You should embrace any source of intelligence available to you.
The only useful “intelligence” or advice should could have given would be 4 things:
1. Picard go back to family vineyard and stomp grapes,
2. Riker just go,
3. Worf ditch that sash it looks like your an outer space “Knights of Columbus” member , member of the “Sons of Italy” or a Shriner,
4. Please, please hit “Control, Alt-Delete” on Data at least once per episode ( or upgrade him to ‘shut up!’).