What's that got to do with it, DE? That's not taking artistic licence with reality, it's playing with the conventions of the medium (it's borderline but I'd even count sound-in-space as this); and in any case, Spielberg did have a reason for making Schindler's List that way. Showing physical things in a physically impossible arrangement, or one which violates continuity, can't be excused by "artistic licence" unless it makes a point. The only way I can see that applying here is if it made the ship more menacing, say, than a realistic shot would. It can be excused by "limited effects capabilities", and if we have the ability to correct it, we can.

I'm not demanding absolute realism. What matters is not that the film be realistic but that it be believable, and continuity or spatial violations can stretch that for some.