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.
@@Drago_Whooves I would imagine the criteria here would be that the propulsion system has to be completely built into the ship. Using something external, like a gate, that doesn't travel with you wouldn't qualify. Wormhole works for Atlantis because the city ship itself is creating it each time. That's my interpretation anyway.
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..."
Yeah I got a basically complete collection, SG-1 and Atlantis aswell as the 3 movies on DVD and Atlantis also on Blu-Ray. Unfortunately in my native language (German) there was never a BD release of Atlantis so the BD's are English, but I decided to burn some German Atlantis BDs myself.
Yep.. another grifter who writes his videos from wiki…but never actually watched the shows. The ancient aliens angle is the fundamental premise of the show.
So can the Warp from 40k... Or it could be super far in the future... Or sometime before anyone even thought of racing with FTL, really it's all down to luck.
@@kabob0077 Just like with the TARDIS. Bonus points for it being a nightmare beast of sentient hypergeometry mapped on a skeleton of hyperdimensional math. The rooms inside are just a comparatively tiny space hollowed out within. I'm still not sure if the Gallifreyans just found a lifeform like this and then started breeding them like horses or if they created the entire thing from scratch, but in the expanded lore we see that when viewed by beings that can perceive higher dimensions it's much less box-like and has an unspecified number of tentacles and other squelchy bits.
@@Reddotzebra neat. They did grow them, but since they had the time schism and tardis are sentient of all time and space, another possibility is they just are where they want to be at any point in relative spacetime.
@@Azurath100 kabob 007 is neat i agree.Yours Too. I See the TARDISes like you. they are where they want to be at any point in relative spacetime. ( Sexy knows where and when the Doctor needs to Be). This is why I dont Like S12E11 Revolution of the Darleks..... There is that One Seen.... they travel so slow.... Have a NIce Day Azurath100 and the rest of the Internet :)
@@brianlindee220 I find it reminiscent of the Thunderhawk from Warhammer 40k. Also the similarity of the ancients design to the human one was supposed to be a nod to our parallel evolutionary tree. But yeah it totally does
Well it has glaring plotholes, from speed, weapon power, techonological capabilities, power generation, etc. But it is definitely the best sci-fi show that depicts a developing humanity, and it is also charming as fuck.
2) The guild navigators in Dune fold space, so in essence their speed is either zero or infinite. The ships themselves are more or less just a big metal enclosure with an atmosphere.
and then there was the Blink Drive from Dark Matter, instant travel without limits to distances and no limitations from the side of who is driving the thing(doctor) or need of any special fuel like spice
It requires time to fold the space between the ends of the Heighliner. However, we have *no idea* how long or what limits to this space folding there are-or if there aren't any-so basically, no idea.
Re:#2 that's the warp drive principle. The ship is technically stationary within the warp bubble/field and space-time warped around that. Personally I've found the best representation of a warp field or bubbler is on SyFy' Ark series.
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 crazy thing about hyperspace in Stargate is the speed is limited only by power generation and of a design of ship that can handle that type of power generation. So the Daedalus class has the same type of drive as a O'Neill class ship just lack of an efficient power supply limits their speed within subspace.
"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**
@@X525Crossfire "WE PASSED THEM, STOP THIS THING!!!" "We can't stop, it's too dangerous, we got to slow down first!" "BULLS**T, JUST STOP THIS THING, I ORDER YOU, STOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"
*Most of the Asgard are that lovable. There are a few that are... Less so. The splinter group that ended up in the Pegasus galaxy were straight up mass murderers. ...Though in fairness, that doesn't exactly make them special in Pegasus. Dealing with the Wraith drove a lot of civilizations to terrifying desperation.
@@tba113 Not to be *that* guy, but those were technically the Vanir; so we can exclude them when talking about the general love-ability of the little pantsless grays who guided us into becoming the Fifth Race.
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.
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.
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.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough Shoot, with Warhammer you might get there before you ever leave or it takes millennia, actual travel time who knows. You could be in the warp for a day or for 15 years.
You know that really depends on who makes the jumps, humans can take for ever to get anywhere, the Covenant could from one system to next in a few days whilst the forerunners were worried that if they go to fast they'd go back in time. Aaaand possible tear apart the fabric of space and time.
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!
This girl I was seeing started watching Battlestar and complained she was busy with school and couldn't watch Resurrection Ship Pt 1 until the weekend and I'm like "we had to wait 6 months you jammy cow". 😂
As long as he skips Universe. I like the cast and am glad some of them forayed it into greater success, I just think the premise was alien (in the sense it didn't fit with the franchise), the marketing was trash and alienated the fanbase, it had too many soap opera elements, and it took too long to get the show to get somewhere interesting.
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.
It is. The Red Line is the point at which it becomes to dangerous to plot. Theoretically the FTL drives have unlimited range. The issue is the human error after a certain limit or the computing power available to calculate the jump. That's why every few hour they updated the fleet coordinates because they could be so far off from the original location that blank space that was originally their is now a star. This was actually a plot point in one of the episodes in Season 2 I think. Where the new coordinates didn't send out and Galactica got separated from the fleet they had to jump back calculate a jump point with a networked computer and jump to that point.
@@zomber90 the available computing power is more of the secondary issue after the Human Error. as the Computers aboard the Jupiter Class Battlestar christened "Galactica" were not networked most of the time for fear of infiltration by superior Cylon programs and routines. The effects of which were shown in the episodes from when Gaeta forgot to send out the updated emergency jump rendezvous coordinates forcing Galactica to jump back along her previous vector to reacquire and re-calculate the position of the other ships, necessitating the break of protocol and establishing a network to speed up the calculation time within the minute range rather then the day range. over the course of the following episodes there where more and more equipment malfunctions caused by a Cylon logic bomb which had gone unnoticed after Col. Tigh ordered the Network to be broken. this situation was ultimately resolved with the help of Caprica-Valerii in "Flight of the Phoenix"
@@zomber90 Yep, also on another episode, they update raptors with the cylon navigation system, they just update the way the calculations are made and be able to way longer jumps, they didnt need to touch the core of the FTL
@@zomber90 I know this is an old discussion, but I would also add that in the episode where they rescue the resistance on Caprica, one of the Raptors is reported as having jumped into the planet. I think this serves to demonstrate how the BSG FTL was, in fact, warping space.
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.
@@SpockBorg5 Wow someone is salty over their favorite bullshit being called properly inferior to the power of real Hyperspace drives. Just because a single Whitestar would rip the guts out of just about any ship in this video, isn't a reason to get nasty.
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 ?
Except that the Dune Highliners could only fold space in the David Lynch movie. In the book, they used the spice to navigate in place of computers.(unless I remember the books wrong, in which case,, disregard)
@@brunozeigerts6379 the Holtzman effect was the poorly understood (by society) but reliable means of folding space. Prescience was used to see/calculate where you would end up....preferably alive. Like BSG folding space, but is folding/Jumping/blinking really count as speed? you are there then you are elsewhere travel without movement .
