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Alt text: Admiral Picard initiating the self-destruct sequence of the Stargazer by the vocal command, “Authorization: Picard, zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero”
Even worse, he was just re-using Kirk’s old password!
“This is the LockPickingLawyer, and what I have for you today is a standard-issue Starfleet self-destruct mechanism from Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems…”
This is why they’re always getting hacked.
Security in the trek universe was always trash.
Just random entities floating in and a abducting folks for decades.
The Borg Queen was probably like, “Fine, if you won’t tell me the access codes, I’ll just brute force them! 0000…wait, what?”
I always figured the real authentication was tied into the comm badges, and the authorization codes were just a fancy “are you sure”
voice recognition biosensor data, whatever psychic thing that lets computer know when youre addressing it and not just saying the word computer.