Speaking of Data, his existence anywhere near that ship’s bridge is a humongous breach of all sorts of security to begin with. He’s a not-very-well-understood piece of tech that’s been proven to have at least one hidden backdoor into his brains that can let others assume direct control over him and use him to do some exteremely dangerous things. Letting him into the bridge of such an important ship and giving him such high clearance is just insane.
But of course why worry about Data given the captain himself and his history with the Borg. In other words it’s Star Trek, so whatever. The show must go on.
But wouldn’t the computer then a) never recognize any command given by Data (as Data)?, and 2) not recognize any command from Data pretending to be someone else because that someone else is elsewhere in the ship?
As an android he could in theory fake the biometrics the computer looks for, his design is organically inspired, hence why he breathes for temperature control and has a blood analog flowing through his “veins”
I mean the fact that la’ans family still has the surname is some pretty dark storytelling in a watsonian sense. Normally they’d change that shit in a heartbeat. The fact they haven’t suggests a preventative mechanism, probably for monitoring purposes. There’s also the bigotry exhibited during Una’s trial right down even to Bashir’s. Humanity has some deep fuckin’ trauma there
It’s a voice print, so it doesn’t matter who else knows it. Unless it’s Data.
Speaking of Data, his existence anywhere near that ship’s bridge is a humongous breach of all sorts of security to begin with. He’s a not-very-well-understood piece of tech that’s been proven to have at least one hidden backdoor into his brains that can let others assume direct control over him and use him to do some exteremely dangerous things. Letting him into the bridge of such an important ship and giving him such high clearance is just insane.
But of course why worry about Data given the captain himself and his history with the Borg. In other words it’s Star Trek, so whatever. The show must go on.
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Then how can Data assume control of the ship just by using other people’s voices and codes?
Data has no biometrics and is therefore exempt?
But wouldn’t the computer then a) never recognize any command given by Data (as Data)?, and 2) not recognize any command from Data pretending to be someone else because that someone else is elsewhere in the ship?
Data quietly says “sudo” before most stuff he does?
Then what does he say prior to sudo?
“listen here you little shit”?
But then he has to say sudo prior to that! 🤔😜
Data is fully functional so he must have a biosign emulator up his ass
As an android he could in theory fake the biometrics the computer looks for, his design is organically inspired, hence why he breathes for temperature control and has a blood analog flowing through his “veins”
Or unless it’s anyone with a tape recorder
Well they didn’t discover DNA in the trek verse for quite a while so they got really really good at voiceprint analysis instead
I could see DNA and all genetic technology becoming vorboten for a while after the Eugenics Wars.
I mean the fact that la’ans family still has the surname is some pretty dark storytelling in a watsonian sense. Normally they’d change that shit in a heartbeat. The fact they haven’t suggests a preventative mechanism, probably for monitoring purposes. There’s also the bigotry exhibited during Una’s trial right down even to Bashir’s. Humanity has some deep fuckin’ trauma there