[General Woundwort]

I think the mod is set up where you can get certain race techs from captured ships, but not all of them. I'm currently fighting the UCP in a protracted war in my 1.7.2 game (as an imported non-ST race with General Race tech), and manage to capture their ships on a fairly regular basis. I've got Fed Phaser technology up to their current level from analyzing their ships, but not Fed Scanners.