the borg also has no security on thier ships, unless they start seeing them as assimilate or as a threat.

There's also the episode where they find the guy who needs to check his stocks, and Picard explains that in the future people behave like adults.

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.

The episode where Moriarty came about was because Geordi tried to vibe code an opponent for Data and the ships computer just made a sentient hologram.

They did require admin logins, but they also implemented a bimonthly password change, so there were post-its on all the monitors.

I had a thought a while ago on why everything goes wrong for starfleet. All their officers are vibe coding. The warp core is vibe coded. The weapons are vibe coded. The holodeck is vibe coded. It's why the safety protocols are always getting turned off.

It's made obvious when they design the Runabout in Voyager.

Zapp Brannigan: IT security is for sissies!

All the love for the dolls here, I just had to get this dumb and slightly altered Futurama quote out of my brain after reading the meme.

What really cracked me up recently was this screenshot, being a musician and an Ableton user myself, and again, all the love for the dolls!

They do, tho. It's just we usually see events through the lens of characters that have admin access. Or are badass enough to hack them when they don't. Or both, like that episode where Data goes rogue and sets the longest lockout password ever.

I like to think technology is so advanced that security features are impossible to implement because penetrating them is trivial.

After WWIII, the writings of Richard Stallman became the guiding principles of computing.

"Sudo su"

"Goddammit"

In some versions of Star Trek, I'm sure they've said that the first few presses somebody makes on a console is them logging in.

The systems were designed similar to military installations contemporary to when they were written, with the expectation that unauthorized people were not supposed to have access to certain areas in the first place.

Of course, now it seems stupid. My car has more security just using my phone as the key. They could easily have used their badges as credentials at the very least. Realistically, with their tech, the computer should just know everybody's identities and everybody's locations at all times, even without badges, and should be able to control access using that information.

But just imagine if they used that sort of tech. Every time somebody was in a prison cell, the computer would be analyzing what they were doing, and alert security the moment they started trying to break out, for example. So many episodes would end before they started.

The enterprise is a story vessel. Nothing makes sense in a practical sense but everything can be used as a setup for an interesting story. Every device is a plot device.

The transporter can beam down just the combination of characters needed for a story to a planet that's ideal for the story and then it will fail to beam them up because of some weird radiation. The engineering department will need to punch random buttons to fix it exactly as long the story on the planet needs to conclude.

The holodeck is the most versatile plot device and Q the most versatile joker.

These episodes came out in the late 80s and early 90s, when cybersecurity wasn’t really even a “thing”. Yet, even then, when I was seven or eight or nine, I knew enough about computer programming to implement, at the very least, passwords before executing certain commands.

It was hard, sometimes, not to think of these people as fucking idiots

The most unrealistic thing about Star Trek is that the engineering team are in charge of the computer. That's why nothing never works, those guys hate the concept of passwords.