I just passed this mission, however I don't think I should have. In the mission you have to find princess lea's corvette. Next a shuttle with the death star plans shows up. Then a star destroyer shows up and launches a ton of gunboats. I thought the shuttle needed to dock with the corvette, however when I played the mission the gunboats would quickly disable the shuttle no matter how fast I was attacking the gunboats. I would restart the mission over and over again. Finally I wondered if the corvette would dock with the shuttle while it was disabled so I stayed and fought the gunboats after they disabled the shuttle. After a while the corvette hypered out of the area and I got the mission complete note. The shuttle and corvette never docked and the shuttle was still sitting there with the Death Star plans. I finished off all the gunboats and I kept getting the mission complete note so I hypered out of the area and was treated to the cut scene and the official mission completed screen.

TLDR shuttle and corvette did not dock and I still got mission complete.

So what is going on here? Is this a glitch for the 98 version or something?