@@brunozeigerts6379 The books are vague and contractionary on the subject, as is the film, because the only information is from people who are not in the spacing guild and so do not know ... The Prequel novels give more details
@@I.Simmonds also in BSG they need precision corrodents to jump otherwise they would end up in a mountain like the one raptor did when they went back to caprica to rescue anders it also aloud ships moving at speed to maintain that speed when jumping like the cylon raiders making micro jumps to hit ships and run away, or like star wars end up hitting a planet. Dune guild ships could still get lost and end up in a totally different reality and or just in another galaxy with no path to fold space back because it would kill the navigator pilot.
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.
Today I learned that Discovery was designed to (sigh) jettison its saucer section so that it could...pose as a Klingon D7. Looks like John Eaves or Bryan Fuller was the one on mushrooms...
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 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.
When I saw him opening the model kit, I seriously expected to the next scene to see the model assembled and him prepping to paint it, followed by one with him prepping it for display.
@@marktaylor6553 if he would count in the one episode from voyager with the warp 10 shuttle, they would arrive before the andromeda has their engines on.
If it takes the Orville 1 year to cross the Milky Way (100k light years across) and only 2 years to get to another galaxy, the other galaxy would have to be one of the Magellnic Cloud dwarf galaxies (160k and 200k light years away). Andromeda is something like 2.5 million light years away. 3 years later I grace you with my wisdom :) enjoy
@@rey2352 They're not talking about the galaxy Andromeda, they're talking about the show Andromeda in which their method of FTL called slipstream can allow travel between galaxies in just minutes if the pilot is lucky or weeks/months if unlucky.
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
@@pflaffik in the first episode (and season, I forgot) the pilot/navigator's chair was on top or a sort of swivel-pivot joint which resembled a gimbal. Between that (which they were smart to stop using) and the Slipstream visuals it like a bit of "trying too hard". In any case you raise a fair point.
@@osirisjohnson5165 (for dummies, like myself) it means that to time travel you need to break the light speed, in this case with a given example using warp factor. Hyperdrive would serve too, as the others mentioned in the gallactica universe, Stargate... only the conversion (here is warp factor) would have a different value
"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.
@@TheOriginalBlue62 You remember incorrectly. Its never defined in show, but later a group that included Whedon released a map that included 4 or 5 star systems. And that's just where they went in the show.
@@1972Russianwolf Although it was never shown in the show, there is a map created with contributions from Joss Whedon. It depicts the Firefly "Verse" as a single system with 5 main sequence stars, one of witch the other 4 orbits. Believe it also has several smaller artificial stars. So many stars, but one system.
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 :)
@@oninoni I don't remember it braking. Granted it used an insane amount of power and was experimental, but it was still used. Thus shouldn't it be counted?
@@oninoni it was using the same tech as stargates themselves, it used a lot of power and was a really lucky jump through a wormhole, that could had killed them or sent them to anywhere in the timespace...
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.
@@patrikmodrovsky1842 Well it was faster when modified by replicators... which well does not count that well... Asgard warship had regular cruise ship between galaxies in about 2 days... and when they were in a hurry 30 minutes... but as Hermiod aptly put it - such modification would likely burn out the drive if used for sustained amount of time. Given the SGA episode I think the drive on Asgard ship equally as on Daedalus could sustain it for single digit hours. Asgard warship - being larger having more field emiiters, and more power maybe DAY?(like in that DAY it would be roughly 200 million lightyears covered...)
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
@@seanmccurdy80 That's just the speed of a radio signal through the gate. Actual gate travel was faster than standard hyperspace, but it still took time. There was one episode where they had to cut power to the wormhole at a set time so stuff would fall out of the wormhole into the middle of a star. Thus it wasn't quite instant, just really^15 fast.
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.
Great video, I'm so glad you included less popular franchises like Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. I was hoping to see the ship Andromeda Ascendant from the series Andromeda. I think it also deserves a place in the ranking of the fastest ships.
@@honzasenbauer612 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend any fan of the sci-fi series. In my country, the most famous are Star Wars and Star Trek, but there are very few people who know the series Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5 and Stargate. The series Andromeda was broadcast for only 1 season on unpopular cable television. The community of space sci-fi fans is small.
@@GORGORIANEC ahh, interesting. I am not offended and no true sci-fi fan should be. its just that the majority of sci-fi community I have been in contact with have a common knowledge on Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, BSG and then it varies. Stargate would probably be the fifth on this lsit imo, but it battles with Babylon 5 and all of the other shows. and I am not really certain where The Expanse stands now
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?
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.
@@ZacLowing there is no sci fi method of superluminal travel that doesn’t violate any laws of physics. They are all “wibbly wobbly we go faster”, as you say, because they all exist in fiction and are all powered by our suspension of disbelief.
@@ZacLowing Also that's just the Doctor not even trying to explain how the TARDIS works to the puny human minds of his companions. One would doubt how much of the TARDIS' inner workings the Doctor himself understands, TBH. After all, TARDISes are not just ships, they're entire sentient individuals who are grown, not manufactured.
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.
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
@@oninoni i am not sure about that. Tod tells us they stole somthing around 9ZPMs and that there is atleast one on the hive, but I doubt, that the hive actually had 6ZPMs active at once fighting atlantis with its depleted three
@@stixinst5791 Todd never says how many he stole. In fact, he specifically says "There is no way for you to verify how many [he] took" so there is no point in them asking him how many ZPMs he has. The superhive also used only the one ZPM. Not 6.
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
@@christate3523 aye but i think it may one the fastest FTL ship that does not use some sort of hyperdimensol plane for FTL just dman big engines and raw power.
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)
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 For the distance representing nothingness and the themes of Heart of Darkness, yeah. But what else were metaphors in the film which aren't that?
@@adamlis9321 The solo (everyone else died) journey he had to make, to let his father go is one, the underground lake on Mars that he swam through is another. The monkey in the space station is another. There are more, the whole movie is metaphores stringed together with a common theme. I should watch it again now that it has aged a little, and discover more about what the metaphores mean. Normally I am not into the deep thinking movies, but this one is quite brilliant, and Brad Pitt nails it again. I actually do not consider it to be a scifi movie. It's a journey into a man's mind, with a space theme to it. When you are finished watching and paid attention, you know a helluva lot about the main character.
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.
"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.
According to the books and movies the Holtzman effect can take the traveler anywhere in the universe instantaneously. This is provided that they have either a mathematical compiler or a guild steersman. In the books it is theorized that they could go any place in any universe instantaneously.
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
The wormhole were natural phenomena that Crichton was using rather than an artificial drive like the rest of the things on this list. I think that the Peacekeeper Prowlers deserve a mention since in season 4 Ayrren flies hers from Earth orbit to Saturn and back in maybe just a few hours.
