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There's the episode where he takes over the ship (hardcoded command from Dr. Soong) which really highlights how powerful he is.
And the episode Elementary My Dear Data where the ship created a completely self-aware program in the holodeck that started to take the ship over just because Geordi accidentally asked for an opponent that could challenge Data, not Sherlock Holmes.
Data really could have wrecked everybody’s shit if he had actually wanted to.
Oh my god that episode. And then they create the program for the villain to live in indefinitely and all of that, I kind of loved how that storyline played out.
Also the episode when Lt Brocolli gets super smart and takes over the ship computer using the holideck.
I don't see how star fleet allowed Data to remain onboard after that one. Being in the tech industry I often feel the Federation's infosec is lacking in often trivial ways (unless the episode calls for better security of course 🙂), but maybe they have just accepted that sort of thing as the cost of doing space business since it happens all the time. So Data's benefits out weigh his risk.
If all the TV shows are in the same universe, I wonder how they allowed Data to join at all after the debacle that was Control.
But that was super double secret, so nobody can ever know or talk about it. Hence why they didn't question a whole slave race of androids
That episode is honestly kind of terrifying after you've got used to Data being basically just a lovable dork.