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The Kobayashi Maru is a fictional spacecraft training exercise in the Star Trek continuity. It is designed by Starfleet Academy to place Starfleet cadets in a no-win scenario. The Kobayashi Maru test … Wikipedia
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1 week ago - The Kobayashi Maru is a fictional spacecraft training exercise in the Star Trek continuity. It is designed by Starfleet Academy to place Starfleet cadets in a no-win scenario. The Kobayashi Maru test was invented for the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and it has since been referred ...
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Kobayashi Maru scenario | Memory Alpha | Fandom
March 14, 2024 - The Kobayashi Maru scenario was an infamous no-win scenario that was part of the curriculum for command-track cadets at Starfleet Academy in the 23rd century. It was primarily used to assess a cadet's discipline, character and command capabilities when facing an impossible situation, as there ...
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The Event Buyout Ship is the T4 Kobayashi Maru Freighter, which is basically only useful because it has the shipboard Trader/Bank functions.

The support craft is the Kobayashi Maru Transponder which was available from an October 2019 Featured TFO event. In Sector Space it acts as a summonable Bank/Trader (1 hr cooldown), while during missions/TFOs it summons the Freighter that drops buffs for you & your teammates. This device is not currently available, but might be added to the Phoenix Store or Mudd's Market sometime in the future.

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I Present my 29k Kobayashi Maru Freighter

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When you're such a noob, a freighter does more dmg than you ship, feelsbadman

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on season 9 episode 13 of "The Office", they say "I just Kobayashi Maru'd the whole thing" What does it mean to Kobayashi Maru mean?

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The Kobayashi Maru test is a test in the Star Trek franchise that is supposed to be unbeatable. It tests the crew and pilots of the star fleet. In the newest Star Trek film reprises, Cpt. Kirk cheats on the test and beats it. Hope this helps :)

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How would you handle the Kobayashi Maru test? Are there potential ways to legitimately complete the test within its own confines?

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I think that, to paraphrase another movie of the era, the only winning move is not to play.

There are very clear Starfleet General Orders that say that you are not to enter the Neutral Zone. Entering the neutral zone is casus belli for war, despite the fact that we see Federation ships violate this Starfleet General Order so many times.

And so, this entire question boils down to something that Spock says later in the movie: the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. By choosing to enter the Neutral Zone, you are putting the needs of the few ahead of the needs of the many throughout Federation space. You are choosing, as a simple Starfleet captain, to put the entire Federation at war with the Klingon Empire to save one ship. By not entering the neutral zone, you may seem heartless, but you have upheld your duty as a Starfleet captain, and protected the Federation from all out war with the Klingons.

We see from the Officers Test in TNG that to qualify for command, sometimes you need to make the tough choices where a person or persons die so others may live. In this test, to protect the Federation as a whole, the captain should make that hard choice and continue on.

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If you go charging in, it's a trap and there's no ship, just a bunch of Klingon cruisers there to blow you to smithereens.

If you don't go in, then the ship is real, and you get to listen to hours of distress calls as they beg for help while their life support fails. You could hail the Klingons, but maybe they don't answer. Maybe they refuse to let you enter the Neutral Zone. Maybe they end up destroying the Kobayashi Maru because it's in the Neutral Zone.

It's a no-win scenario. No matter what you do, the simulation will throw the worst possible result at you. It's not about rescuing the Kobayashi Maru, or keeping your ship and crew safe, or not starting a war. It's more about how you, as a starship captain, face a situation where there are no good options.

Edit: For everyone suggesting solutions to the test: I'm sure some (if not all) of these would work in a "real world" situation. This isn't that kind of test. It isn't meant to be fair. There is no "one weird trick" that you can use to fool the simulation. You can't win, because the whole point of the test is to find out how you react to losing. If the test has to cheat to make sure you lose, then it will.

