the whole point of having captains out in the black, is for them to make a judgement call on when the rules should be ignored.
Picard had a conversation with Data about this very thing, when Data went with his ‘gut’ to disobey a order.
aka The Motherfucking Kirk Maneuver.
Q is basically inflicted on humanity, the same way humanity is inflicted on the rest of the world.
one of my favorite jokes about this is on TNG. i think it’s the episode where the bridge gets cut off from the rest of the ship, and Troi is in charge of running the ship. O’Brian makes a comment to Ro about how you can’t ‘just reroute power from things’.
it’s a funny little nod from the writers.
people REALLY need to learn to let things go. i get it, nostalgia is a powerful thing. that doesn’t mean every show needs a revival.
the thing about nostalgia, is you don’t actually want that thing back. what you want back is how that thing made you feel.
No person can step in the same river twice. They are not the same person, and it is not the same river.
no that is Mr Homn. he was played by the same actor though.
conversely he was also Thing.
either delete the data, or move it.
those are really your only options. if the drive you’re talking about is the only one in your PC, it needs some free space to do it’s thing. mechanical hard drives are pretty cheap and abundant. check with whatever is local to you, about used ones if you need something on the cheap. even new ones in the 1TB range are pretty cheap though.