Well, we saw him capable of impersonating the captain’s voice with 100% accuracy, create a long ass command code, and give himself full command of the ship while locking out all senior staff.
That was after he caused an atmosphere issue on the bridge and made everyone clear out.
So I would way… Within seconds.
Counterpoint. While he may be fully functional that doesn’t necessarily imply that it is all at once. I think he has the ability to subtly, nay, must apply pleasure at a reasonable rate.
There’s a TNG episode where he gets auto recalled by Soong. He takes over the bridge and redirects the enterprise to new coordinates. It takes like a minute to empty the bridge because he creates a life support failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
During the night shift he could just lock out the turbolifts, flood the life support system with neurazine gas, and beam the crew into space for good measure. Five, ten minutes tops.
Quarter of a second to vent the atmosphere. And then however long meatbags survive in no atmosphere?
It’s kind of funny how naive their security protocols often are but that also goes to show how cynical and barbaric we’ve continued to become
Yeah that episode where they found a couple rich guys cryogenically frozen, and they treat the ship’s comms system like an intercom for the butler, really showed there’s a minimum level of competency expected of anyone (even non crew) on any star ship.
