They did it in Times Arrow, in which Picard used the severed head to get a message into the future.
Nemesis. Send the body out, keep the head.
Now I am pondering Mr. Data's wifi range
Maybe even subspace WiFi.
That raises an interesting question. Why couldn't Data have just been wirelessly connected to the ship's computer? Why did he need to use consoles like everyone else?
I think the same reason we saw the Borg Queen give orders in Voyager, it's very difficult to convey telepathy or data transfer in a visually interesting manner. ST: Picard started doing the scrolling Matrix effect in the eyes of Data 2.0 and the holos which sort of worked a bit but wasn't exactly dramatic.
Plus, all the times he went a bit mental would have been a lot worse if he could have controlled the computer with his mind.
Soong androids are 2.5Ghz. The Enterprise is 5Ghz. Anyone with smart devices will feel the pain.
Good question. In-Universe it could be interpreted as a security feature - certain categories of commands to the ship's computer normally require a physical input. But I bet you could find plenty of weird apparent exceptions to that across the series.
@F. King Daniel gave the out-of-universe explanation.
The in-universe explanation is that Data is not a creation of Starfleet and was not built to be a tool, or built to be a member of Starfleet.
He was constructed by a 'mad scientist', Dr Soong, who intended him to be as Human as possible and make his own choices in the world as a Human would. He wouldn't be very Human-like if he could magically connect to any nearby computer over wifi.
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I don't think he had the time to do so?
Or actually why not just BACK UP DATA. No one mentioned that.
Good point. You'd think Data would have considered that a possibility given his consideration of his own mortality.
By the 24th century they haven't learned the important lesson of always backing up your Data.
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