It’d be neat if they wrote it on purpose that Picard says shit like this while routinely welding a massive gun to the ends of supplying political power to the federation. Especially how, often times, the enterprise massively outguns random crappy triangle freighters piloted by the Glip Glorp of the week. There’s an interesting moral conundrum there.

Of course they didn’t write him like that, but it’d be cool if they did.