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Wagon Train to the Stars
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All of the characters are on a ship that travels through space, a "space" ship, if you like. Exotic locations like Adventure Towns or the Planet of Hats are just a "hyperjump" away. The term comes verbatim from Gene Roddenberry's original pitch for Star Trek: The Original Series to NBC in the middle of the 1960s, and references the early Western show Wagon Train, which was about a wagon train making its way west. The original is now less well known than the "...to the stars" phrase, making it an example of Parody Displacement. Note that these shows need not necessarily take place in outer space. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, for example, was essentially a Wagon Train to the Stars show, underwater. The ship is often enough, as in Wagon Train, a colonization/settlement effort that never quite gets to its destination, at least until the finale. In this case, the ship is likely to be a massive, self-sustained, multigenerational community — essentially a mobile city in space, which allows making use of tropes typical to both The Quest and The Siege basic plots as the heroes both have a goal in mind and are concerned with protecting their way of life until it can be reached. If the ship has no fixed destination (e.g. Doctor Who, Firefly), then this overlaps with Walking the Earth, sharing most of the same tropes. In either case, it may feature the Bold Explorer. Compare Space Western, Space Opera, World Tour. |
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 has a spaceship ("or should we say faceship?!") | |
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Homeworld: The first game has a whole wagon caravan to the stars. Namely the Kushan fleet which gets continually expanded through the game, as the player fights their way through the galaxy to reclaim Hiigara, the eponymous homeworld of their people. There is also the Mothership, serving as the base of operations, and the only vessel which must stay alive through the game. Homeworld: Cataclysm has this to a lesser extent. Fed up with being marginalized on Hiigara, Kiith Somtaaw petitions the dominant kiithid for access to the Mothership. In record time, they design and build two command ships and an explorer ship, and the entire kiith heads into space to live as nomadic asteroid miners with the command ships (Faal-Corum and Kuun-Lan) serving as smaller versions of the Mothership. Unable to field large fleets of specialized ships, the Somtaaw are forced to improvise and borrow designs from elsewhere. For example, the primary fighter craft for the Somtaaw is the Acolyte heavy fighter, which can also launch missiles in addition to its mass drivers. The design is based on tech traded from the Bentusi (minus the weapon systems). Instead of having a separate corvette type, the Somtaaw have designed the Acolyte to be able to link with another Acolyte and become an Avenger ACV (Acolyte Composite Vehicle). With double the firepower (minus missiles), the Avenger also has an EMP emitter. It's this versatility that is instrumental in the Somtaaw becoming the only ones who can save the day against the game's Big Bad. |
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The protagonists of Saga are from opposite sides of a Forever War trying to evade authorities from both sides in their Tree Vessel. | |
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In Afu Chan and John Layman's Outer Darkness, maverick captain Joshua Rigg and the crew of the starship Charon drive toward intergalactic space to investigate the hidden truths of the outer darkness there. Every destination is severely haunted (as well as most places in between), which means that this Wagon Train to the Stars requires a large team of exorcists and mathemagicians to survive…and the ship's engine is powered by a trapped, ancient god that demands sacrifice. | |
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The second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express revolves around Doraemon and friends boarding the titular Galaxy Super-Express, a spaceship shaped like a train capable of carrying hundreds and hundreds of tourists from various planets to visiting multiple theme park worlds. | |
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The final episode of Ultra Q has the Train of the Vary Dimension, a mysterious flying train capable of travelling through galaxies and crossing dimensions into a peaceful utopia. Unfortunately, any humans who managed to ride it returns insane as they are unable to adjust to their old lives. | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross (aka the first part of Robotech) features this in a way when Macross City is rescued after a "space fold" accident and housed in the titular ship; two of the subsequent Macross TV shows, Macross 7 and Macross Frontier, take place on actual, literal stellar wagon trains (complete with collapsible roofs) intended to colonize planets. | |
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Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, in later seasons. | |
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Space Battleship Yamato, especially the "Quest For Iscandar" | |
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Red Dwarf: The last survivors of an accident killing off the rest of the crew head back to Earth. Unusually for this trope there aren't any aliens in the setting. Just robots, mutants and crazy people. | |
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Galaxy Express 999. Bonus point for having the main characters travel in an ACTUAL space train. | |
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Farscape is about an astronaut who falls in with a group of alien fugitives on a Living Ship. | |
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Stargate SG-1 has often been this, especially in its first seasons. Technically, it doesn't take place on a spaceship, but there's not much practical difference between a base that stays inside a mountain and has a gate to a new world each week, and a ship that actually travels to a new world each week. | |
