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Spoilers Star Trek: Prodigy 1x19 - "Supernova, Part 1"
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This is why they don’t let fans near the show, but both Snoop Dogg and Kevin Bacon *are* professional actors so if they wanted to ask Terry Matalas nicely? It is always good to have established names in guest roles especially if they want to make Star Trek more mainstream. Also, only the show runner can decide on saving the Romulan sun or not, and I think that Terry Matalas is happy with it as it is.1) Crazy Holodeck Theory
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But it was just a joke. Maybe should have said stopping the Romulan Supernova instead.
As for Snoop Dogg/Kevin Bacon, I’m assuming you’re joking too…
Data sure gets it!
While Starfleet once again obviously doesn’t: why is the computer accepting voice input from Picard on the bridge if it knows very well that Picard is in engineering?
And they never did fix that problem, given Dreadnok can access the Protostar systems by duplicating Chakotay's voice, when Chakotay isn't even on the ship. A fact which the ship's command hologram is aware of, at that.
But then, I guess since "Starfleet isn't military" they don't need to worry about secure computer systems.
Incompetent Computer System Security Design that is based on only 1x Biometric Factor.
Instead of as many Biometric Factors as possible in real time.
Which by the 24th century, it should be able to do a Full Body Molecular scan to validate that your body is you, with no strange life-forms attached, and that all factors short of neural brain patterns (Which requires a medical sensor attached to your head for that info).
Honestly, lax security is more or less how it works today. Most people’s personal data and information has already been stolen and is available on the dark web via many data breaches over the years. The only thing preventing your identity getting stolen is the sheer abundance of other identities they could also choose from.
and two factor authentication. My password isn’t going to be very useful if you need my phone to log into my email account. There are of course ways to go around this, but at least it’s more difficult.
Trek thrives on lax security. TNG practically proves it as a rule. This is just introducing kids to all sides of Trek.
Trek should really address this issue.
Given the amount of technology they have for real time sensor data that can (in detail) analyse a person down to the subatomic level (even those with disguises), it really makes little sense to have only voice print authorisation... especially if the person is not onboard, etc.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I like Trek, but these security issues are downright persistent and something SF should really address.
Keep the UI friendly and accessible to everyone (seeing how its UFP of course), but for crying out loud, enhance the ID of a person using all sensor parameters, and if the computer is able to recognize a person even without their commbadge (which is possible as each person's physiology is pretty much unique), it should be more than doable to track individual people onboard without a commbadge... or even if they are off the ship (barring of course external interference).
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We know they should, both you & I would've dealt with this long ago.
But the writers being who they are, "Normies", barely understand computers, much less computer security.
That's why they think having 1x Biometric Factor is "Good Enough".
Especially back then.
yeah. I was just rewatching Tattoo the other day and when the captain orders to beam up Chakotay they beam up his communicator, which he’s not wearing, instead…seriously?!
As we know, commbadges are usually used to keep track of people onboard and while on a planetary surface (while on duty of course, people need to be reachable)... but, the commbadge should be able to signal to the ship that its no longer being worn for example, and beaming up a person under such circumstances would have to be done by scanning for their bio signs (aka, since each person is unique in terms of physiology, so use that to identify them).
Also, I find it a bit strange that something akin to a storm on a planet would disrupt sensors and transporters. In fairness, episode 'Tatoo' did feature an advanced civilisation, so they probably modified the storm with properties which would disrupt sensors as used by most species (since there is going to be a pattern to various technological developments).
I think the worst example is the most recent season of Disco, when Tarka kidnaps Reno and holds her on Book's ship, yet Advanced Sentient Supercomputer Zora still believes Reno is onboard Disco, because her comm badge is. Even worse, the comm badge was stored in a small compartment which couldn't even fit a human inside.
I mean, in DS9 Bashir and Ross take off their badges when they go "off the record" so if they were to be emergency beamed away would they just get the badges? It's such a weird hole in security. So, if people are sleeping do they wear their badges?
Seems that way (but it also seemed like a measure they could do for a few minutes as the situational crisis was addressed and was behind them.
But, what didn't make much sense was that for 'going off the record' all that was needed was to take their badges off. They need to be tapped twice to turn them off (or on) in order to prevent being monitored (plus theres internal security network/sensors which record pretty much everything onboard a ship - or at least in most areas of importance - I would imagine that crews lifesigns may be the only thing monitored while they are off duty or relaxing in their quarters - but otherwise, no live sensor circuits that might eavesdrop on private conversations in those areas - only in areas of importance where the crews work such as the bridge, ready room, conference room, engineering, etc. - private quarters wouldn't fall under this kind of surveilance... ).
Anyway, while people are sleeping, they don't really wear badges (as we saw, they take them off and put them next to themselves).
In case of emergency, they'd try contacting people first, and if they don't respond, resort to emergency transport (which will take the commbadge in that case most likely - and if that happens, then lock onto their biosigns).
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good question, in Scisms the computer knows exactly when the people addicted while sleeping have disappeared (even retroactively, if memory serves!) and Riker obviously wasn’t keeping a commbadge on his pijama.
Why the computer doesn’t warn security when something like that happens is another issue.
Ultimately, this will be the final arbiter.
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Hell, the availability of easy to use security (full disk encryption, biometrics, et. al) is defeated by people simply not employing them when in possession of sensitive data and hardware. I can't tell you how many computers I repaired where the password was 'password,' or '12345.'
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