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.
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.