In all fairness, you’d probably want to have overrides in case of emergency.
“Sorry captain, I can’t stop the warp core from exploding, nor can I eject it because we’re all turning into space lizards on account from the virus the away team picked up” is not a situation they want to find themselves in.
The cardasians being enemies with the Federation means they’d probably have spies working on finding those overrides.
Granted they didn’t explain any of that, and it is 99.99% just lazy writing. But there could still be realistic in universe explanations.
This is why it always bothered me that whether or not an unauthorized person can used the computer is dependent on episode.
In canon every console has biometric security, but there are several episodes where people, like Cardasians, just walk in and start pressing buttons.
Even in the future, people are leaving their workstations unlocked and unattended
In all fairness, you’d probably want to have overrides in case of emergency.
“Sorry captain, I can’t stop the warp core from exploding, nor can I eject it because we’re all turning into space lizards on account from the virus the away team picked up” is not a situation they want to find themselves in.
The cardasians being enemies with the Federation means they’d probably have spies working on finding those overrides.
Granted they didn’t explain any of that, and it is 99.99% just lazy writing. But there could still be realistic in universe explanations.