This Franz Joseph (full name Franz Anton Joseph Schnaubelt) was born in Illinois on June 29, 1914, growing up to enjoy a 30-year career as an aerospace design engineer, working for aircraft manufacturing company Convair. In 1973, his daughter Karen invited him to accompany her to the inaugural meeting of STAR San Diego, a new fan club at San Diego State University. When he arrived, he discovered that many of the members had created their own models of various Trek vessels, made from cardboard, balsa wood, and such. According to him, “the workmanship was pretty bad any way you looked at it.” He told them they could do better.
Anxious to prove his assertion, Joseph went home and drew up an architectural drawing of a communicator. When the fans saw the drawing, they began creating lists of all the technology they wanted plans for and, as he was perusing the list, Joseph realized it could fill a book. It was then that the Star Fleet Technical Manual was born, at least in concept.
Joseph drew up a number of plans, including those for the USS Enteprise and a starship called the Dreadnought. On a whim, he sent them to Gene Roddenberry, who enthusiastically recommended that he approach Lincoln Enterprises about creating a Star Trek technical manual. Lincoln Enterprises, as you may know, was a mail order company under the Roddenberry Productions umbrella.
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