Yeah I thought so.. but it felt like they were throwing me into the mysterious "ship dungeons" all of a sudden for a class selection.

Really though, it doen't feel like a flashback at all. Maybe simple skill selection screen is a better idea. TBH, if I was playing a commercial game, I wouldn't be walking around talking to different random NPC's since that's the first thing we have learned to avoid in such games since NPC's don't have anything interesting to say if they don't have an exclamation mark floating overhead.. *hint* *wink* *hint* :P