Vessel Earthship ARK

[Luke Reichelt]

Earthship ARK, for those who don't know, is the spacecraft from the Canadian sci-fi television series The Starlost. The series, created by noted sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison, boasted an excellent concept, but its production was (put mildly) a jumbled mess, resulting in a rather substandard end product and Ellison disowning the series. For more information, see the Wikipedia entry on the series:

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost[/ame]

The Earthship ARK consists of a rectangular mid-section approximately 320 kilometres long surrounded by at least 50 domed biospheres, each 80 kilometres in diameters. For reference, here's a fan-made CGI rendering of the vessel:

 

[APDAF]

It reminds me of some Freelancer stations.

 

[Luke Reichelt]

I guess you could say that, though I personally see it as being more like a massively enlarged version of the Valley Forge from Silent Running. This is not entirely a coincidence, seeing that Douglas Trumbull served on both projects.