It seems it would be useful if one could "right click" on a ship in space and bring up a list of the possible commands for that ship to use.

Maybe this can be done already and I just don't know how, but I would like to be able to click on a ship, such as a scout, and then just be able to automatically follow it as it moves across the screen?

In a recent test the "bad guys" apparently eliminated my scout ship -- I was not aware of where/how -- is there some option I should of set?