But you can buy fleet passes.
Everyone gets an emergency fleet pass and that's all they think they have, but if you sign up to get a security key (it's free if you do it through your smart phone android, or ipad/iphone) - then you can go to the security key vendor and buy fleet passes with 1 hour cool downs (vs. 24 hours for the emergency one) for 1k credits each.
You can also buy the slave girl outfits to turn your female companions into hookers, and you can buy a 1.5 million credit speeder, and some other stuff, like a jukebox android, etc.
Anyway, I can't stand the space travel time sink so this was worth doing for me anyway.