If you somehow destroy the Klingons that are attacking, then there are more Klingons. Their weapons cause more damage and are more accurate than yours. They are able to anticipate your moves as fast as you can make them. If that isn't enough, then the test will start debuffing your ship. Your warp drive is off line. Your aft shields fail just as a battlecruiser lines up for a shot. Phasers are unable to lock onto targets.

If you just warp in quickly to beam survivors out, they are able to intercept you before you reach transporter range, and cut you off from escaping to Federation space.

If you send in a probe first, then the intel is spotty, leaving you in the same situation. Or the probe data is faked, showing a helpless ship and not the squadron of battlecruisers waiting to pounce.

You can't beat the simulation, at least not from inside the simulation.

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Beating the Kobayashi Maru - ArgonDigital | Making Technology a ...
June 4, 2015 - In an earlier post, I described a recent project that I was on as being similar to the Kobayashi Maru; a fictional test in the Star Trek universe. The test […]
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What is the 'Kobayashi maru' and what is Spock's solution to beating ...
November 30, 2022 - Answer (1 of 5): The Kobayashi Maru Test was a hypothetical “no win scenario” designed to test the character of Starfleet commanders-in-training. In a bridge simulation, the commander must make a decision to rescue a vessel in distress (the afore-mentioned Kobayashi Maru) which has strayed ...
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Assessment, Growth Mindset, and Star Trek: The Kobayashi Maru
June 23, 2020 - A fond memory from my childhood helps me understand the ways we observe human behavior and make attributions. It's also one of the more interesting Star Trek tidbits, whether you're a fan or not.When I was a child, I was fortunate to have a fairly regular regimen of family dinners.
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November 29, 2022 - How do you win when you’re in a position that is strategically un-winnable? A “Kobayashi Maru” is any situation in which all available options will seemingly lead to undesirable outcomes, and yet as a leader you must act. For the smarty pants folks out there, yes, doing nothing is also ...
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Kobayashi Maru | Memory Alpha | Fandom
March 14, 2024 - The Kobayashi Maru was a Federation Class III neutronic fuel carrier operated by Starfleet. It was an asset of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a no-win scenario created 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.
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Market Commentary: The Kobayashi Maru Test
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How exactly did Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru in Star Trek? - Quora
February 28, 2020 - Answer (1 of 41): In the 2009 movie, he reprogammed the simulation, causing the Klingon shields to fail. In Wrath of Khan, all he says is that he “reprogrammed the simulation so that it was possible to rescue the ship”, but that’s all he says. In the Star Trek novel “The Kobayashi Maru”, ...
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Kobayashi Maru program and Section 31
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The U.S.S. Kobayashi Maru was designed by veteran Star Trek designers John Eaves and Ale Jaeger as it was seen in JJ Abrams 2009 movie during the Starfleet training scenario that shares it's name. The scenario is famously impossible to win but thanks to some creative thinking from James T. ...
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August 15, 2023 - The Kobayashi Maru simulation puts future Starfleet commanders in a classic "no-win" scenario. It's so accurate, even the U.S. military uses the exercise to test the measure of a good leader.
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September 6, 2023 - “Everybody knows that, sure, but nobody really ponders the implications, do they? It’s a scenario. It was designed.” “My point is, why do officers have to go through the Kobayashi Maru, Bones? What…
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The Star Trek novel Kobayashi Maru by Julia Ecklar goes into detail about how Kirk, Chekov, Sulu, and Scotty handled the legendary no-win scenario, first ap...
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December 10, 2021 - Is the Kobayashi Maru a good test of leadership, and of the ethical decision-making that’s a part of it? What should we make of the fact that Kirk seems to have “beat” the test by cheating?
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How the Kobayashi Maru Test Demonstrates Character | Deja Reviewer
January 18, 2022 - This is why I love Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. There are an infinite number of things to talk about in it. What I’d like to focus on today is the Kobayashi Maru test. It’s a test of character, as Admiral James T. Kirk points out. There is no correct solution, only a…
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Kobayashi Maru - How to Handle a No-Win Scenario
November 2, 2023 - As humans we excel at problem solving. We have pretty good long and often detailed memories.