Actually, I am torn in two directions here.
On one hand, black holes sure sound cool and all and some form of "terrain" aside from nebulas will come in handy.
On the ohter hand, I simply can´t forget that a black hole is just mass. A black hole of, say 5 sun-masses, is no different (from a gravitational point of view) than a star of 5 sun-masses, except for the fact you can get closer to a black hole than to the star unless your ship can stand to be _inside_ the star.
There also is no differnce whatsoever if this source is a star or a black hole in terms of movement.
My ship either can generate enough thrust to get away from it or not. If it can, no problem, if not, my ship dies. Again, there realy is no difference, if the ship dies when it is pulled into the star, or when it is ripped apart by the tidal forces approaching the black hole.
Of course, there may by all kinds of things generated by the black hole, radiation peaks, jets, gamma ray burts, you name it.