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The Heart of Gold, from The Hitchhikers Guide. Plot armour taken to its most literal extreme.
The Apollo Lunar Lander. The only real space ship we ever built. (I guess we built another one for the next trip now, though, so I'll go with "ever flown")
People can say it's ugly all they want, but, as an engineer, it's exquisitely designed for its purpose. That's true beauty to me.
Lexx is one of my favourite ships. It was such an oddball show as well. 
Not sure in what context you're asking this question, but my answer is the International Space Station. I love how it's possible to see it at random sometimes at night, and the way it crosses the sky just looks different compared to a regular airplane flying at night.
Pedantic question! Does the ISS count as a spaceship? I feel like something that travels in an orbit is kind of the equivalent of something stationary on a planetβ¦ so it feels like more of a, uh, station, than a ship to me. Itβs a good answer, though!
Feels like a tomato fruit situation. It's technically a ship, but we know it as a station?
A marine equivalent might be a floating structure with its own propulsion system. Technically a boat, but it doesn't move around that often and it let's other boats dock/undock from it.
Iβm torn between the Defiant and Serenity
Serenity as a reaver ship is hard to beat
While not exactly a space ship, I'd say Thunderbird 2
The Kestrel Cruiser from FTL. Even though it's not even the coolest ship in the game, The Kestrel is still the most nostalgic for me.
It brings me back to when I first played FTL a decade ago. I was a kid back then and loved the game so much, I even built and painted a cardboard Kestrel model.
I can't decide between The Planet Express ship and the space Van from Spaceballs.
What about the one at the very beginning of Spaceballs that went on and on?
Daedalus.
Enterprise refit. Loved the original Enterprise and the Enterprise D when TNG came out, but there was something magical about seeing the refit on the big screen.
The Swordfish from Cowboy Bebop. I recently bought a rather expensive model of it. Totally worth it though.
Battleship Yamoto.
Yamato is pretty nice, very unique and playfully design.
I'd also like to add The Mothership from Homeworld. Also awesome story, and the game had revolutionary gameplay for it's time.
What? No love for the Millennium Falcon?
No need for shields when you have plot armor
It probably has both.
Imperial star destroyer
The Hail Mary currently. Just such a cool ship from a fun book. To think about what would go into building it and what that means to humanity is humbling.
Other notables:
- Enterprise E from First Contact because it looks cool.
- Cygnus from The Black Hole
- Sulaco from Aliens
- Trimaxion Drone Ship from Flight of the Navigator
- The Abominator-class Offensive Unit Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints (my usual favourite lol)
The USS Defiant. Coolest ship in Starfleet.
My pick was already mentioned (Rocinante) so for second place I'm gonna mention the Galactica.
Oldie but a goodie: the Star Fury fighter from Babylon 5.
While I know it's easy to hate on everything MCU these days, I do still absolutely love the Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2. The design doesn't feel practical at all, but it's still a really fun to look at and agile ship, which is something a lot of sci fi doesn't really depict very well.
I really like the Nostromo from Alien (1979). The Icarus II from Sunshine (2007) is pretty cool, too.
There's a lot of ships I like in sci-fi, but the one that comes to mind at the moment is the garfish-class cruiser in robotech
Or if we're talking about real spacecraft here, I like the soyuz (and really the whole r-7 derived rocket family to be honest), as I like the look of it's side boosters and the four engine bells on each engine
The Rocinante is an obvious pick.
I also really like the ships in Starfield, mainly because I'm a cassette futurism shill.
The Yggdrasill from Hyperion.
The one from The Fountain was kinda similar. It was unique enough to stick with me over the years anyway.
I don't know if Ringworld really counts as a ship but I loved that too. The Out Of Band 2 from A Fire Upon The Deep seemed like it would be pretty baddass. Or the alien ship from Rendezvous with Rama.
Hard sci-fi: The Rocinante
Floppy sci-f: The A-Wing
The Intrepid class of star ships.