Seeing as how the internet's original purpose was to facilitate Star Trek debates, I think it's relevant to the contrived title of this article to point towards

Seeing as how the internet's original purpose was to facilitate Star Trek debates, I think it's relevant to the contrived title of this article to point towards what the semi-canon materials have to say about Kirk's Kobayashi Maru: ---- from Memory Beta (non-canon Star Trek wiki -- eg, novels and comics): > Before his third attempt, Kirk reprogrammed the scenario, eliminating the parts of the program that made it impossible to win, thus creating a level playing field where success was not guaranteed, but at least possible. He then told the simulation's Klingon, Kozor, that he was "Captain Kirk". When they heard this, the attacking fleet instantly assisted Kirk in locating Kobayashi Maru. Kirk then tricked the Klingon ships into warping away, giving him time to evacuate the Maru. The whole thing took eighteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Admirals Jublik and Zheng gave Kirk a commendation for original thinking, as well as ninety-nine demerits, just short of the expulsion limit. (TOS novel: The Kobayashi Maru, TOS comic: "Star Crossed", TOS short story: "A Test of Character") http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario#23rd_Century http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario#23... ---- from Memory Alpha ((mostly) canon Star Trek wiki): > Julia Ecklar's The Kobayashi Maru tells how Kirk, Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott and Sulu each faced the problem. In the novel, Kirk won the scenario by reprogramming the simulation so that the Klingons believed he was a famous starship captain, though he was only a cadet at the time. Chekov self-destructed his ship, taking the Klingons with him; to his humiliation, his instructor pointed out that ejecting his crew in lifepods did not save them, due to the explosions of the four warp-drive vessels and the attending radiation. Scott tricked the simulation into overestimating the effectiveness of a theoretical attack against the Klingon ships' overlapping shielding. Faced with proof that such attacks, although quite valid in theory, would not work in reality and that Scott knew this, Academy staff reassigned Scott from command school to Engineering (his true love - he had used this "solution" precisely because of these consequences). Sulu, given the consequences of entry into the Zone versus the slim chance of recovering the crew of the freighter, elected not to conduct a rescue operation. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario#Apocrypha http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario#Apoc...