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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
** One episode was ahead of its time in this matter, sort of. Kirk was facing court martial for the death of a crewman when video footage from the bridge shows him pushing the wrong button on his captain's chair. Spock discovered that the computer had been, in fact, tampered with, and the not-so-dead crewman had altered the footage. It's never explained why ''no one else'' (including Kirk's attorney) bothers to mention the possibility before the story's climax, however.
*** Actually, it is mentioned. The reason nobody suspected that the footage had been altered is because the authentication encryption on the ships' records was essentially so complex that it would be virtually impossible to forge, and only two men had the cipher key -- Kirk and the dead crewman (who was chief records officer). Since the one man was the defendant and the other was believedthe toalleged bemurder deadvictim, unless they theorized that Kirk was framing ''himself'' they had no reason to accept the records as anything but genuine. Of course, once it was revealed that the alleged murder "victim" was still alive it was obvious to everyone what was really going on.
** Another episode had Spock using a computer to convincingly create commands in Kirk's voice.
* Subverted in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''—the crew projects a hologram of a sphere-builder, and one of the Xindi calls it a fake. The humanoid Xindi that sided with Earth assures him that humans can't fake a hologram as sophisticated as the one being presented.