@@taudvore259 not to mention we also see Moya with a full galaxy in the background that we don't other times, suggesting leviathans are able to starburst intergalactic distances
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.
Babylon 5 is weeks to months to cross the galaxy, depending greatly by ship. The White Stars were fast enough to cross the galaxy in around 7 weeks, but other ships were a lot slower, Earthforce ships would probably take almost years. Another limiting factor is that without a jump beacon to follow, staying shallow enough in hyperspace to not get lost would be difficult for many races. Then there is the nature of hyperspace itself, it's less like a constant 'space' and more like a storm of differing speeds of space and time. JMS himself said that certain trips were faster despite being twice the distance in real space of others.
yeah also that time they went warp 10, which was being in all points at once and they could pop out where ever. Basically just straight up teleporting.. they turn to salamanders in the process but you know, they went fast
If I recall correctly, they only mention the Prometheus travelling at warp 9.9 in the episode. but it could probably exceed that, being an experimental prototype
Then you could like Stargate too. It has a good deal of comedy mixed in as well and I think really achieves a great balance of honest, tense story telling and fitting comic relief.
@@firstnameIastname Seth was in Star Trek : Enterprise. Orville is brilliant. Its like Star trek, but if humans actually ran a ship and not "future" humans ran a ship. ;) The winner of this best be Stargate btw (I have not finished the video yet.) I say this because they manage intergalactic travel in under 14 days... But then the Aszgard come along and jump from galaxy to galaxy in 15 minutes... The first occurence of Thor in the series... he was several billion light years away and got there in a few minutes...
Honestly I did like the Daedalus class from Stargate... and I have one for you... The top 10 most terrifying ships in Syfy history... you know the ones that you see coming at you and demands the brown pants }:3
Only with Asgard weaponry. Human weapons on the Daedalus had a laughable performance against Goa'uld Hataks and did ok against the standard Wraith Hiveship. Asgard weapons on the other hand... comparable to ancient drones.
@@S4sch4_97 I don't know I think a Reaver ship from Firefly would be pretty terrifying... Low on the list but still wouldn't want to see one coming at me... Babylon 5 Shadow ships are nothing to sneeze at... I will admit 40K will probably be at the top of the list No Doubt.
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!
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.
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.
Would have been nice to see ships like the Andromeda Ascendant and the SDF Macross compared too :D Starship troopers, Honor Harrington and other movie/book based ships would be interesting as well.
Or even better, go back in time while travelling so get to your destination before you left ... ...without even considering relativistic effects. Further its also the largest and smallest all at the same time
@@JopardBDS I had thought of that, but decided that a handicap system would be appropriate given that none of the other ships has a time travel capability that operates in conjunction with their spatial displacement drives. Hence moving a TARDIS through space, using the spatial displacement drive but without the temporal displacement drive operating. TARDIS's have light speed overrides as standard (c.f. Logopolis) so relativistic effects are not an issue. They also have tractor beam systems more powerful than anything else, able to tow a black hole (c.f. The Creature from the Pit). Their force fields are also able to withstand attack from the most powerful beings (the Black Guardian, c.f. The Armageddon Factor).
No Macross as there is a Foldspace travel speed. Its not the fastest but with a large colony ship it would take roughly 100 jumps to cross the Galaxy in about 50 years. The main problem is the power demands depending on the ship.
Take a read of the full Hitchhiker series, the Heart of Gold gets outclassed pretty quickly by more advanced ships with even weirder drives. Gets to the point where you can arrive somewhere before you left and find a valet waiting to help you find parking that avoids any dramatic paradoxes occuring.
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.
Technically, the Star Gates and the wormhole drive from the end of Atlantis can move you 1000s of ly in seconds, so they would be the fastest. But then we'd have to concider the transwarp conduits in Star Trek and a few others.
The transwarp conduit at the end of Voyager took a few seconds to jump a distance, Voyager would have needed (i don't remember exactly) around 20 years or so.
I read a german sci-fi book "Quest" where they used a jump mechanic, however they had to find suitable "jump points" where space-time was already bent a lot, or something like that. It still took time "in jump" and the crew suffered form some kind of bad hangover when they exited, depending on how long the jump was. For travel to another galaxy an extra suitable and unstable jump point called a "slingshot point" had to be found. Also smaller ships in mass needed stronger jump points and thus often have to travel months at conventional drive to get to them. I thought that was a pretty cool system they came up with.
The TARDIS can end up anywhere in the universe at any point in all of time, so basically similar to warp ten (Only in that it has essentially infinite velocity, the fictional processes involved are very different)
@@HrLBolle But hasn't he also done that on purpose? Heck The end of the Five Doctors had all five of the then known Tardis in the same spot so everyone entering the door ended up in their own Tardis. And the Doctor thought it clever.
@@danamoore1788 true However I am referring to the segment with the Ponds, where by cause auf a dropped thermo- coupling the exterior shell of the T.A.R.D.I.S. drifting a couple of seconds ahead and materialising inside itself.
@@HrLBolle I think part of the problem is they don't look at all the old lore when building new lore. One thing I heard was the groan of the Tardis was the Doctor leaves the brakes on? Yet season fifteen the Minyans could use the sound to identify it as a time lord pod in materialization phase. Meaning that is the sound, not the Doctor messes up.
@@danamoore1788 first: I came aboard the WHO train with Eccleston and stayed till the end of Capaldi, mainly due to not having good enough excess to stream host with classic Who over here in DE. Yes it is a problem if the writing staff does not keep the old plot in mind while working
WH40K imperial ship? Of course not BUT.... Let me introduce you to the Necrons and their ships capable of just being teleported to anywhere on a single instanct, iirc.
@@djcuevas1057 a lore change or a missunderstood? I didnt saw many things about the necron navy ( a criminal low record of books about them), I think I saw that.
@@Huma270490 The lore in 40K is all over the place. I haven't read everything because I only got into it recently, but Imperial ships are generally as fast as the plot requires. And it has one of the best plot devices to hand wave it, travel through the Warp is inconsistent, two ships entering the Warp at the same starting point, at the same time typically arrive at their destination hours apart, but it can be days, weeks, months or years. The most extreme was a story about the Blood Angels who after failing an objective arrived to find over a century had passed from their point of view from when they departed.
@@renancervera1818 ^ can confirm. This happened in the book Nemesis. Warhammer 40k is really the fastest but only due to random chance and the influence of literal gods.
Orville: through galaxy (100.000 lys) 1 year, bewteen galaxies (2.000.000 lys) 2 years. I'll leave the math to figure out the correct calculation (10 lys/h). Hint: very wrong!
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.
Depending if you allow for wormholes Stargate's Supergate beats all (also would taking a Puddle Jumper to Destiny count in that respect as well?)
