Reminds me of a scene from a low budget alien knock-off called
Alien Terminator from about the mid 90's. Although the people were in a lab beneath the surface of the Earth instead of a space ship, but it still had that low budget space ship look to it. I remember it had a scene similar to the one you describe
See if any of this looks familiar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfvMi-bhuv0