I recently purchased a Deploy Construction Shuttle Wing I as the tooltip and STO wiki page made it sound like a very useful ability for a tanky support build; 4x the healing of engineering team, and I don't even need to notice that my ally needs healed! I'm running a low level friend through many story episodes right now making this especially appealing, as their little escort is getting focused down pretty quick.

However, I noticed that my construction shuttles never seem to heal my allies (who are often damaged). Instead they follow me around continuously, and end their life by healing my ship while it's at 100%. I checked my logs to be sure and I don't actually see evidence of those construction shuttles ever healing anyone other than me, though we've only done a few episodes so far.

Are these shuttles supposed to heal allies? Is there something I can do to make them heal an ally (some setting somewhere; or should I target an ally before using them)? I'm realizing now, post-purchase, that none of the Google results really say definitively that these work on allies.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. As is, this thing is on-track to be a multi-million EC paperweight. :/