How is the 'game start' dialog *still* showing up on load?

Is it *really* intentional that every time you load a game you're struck in the face by such a terrible bit of continuity? Oh yeah, we just got hyperdrive... four thousand turns ago. Why doesn't it at least use the most recent quarterly report?

It really is a giant sign in the game saying 'indy software is unpolished'. You might be about to win an immense universe, but hell, human creatures just gave us the 'secret' of 'hyperdrive' and 'on this day' yadda yadda.