There was that one episode where Data single-handedly hijacked the Enterprise-D and took it on a joyride to go visit Dr. Noonien Soong and there was basically fuck-all the rest of the crew was able to do about it.
Turned out it was due to some sort of homing device in Data’s head that wasn’t supposed to work that way and it wasn’t going to happen again, etc. etc., but after that I would have been a bit cautious of allowing Data access to anything important.
Even if you tried to deny him access, he’d still find a way to get it. After all, in that very episode he impersonates Picard’s voice to encrypt the computer.
You have absolutely no choice other than to trust him, because you can’t stop him.
In my opinion it makes Data’s character all the better, because all those times he’s being treated like a machine, when his very humanity is on trial, he could flip and kill everyone and take the ship and do whatever he wants, but he doesn’t - because he’s Data, and that’s not the kind of person he is.
There was that one episode where Data single-handedly hijacked the Enterprise-D and took it on a joyride to go visit Dr. Noonien Soong and there was basically fuck-all the rest of the crew was able to do about it.
Turned out it was due to some sort of homing device in Data’s head that wasn’t supposed to work that way and it wasn’t going to happen again, etc. etc., but after that I would have been a bit cautious of allowing Data access to anything important.
Even if you tried to deny him access, he’d still find a way to get it. After all, in that very episode he impersonates Picard’s voice to encrypt the computer.
You have absolutely no choice other than to trust him, because you can’t stop him.
In my opinion it makes Data’s character all the better, because all those times he’s being treated like a machine, when his very humanity is on trial, he could flip and kill everyone and take the ship and do whatever he wants, but he doesn’t - because he’s Data, and that’s not the kind of person he is.
The choice would be to remove hom from the crew? Once you turn his off switch that is.