Suppose you could mail 607 over to Arizona in a series of Jiffy Bags?
I think you said it all - the "Powers That Be" are simply disinterested in such things. That would be sad enough, but I'd still like to know what idiot imposed the rule that called for all stations to have just one gate guard, so that Waddington had to destroy the Black Buck Victor that was originally preserved with the Vulcan. What was the point of that? Was he trying to score some brownie points with his superiors?