It's hard to believe now that there was an internal debate about adding the ship design feature in which players could customize how their ships looked by adding 0-sized "extras". Ship design has become almost a game unto itself. Check out some of the starship designs from this thread. These are in-game ships designed by players.
Lots more in the thread. Check 'em out! !FROGCARE!









These are pretty sick and must have took a lot of time to design and tinker with them.