By Jon Gutierrez

Since time immemorial, mankind has dreamed of traveling to the stars. But it's only been in the last fifty or so years that he actually dreamed of doing it in a way that didn't suck. Yep, we've come a long way since Jules Verne dreamed of mankind traveling to the moon in a giant bullet, with tons of theoretical advances in spaceship design: warp drives, lasers, hell, even windows. Here are the 15 best spaceships mankind has managed to imagine up with so far—and stay tuned for the 10 Worst Spaceships of All Time later today.

15) Yonada World Ship, Star Trek

If all that time traveling between planets is getting you down, why not travel inside another planet? (Yes, it's the rock in the background.) Yep, you can just tool around the galaxy inside this hollow world, although it’s hard to believe they didn’t know it was a ship. Especially when everything inside it looks just like a cheesy '60s soundstage.

14) Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica

Facing a foe that's too hard to beat? Well, the Galactica is essentially a spacecraft carrier, so you can just sends out swarms of smaller ships to tire out your enemy. Also, given the series' superb writing and the use of the ship as an actual character in the show, it has better acting than most spaceships, although that's pretty much just the latest one.

13) Galaxy Express 999, Galaxy Express 999

Sure trains have been fairly irrelevant for almost a hundred years, but what if they didn't have to run on rails? Well, they wouldn't really be trains, but they'd definitely be more useful. And that's what Galaxy Express 999 is, a space train that gets you anywhere in the universe in comfort and style, if not particularly fast.

12) Composite Superman Spaceship, Superman/Batman

Please look at the image above. That’s Composite Superman, a villain from the Silver Age of comic (a.k.a., the Golden Age of really fucking stupid comic ideas). Now get this: To stop a rogue kryptonite comet, Toyman (the good one) created a giant spaceship shaped like Composite Superman, which was piloted by Captain Atom, oddly. But who wouldn't want to pilot a giant 50-foot Superman/Batman hybrid? Think of all the giant stuff you could leap over with a single bound/detectify!

11) Monstarr's Space Squid, Silverhawks

Sure it's a little breezy in the vacuum of space, but there’s something truly fearsome about riding around the universe in something so messed up that it shouldn’t ever exist. Face it; is there any way to prepare for a fight against someone flying around on a robot space squid? Only by getting a giant space whale, and that’s just stupid. (Stick til the end of the video for the big squid payoff.)

10) U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Star Trek

For all-round comfort, it’s hard to beat the Enterprise-D. With tons of space, a bar and a holodeck to keep you occupied, it’s like tooling around the universe in the Mall of America. Although, with the holodecks malfunctioning so often, it’s like a mall where a gangster or cowboy could shoot you at any second.

9) Andromeda Ascendant, Andromeda)

Apart from being one of the few ships on this list to follow actual physics, the Andromeda’s also equipped with tons of robots, including a smoking hot robotic avatar equipped with a tight leather outfit, which is an attractive extra feature in any vehicle, space-faring or not. Plus, this ship contains your daily recommended amount of vitamin Sorbo. Rowr!