James T Kirk taught me it’s okay to cheat, as long as you don’t get caught. 🤫
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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As my old tech teacher in HS used to say, "if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'"
Sad but true.
We are all part of the Bear Pack here. 🐻
That would make for a great framed motivational poster.
We all need a Shaxs looking out for us
When things seem hopeless, just remember to try ejecting the warp core
That's what I call the morning after a night of heavy drinking
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It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
One of my life quotes when things are hard.
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Starfleet be like
I'm glad they got my boy Broccoli in the shot lol
They call him “vegetable” because after a fight with him, that’s how people end up.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew, great game which was sadly abandoned and left to rot, started you out with the Kobayashi Maru. My friends and I got in there, beamed out as many folks as we could without firing a shot on the Klingons, and then got the hell outta the neutral zone as soon as the Kobayashi Maru was destroyed.
Is that considered a loss? I'd say we saved a bunch of people and hopefully avoided a war. Best we could do given the circumstances. And that's how we manage life sometimes, as well. You can't win, but you manage as best you can given the circumstances and take the small victories wherever you find them.
That game option is the perfect Starfleet choice, but I think canon of the test was that once you got in close enough to try a rescue it ended up that the Maru was a ruse. Of course if you didn't do any rescue it would end up being a true ship, but that's the no-win part. The game allowing a partial rescue made it not a "test", but an actual reality with some chance. Which was Kirk's point...reality can hand you many more possibilities than a test ever can.
Yeah canon I believe is you can't get close enough to transport without violating the neutral zone. So it's a binary either or choice. You rescue and start a war or you watch those people die.
The latter is what Sulu did, but there's more backstory to why he made that choice back then. Obviously from the movies he changed as a captain to do whatever it took when the assistance was needed by friends.
When I did that mission, they never specified the neutral zone was there, so I operated under the assumption we were in Federation space. When the birds of pray appeared, there was no option to hail (or they didn't respond), so I just beat them. And they attacked one at a time. Felt really cheesy, like they used Kobayashi Maru as a reference without actually replicating the test, because it also served as the tutorial.
Kobayashi Maru should have been the last mission, not the first. And it should be properly impossible.
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10 bars of gold pressed latinum to anyone who finds this on a shirt for me.
Then my best advice is: Mr. Sulu, RAMMING SPEED!
James. T Kirk
I'd rather be Boimler on this one. Kirk cheated. Boimler just got gud.
Kirk isn't the only one who can reprogram simulations tho...
That full stop.