The use of insulting language does not guarantee a response from me.
What it does guarantee is contempt.

It also takes a breathtaking degree of stupidity to want to take on a
writer, any decent writer really, in a written medium.

Re: the question at hand...no there was still plenty of room for docking.
It's hard to gauge distances because of the sheer *size* of the station and
the cruiser.

jms