You sorta lost me here. Like I agree spaceships are often wierdly made like ships that are going to be in gravity when they never will so then its like it might as well be a sphere or cube or such and any particular area should be like the others. But the thing about the captain taking advantage of it is looking at it in a vaccum. Of course they would try to position themselves but so will the captain of the star destroyer and its easier to rotate than do a big loop. So everything else being equal its going to be near impossible to get the strategic advantage. Now star trek had a good example for reasoning around its ships. the nacelles as meant to be able to be ejected along with the engineering section. Heck the whole stng saucer seperation came from the orginal concept where the saucer would land and engineering with warp nacelles would land on the planet. They even had guidlines about nacelle placement because the area in between them is dangerous. Its not only why the federation ships were the way they were but also the reason the klingon ships wings went up and down. Seems like after rodenberry died though the designs started ignoring it.