Baby Billy's 'Silver Bullitt'

ARTIST: William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Senior.

COMPANY: Argonaut-GreyWolf.

YEAR: 2010

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PROJECT: A commercial warp drive shuttle cruising an outback island continent on Alpha Centauri A, Planet IV 'Gaiea'" locates the wreckage of the old Alpha Control Jupiter 2 Launched in October of 1997 and for which was missing, presumed lost, until it, a family graveyard, and the family homestead, long abandoned are found in the center of a dense and steaming dinosaur jungle.

MEDIA: This "Sketch-a-Doodle" was sketched in black Higgins India ink, Bic ball point pens in red, blue and black with Prisma pencil touch-ups.

MY FASCINATION: The Coors Light "Silver Bullet" concept of a rocket ship built like a beer can crossed with a big fat 9mm shell. Imagine applying and then grafting cylindrical "Star Trek: The Original Series" Class F shuttlecraft nacelles onto a polished and mirror-reflective silver cylinder with the front end of the bullet being reminiscent of the old Flash Gordon Doctor Hans Zharkov and Emperor Ming of Mongo interplanetary rocketship shuttles.

MY PERSONAL PROJECT: To have Starfleet or the Federation Commercial Design Bureau--or Seven-of-Nine Onnica or even one of Noonian Song's android "Boyz" resurrect the basic "Flash Gordon" rocketship designs from the 1934 Newspaper Comics pages as well as the old serial film reels from Old Earth Calender 1936 through 1943.

She'd make a bad ass trading shuttle as well as a special missions "Galactic Geographic" stringer for "Universe Today" or "Newsverse." Imagine some young, talented and very frustrated twenty-fourth century engineering student at Starfleet Academy's School of the Engineering Sciences tripping across some old library from Oldtown Cincinnati containing vintage sports magazines from around 1991 and seeing the Coors Light "Silver Bullet" magazine ads and realizing, "I can build my own real life Zharkov Rocketship shuttle."

Imagine how this shuttle enjoys a three-crew person forward cockpit riding around its centralized navigational deflector with a master bed suite up above the forward flight deck and a large circular loading hatch that opens up in the stern between the two impulse engine exhaust nozzles. Sporting only one warp core, she can handle three additional passengers and assorted small packed cargo stuffed within and around the various propulsion engine housings.