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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7551080" data-attributes="member: 12731">??Officers don't need to know jack squat about this. They only need to follow procedure. I didn't say every officer would or should be a cryptography expert. I am saying it is trivial to instruct your officers to learn a version of your code that is indistinguishable as such while also triggering an alarm.At least for really important stuff. One ship (that isn't even a capital ship) is not that important. So yes, if someone was trying to commandeer an individual ship like the Orville, that would be plausible. But infiltrating the whole fleet network (or whatever the Krill were up to)? Nah, you don't do that by demanding "the codes" of just any captain that falls into your hands. (Capt Mercer was clearly not randomly selected, but there are zero indications he's special in any way)The notion of fake codes was, as I said, credible - in comparison to how clumsily/naively TOS or TNG would have handled it. But that is also it for credibility.</blockquote>