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  1. star trek

    With the tractor beam, he slingshots the Kobayashi Maru towards the border, and then engages with (in this simulation) the Cardassians in battle. He then signals his surrender and shuts down systems. When they began boarding the ship: Nog rushed to his chair and triggered "the bottom line." "Five seconds to auto-destruct," the ship's computer ...

  2. Kobayashi Maru

    The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the Star Trek franchise designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets by placing them in a no-win scenario.The Kobayashi Maru test was first depicted in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media.. The nominal goal of the exercise is to rescue the ...

  3. Kobayashi Maru scenario

    According to Star Trek: Star Charts, the real SS Kobayashi Maru was lost in 2245. Apocrypha [] The Kobayashi Maru scenario has also appeared in novels, short stories, video games and comic books. Julia Ecklar's The Kobayashi Maru tells how James T. Kirk, Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and Hikaru Sulu each faced the problem. In the novel, Kirk ...

  4. Nog

    Biography []. Nog was the first Ferengi to serve in Starfleet, and one of the only cadets ever to beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario*.He served as a Lieutenant and Chief engineer aboard the USS Defiant and Chief of Operations aboard starbase Deep Space 9.(DS9 - Strange New Worlds VI short story: "Best Tools Available"; DS9 novels: Avatar, Book One, Avatar, Book Two, et al.)

  5. Every Kobayashi Maru In Star Trek (& Who Beat It)

    Kirk In Star Trek 2009 (Cheated It, Beat It) J. J. Abrams's Star Trek reboot presents the moment when Kirk beats the Kobayashi Maru. There are subtle differences in the Kelvin timeline's version of the test — namely that the ship is explicitly ordered to rescue the freighter from the attacking Klingons. Tired of losing, this Kirk also cheats ...

  6. Nog

    Nog's time at the Academy is featured in the "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" comic book series, where he's one of the main characters. In the short story "The Bottom Line" in the Strange New Worlds anthology book, we see how he handles the famous Kobayashi Maru test.

  7. Kobayashi Maru

    The Kobayashi Maru was a Class III neutronic fuel carrier and a component of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a no-win scenario conducted by Starfleet Academy. In the scenario, the home port of the vessel was Amber, Tau Ceti IV, and the ship's master was Kojiro Vance. According to the scenario, the Kobayashi Maru was located in Gamma Hydra, section ten, nineteen periods out of Altair VI. The ...

  8. Kobayashi Maru- just say no? : r/startrek

    Nog: "Name Your Price" Nog "wins" the Kobayashi Maru by taking the simulation into this territory. While doing the test he is tasked with a Romulan ambush. The Romulans hail Nog, starting with the standard "you have entered the Neutral Zone, face the consequences" speech, but before they can finish, Nog says "Name your price".

  9. Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru: the infamous test explained

    The words " Kobayashi Maru " might be two of the most iconic in all of science fiction, let alone Star Trek. The concept, introduced in The Wrath of Khan, is an infamous training exercise that puts Starfleet officers in an extreme situation to monitor how they react. Of course, there's much more to it than that, and the Kobayashi Maru has ...

  10. Read This: The true ethical lessons of the Kobayashi Maru test in Star Trek

    Of his reprogramming of the Kobayashi Maru, Kirk said, "I don't like to lose." Hardly anyone likes to lose. But, if we're measuring wins and losses on the basis of the outcomes we produce ...

  11. Kobayashi Maru

    In my head-canon Kobayashi Maru is the nickname of an entire category of unbeatable tests (the Academy curriculum probably lists it as Advanced Command Qualification Course). Because if it's always the same scenario (ship in distress in the Neutral Zone) then after a hundred years of KM tests there would be dozens of textbooks on the topic and ...

  12. star trek

    15. Below is my understanding of the Kobayashi Maru test, which is supposed to illustrate a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. The KM is stranded in a Neutral Zone and will soon lose life support capabilities. If you enter the Neutral Zone to save the crew, you will precipitate war with the Klingons; if you stay put to avoid war ...

