Preferred method of faster than light travel?
 

I'm a fan of the Subspace Node concept from the Descent Freespace, but the
Alcubierre drive recieves honorable mention as well.

Ludicrous speed.

"They've gone plaid!"

'Nuff said.

Infinite improbability drives are the best. Just make sure you right down everyone's phone number that you meet.

Um, the "Somebody else's problem" Drive was one, if I'm not mistaken. As in;

"How'd you get from point 'A' to point 'B' so fast?"
"I dunno. That's somebody else's problem."

I personally prefer a Flux Capacitor rigged into a Delorean
Sure, you're only going around 88 MPH, technically, but you do save a lot of time - I'd never be late!

No, that was sort of an active camoflauge system. You could only see it if you were looking for it. If you didn't know what it was, it was "somebody else's problem".

There was a whole thing about painting a mountain purple...

As to FTL, I recall something about slipping through the fabric of spacetime... but I don't remember enough specifics to expound upon it.

i think the singularity drive from Event Horizon was pretty cool, too bad about that stopover in hell, though.

(edited because Kneumatic Pnight's faster response time)

How about the bloat drive? (expand your particles across the universe then shrink them again at a new center)

I'd say wormholes generators, but that can be considered FTL or not FTL, since you never do exceed the speed of light.

So, as backup, I'll go with the hyperspace drive featured in Pandora's Star. It's explained to be a "moving" wormhole, whereas a wormhole generator would be a "static" wormhole. It's FTL, so yah.

I think FTL travel counts anything that circumvents the Light speed rule as well. Since that is what most hyperspace travel does. And the effect is that you travel faster than light relative to the rest of the universe.

Black Hole technology is an interesting one. It creates a black hole in front of the ship, the ship falls towards it. The black hole is canceled and a new one is created farther ahead, constantly pulling the ship forward at Event Horizon speeds. There's also an inertial bubble around it to somehow circumvent the more speed-greater mass thing.

Or the Honor Harrington travel, Basically in normal space they create a field of gravity and anti-gravity, making the ship slip through space like a wet bar of soap. And to travel in Hyperspace they use something like a solar sail to catch the hyper energy of Hyperspace.