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Except that the borg could not force the information to unlock the E out of Data, but can co-opt an organic mind. And claiming he is strong and smart so he should not serve means do not let vulcans aboard either. They might take over as a security threat. Pakleds would suddenly be ideal crew. But y...

I trimmed this mostly so the quote block does not take an entire page. But I will try to address all of it. Anyone is a massive security breach. Not when Geordi was mind controlled he himself could bypass security and erase he did it. Telepaths and the borg exist and they seem more than capable of ...

See I can fully accept that the Defiant does not need security guards everywhere because the crew know their positions and have their clearances. (Defiant even manages to point out someone did remember to lock the bloody thing so it would be slightly harder to steal.) But on a ship with children fr...

But Starfleet has a great reason not to relieve people from posts due to being taken over. It happens so often they would not have anyone to crew the ships. There are simply too many energy life forms, invasive computer programs and telepathic entities for them to use such policies. The one thing e...

As much as I like this episode, one thing irks me is that Starfleet doesn't seem to learn from this. There's no fallout that we know of from this event. Because what Data showed here was that he's a major security breach. I always thought it was not a smart move to post Data on a ship meant to go in...

I realize this is two years old or so, having to reply on this thread, but I think all of you missed an even bigger problem here, and that's Phlox himself (I won't call this quack a doctor). What this show demonstrated was that Phlox has a different medical ethical code than what is right and sane. ...

This episode really does kind of strike home for me, a veteran myself who got to see a serious glimpse into what a major war might look like in the future, where, if technology matures enough, we could see weapons deployed from the comfort of an air-conditioned room filled with computers thousands o...

As cliché as the Holodeck malfunction grew to be, there was a brief moment of good acting as everyone is shocked to find Whelan shot for real--the first instance of safeties being off. Can't help thinking that it really shouldn't be the safeties being in place that stop the holodeck from generating...

Hey, Sisko punched him and got away with it. "You hit me, Picard never hit me?! "I'm not Picard" Heh-heh. I don't know if Q would've let Kirk or Commodore Wesley get away with hitting him. But you know they would've both gladly taken a shot or two. Kirk slapped Trelane, as if, rightly, he was a spo...

The way His Awesomeness, James T. Kirk, handled Trelane was precisely how he would've handled Q. I submit that Q was punking PIcard throughout TNG. Maybe that wasn't the intention, but that's how it comes off to me. Because if Q tried that crap about humans are a "grievously savage child-race," and ...