@@Drago_Whooves I would imagine the criteria here would be that the propulsion system has to be completely built into the ship. Using something external, like a gate, that doesn't travel with you wouldn't qualify. Wormhole works for Atlantis because the city ship itself is creating it each time. That's my interpretation anyway.
The only problem with that is that they needed 3 ZPMs & ain't no one have that many ZPMs
They had 3 during the finale.
The fastest ship in Star Gate is Destiny
The Expanse: "We get there when we get there, sasa que!!"
Da Bosmang
Laughs in Warhammer 40k
Oh yeah brothna
Unkess you count the ring gates which will take you preety far instantly
The ring technically makes them travel faster than light, but humans didn't made it.
"Not Thor's Asgard" ... Except the main Asgardian character in Stargate is also named Thor.
Well not the one from Marvel anyway!
And Loki was fun too! I love marvel but wait for Stargate Asgard plot!
*raises finger*
"SUPREME Commander Thor"
@@Brooke-rw8rc beat me to it 🤣
Ahem! SUPREME COMMANDER 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..."
Halo, our slip space uses folding space to decrease distance required to act like accelerated speed.
@@jonathancole5179 slipspace is a separate dimension
@jonathancole5179 pretty sure that's what the guild heighliners do.
*tzeentchian daemon heard chittering in the background*
I'm always glad to see stargate in these types of roundups it's such a good show
Yeah I got a basically complete collection, SG-1 and Atlantis aswell as the 3 movies on DVD and Atlantis also on Blu-Ray. Unfortunately in my native language (German) there was never a BD release of Atlantis so the BD's are English, but I decided to burn some German Atlantis BDs myself.
"not Thor's asgard"
*Inserts clip of Thor talking to SG1
SUPREME Commander 👆
I came here to say this. He literally was the Thor from Norse mythology, they just buffed what they looked like to the primitive humans.
Yep.. another grifter who writes his videos from wiki…but never actually watched the shows. The ancient aliens angle is the fundamental premise of the show.
The Tardis can arrive at the finish line before it left.
So can the Warp from 40k... Or it could be super far in the future... Or sometime before anyone even thought of racing with FTL, really it's all down to luck.
@@kabob0077 Just like with the TARDIS.
Bonus points for it being a nightmare beast of sentient hypergeometry mapped on a skeleton of hyperdimensional math. The rooms inside are just a comparatively tiny space hollowed out within. I'm still not sure if the Gallifreyans just found a lifeform like this and then started breeding them like horses or if they created the entire thing from scratch, but in the expanded lore we see that when viewed by beings that can perceive higher dimensions it's much less box-like and has an unspecified number of tentacles and other squelchy bits.
@@Reddotzebra neat. They did grow them, but since they had the time schism and tardis are sentient of all time and space, another possibility is they just are where they want to be at any point in relative spacetime.
@Joseph Douek That's a very Orky way to describe Warp Travel...
The time travel part of using the Warp is more of a side effect than anything.
@@Azurath100 kabob 007 is neat i agree.Yours Too. I See the TARDISes like you. they are where they want to be at any point in relative spacetime. ( Sexy knows where and when the Doctor needs to Be). This is why I dont Like S12E11 Revolution of the Darleks..... There is that One Seen.... they travel so slow....
Have a NIce Day Azurath100 and the rest of the Internet :)
*pushes up nerd glasses* But Thor IS in the Asgard in the Stargate universe!
Indeed
That little gray dude WAS Thor... or at least Thor was one of them lol
@@jordansean18 I think the dude in the image was hermioth. But yeah.
"For crying out loud..."
I expected him to say Not Thor's Asgard but Thor's Asgard. And just show a picture of the two corresponding Thors.
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
But human based ship's look like a 20yr old put it together in his garage sort of speak
@@brianlindee220 I find it reminiscent of the Thunderhawk from Warhammer 40k. Also the similarity of the ancients design to the human one was supposed to be a nod to our parallel evolutionary tree. But yeah it totally does
@@brianlindee220 in my opinion, they are some of the best looking ships in all of sci fi due to their resemblance to modern day warships.
Vertical launch missile tubes firing naquadah enhanced nuclear warheads spewing plumes of exhaust in zero-G was iconic.
Well it has glaring plotholes, from speed, weapon power, techonological capabilities, power generation, etc. But it is definitely the best sci-fi show that depicts a developing humanity, and it is also charming as fuck.
1.) The TARDIS can arrive somewhere before it even left, so that really kinda fast.
2.) The Highliners in Dune travel without moving, so...
2) The guild navigators in Dune fold space, so in essence their speed is either zero or infinite. The ships themselves are more or less just a big metal enclosure with an atmosphere.
and then there was the Blink Drive from Dark Matter, instant travel without limits to distances and no limitations from the side of who is driving the thing(doctor) or need of any special fuel like spice
It requires time to fold the space between the ends of the Heighliner. However, we have *no idea* how long or what limits to this space folding there are-or if there aren't any-so basically, no idea.
Re:#2 that's the warp drive principle. The ship is technically stationary within the warp bubble/field and space-time warped around that. Personally I've found the best representation of a warp field or bubbler is on SyFy' Ark series.
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.
to be honest, given enought energy, even Goa'uld drives were fast, we could say, Asgard drive was more effective then faster
@@patrikmodrovsky1842 Star Trek also has Transwarp drives. It was talking about the speed of the main ships i think.
Wasnt there something with exploding star and being thrown few galaxies away within seconds? And than getting back in days with replicator tech...
@@stixinst5791 yes, but there are more examples
The crazy thing about hyperspace in Stargate is the speed is limited only by power generation and of a design of ship that can handle that type of power generation. So the Daedalus class has the same type of drive as a O'Neill class ship just lack of an efficient power supply limits their speed within subspace.
"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**
@@bigredwolf6 "Sir, you better buckle up!"
"Ah, buckle this! LUDICROUS SPEED, GO!!!"
"They've gone *plaid*!"
@@X525Crossfire "WE PASSED THEM, STOP THIS THING!!!"
"We can't stop, it's too dangerous, we got to slow down first!"
"BULLS**T, JUST STOP THIS THING, I ORDER YOU, STOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"
Screw that! We're going to plad.
EMERGENCY BREAK: NEVER USE:
Huzzah! Another convert to the glory of Stargate!
Also, the Asgard ARE that lovable!
Trek got me into SciFi but Stargate made me stay. Glad to see some recognition.
@@Rocco1332 For me it was Star Wars instead of Star Trek. I didn't even touch Trek until I was already a diehard Gater.
*Most of the Asgard are that lovable.
There are a few that are... Less so. The splinter group that ended up in the Pegasus galaxy were straight up mass murderers. ...Though in fairness, that doesn't exactly make them special in Pegasus. Dealing with the Wraith drove a lot of civilizations to terrifying desperation.
@@X525Crossfire I started watching star trek, because I needed to fill the time after I finished watching stargates :)
@@tba113 Not to be *that* guy, but those were technically the Vanir; so we can exclude them when talking about the general love-ability of the little pantsless grays who guided us into becoming the Fifth Race.
