There are other card cruisers like the brutus which we felt would make better cruisers. The Galor didn't go without love though, it is a heavy frigate. We knew that some people would disagree with the Galor as a frigate, but lets face it, Cards are limited in ship designs, so we had to go with non-canon ships. However, we felt the non-canon ships would make better cruisers. I also felt that making the Galor too light would cause issues, so i made it a heavy frigate instead.
Lets face it trek is all non standard, if we don't make a line of which ships are which, then every ship would be considered a cruiser, and whats the fun in that? go lookup databases and see which canon ships are frigates, cruisers for each race. You'll find just about every limited ship directory is a cruiser. for some examples
Klingons:
Vorcha
kvort
Brel (if youu account for all its refits its also a cruiser) most common ship in production
D7 (still used in the fleet if you account for its upgrades its also a cruiser)originally a cruiser in TOS, TMP
maurader
federation explorer classes (cruiser)
miranda
constitution
constellation
intrepid
defiant (escort class) heavy cruiser
Romulans only currently have 3 ships canon none are cruisers
warbird, valdore (both are battleships)
talon (shuttle)
most of the canon dominion ships are battleships and 1 frigate which is so OP it should be a cruiser
Cardassians:
Galor - Destroyer aka heavy frigate
Keldon - Heavy Cruiser
Hideki - frigate
so if we don't do some normalization no one would enjoy the mod. Remember that trek equals constant inconsistant data!