Love these ideas. I'm very much in agreement with this. Ideally (and I only wish I had the know-how to contribute to such an effort) the dialogue trees could really saddle the bulk of our commands. I mean, seriously, let's give our Navigator a reason to live, he's old and scrambling for purpose in life.
If there was a way to scramble together a crew capable of taking multiple orders, a more interactive "clickable" interior with a TDC, and this minimal GUI... we'd be sitting pretty...