As to seeing the ship frozen in time... This is hard to grasp for the following reasons:

The ship starts out a minimum set distance from earth in space. Lets just say this point provides an instantaneous image for our viewing pleasure.

At this motionless state, it is emitting a constant light image of the craft which is traveling at roughly 300,000 km/s. The coordinates of the ship is the source point for all the light providing this image.

The ship kicks into light speed, ignoring acceleration time.

One second later, the ship is 300,000km away, and the object that was providing the image is no longer present in the same spot.

The light once provided by the image must reach us and then change relative to the ship's motion. How can the ship appear frozen in time if it is no longer present?

If the ship away from us at 300,000 km/s and light moves toward us at 300,000 km/s, we should experience a time dialation, but we will still see the object receeding.

Consider a fighter plane moving away at 500 m/s and firing missiles aft at 500m/s every one second, just as the ship/light traveling at indentical speeds in opposite directions.

1s - 1st missile position 500m
2s - 1st missile position on target, 2nd missile postion 1000m
3s - 2nd missile position 500m, 3rd missile postion 1500m
4s - 2nd missile position on target, 3rd 1000 m, 4th 2000 m

1X ->

2X- ->

3X - ->

4X- - ->

5X - - ->

Missiles arrive every 2 seconds even though they were fired every one second.

Now given an infinite number of frames of course with actual light and ship, but would this not be the way it happens? Wouldn't we see the light of ship in 1/2 time elapsed and not frozen?