They have inherited the graphics collection from Perpetual but where Perpetual actually sensibly evolved existing designs or introduced radically different ones, often created by none other than John Eaves himself, Cryptic mostly just copies available stuff (e.g. the Klingon Raptor), adds useless junk to existing designs (e.g. that disfigured Sovereign copy) or fails to balance the designs (like their shortened Galaxy copy that always looks like it's about to topple over).
Doesn't help that Perpetual's gameplay sequences actually showed a realistic environment to immerse the player within whereas Cryptic goes for the generic MMOG look which has been done to death and then some (of course it's still in development but those scenes from the trailer looked almost like straight from "DS9 - The Fallen").