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The Mass Effect series: While the galaxy has a very effective and fast hyperspace highway network and the player never quite goes out of their way to explore new frontiers, the Normandy, her crew and the assorted adventures they have over the course of an overarching plot remain the heart and soul of the series' appeal. The quarian race have been living the life of space nomads for the past 300 years. While most of the spacefaring species are organized in the Citadel Council, the quarians lost their homeworld in a Robot War and have been living on spaceships ever since, as the Geth Uprising was the result of skirting the prohibition of Artificial Intelligence too closely and tainted the rest of the Galaxy's opinion on them. They travel the stars as scavengers who salvage wrecked ships, until one day they find a way to take back their ancestral home with the protagonist's help. Mass Effect: Andromeda is taking this approach. Launched between 2 and 3, four Ark ships and a central Nexus hub station take 6 centuries to reach the Andromeda Galaxy (which, basically, means that we aren't told what the canon ending of 3 is, since it's too far away in space and time to matter), so the main characters explore a whole new galaxy with new dangers and wonders. |
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Star Trek and its spin-offs (except Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which was set on a space station) are both the Trope Maker and the Trope Codifier. The trope's name is the phrase Gene Roddenberry used to pitch the show to network executives. It's also the name of a Star Trek novel which contains pretty much this premise to the letter. For the record, DS9 was compared to another Western, The Rifleman. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Galaxy (though without the spaceship). Super Mario Galaxy 2 has a spaceship ("or should we say faceship?!") |
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Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. There is a colony ship which is traveling to another planet. Evil aliens keep attacking and damaging it, and some of the damage can't be repaired, so while they started off with 10 engines, by the end they have only one, then zero. But, they did eventually get to their destination, which was conveniently the home planet of the alien team member; none of them had any way of knowing it was beforehand. | |
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Animorphs: The journey that Marco, Santorelli, Menderash, Jeanette, Tobias and Jake take aboard the Rachel to find the Blade ship was this, at least according to Marco. We never get the details of their adventures, though. | |
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Night on the Galactic Railroad | |
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Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito is a literal Wagon Train Through The Books. | |
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Aniara: Unbuilt Trope. Martinsson's great epic predates even Wagon Train by at least a decade, and it has none of the hope and joy of later forays into the genre. Aniara is originally carrying colonists to Mars, but it is heavily implied that the Mars colonies are a "Hail Mary"-attempt to save anything of humanity from the polluted radioactive wasteland that is Earth. As the poem unfolds, Aniara receives a transmission indicating that Earth is gone. During Aniara's journey, she is forced off course and her engines damaged, ensuring that the ship is headed off into deep space with no hope of recovery, and that the only thing left for the colonists to do is to live out their days and then travel forever into the darkness. | |
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Stargate Universe fits this perfectly. | |
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Doctor Who: An old, rather irreverent, alien travels through time and space with their companions, righting wrongs and trying to not let their past catch up with them. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy (though without the spaceship). | |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) (and its 21st century Continuity Reboot of the same name) took it further by having a small 'ragtag fleet' of ships under the Galactica's protection, forming a literal Wagon Train to the Stars (well, minus the wagons anyway. And they were trying to get to Earth, from the stars, but that's not important right now). | |
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The entire premise of Honkai: Star Rail, as the name suggests, is that the player and their companions are traveling through space on a train-shaped spaceship and visiting various worlds along the way. The ship was created by a long-deceased god who organized the galaxy's network of space-traveling pathways, and the goal of the protagonists is to reach the end of the route and rediscover the god's homeworld. | |
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SF Saiyuki Starzinger (dubbed as "Spaceketeers" in the US), a sci fi retelling of the classic Asian story Journey to the West (Saiyuki) does this as well (the English dub, however, changes the Saiyuki references to Three Musketeers references). | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda is taking this approach. Launched between 2 and 3, four Ark ships and a central Nexus hub station take 6 centuries to reach the Andromeda Galaxy (which, basically, means that we aren't told what the canon ending of 3 is, since it's too far away in space and time to matter), so the main characters explore a whole new galaxy with new dangers and wonders. | |
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Kingdom Hearts makes this a prominent (and very convenient) aspect of gameplay. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The Lost Light sets off on a grand adventure to find the mythical Knights of Cybertron, and get them to help rebuild Cybertron after the war. Only they keep getting distracted by things, like crashing after take-off, or horrific monsters rampaging about the ship, or war-scarred veterans rampaging about the ship, or the ship's "genius" accidentally freezing everyone in time, or unstoppable supersoldiers rampaging about the ship. It doesn't help that most of the crew are a dysfunctional bunch of maniacs led by a irresponsible glory-hound, either. | |
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