  13. Can You Beat Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru Test? [Flowchart]

    After reestablishing the classic Starfleet Academy examination in director J.J. Abrams' 2009 feature franchise reboot, the Kobyashi Maru has returned to the popular conscious among more people than your typical Star Trek shut-in.Even as the classic bit of science-fiction ephemera remains among the more nerdy facets of movie fandom, having a colorful flowchart to help guide the more unfamiliar ...

  14. Kobayashi Maru scenario

    The fictional Kobayashi Maru. In the original scenario, the cadet captains a patrol in a simulated starship, based on a dramatized experience of the USS Horizon in the 22nd century. The ship receives a distress call from a neutronic fuel carrier, the SS Kobayashi Maru (commanded by Kojiro Vance ), from inside a neutral zone.

  15. Star Trek -- Kobayashi Maru

    Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanAdmiral Kirk's past comes back to bite him when the group of 20th century genetically engineered supermen that he sentenced to...

  16. Kirk vs. The Kobayashi Maru's No-Win Scenario

    Clips. Published May 8, 2023. Kirk vs. The Kobayashi Maru's No-Win Scenario - Star Trek. On its theatrical release anniversary, relive this iconic scene! Jim Kirk takes on the Kobayashi Maru's no-win scenario in Star Trek (2009). Stay tuned to StarTrek.com for more details! And be sure to follow @StarTrek on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

  17. The Kobayashi Maru

    A freak shuttlecraft accident—and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications —with nothing, in short, but time on their hands. Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru - the Starfleet Academy ...

  18. star trek

    In primary canon, the Kobayashi Maru's "real-life" inspiration has never been detailed.. In extended canon, a novel bearing the same name as the ship reveals that the original scenario takes place during the lead-up to the Earth-Romulan War.At the time, the Romulans had been. using a "telecapture device" to remotely hijack enemy vessels for various skullduggery.

  19. The Kobayashi Maru (Star Trek novel)

    The Kobayashi Maru. The Kobayashi Maru is a 1989 Star Trek science fiction novel by Julia Ecklar which centers around several characters from The Original Series marooned in space on a disabled shuttlecraft. Its title comes from the unwinnable Starfleet Academy training scenario first introduced in the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .

  20. The Kobayashi Maru

    Sci-fi. Star Trek. Kirk and his crew face certain death… while journeying deep into their own pasts! The Kobayashi Maru is a Pocket TOS novel - #47 in the numbered series - written by Julia Ecklar. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in December 1989. From the book jacket A freak shuttlecraft accident...

  21. Kobayashi Maru in Star Trek: Next Generation

    13. Not on screen, but in the novel A Rock and a Hard Place there's one person, a maverick who will be a temporary replacement for Riker, that had an unusual solution. Also in the short story 'Til Death (part of the The Sky's the Limit anthology), Riker's attempted solution is given. I'm not going to say more about what was done or how, since ...

  22. Did Data beat the Kobayashi Maru? : r/startrek

    The Kobayashi Maru test is impossible by design and when you control every aspect of a simulation it cannot be beaten if you do not want it to. 8. Award. errantfarmer. • 3 yr. ago. According to Memory Alpha, quite a few people have beaten the test, although Data isn't named as one specifically.

  23. Star Trek: What Is The Picard Maneuver?

    Plenty of Star Trek captains perform brave or cunning battle operations to cement themselves in Starfleet Academy. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) beat the Kobayashi Maru, and in another timeline ...

  24. Kobayashi Maru

    Espacio de simulación en la Academia de la Flota Estelar. En el universo ficticio de Star Trek, el Kobayashi Maru es una prueba académica de simulación diseñada para poner a prueba el carácter de los cadetes de la Academia de la Flota Estelar al enfrentarlos a un escenario invencible.. La prueba del Kobayashi Maru fue descrita por primera vez en la escena inicial de la película Star Trek ...

  25. star trek

    The Kobayashi (formerly Kobiashi) Maru was named after Star Trek II scriptwriter Jack Soward's next-door neighbours. "I'm not the age I am and I'm not settled. I've still got an awful lot do accomplish. I don't want to just settle in and be permanent anywhere," he says. "There's a lot of me philosophically in the script.