I tried that, the only problem is the shields are defaulted on this sort of oval shape with the longer park always being bow to stern, and not top to bottom like a starbase should have. Furthermore, if the ship is proportionally wider than it is longer (i.e. Klingon Neghvar), then you really have to boost the ship size for it to encompass everything, and by the time you do, it kind of looks ridiculous. BUT, in the first version released of SFC3, the game automatically corrected for all this.