The Kid Finally Sees the Concorde...30 Years Later

The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde Supersonic Transport (SST); this one retired at the The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. As a kid I used to dream about this beautiful, swan-like vessel, but as we never made it back east on our family vacations, and never went to Europe, I had to make do with plastic model kits and Airport '79: The Concorde. So it was a pretty cool experience when, driving aimlessly around Seattle recently, I pulled over in the dark to take a cellphone call and realized the jet's nosecone was practically suspended over my hood. This picture was taken the next day, using my Mustang for scale.

The Likely Story...

...The Arched Brow of Doom

Mom (Mary Lee Spitzer) in Madeleine Albright mode. Mary Lee was an archetypal example of a how to be loving while keeping the B.S. detector dialed to "full."

J.J. Abram's (Not Gabe Koerner's) Enterprise Unveiled!

CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW Okay, so I'm a lying bastard. Actually it's an extrapolation on what little we've seen in the official teaser by one Jude Xavier. But I'm in agreement that what we see in the movie come Summer 2009 ought not look too different from this, which is absolutely beautiful. We already know the warp nacelles will be a bit large (she's what my buddy Tim used to call a "Big-gunner Babe," er, back in the day). But this is essentially what I was envisioning when I created my poor, tortured Photoshop Frankenstein below. She still needs a little smoothing out, and something done with that deflector dish--something similar to the Big E from ST:TMP, but lit gold--but man, this one's good. Retro but new--isn't that the whole point? Let's go for a ride!