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I am a collector of FASA, Star Fleet Battles and newer Star Trek starship miniatures, but I also like to fill in the gaps with my own crude custom ships. Here are a few with their rationale for existing.
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USS Ouranos, escort.
This is a design to use the smaller saucer section from the USS Grissom as the basis for a series of smaller Federation ship classes. FASA used the TMP Enterprise saucer for a lot of ships in smaller scales; here I imagine the Grissom saucer was earlier used for a cheap convoy escort ship powered by a TOS Era nacelle that would have held off Orion raids.
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Sheliak battleship.
I like the Sheliak as a non-humanoid species that has a minor regional empire. The Sheliak ship from TNG was a redress of the merchant man model however I took the design elements such as the paired forward modules and flat primary hull from that ship to create this custom battleship. The rationale is the Sheliak had warships that would be a reasonable challenge to starfleet. Less maneuverable but heavily armed and armored, this ship would be called in to enforce treaty provisions on disruptive neighbors.
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Ferengi D'ertgur freighter.
This is the intermediate size Ferengi ship between the heavily armed Marauder and small merchant ships or shuttles. Most Ferengi families or corporations can't afford a Marauder or other heavy ships, but one of these long-serving 280-meter freighters can support regular trade with a useful profit margin.
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Cardassian TOS and TMP era cruisers.
The Cardassians have been established as a rival to the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans, so I wanted to show how their ships developed before their first war with the Federation (pre-TNG). The Cardassian technology seems a step behind the Federation's and so they relied on tightly controlled formations of cruisers like these. The TOS-era ship, probably ranking in power between a Klingon D4 cruiser (FASA version) and D16 destroyer, has exposed deflector generators and nacelles embedded in the forward hull. It is called the Lelaug class. The TMP-era version may be equivalent with an early D7 cruiser, snd shows an early stage of enclosing the nacelles in the familiar Cardassian layout. This one is the Kelarim class.
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Andorian Tharofsor cruiser.
An Andorian ship from the Romulan War Era, not the largest class but fast and heavily armed. The nacelles are stacked vertically and the forward module is less massive. The Andorian inspired Federation designs in FASA tended to have the nacelles close together and so I imagined this would be a holdover from the arrangement in their pre-Federation warships.
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JemHadar System Control Ship.
The original Dominion 'scarab/bug' shaped light warship was one of my favorite Trek designs due to its distinct layout and color scheme, but the later, larger Dominion ships although cool, were less unique in their 'winged' layout. This is a design that keeps the 'scarab' like aft module as part of the layout of a larger Jem'Hadar ship, the SCS being a flagship for defending the Dominion's borders rather than for expeditionary fleets.
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Federation Marklin class.
My interpretation of a FASA design from the non-canon, pre-TOS Klingon-Federation "four years war". I like this one because of the central module overlaying the saucer section. I can imagine this layout being common in older pre-TOS ships, and there is a hint of this in the Shenzhou design from ST:Discovery (of course the nacelles being out of the design era, but I could imagine the more colorful livery of the ships in this show as a holdover from the colors of Romulan War era ships such as in the Starfleet Museum website...yes I feel free to mix together my favorite canon and non canon Trek designs)
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Early warp ship FaXian 2065.
FaXian was one of several starship experimental projects already in progress in the divided Earth of the early 2060s, and rushed to completion by agencies within ECON after the Phoenix flight of 2063 showed the practicality of warp drive. It therefore was a competitor to the Bonaventure, Valiant and Connestoga projects. The ship has a fusion powered warp capability, but not antimatter so is rated for non-tactical warp. It did have an advance over contemporary ships in installing a primitive structural integrity field. Made flights to several nearby star systems, but was used more cautiously after the disappearance of the similar Valiant, and survived into the 2080s
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