So this might be a little head of the game but rather you Devs start thinking about this now then later :P
i was listing to a pod cast that was throwing around ideas on interiors and a couple of things came to mind.
Being able to set a destination that may be a few sectors over and be able to go into my ship and wonder around like sickbay, captions corder's, engineering, and so forth. Well here is the fun thought you get into a deep space battle/or an enemy ship just gets too close, the ship goes red alert the side panels of where aver you are start blinking the red alert lines just like in the show, then it moves you back out for combat.
Another fun thing is getting to your destination and a crew member comes over the com "sir we have reached our destination" and then maybe a pop up with an option of going to the bridge (and moving the screen back out for normal sector space) or continue what you are doing sense you are not in danger at this time.
I think this would add a lot to those aspects that im sure are bing looked at.
Shurikenv
p.s. thank you cryptic i have been enjoying the game and cant wait for more

well done.
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Although I hope they will improve sector space, too.
I am not shooting down what you are asking but what you are asking to do based on the current mechanics of the game would be the same as your saying let me become a microbe and get into my ground avatars body and move around and while I am inside my ground avatar and let the body go to places.