Star Trek: 10 Most Unique Starfleet Ships

10. Federation Tug Ships

Some of the strangest Starfleet ships come from kitbashing, a technique where model makers combine parts from several different pre-existing ships and other items to create something new. This method is a lot cheaper and faster than designing ships entirely from scratch, though it can lead to some interesting implications when we start to consider these ships canon.

The script for the DS9 episode A Time To Stand called for a shot of damaged Federation starships being towed away after a battle. A member of the production team, Judy Elkins, designed a Federation tow ship for this scene using several different model kits.

The tow looks fairly normal at first, but you can notice some strange details upon further inspection. The ship's nacelles aren't Federation in design, they actually come from a model of a D'deridex-class Romulan warbird, and they connect to the hull with a set of pylons from a USS Voyager model.