This may have been discussed already. I'm getting a little motion sick watching my ships 'wobble' on the hex background. Having the ship turn and move into the hex and then again to another hex is more than a little off-putting to me. In fact, I've stopped watching the screen during ship movement because it is just so damn annoying.

Could ship movement not just be a fluid motion that starts in one hex and ends in another without turning and moving into each intervening hex? Perhaps more like Civ5 with the grid turned off? The current motion reminds me of a star fleet battles paper hex board with ship counters being manually hopped one hex to the next. 

I get this is a minor nit. Still the most objectionable thing I could find so far in an otherwise good Alpha. Definitely unfun, but good.