To the OP - some clarification:
The Jefferson
Airplane were a seminal San Francisco folk/psychedelic rock band comprised of Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Signe Anderson, Grace Slick, (after Signe dropped out,) Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden. They ceased to be a band in 1973.
The first incarnation of the Jefferson
Starship was really a loose gathering of SF musicians who joined Kantner & Slick on a couple or three albums, the first of which revolved around a hippie fantasy to hijack the first interstellar spaceship and escape the confines of Earth to establish a commune in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Subsequently, during the late 70's, Paul and Grace, and sometimes Marty, continued using the name for a more commercial, but still identifiably San Francisco-in-character band which had a few tunes on the charts.
Than, in the 80's, I guess the bills came due, or Paul and Grace sensed that their last shot at super-stardom was approaching and Marty bailed and Mickey T. was enlisted and
Starship, the atrocity that Thomas now apparently claims as his own, was spawned.
The point of all of this is that the band that were responsible for "Somebody to Love", "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds", and "We Can Be Together", have virtually
no connection to the Mickey Thomas crap, save for the cupidity of two of their former members.
