Klingon D7 Battlecruiser Transitional Refit 1979

ATTENTION ESTEEMED STAR TREK ARTISTS: For Doug Trumbull, RIck Sternback, Andy Probert, Tobias Richter, John Eves, Doug Drexler and the spirit of the late and much-beloved Matthew Walter Jeffreys along with all you other amazing pros associated with the "Ships of the Line" calendars, the films and all the new series: Some of us fans were drawing by hand with office supplies many of our favorite starships and FTL-capable spacecraft from memory in our high school classes. These were drawn all the way back in 1979. FROM MEMORY.

THE PRE-CLASS PRE-ASSIGNMENT: Art teacher Ernesto Guerrero stated the plan he had to use special renders made by myself and three classmates already earning money for our artwork, as in four pre-assignment examples for the big assignment:

"For End-of-the-Semester Extra-Credit, you four paid professionals still in school are going to , sit down and you have today's one full class period to draw out or at least rough-out a single vehicle conveyance of some kind. It can be a plane, train, boat, automobile, funny car, racing car, truck, helicopter, or even a spacecraft. It can be fictional or real, but must be a machine system conveying an operator and passengers or crew. You may use your pens, pencils, paints or inks--but no straight edges, French curls, templates or other assistance. Your drawing must be totally free hand and FROM MEMORY. I intend to show your sketches to the others and make them all follow your lead."

P.S. Our art teacher had already heard of an up and coming new car artist--Chip Foose--who was already making a name for himself drawing classic cars up in Santa Barbara, California even though he was only a high school Sophomore at the time.

DRAWING LOCATION: Ernesto Guerrero's Art Class tables at Dana Hills High School, Dana Point, California.

RENDER METHOD: Drawn freehand from memory on high school hot-pressed drawing paper with no model kit materials or pictures of the Klingon Battlecruiser on hand. My render was executed with with blue and black BIC pens, one non-photo blue Prisma pencil and Pentel colored ink felt-tip pens. I also needed some white correction ink and white acrylic for a few boo-boos.

RENDER DATE: Friday Morning 07 DECEMBER 1979, Pearl Harbor Day.

MODELS: A collection of photo images and a number of the Classic AMT Klingon Battlecruiser model its at home.

SUBJECT: The film's opening sequence with three Klingon K'Tinga Battlecruisers approaching the "VGER" energy cloud. This was an additional, older model, the Klingon D7 Battlecruiser Transitional Refit that arrived later on after the artificial phenomena had passed through.

MOVIE: "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," distributed by the Paramount Pictures Corporation.

RELEASE: Thursday night, 06 DECEMBER 1979

DIRECTOR: Robert Wise.