DEATH STAR
Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope
You might be thinking that space stations aren’t really space ships, but if it’s got engines to move and people manning the guns and minding the wheel, it’s a spaceship. And this—the “ultimate power in the universe”—got taken out by a snub-nose fighter with a single bomb. Oops.

DEATH STAR 2
Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi
And then the Empire built another one. Bigger and better, with wider and longer tunnels for ships to fly through and destroy from the inside-out. Maybe the Empire should’ve held a design competition or something.

U.S.S. RELIANT
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Lots of Federation vessels got blowed up over the course of Star Trek’s long, long run. But few gave birth to Genesis planets in the process.

U.S.S. DEFIANT
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
If a fella’s gonna be a captain, he needs more than Runabouts to command, so Deep Space Nine gave Benjamin Sisko the Defiant, a balls-to-the-wall warship, complete with a Romulan cloaking device. Still, all the ablative armor in the galaxy isn’t going to stand up to the amassed firepower of the Dominion. Pretty ship go boom.

U.S.S. CYGNUS
The Black Hole
When you’re commanded by a madman who wants to plunge into the heart of a black hole, destruction is pretty much all that’s on the menu, innit?

SERENITY
Serenity
Yes, I know: Serenity gets repaired at the end of the movie. But before that, she crashes—hard—on Mr. Universe’s broadcast station, snapping off engines and crunching the superstructure.

WAR ROCKET AJAX
Flash Gordon
If you absolutely, positively, desperately need to stop a wedding between an intergalactic despot and sweet Earth girl, you could do worse than kamikaze a war rocket into it.

THE LIBERATOR
Blake’s 7
No matter how awesome the ship, how smart the artificial intelligence that runs her, flying though a swath of corrosive space mites will seal the deal, no matter what.

STARSHIP DAVE
Meet Dave
It sorta crashed-and-burned Eddie Murphy’s career comeback, didn’t it?

BABYLON 5
Babylon 5
With peace among the various races and cultures at the heart of J. Michael Straczynski’s universe, this diplomatic waystation is no longer required. So, as gets done with ships that outlive their purpose, it’s destroyed ... after a final visit by its most enduring commander, John Sheridan.

BATTLESTAR PEGASUS
Battlestar Galactica
Of the two Battlestars we see in the reimagined series, Pegasus was clearly the prettiest, newest, more advanced. And yet, when rescuing the captured Colonial refugees from the Cylon-occupied surface of New Caprica, it’s the ship that get sacrificed to ensure Galactica’s escape. Well, it’s not like they could change the name of the show... .

U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC 1701
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
And then there’s the time that Captain Kirk blew up his own ship to kill the Klingon bastards who, previously, killed his son.

U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC 1701-D
Star Trek: Generations
Again with the Klingons. This time, they jack into Geordi’s VISOR, spy the frequency of the Enterprise’s shields, and go to town. Then Troi, showing off her skills at the helm, crashes the saucer section into a planet.

TALYN
Farscape
I’ve been told by reliable sources that this living, sentient ship starburst himself to allow the crew of his father-ship, Moya, to escape the Peacekeeper Command Center. All of which sounds awesome. I may have to check this show out.