Well I just got my copy...
the whole book sucks.
...NOT! It is amazing!
First of all, I think it is a bloody shame that Don didn't get the proper credits for his work. How can Decipher make such a blatantly stupid mistake like that ?!?!
The book is very expensive; it cost me $56 Canadian bucks (with tax) BUT it is hardcover; high quality/all colour and even the starship drawings don't suck like in the SOM. But more importantly there are tons of useful info and each ship gets a very thorough treatment. The new material is extremely well organized and written, with plenty of examples to illustrate the new material. As someone else pointed out the new rules and systems add more detail and a bit more complexity to the basic rules but they are shoe-horned seamlessly. Contrary to the SOM where whoever did the ship stats was on hard drugs, the ship stats in Starships hold up very well (IMVHO). I did spot however a few minor points that could be contentionable, like the over-armed Ambassador and the under-armed Vor'Cha but otherwise nothing really major. And this time the actual text matches up the stats very tightly. The selection of ships (no surprise there as the contents where known prior publication) is excellent, being a good mix of most major ships we have seen on screen, different powers and different eras.
Lastly I couldn't help chuckling at the irony of having the ghost of the FASA STRPG creep up in Starships. IIRC Don was told to use by "Da PowerzTM" Starship Spotter (yes, the El Crapola book that wished it were of the same quality as 'Starships') and Starship Spotter is based on fan-made material which (you still follow me here?) was in turn based on FASA material. Hence the Klingons having KP-5 torpedoes or the Federation having FSS shield systems.
Well in short this is a thoroughly excellent book.