-universe lore makes sense & they can travel almost anywhere. The ships also have normal ship problems & are a logistical nightmare on par with any other naval (Space Force) vessel.

Although Andromeda went south after it's 2nd season, the "Quantum Slipstream" drive was kinda interesting. For some reason, no AI could navigate it and thus a living pilot was always required. As for Battlestar Galactica, I wouldn't be surprised if the presence of large gravitational bodies had an effect on how far a ship could "jump". Thor from Stargate is a really great fella. "I love those guys." -- Jack O'Neill

Nearly every franchise has been mentioned but one that doesn't get enough love is dark matter. Ships have FTL drives but the hero ship gets a blink drive and a mountain of plot devices that limit its use. Also it's the only franchise that has both wil weaton and David Hewlett

Stargate will almost always have the best hypedrives

Meanwhile, in 40k: Waaaaagh! Grizgutz arrived in its origin system prior to its departure, and warboss Grizgutz took this opportunity to murder his past self and gain a second copy of his favourite shoota.

Galactica *shows pegasus* Huh, when did the Galactica become a Mercury class?

Andromeda, literally just guessing where you’re going and getting to another galaxy in a few minutes.

Futurama's Planet Express ship; Old Bessie.

Man, you put the whole Spaceball 1 scene, i love you for that XD

I like the fact they added The Flash to one of these scale comparison things, and he misses out on the Improbability drive by 0.2 seconds or so.

Ah... Spaceball 1... that explains why the video was longer than average.

"Speed? Where we go, we don't need speed." -Dr. Emmett Brown

The Orville is by far my favorite sci-fi show, the comedy is a great relief from the normal narratives within the sci-fi genre.

On the ftl of battlestar galactica, in the very first episode of the series proper it is stated that the ships we’re jumping every 33 minutes for 5 days straight which means it could very well outpace the orvill for several days if it was jumping nonstop the moment the drives spooled up

The Spacing Guild laughs at your puny inability to fold space.

"someone ever tries to kill you, you kill them right back!" The Firefly's Verse may not have the fastest ships, but they damn well have the best dialogues.

Not *Marvel's Asgard. SG-1's main Asgard character is a grey alien named Thor (upon whom the Earth myth is based on in this interpretation).

A show that's often overlooked: Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The Andromeda Ascendant would use slipstream engines to allow it to go between the three galaxies involved (Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum galaxy) in hours to days. Speed estimates would have to be off, since many locations other than Earth are purely fictional, but were echelons above Star Wars's hyperdrive, covering 2.5 to 3 million light years in a period of 24 to 48 hours at most (possibly 100,000 light years per hour). Like hyperdrive though, navigation through slipstream often involved jumps and circuitous paths due to the nature of slipstream, and was dependent on access to the slipstream network, much like the Borg with their transwarp network and conduits. Ironically, that meant that going from one galaxy to another could be faster than going from one nearby star to another, if the systems didn't both have slipstream conduit points.

See you in a couple years after your done binge-watching on the Stargate series.

voyager is the fastest ship in star trek insert the USS Discovery, high as a kite: "I can jump to places and use mushrooms as fuel"

I really like sub-light travel like the Expanse or Ad Astra.... it makes you really appreciate just how BIG space is! Imagine a show where the only possible other locations were Alpha Centauri or Barnard's Star (and yes Trekkies even Wolf 359)

You earned a thumbs up just for picking your nose when Spaceballs 1 went by 😂😂

What about the city ship of Atlantis? It crossed half the milky way in under a fraction of a second.

should have used an actual asgard vessel. Daedalus seemed massively inefficient even with a ZPM, or maybe the asgard gave them an older model hyperdrive. At any rate asgard ships have been shown to travel between galaxies in a matter of minutes.

i like all these series and movies, but when i have to chose a ship in which i have to travel the milky way, i would totally take the Galactica. That ship is a sturdy beast.

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda potentially has them all beat while also not measuring up to any of them. Slipstream connects different locations without regard to their distance, more in regard to their gravitation. So some great distances can be travelled easily enough, while some smaller distances might be completely cut off from the slipstream. It's non linear and doesn't conform to speed, but a very compelling way of traveling.

The Event Horizon made it all the way into the Warp. “Liberate tutemet ex infernis”

Yeah! Excited for videos about Stargate!

"No not Thor's Asgard." Then immediately cuts to a shot showing the Stargate Thor on screen...

