What’s the fastest spaceship?

[Morrus]

In sci-fi pop culture, what’s the fastest?

(Time travel doesn’t count — obviously the TARDIS can arrive before it leaves)

 

[J.Quondam]

Spaceball I can cruise at "ludicrous speed".
That sounds pretty fast.

 

[J.Quondam]

Here's an infographic comparing some realworld object speeds (well, accelerations, actually) and sci-fi ships:

New infograph charts the fastest sci-fi ships in the universe

Which streaking starship has the greatest need for absolute speed? Race inside to find out!

www.syfy.com

 

[Benjamin Olson]

The Infinite Improbability Drive ship from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as it can go infinitely fast.

And for anyone who wants to say "well that's just comedy" I refer you to one of the contenders for fastest Star Trek ship, the experimental shuttlecraft on Voyager that went so fast it turned Tom Paris into a newt (he got better), and challenge you to say how that isn't also just comedy.

 

[MarkB]

The Infinite Improbability Drive ship from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as it can go infinitely fast.

Technically it doesn't go fast at all. It just goes through every point in the universe simultaneously.

 

[Mallus]

Culture ships are pretty fast, right?

 

[payn]

The Event Horizon with it's experimental gravity drive?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Infinite Improbability Drive ship from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as it can go infinitely fast.

And for anyone who wants to say "well that's just comedy" I refer you to one of the contenders for fastest Star Trek ship, the experimental shuttlecraft on Voyager that went so fast it turned Tom Paris into a newt (he got better), and challenge you to say how that isn't also just comedy.

Anything that happens to Tom Paris is, by definition, hilarious.

 

[Rabulias]

Yes, but did any of them make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs?

 

[Davies]

The ships employed by E.T.'s people are capable of travelling three million light years in the span of a few weeks. They're in the running.