10 Legendary Star Trek Kit-Bashes
5. Yeager-class
The Yeager-class ship is, perhaps, one of the most hated designs in this writer's estimation. That doesn't change the fact that there's a model of it sitting on the desk, taunting me. The Yeager-class is, simply put, Frankenstein's Monster, in starship form.
The model was designed by Gary Hutzel and was built using commercially available models of the USS Voyager and the Maquis Raider. Additional warp nacelles were added at the tips of the Raider's wings, before this ship was released into the wild.
It would go on to become one of the most oft-seen, though never in close-up, kitbash ships in Star Trek, as it was used in stock footage for much of Deep Space Nine's fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons.
Mike Okuda was a fan of the ship, praising the fact that Hutzel opted for a silhouette immediately distinguishable from the earlier Next Generation-era ships. Variety may be the spice of life, but that doesn't mean one has to like it!