Here’s a crazy idea…How about adding in a transporter on the freighter. Instead of always using our starship to get places, we can transport from freighter to the surface of a planet and from the surface to our freighter. If something goes wrong while exploring the planet we can scream " BEAM ME UP".
Heck maybe from the freighter to a space station, of course it would need a transporter room too.
Would you utilize a transporter? I know I would…