I am shocked that you didn't mention the Andromeda Ascended from the Andromeda show! That ship and others like it used a FTL travel that helped the crew travel between three galaxies (if I remember correctly). But I didn't realize just how fast Stargate ships were. Doi, they're fast!

Technically the puddle jumpers are the fastest in Stargate, when they you know go through the stargate.

Voyager: Travels 1000 lightyears/year Rebels meeting point at the end of The Empire Strikes Back: Half a million lightyears outside of the Galaxy. Btw, who else made the trip to Sagittarius A* in Elite Dangerous?

Stargate still the best sci fi franchise out there. Coolest ships of all time, especially the daedalus class!

Can't wait for more Stargate content, I watched it all last year for the first time, and it is easily my favorite sci fi TV show ever

Always a warm fuzzy feeling when stargate is getting love being the fastest in the normal scifis :)

The 4th Doctor, in the episode "Shada", modified the villain's ship to be capable of traveling anywhere in the universe in just minutes... which just happens to be the normal maximum velocity of the TARDIS.

Excellent vid. I think my head cannon was pretty close to what you accessed.

There is an indie game called Ring Runner, and their ships can go around the universe in 52 hours. Problem is though, this only goes one way. Overshoot by a nanosecond, and you have to make another round of 52 hours.

Finally, Stargate gets some recognition

"It's kind of a joke movie." Yes, but it actually has some rather horrifying aspects to the IID because of what that method of travel actually correlates to. Remember that old debate on whether the transporters from Star Trek actually kills you and replicates you at the target location? This drive basically works by creating a field, it should technically be created both at the start and destination, possibly across the entire universe, that makes unlikely events less unlikely. This then ties into the fact that at any point in time and space, random matter could coalesce into an object, and that object could technically be a spaceship filled with passengers, and those passengers could technically be created with a set of memories that perfectly matches what another group of passengers on another ship halfway across the universe had when their matter suddenly decided that it wanted to be something else. Equally long odds would be that the matter from point A would instead be instantly transposed to point B. So every time you use this thing there's a non-zero percent chance that you kill or turn yourself into something completely random and that a clone of you pops out the other side, believing itself to be you, a non-zero percent chance in a device that literally works by magnifying the most unlikely outcomes to actually happen.

Must not forget DUNE !! The "Navigators" fold space to travel. Also the SG1 Asgard also had a character named Thor... Borrowed from (or having created) Norse mythology. I know you were referring to the Marvel franchise though :)

You forgot to mention Futurama, while animated it's still of note because they have a neat (and funny) solution to FTL. Instead of moving the ship through the universe, they move the universe. -"The ship can travel between galaxies in mere hours" "You can't go faster than the speed of light!" -"They increased the speed of light in 2208" It has been suggested that the ship can travel across the whole universe in mere days. I personally like Battlestar Galactica's approach the most. Where you create wormholes (bend spacetime) and there's a limit to how far you can go in a single jump. And of course also that doing these jumps puts a tremendous stress on the ship. But there's something to be said about hyperspace, in that you actually have to navigate the universe and find a line that doesn't take you straight through an obstacle. And that this can be made into a suicide weapon, as seen in The Last Jedi, where a cruiser is going straight through the imperial forces, breaking their ships into pieces.

More Stargate, please!!!

To be honest Star Gate probably has the fastest FTL capible ships all in one place. The Actual Asgardian ships like Thor's Chariot which was roughly 3000 year old ship at its time it showed up could go to a difrent galaxy in roughly a day. And Star Gate Atlantis ended with the actualy City of Atlantis which on its own was a ship using the full suplement of 9 ZPMs to activate a wormhole drive which made it go from Pegasus Galaxy to earth in less than 5 hours which supposedly depleted 6 of those power things in a single jump

There was one tiny one you missed - Transwarp. In the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold" the shuttle is able to travel at maximum transwarp, effectively being everywhere at once and then just dropping out where they needed to be. Literally infinite speed. This did of course have the drawback of causing the passengers to evolve (devolve) into unusual lifeforms. Can't have everything though.

In stargate the Atlantis uses a “wormhole drive” which travels much faster than the deadlus hyper drive

TARDIS. Can navigate both TIME and SPACE

PLEASE Do a video on Andromeda Ascendant! Their Slipstream is also stupid fast, but their setting runs across several galaxies. And I know Babylon 5's FTL is slower but it's also quite unique in how the tech works.

