Were any of the spaceships on Star Trek privately owned?

I’m sure you could pick up a sweet deal at the shuttle craft junkyard auction.

In the original series basically everyone they encountered was a rich perv.
Mudds women comes to mind.

Ya, I remember one guy who had a collection of rare items, and it was definitely his. I will try and find a link.

Edit: Saul Rubinek played Kivas Fajo in STTNG’s episode “The Most Toys”. He kidnapped Data, and tried to fake Data’s destruction.

you mean the guy that tried to steal data?
The next generation 3×22 The Most Toys

Wasn’t Kahn’s vessel privately funded?

Most of the stuff in early deep space nine is privately owned.
All ferengi ships are privately owned, most of em by the nagus.

Of course there were. There were freighters owned by various species, such as the Andorians, Ferengi Trading vessels, various colonist transports, several tourist ships, two or three religious vehicles, as mentioned above, Khan’s sleeper ship, before he steals the Reliant, and a lot of research companies.

Trekkers have awoken from their slumber.

Lots and lots of them. In fact the episode I watched today on BBC America had a privately-owned mining vessel. Of course, it crashed, burned and became as useless as a red-shirted Ensign on TOS, but hey.

By the way, Khan’s ship was the first Terran impulse-capable vessel, and it was funded by a private corporation on Earth. Khan stole it when he escaped the Eugenics labs.

Most of the ships in the Star Trek universe are privately owned. One of Star Fleets less glamorous functions is like a coast guard or highway patrol. Some of the cultures: Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, etc concentrated space flight in state hands though.

Only the ones stolen by Ferengis.

The United Federation of Planets gave up the concept of traditional money.