One of the problem with the Federation, and many of their allies, is that there are actually not that many people who seem to
really understand their own tech. There are a lot of people who
nearly understand it, but they have... worrying gaps... in that knowledge.
And not a one of them has
ever read a safety standard they agreed with.
Which explains an awful lot about Starfleet and their amazing ability to get out of bizarre situations, that they have mostly
got themselves into in the first place. A lot of this is basically an accident because someone didn't read the instructions and installed the plasma conduit upside down, possibly due to it making a more interesting sound that way up...
And they're absolutely terrible at taking an idea to the logical conclusion, often coming up with something neat then getting distracted by something shinier before working out all the bugs.
Taylor and the Varga would find this annoying
They would find the Fed's constant fucking around with time travel in a half understood way positively mad, even by their
own standards. And would probably point out, somewhat forcefully, that just because
their universe seemed to allow it far past the bounds of sanity, this wouldn't be the case everywhere, so they should knock it off right the hell now before someone
really scary turned up for a word or two...