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.
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.
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.
Warhammer: Same but maybe never if the Demons don't get you first.
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough Shoot, with Warhammer you might get there before you ever leave or it takes millennia, actual travel time who knows.
You could be in the warp for a day or for 15 years.
You know that really depends on who makes the jumps, humans can take for ever to get anywhere, the Covenant could from one system to next in a few days whilst the forerunners were worried that if they go to fast they'd go back in time. Aaaand possible tear apart the fabric of space and time.
We Are The Borg: WE HAVE TRANSWARP.
@Ecard Ecardian You can literally over or undershoot by years or centuries.
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!
he is in for a great ride i think
And also Macross as the Fold drives are pretty neat.
Bring Stargate, BSG and Dark Matter back!
This girl I was seeing started watching Battlestar and complained she was busy with school and couldn't watch Resurrection Ship Pt 1 until the weekend and I'm like "we had to wait 6 months you jammy cow". 😂
As long as he skips Universe. I like the cast and am glad some of them forayed it into greater success, I just think the premise was alien (in the sense it didn't fit with the franchise), the marketing was trash and alienated the fanbase, it had too many soap opera elements, and it took too long to get the show to get somewhere interesting.
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.
It is. The Red Line is the point at which it becomes to dangerous to plot. Theoretically the FTL drives have unlimited range. The issue is the human error after a certain limit or the computing power available to calculate the jump. That's why every few hour they updated the fleet coordinates because they could be so far off from the original location that blank space that was originally their is now a star. This was actually a plot point in one of the episodes in Season 2 I think. Where the new coordinates didn't send out and Galactica got separated from the fleet they had to jump back calculate a jump point with a networked computer and jump to that point.
@@zomber90 Yes I forgot about that episode.
@@zomber90 the available computing power is more of the secondary issue after the Human Error.
as the Computers aboard the Jupiter Class Battlestar christened "Galactica" were not networked most of the time for fear of infiltration by superior Cylon programs and routines.
The effects of which were shown in the episodes from when Gaeta forgot to send out the updated emergency jump rendezvous coordinates forcing Galactica to jump back along her previous vector to reacquire and re-calculate the position of the other ships, necessitating the break of protocol and establishing a network to speed up the calculation time within the minute range rather then the day range. over the course of the following episodes there where more and more equipment malfunctions caused by a Cylon logic bomb which had gone unnoticed after Col. Tigh ordered the Network to be broken.
this situation was ultimately resolved with the help of Caprica-Valerii in "Flight of the Phoenix"
@@zomber90 Yep, also on another episode, they update raptors with the cylon navigation system, they just update the way the calculations are made and be able to way longer jumps, they didnt need to touch the core of the FTL
@@zomber90 I know this is an old discussion, but I would also add that in the episode where they rescue the resistance on Caprica, one of the Raptors is reported as having jumped into the planet. I think this serves to demonstrate how the BSG FTL was, in fact, warping space.
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.
My favorite stargate ship was the prometheus.
Warp 10 only begins the slowest of Transwarp.
@@michaelcowin6442 Errr, no. Warp 10 is Infinity speed. Transwarp probably uses a completely different measurement system.
@@Andypos Transwarp is basically spacing guild shit
Everyone who does these lists forgets B5 and the speeds that the Shadows and Vorlon could get by truly navigating Hyper.
I like to forget B5 because it was a shit show. Heard one guy call it "Babble On for 5 more hours".
@@zerogrey3798How to say that you only like pew pew flashy boom boom, without saying it.
Let me guess you like the sequel trilogy star wars, post 2005 trek, and post moffat dr who over a show like b5
@@SpockBorg5 Wow someone is salty over their favorite bullshit being called properly inferior to the power of real Hyperspace drives. Just because a single Whitestar would rip the guts out of just about any ship in this video, isn't a reason to get nasty.
Dude I was supporting b5 against that first comment
"going to binge watch stargate" you won't be disappointed
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 ?
Except that the Dune Highliners could only fold space in the David Lynch movie. In the book, they used the spice to navigate in place of computers.(unless I remember the books wrong, in which case,, disregard)
@@brunozeigerts6379 the Holtzman effect was the poorly understood (by society) but reliable means of folding space. Prescience was used to see/calculate where you would end up....preferably alive. Like BSG folding space, but is folding/Jumping/blinking really count as speed? you are there then you are elsewhere travel without movement .
*Heighliners.
@@brunozeigerts6379 The books are vague and contractionary on the subject, as is the film, because the only information is from people who are not in the spacing guild and so do not know ... The Prequel novels give more details
@@I.Simmonds also in BSG they need precision corrodents to jump otherwise they would end up in a mountain like the one raptor did when they went back to caprica to rescue anders it also aloud ships moving at speed to maintain that speed when jumping like the cylon raiders making micro jumps to hit ships and run away, or like star wars end up hitting a planet. Dune guild ships could still get lost and end up in a totally different reality and or just in another galaxy with no path to fold space back because it would kill the navigator pilot.
Futurama's Planet Express ship; Old Bessie.
It doesn't count since it never actually moves. The universe moves around it.
@@JanRademan Then by that logic, Star Trek doesnt count, as it does the same thing.
@@wylandnares8642 it not a logic trick in this case, it's the operating principal of the Planet Express dark matter engine.
@@JanRademan I meant that Star Trek warp drive works by moving the space around it, not the other way around.
@@wylandnares8642
But that makes a bubble that moves through space. The Planet Express ship just straight up moves the entire universe around it
He: * mentions the heart of gold but references the bloody movie version *
Me: * dying on the inside *
me too
me too
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.
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"
Today I learned that Discovery was designed to (sigh) jettison its saucer section so that it could...pose as a Klingon D7. Looks like John Eaves or Bryan Fuller was the one on mushrooms...
@@skepticalbadger
what the hell??? 😂
where?
i have to read that
Yeah at least that's what Kurtzman and JarJar Abrums came up with while they were baked, slammed, tweaked,and in every sense tripping balls.
Insert UTS Aeon time ship
Not to be a nitpick, but nowhere was it ever stated at any point that Voyager was the fastest ship in Trek.
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
The Spacing Guild laughs at your puny inability to fold space.
We have just folded space from iX to read this comment.
still slower than Stargate and many others due to limited range and how fast you can do it
Someone had to go there to install the gate ?
And then you get punked by an emo teen with a knife, all because you can't stop huffing sh%t right before a jump.
The Zentraedi from Macross/Robotech say "We have millions of mile-long starships that can fold across the galaxy and beyond."
"Not Thors Asgard" -Immediately shows a picture of Thor.
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.
Ah... Spaceball 1... that explains why the video was longer than average.
even the President complained about the ship being too long..
When I saw him opening the model kit, I seriously expected to the next scene to see the model assembled and him prepping to paint it, followed by one with him prepping it for display.
