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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kobayashi Maru
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 12:09:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 12:09:19 1985
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>From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP
>Message-ID: <682@rayssd.UUCP>
>
>	Hope no one minds if I try to introduce a new (hopefully)
>topic.  Having just watched STII for the umpteenth time, I started
>to formulate alternative actions that Saavik (or whoever was taking
>the test) could have taken in the Kobayashi Maru Scenerio.  (I know
>that it is a no win situation, but why not suppose...)  For instance,
>why not load all the shuttles with medical and engineering personnel
>to help the ship without endangering the entire crew.  If things
>seemed kosher, the Enterprise could then follow.

How far inside the neutral zone is the Kobayashi Maru and what do you
consider the capabilities of the standard Enterprise shuttlecraft?

As I seem to recall, they were not blessed with the greatest range (the
ones from "The Menagerie" and "Let This be Your Last Battlefield" may have
had longer range, but both were from starbases.)

Also, if you load them with crew and supplies, what do you do if you have
to evacuate the ship in a hurry? (runaway matter/antimatter reaction,
radiation, etc.)

Lastly, suppose things aren't kosher (remember they weren't in the movie).
You've just wasted several shuttles and valuable personnel. Now what? Do
you go in anyway to rescue everyone? Leave them to die? Use the Guardian of
Forever?



No, this seems to be one of those do-or-die times when nothing less than a
starship will do.


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