Have you tried
www.strategyplanet.com/sfc/omega/fleetdock13/ - has TOS/SFB ships, or
www.red-rock-cafe.5u.com/ - sfc links.
The SFC ship data base (I'm assuming you mean the ships not thier game stats) is in the assets\models directory - each ship has its own folder. There are some viewers and converters available on various websites, although the viewer I have doesn't work too good due to being unable to zoom out, but I havn't had much trouble playing a single battle and taking top view screenshots with the zoom set for sufficient detail, and the portraits by switching to chase mode with target traking off and directing the ship to head toward the bottom of the variable screen (one below weapon panel) on the control panel.
Re: Species 8472 done, and in the downloads section
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