@@Charistoph me too
Stargate will almost always have the best hypedrives
And theirs kinda make sense
Except for _Andromeda,_ which he left out - that ship routinely made trips between galaxies like it was nothing.
@@marktaylor6553 if he would count in the one episode from voyager with the warp 10 shuttle, they would arrive before the andromeda has their engines on.
Andromeda, literally just guessing where you’re going and getting to another galaxy in a few minutes.
And you can get there faster if you take drugs with your eyes.
even more they can do it in quick succession unlike most of the others on this list
If it takes the Orville 1 year to cross the Milky Way (100k light years across) and only 2 years to get to another galaxy, the other galaxy would have to be one of the Magellnic Cloud dwarf galaxies (160k and 200k light years away). Andromeda is something like 2.5 million light years away.
3 years later I grace you with my wisdom :) enjoy
@@rey2352 They're not talking about the galaxy Andromeda, they're talking about the show Andromeda in which their method of FTL called slipstream can allow travel between galaxies in just minutes if the pilot is lucky or weeks/months if unlucky.
@Sevicify i was about to say the same thing, the Andromeda from Andromeda, regularly goes between galaxies constantly, doing it in minutes.
That Asgard "little guy" WAS Thor!
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
Andromeda was great, but the visual effects inside slipstream was quite lame.
@@pflaffik in the first episode (and season, I forgot) the pilot/navigator's chair was on top or a sort of swivel-pivot joint which resembled a gimbal. Between that (which they were smart to stop using) and the Slipstream visuals it like a bit of "trying too hard". In any case you raise a fair point.
"So you're saying you need someone dumb enough? Well Thor, I think you've come to the right place!"
"Speed? Where we go, we don't need speed." -Dr. Emmett Brown
Technically, time travel has a warp factor of √-1
@@protonjinx ?
@@osirisjohnson5165 (for dummies, like myself) it means that to time travel you need to break the light speed, in this case with a given example using warp factor. Hyperdrive would serve too, as the others mentioned in the gallactica universe, Stargate... only the conversion (here is warp factor) would have a different value
Yeah! Excited for videos about Stargate!
More to come!
Indeed
"Indeed" There's also a hope for a new series ( "5 chevrons locked" SG's director tweet).
Indeed
Indeed
"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.
Firefly unfortunately only encompasses a single star system IIRC
Corny dad jokes aren't dialogue.
@@TheOriginalBlue62 You remember incorrectly. Its never defined in show, but later a group that included Whedon released a map that included 4 or 5 star systems. And that's just where they went in the show.
@@1972Russianwolf Although it was never shown in the show, there is a map created with contributions from Joss Whedon. It depicts the Firefly "Verse" as a single system with 5 main sequence stars, one of witch the other 4 orbits. Believe it also has several smaller artificial stars.
So many stars, but one system.
@@jamezkpal2361
But the best monologue, as voted by Dads everywhere....
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 :)
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.
See you in a couple years after your done binge-watching on the Stargate series.
Technically if you were able to watch the entire seriese (SG-1, Atlantis, Universe) almost back to back 24/7 it would take just under 2 weeks.
I watched everything in 3 weeks
I'm already in the middle of a Stargate session, season 7 at the moment.
@@matthewdavidson8920 Yeah but who really watches universe?
Already binged it all 5x
What about the city ship of Atlantis? It crossed half the milky way in under a fraction of a second.
That was a plot drive. Not a real drive :D It even broke after being used once
@@oninoni I don't remember it braking. Granted it used an insane amount of power and was experimental, but it was still used. Thus shouldn't it be counted?
@@oninoni actually it was the hyper drive that broke the Wormhole drive as it was called just didn't have enough power to use again.
@@oninoni it was using the same tech as stargates themselves, it used a lot of power and was a really lucky jump through a wormhole, that could had killed them or sent them to anywhere in the timespace...
And what about aurora. It is 2 times faster than daedalus.
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.
to be honest, given enought energy, even Goa'uld drives were fast, we could say, Asgard drive was more effective then faster
@@patrikmodrovsky1842 Well it was faster when modified by replicators... which well does not count that well...
Asgard warship had regular cruise ship between galaxies in about 2 days... and when they were in a hurry 30 minutes...
but as Hermiod aptly put it - such modification would likely burn out the drive if used for sustained amount of time. Given the SGA episode I think the drive on Asgard ship equally as on Daedalus could sustain it for single digit hours.
Asgard warship - being larger having more field emiiters, and more power maybe DAY?(like in that DAY it would be roughly 200 million lightyears covered...)
well question is at which time within the story you are looking at daedalus......
After S10 finale, it had all the tech asgard ever had.....
"No not Thor's Asgard." Then immediately cuts to a shot showing the Stargate Thor on screen...
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 Event Horizon made it all the way into the Warp.
“Liberate tutemet ex infernis”
Ah, Event Horizon, or as we 40K fans like to think of it as a Warhammer Movie set sometime before the DAOT and the Age of Strife.
@@kabob0077 that’s why I wrote “the Warp”
... *Ka'Banda has entered the chat*
Warhammer 40k is clearly the fastest, ships can arrive at their destination hundreds of years before they set off.
@@andysutcliffe3915 or hundreds of yeahs after
Technically the puddle jumpers are the fastest in Stargate, when they you know go through the stargate.
this nearly broke my brain. punctuation helps. lol
which brings up the question of how fast are the stargates?
@@flynnryan since they can have nearly delay-free communication back, I would think that implies near infinite speed.
@@seanmccurdy80 That's just the speed of a radio signal through the gate. Actual gate travel was faster than standard hyperspace, but it still took time.
There was one episode where they had to cut power to the wormhole at a set time so stuff would fall out of the wormhole into the middle of a star. Thus it wasn't quite instant, just really^15 fast.
The city had a wormhole drive, though the finale is best forgotten
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.
Slipstream has ability to be stupidly fast, or stupidly slow, depending on pilot skills :P
@@MehrumesDagon And a bit of luck
@@MehrumesDagon And even allows for time travel when piloted by an avatar.
Man, you put the whole Spaceball 1 scene, i love you for that XD
Great video, I'm so glad you included less popular franchises like Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. I was hoping to see the ship Andromeda Ascendant from the series Andromeda. I think it also deserves a place in the ranking of the fastest ships.
Ok sorry, BSG is not less popular. Its one of the core shows for sci-fi fans. Stargate is a little underrated imo, but BSG is well known.
@@honzasenbauer612 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend any fan of the sci-fi series. In my country, the most famous are Star Wars and Star Trek, but there are very few people who know the series Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5 and Stargate. The series Andromeda was broadcast for only 1 season on unpopular cable television. The community of space sci-fi fans is small.
