Not quite useless, and you can get them by doing only 3 missions. No Dilithium (Aegis), don't cost 15 EDCs which take 15 runs on STFs (Borg), and finally they don't take major grinding of STFs unless you get really lucky (60 EDCs MK X MACO/Omega/Honor Guard).

So while I don't like them being moved, it's still a very easy way to get a nice set.