I'm all for keeping the banter humorous. And as far as Syfi immersion is concerned, these are completely alien species that we are supposed to be dealing with. We have no idea what would be considered 'serious' by their standards. In fact, it seems kind of myopic to think that all species in the universe would have the same attitudes that we do.
I would like to see the Auto Attack option get some love. I'd like to be able to set priorities for a ship in auto attack mode to target a type of ship first, within range, and another type second, etc... Also, if it would allow me to set enemy ship types to avoid while in auto attack, that would be cool, too. The scenario would be to put my medium sized ship in Auto Attack looking primarily for troop transports, but avoiding huge enemy hulls.
I don't know if this name is already used by Galactic Civ, but how can anybody leave out Magrathea?