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by Charli Carpenter

26 September 2013, 2306 EDT

ships

Originally circulating as “Every Sci-Fi Starship Ever In One Mind-Blowing Comparison Chart,” there are some pretty important gaps in this picture, including (allegedly) no Serenity and nothing from Spaceballs. Still, a noble endeavor. If you haven’t already seen them comments at Kotaku are fun to read.

Charli Carpenter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of 'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights
Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia, 2010), and ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Setting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell, 2014). Her main research interests include national security ethics, the protection of civilians, the laws of war, global agenda-setting, gender and political violence, humanitarian affairs, the role of information technology in human security, and the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.

Charli Carpenter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of 'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights
Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia, 2010), and ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Setting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell, 2014). Her main research interests include national security ethics, the protection of civilians, the laws of war, global agenda-setting, gender and political violence, humanitarian affairs, the role of information technology in human security, and the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.

5 Comments

  1. kerokan
    kerokan on 27 September 2013 at 06.06 EDT

    Serenity is there at the mid-bottom, to the right of that giant Independence Day ship. It is labelled Firefly/Serenity.

    • Charli Carpenter
      Charli Carpenter on 27 September 2013 at 10.28 EDT

      huh. i still cannot see it though on this computer my resolution is too poor to read the labels and in terms of scale it must be super tiny. i will update the post to read “allegedly” no Serenity since this is a common complaint on the original post and will withhold judgment until i can see better. thanks!

    • Jmulich
      Jmulich on 27 September 2013 at 12.26 EDT

      Yep, I see it too. Happy to see they have all the ships from Legend of Galactic Heroes on the chart. Fun stuff.

  2. SciFiNerd
    SciFiNerd on 27 September 2013 at 12.38 EDT

    I can’t see any Stargate ships, but my resolution is fairly poor

  3. Noboru Akimoto
    Noboru Akimoto on 9 October 2013 at 15.51 EDT

    C’mon, Charli, any chart that calls ships from Macross as being from “Robotech” deserves to be shunned and mocked.