VOY Manual · Chapter 2 · A Technical Introduction
2.37 Alien Spacecraft
Introduces the standard alien starship types established for recurring cultures and notes that new styles will be invented for Voyager's new alien races.
For The Next Generation, we established a number of standard starship types for some of the alien cultures that we encountered on a recurring basis. Naturally, we prefered to use existing ships for budgetary reasons, but we assumed that each space-faring culture had a good range of vehicle types. We will likely begin a new round of inventing styles for new alien races for Voyager, like the Kazon, though we include the following descriptions as interesting background information.