@@GORGORIANEC ahh, interesting. I am not offended and no true sci-fi fan should be. its just that the majority of sci-fi community I have been in contact with have a common knowledge on Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, BSG and then it varies. Stargate would probably be the fifth on this lsit imo, but it battles with Babylon 5 and all of the other shows. and I am not really certain where The Expanse stands now
Always a warm fuzzy feeling when stargate is getting love being the fastest in the normal scifis :)
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?
I did
@@KamikazeMedias Anaconda?
@@yourstruly4817 Sidewinder xD
@@yourstruly4817 i know i'm masochist
Well they forgot Macross where the Macross Frontier colony ship would take 50 years to cross the Galaxy. So equal to the Voyager for 1000 ly jumps.
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.
I thought I’d be the only one thinking of that!
Wibbley wobbly we go faster is not Scifi, its fantasy.
@@ZacLowing there is no sci fi method of superluminal travel that doesn’t violate any laws of physics. They are all “wibbly wobbly we go faster”, as you say, because they all exist in fiction and are all powered by our suspension of disbelief.
@@ZacLowing Also that's just the Doctor not even trying to explain how the TARDIS works to the puny human minds of his companions. One would doubt how much of the TARDIS' inner workings the Doctor himself understands, TBH. After all, TARDISes are not just ships, they're entire sentient individuals who are grown, not manufactured.
Infinite Improbability?
the image you used for Battlestar Galactica is actually Battlestar Pegasus
How about the Borg transwarp tunnels? Where would slipstream travel in Andromeda rank?
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.
Or seconds if you use a Supergate.
Thats not lightspeed tho but wormholes stargates dobt really count
@@demonic_myst4503 Still got Atlantis' Wormhole drive.
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
Atlantis had 3 ZPM's not 9
@@oninoni you just know Rodney had a few squirreled away for just such an occasion.
@@oninoni i am not sure about that. Tod tells us they stole somthing around 9ZPMs and that there is atleast one on the hive, but I doubt, that the hive actually had 6ZPMs active at once fighting atlantis with its depleted three
@@stixinst5791 Todd never says how many he stole. In fact, he specifically says "There is no way for you to verify how many [he] took" so there is no point in them asking him how many ZPMs he has. The superhive also used only the one ZPM. Not 6.
and have to account for the Pegasus galaxy being 120,000 X further away than the closest galaxy to us...
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
Coincidentally, I just finished watching SGU.
It has the best drive of them all!
The destiny is relatively slow. It only got so far away because it had been traveling for 10,000 years
@@christate3523 aye but i think it may one the fastest FTL ship that does not use some sort of hyperdimensol plane for FTL just dman big engines and raw power.
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)
All the scenes in Ad Astra were metaphores, did you realize that?
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 For the distance representing nothingness and the themes of Heart of Darkness, yeah. But what else were metaphors in the film which aren't that?
@@adamlis9321 The solo (everyone else died) journey he had to make, to let his father go is one, the underground lake on Mars that he swam through is another. The monkey in the space station is another. There are more, the whole movie is metaphores stringed together with a common theme. I should watch it again now that it has aged a little, and discover more about what the metaphores mean. Normally I am not into the deep thinking movies, but this one is quite brilliant, and Brad Pitt nails it again. I actually do not consider it to be a scifi movie. It's a journey into a man's mind, with a space theme to it. When you are finished watching and paid attention, you know a helluva lot about the main character.
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.
Alwayz needz mor Dakka
The need for more dakka outweighs the needs to obey the rules of causality in 40k it seems....
@@Neognostic-pk5wuWarhammer, any Warhammer really, is ruled by cool. And you also should add a few zeros for better numbers
"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.
Where would Dune and Holtzman Effect space folding land on this list?
According to the books and movies the Holtzman effect can take the traveler anywhere in the universe instantaneously. This is provided that they have either a mathematical compiler or a guild steersman. In the books it is theorized that they could go any place in any universe instantaneously.
So, just as fast as infinite probability drive
@@augustgurtisen I'd say finite probability
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
The wormhole were natural phenomena that Crichton was using rather than an artificial drive like the rest of the things on this list. I think that the Peacekeeper Prowlers deserve a mention since in season 4 Ayrren flies hers from Earth orbit to Saturn and back in maybe just a few hours.
@@taudvore259 not to mention we also see Moya with a full galaxy in the background that we don't other times, suggesting leviathans are able to starburst intergalactic distances
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.
Galactica
*shows pegasus*
Huh, when did the Galactica become a Mercury class?
ah!
I'm not alone in my confusion then
He's just asking for us to comment about it. Probably did it intentionally for the algorithm.
I'm curious how others would rank, such as hyperspace in Babylon 5 or starburst from Farscape.
Babylon 5 is weeks to months to cross the galaxy, depending greatly by ship. The White Stars were fast enough to cross the galaxy in around 7 weeks, but other ships were a lot slower, Earthforce ships would probably take almost years. Another limiting factor is that without a jump beacon to follow, staying shallow enough in hyperspace to not get lost would be difficult for many races. Then there is the nature of hyperspace itself, it's less like a constant 'space' and more like a storm of differing speeds of space and time. JMS himself said that certain trips were faster despite being twice the distance in real space of others.
4:20 but wasn’t the USS Prometheus rated at 9.995 in Voyager?
yeah also that time they went warp 10, which was being in all points at once and they could pop out where ever. Basically just straight up teleporting.. they turn to salamanders in the process but you know, they went fast
If I recall correctly, they only mention the Prometheus travelling at warp 9.9 in the episode. but it could probably exceed that, being an experimental prototype
@@willowmillard maybe it was 9.99 but idk, I haven’t seen the episode in about 2-3 years
It was actually capable of 9.99, so yeah..... bad miss from the host there.
Finally, Stargate gets some recognition
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
9:45 it actually was Thor's asgard because one of them was called thor.
More Stargate, please!!!
Glad to hear you mention Discovery's IP theft
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.
I fully agree
Then you could like Stargate too. It has a good deal of comedy mixed in as well and I think really achieves a great balance of honest, tense story telling and fitting comic relief.
@@firstnameIastname Seth was in Star Trek : Enterprise.
Orville is brilliant. Its like Star trek, but if humans actually ran a ship and not "future" humans ran a ship. ;)
The winner of this best be Stargate btw (I have not finished the video yet.) I say this because they manage intergalactic travel in under 14 days... But then the Aszgard come along and jump from galaxy to galaxy in 15 minutes... The first occurence of Thor in the series... he was several billion light years away and got there in a few minutes...
Watching Stargate for the first time u r so lucky enjoy the ride don't forget Atlantis and universe and several movies and min series
What about Lensman? If I remember correctly the Dauntless traveled between galaxies in around 10 days.
Honestly I did like the Daedalus class from Stargate... and I have one for you... The top 10 most terrifying ships in Syfy history... you know the ones that you see coming at you and demands the brown pants }:3
So basically 10 ships out of the Warhammer 40K Universe?
Only with Asgard weaponry.
