captain picard emailing all of star fleet: hey guys one of my officers made a full-on person with the computer on accident and he turned out to be evil--we trapped him on a hard drive but just be careful with the computers man shit's wild. He wasn't even coding anything he was just playing a game

That whole thing wouldn't have happened if Geordi had a separate user account for work or had to explicitly confirm a privilege escalation.

Use protection with your enterprise or else you might get a energy ship baby you didn't budget for!

The funny thing is that he was in just two episodes, but was treated better than the Doctor on Voyager.

I'm re-watching TNG, I'm halfway through Season 1 and I'm like, where the fuck is the "Star Fleet post-incident review process" Starfleet is so chill as if captains are so often manipulated by Ferengi tech, "just add it to this months' Ferengi stats, you're still under the limit before we worry"

Star Trek has never really grappled with the fact that Holodecks are basically existential threats to humanity.