I joined the SFB universe at the time of the Designer's Edition. I appreciate that the original game of SFB was a ziploc bag with seven ships.
My question is, what were those original seven ships? I'd hazard Fed CA, Fed DD, Fed Tug, D7/6 combination card, Rom WB, Orion CR, Thol PC. Or possibly replace the PC with the Fed DN.
I think my article is the one quoted from BGG above, and here is the part about the SSD's in the pocket version:
6) Eight Ship Systems Displays (SSD’s).
The eight SSD’s come divided in two different sheets with four per sheet.
The eight SSD’s are:
a) Federation Command Cruiser/Federation Heavy Cruiser
b) Gorn Heavy Cruiser/Gorn Light Cruiser
c) Romulan War Eagle/Romulan Warbird
d) Base Station
e) Klingon Battlecruiser D7 or D6 Class/Romulan KR Class
f) Federation Dreadnought
g) Kzinti Strike Cruiser/Kzinti Light Cruiser
h) Federation Light Cruiser