Yikes.
Before the free2play system was put in, you could buy another ship class/type, using energy credits, but I see now the only option seems to be:
a) Acquire 100k+ of Dilithium to buy one
or
b) Buy cstore ships, or cstore credits and sell for dilithium?
Not good

heh
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Dilithium is quite easy to get; especially since you get free ships from T1 to T5 and so can save all your Dilithium earned as your level up. I have over 1 million and nothing to spend it on.
No desire for the 5k Cryptic Points you could trade that in for?
I have one interest in the Galor. Giving it to my friend who said he would only play STO when he could make a Cardassian that could fly a Cardassian ship.
I spent $25. I got everything I wanted except for the Galor.
I made the decision to only buy keys to unlock gold boxes from this point forward.
Maybe the end-game reward will be a Cardassian player race and that will entice him to give it a shot.