Human weapons on the Daedalus had a laughable performance against Goa'uld Hataks and did ok against the standard Wraith Hiveship.
Asgard weapons on the other hand... comparable to ancient drones.
@@S4sch4_97 I don't know I think a Reaver ship from Firefly would be pretty terrifying... Low on the list but still wouldn't want to see one coming at me... Babylon 5 Shadow ships are nothing to sneeze at... I will admit 40K will probably be at the top of the list No Doubt.
I thought Asgard Weaponry was pretty much implied lol ;3
I see Stargate, I click
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!
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.
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.
Would have been nice to see ships like the Andromeda Ascendant and the SDF Macross compared too :D
Starship troopers, Honor Harrington and other movie/book based ships would be interesting as well.
This, Slipstream can travel between galaxies in a matter of minutes. Although, it may be highly variable (up to months).
How about a TARDIS? Move through space without any temporal movement, and it's technically infinite velocity.
Or even better, go back in time while travelling so get to your destination before you left ...
...without even considering relativistic effects. Further its also the largest and smallest all at the same time
@@JopardBDS I had thought of that, but decided that a handicap system would be appropriate given that none of the other ships has a time travel capability that operates in conjunction with their spatial displacement drives. Hence moving a TARDIS through space, using the spatial displacement drive but without the temporal displacement drive operating.
TARDIS's have light speed overrides as standard (c.f. Logopolis) so relativistic effects are not an issue. They also have tractor beam systems more powerful than anything else, able to tow a black hole (c.f. The Creature from the Pit). Their force fields are also able to withstand attack from the most powerful beings (the Black Guardian, c.f. The Armageddon Factor).
No Macross as there is a Foldspace travel speed. Its not the fastest but with a large colony ship it would take roughly 100 jumps to cross the Galaxy in about 50 years. The main problem is the power demands depending on the ship.
That's still 30% faster than Voyager's max warp, so not all /that/slow.
@@berthulf theres also a 1 day fold travel/ 10 days in real space so add 1000 added days to the calculation.
You earned a thumbs up just for picking your nose when Spaceballs 1 went by 😂😂
Take a read of the full Hitchhiker series, the Heart of Gold gets outclassed pretty quickly by more advanced ships with even weirder drives. Gets to the point where you can arrive somewhere before you left and find a valet waiting to help you find parking that avoids any dramatic paradoxes occuring.
Nothing travels faster than bad news. A ship propelled by bad news however doesn't work very well and is never welcome when it arrives.
TARDIS. Can navigate both TIME and SPACE
The Time vortex goes Woooo wee e wooooooo dooooo wee woooo
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.
Yes, though it has humour it is a serious drama not a comedy.
@@daviniarobbins9298 After the first few episodes it settled down into a great Sci Fi series.
you're right, the show does stand on its own dik jokes!
Technically, the Star Gates and the wormhole drive from the end of Atlantis can move you 1000s of ly in seconds, so they would be the fastest.
But then we'd have to concider the transwarp conduits in Star Trek and a few others.
The transwarp conduit at the end of Voyager took a few seconds to jump a distance, Voyager would have needed (i don't remember exactly) around 20 years or so.
I read a german sci-fi book "Quest" where they used a jump mechanic, however they had to find suitable "jump points" where space-time was already bent a lot, or something like that. It still took time "in jump" and the crew suffered form some kind of bad hangover when they exited, depending on how long the jump was. For travel to another galaxy an extra suitable and unstable jump point called a "slingshot point" had to be found. Also smaller ships in mass needed stronger jump points and thus often have to travel months at conventional drive to get to them. I thought that was a pretty cool system they came up with.
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).
I love how if you flip this list around and remove spaceballs it become a list of least realistic to most realistic
Just how fast is the TARDIS in Doctor Who?
And ship speed in Fire Fly?
And ships in Andromeda?
Ships in Fire Fly don't exceed the speed of light at all and the series is limited to a single system.
The TARDIS can end up anywhere in the universe at any point in all of time, so basically similar to warp ten
(Only in that it has essentially infinite velocity, the fictional processes involved are very different)
The infographic showed the Tardis but didn't mention it?
She is the fastest ship simply because she can arrive before she left!
but then you may encounter the T.A.R.D.I.S. inside itself
which according to the doctor is a bad thing
@@HrLBolle But hasn't he also done that on purpose? Heck The end of the Five Doctors had all five of the then known Tardis in the same spot so everyone entering the door ended up in their own Tardis. And the Doctor thought it clever.
@@danamoore1788 true
However I am referring to the segment with the Ponds, where by cause auf a dropped thermo- coupling the exterior shell of the T.A.R.D.I.S. drifting a couple of seconds ahead and materialising inside itself.
@@HrLBolle I think part of the problem is they don't look at all the old lore when building new lore. One thing I heard was the groan of the Tardis was the Doctor leaves the brakes on? Yet season fifteen the Minyans could use the sound to identify it as a time lord pod in materialization phase. Meaning that is the sound, not the Doctor messes up.
@@danamoore1788 first: I came aboard the WHO train with Eccleston and stayed till the end of Capaldi, mainly due to not having good enough excess to stream host with classic Who over here in DE.
Yes it is a problem if the writing staff does not keep the old plot in mind while working
"not thor's asgard" *immediately shows thor from asgard*
"...the Galactica..." Shows picture of the Pegasus
Suggestion: Saruman vs Count Dooku
Suggestion: Magneto vs Gandalf
@@ivandiaz8892 Magneto vs David the android
WH40K imperial ship? Of course not BUT.... Let me introduce you to the Necrons and their ships capable of just being teleported to anywhere on a single instanct, iirc.
They can’t do that. In recent lore they are actually noted as being slower than imperial ships.
@@djcuevas1057 a lore change or a missunderstood? I didnt saw many things about the necron navy ( a criminal low record of books about them), I think I saw that.
@@Huma270490 The lore in 40K is all over the place. I haven't read everything because I only got into it recently, but Imperial ships are generally as fast as the plot requires. And it has one of the best plot devices to hand wave it, travel through the Warp is inconsistent, two ships entering the Warp at the same starting point, at the same time typically arrive at their destination hours apart, but it can be days, weeks, months or years. The most extreme was a story about the Blood Angels who after failing an objective arrived to find over a century had passed from their point of view from when they departed.
@@renancervera1818 ^ can confirm. This happened in the book Nemesis. Warhammer 40k is really the fastest but only due to random chance and the influence of literal gods.
WH40K is both the fastest and slowest FTL at the same time. So no valid as a definite answer.
Orville: through galaxy (100.000 lys) 1 year, bewteen galaxies (2.000.000 lys) 2 years. I'll leave the math to figure out the correct calculation (10 lys/h). Hint: very wrong!
The inclusion of the Orville is the goofiest shit
I love it
Atlantis has the wormhole drive which is near instant travel between galaxies