It's not about anyone being a scalie, it's a cross between "I'm supposed to be reading the text here, take this seriously" and "modernity means we don't use powdered wigs anymore"
In another universe: "Thanks for the warp core, we figured out how to turn it into a Death Star and it really helped save our bacon. Also we put them both in the rusted hulk of some WW2 battleship, best we could do on short notice"
"On the one hand it's genocide, but in the other hand I have personally benefited from the marginally less awful things this country does. Oh well, guess I don't have the right to an opinion"
Drafting of rockets is actually pretty common, it's just the Computer Aided kind