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[–] 44 points 19 hours ago (19 children)

Sometimes they do. In the episodes where they de/activate the self-destruct sequence, the captain has to give their authorization code. The fact that they have to give it verbally in front of everyone isn't ideal though.

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  • [–] 36 points 19 hours ago (14 children)

    It’s a voice print, so it doesn’t matter who else knows it. Unless it’s Data.

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  • [–] 15 points 14 hours ago

    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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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

    It’s not exclusively a voice print. The Computer also has a verified identity chain for the person speaking — it is aware of where everyone on the ship is and who they are, against a manifest, at all times.

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago* (7 children)

    Then how can Data assume control of the ship just by using other people’s voices and codes?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

    Data has no biometrics and is therefore exempt?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago* (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Or unless it's anyone with a tape recorder

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Well they didn't discover DNA in the trek verse for quite a while so they got really really good at voiceprint analysis instead

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    I could see DNA and all genetic technology becoming vorboten for a while after the Eugenics Wars.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    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

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  • [–] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    There's also apparently some manner of voice print analysis as well. Because in whatever episode that was when Data goes rogue, he has to mimic Picard's voice to do command stuff and set up the self destruct.

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