space colonization is a fantasy from the era of rapidly growing population. now that the population is shrinking at near-extinction speed, what's the point of it? the Earth is not and will never be as inhospitable to us as dystopian sci-fi depicts. even Antarctica is a better target for colonization that Mars, where the gravity is wrong, the air is poison, and the soil is poison.
This sounds a lot like the 'we want a faster horse' quote attributed to Henry Ford. Yes, if space access gets significantly cheaper people will suddenly want to access space just like people did suddenly want to take aeroplanes to distant sunny destinations for a mere few weeks once that became somewhat affordable while before that going to those places was something you read about in adventure novels or National Geographic Magazine. Space hotels will become a thing for those who can afford it, maybe those 'giant wheels in the sky' will be built as well because someone like Musk thought 'why not?'.
If you want the Vulcans to take notice, you gotta get to warp speed. Building the transporter of the parts/pieces of that kind of ship is just the first step.
Why?
Are suddenly aliens on the moon or mars and now because its cheaper to send stuff there, its now suddenly economically worthwhile to do so?