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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kobayashi Maru
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Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 15:58:35 EST
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*** YOUR MESSAGE ***

> 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.

This assumes that you know that you've just entered a no-win situation.  I
interpreted it as a normal simulation that they've done many times, but
this particular time, they threw in the K.M. twist.  In other words, the
point was not the strategy that she chose, but how she reacted to losing.
That's exactly what Kirk told her later.

Seems that if you invent alternate courses of action, you also have to
figure out how she would have lost.

					-- Mark A.
					...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph

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