What was the first fan-designed Starfleet ship?

[Masao]

As a result of an email discussion with a visitor to my website, I got to wondering what was the earliest fan-designed Starfleet ship? I know that Franz Joseph opened the floodgates to all manner of kitbashed ships with the Star Fleet Technical Manual (published in November 1975), but did fan designs come before it? (Edited to remove inaccurate info) I designed some of my own ships after seeing the robot cargo ship and USS Huron from TAS (October 1973 and September 1974, respectively), but, of course, I was just a kid and never published them. I imagine other people were doing the same thing. Does anybody know?

Edited to add: published or unpublished, I'd like to know.

 

[sojourner]

Impossible to answer. You might come close to what the first publicly presented fan design is, other than that, I am guessing kids were drawing stuff before the pilot episode finished airing.

 

[Masao]

Yes, I mean PUBLICLY presented fan design, but I'd like to know about unpublished stuff as well.

 

[Vance]

Bjo would probably have something from the pre-Concordance work. (I know Brian Pimenta's Antares is a really old design from around then.) Most of the fan works I've ever seen post-date the Technical Manual, though.

 

[Mysterion]

Bjo would probably have something from the pre-Concordance work. (I know Brian Pimenta's Antares is a really old design from around then.) Most of the fan works I've ever seen post-date the Technical Manual, though.

Did that design appear in the original fan-published version of the Concordance? I don't see it in the 1976 Ballantine edition, but it does appear in the 1995 Citadel Press edition.

 

[Wingsley]

Looks like it's easy to conclude that FJ did it first with the 1975 Tech Manual.

If you look at it that way, you can take your pick between the Saladin/Hermes, the Federation and the Ptolemy.

 

[Starship]

I remember drawing my first sketch when I was in 10 years old (1975), and it was a mix between the Enterprise and K-7.
The first one closest to the "official" that I can remember (at least in Brazil), was a carrier published in a brazilian magazine after Star Trek - The movie (1977).

 

[Psion]

I remember drawing my first sketch when I was in 10 years old (1975), and it was a mix between the Enterprise and K-7.
The first one closest to the "official" that I can remember (at least in Brazil), was a carrier published in a brazilian magazine after Star Trek - The movie (1977).

Not to be a pedant, but if you mean Star Trek: The Motion Picture, that came out in December of 1979. Did they air episodes of the original series edited into a movie in Brazil?

 

[Starship]

I remember drawing my first sketch when I was in 10 years old (1975), and it was a mix between the Enterprise and K-7.
The first one closest to the "official" that I can remember (at least in Brazil), was a carrier published in a brazilian magazine after Star Trek - The movie (1977).

Not to be a pedant, but if you mean Star Trek: The Motion Picture, that came out in December of 1979. Did they air episodes of the original series edited into a movie in Brazil?

You´re right. I wrote 1977, but the correct is 1979. Post corrected.

 

[Vance]

The first one closest to the "official" that I can remember (at least in Brazil), was a carrier published in a brazilian magazine after Star Trek - The movie (1977).

Was that the "Legion" class? Basically a quad-nacelle ship with an octangular shoe-box for a secondary hull?