While separating the two, give tridents more station abilities like transferring cargo between ship and hold. Also allow ships to be reconfigured while docked.

I think these tweaks go hand in hand with the current discussion.

Man you are really hoping it up in here. +1

Yes and yes again! +1 The ability to transfer cargo between ships while docked would be awesome, and convenient!

+1 rip out a trident's engine and it becomes a temporary station, till it runs out of power and life support dies :P

Actually I see the two aspects of Trident adjustment as interdependent. If you separate cargo and docking, you then make loading and unloading a trident that much more tedious and 'not fun' than it already is.

On the other hand, when a ship is just another piece of cargo that can't be accessed directly compared to how you can interact with ships in a station, I don't see a viable method of transferring cargo or modifying ship configurations.

Which is why I propose that if GS does this, that both be done at the same time.