As Designed Stellaris - First Contact did not trigger with rescue crew anomaly

[Tremnei]

Hi thanks for the report.

I am not entirely sure what part you consider to be the issue/bug?
Is it that this type of contact does not reward any influence?

 

[Tremnei]

It just felt odd as it was the first alien I encountered and it went straight to established contact via the anomaly event.

In that case its working as intended and as you say it does not seem to break any other first contacts even if its not working the same way as regular first contacts.