If you read the Hitchhiker's Guide books, or listen to the radio play, or watch the TV series, it is explained that the Heart of Gold passes simultaneously through every point in the universe every time it activates the Infinite Improbability Drive. So, yeah. It's pretty nippy.

I love the cut scenes you put in.🤣 But why didn't you use the original BSG?

Glad to hear you mention Discovery's IP theft

If you combined the Needle Threader from Stargate: SG1 (episode 3.01 "Into the Fire"), or the Puddle Jumpers from Stargate: Atlantis, with the McCay/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge, either ship could travel from the Milky Way to Pegasus galaxies in minutes instead of hours or days.

Oh come on, we all know this is a moot argument because, in the end, every one of these ships moves exactly at the Speed of Plot.

I'd love to see Halo's Slip-Space, and Robotech's Fold-Spheres!

I know of a franchise which is arguably the fastest "farscape" john crichton can create/find wormholes and travel anywhere in the universe and time (could arrive billions of years before it even left in a instantaneously). without turning into a weird object, if you haven't seen the franchise I would highly recommend it

SGA Wormhole drive, total Deus Ex Machina, millions of ly per second (of course it was said to be very risky to use).

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. The heart of gold. Another cool one instant but limited. The xeelee nightfighter.

Like someone had mentioned: there is Atlantis' Wormdrive, instaneous travel with 3 ZPMs. And a show I can't recall had a Blink Drive.

I love how if you flip this list around and remove spaceballs it become a list of least realistic to most realistic

Are you binging just the main series stargate or Atlantis as well? Stargate universe has Destiny, which is a completely different drive then rest of stargate

The infographic showed the Tardis but didn't mention it? She is the fastest ship simply because she can arrive before she left!

One of the coolest speeds I’ve seen is warp 10 in Star Trek which is where the ship occupies every point in the universe at the same time

I see Stargate, I click

I'm curious how others would rank, such as hyperspace in Babylon 5 or starburst from Farscape.

little correction on the battlestar; the jump drive does put stress on the hull indeed. however it should be noted that the Galactica (the name of the ship) was supposed to be an old, decommissioned and out dated ship. It whent through a war, was deemed to expensive to keep running, retired, had most of its essential repair supplies taken out of it as prep to become a museum and then promptly thrust into war with literally no warning. then it sustained battle after battle with only the repairs being done to keep it going. then it did the body slam maneuver. this was the scene shown where it vertically re entered the atmosphere then jumped back out. IT ABSOLUTELY should not have done this if its longevity was kept in mind, and although they knew the ship was old and falling apart, its captain deemed the maneuver necessary to complete a vital mission. It would later be revealed in the story that this maneuver was almost fatal for the ship, as it has caused massive cracking throughout the ships central structure; ie the only thing holding the ship together was..... almost nothing. It should also be noted that the "civilian" fleet following the ship also would have performed almost the same number of jumps but because they were largely kept out of battle and didnt belly flop into atmospheres, they were largely structurally sound despite jumping just as often. also note that the civilian ships would have been frequently jumping before the war cuz ya know.... thats their job, shuttle civilians. so it was not the jump drive that killed the Galactica, it was battle that killed the battlestar galactica. if there was no war, and it didnt see combat, it could have gone on jumping for a long time. oh wow that doesnt look like a little correction woops

How did i miss the video, your discussing one my favorite forms of ftl, jump drives ^^ Don't get me wrong like warp drives, hyperspace, etc. But I often loved jump drive from battelstar galactica, wing commander, and battletech. I doubt see this message but can you guys compare the different types of jump drives?

How about a TARDIS? Move through space without any temporal movement, and it's technically infinite velocity.

Where would Dune and Holtzman Effect space folding land on this list?

Stargate is my all-time favorite! It's what caught my attention from your video.

Don't forget space folding dune ,farscape jump , Stargate portal, improbability drive

4:20 but wasn’t the USS Prometheus rated at 9.995 in Voyager?

I have to take exception with Orville being called a "spoof" show... while there is no question the show is influenced by Next Generation because Seth is a huge fan and it tends to be more humorous, the show itself is a solid sci-fi show that stands on its own.

Im about to start watching stargate, never gave it a try before, dunno why, I am a huge nerd after all!

The Holtzman drive from Dune. "traveling without moving." basically with a guild navigator folding space from one point to another in the galaxy instantaneously. pretty fast...