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From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Kobayashi Maru
Message-ID: <684@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 12:21:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 12:21:20 1985
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	This is a response to my original posting.  Keep in mind
that I am not the originator.  Mail to deneb:ccrdave rather than
using 'r'.

Date: Fri, 5 Apr 85 19:05:38 pst
From: allegra!gamma!sabre!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb:ccrdave (Lord Kahless)
Message-Id: <8504060305.AA00229@deneb.DAVIS>
To: ucbvax!decvax!bellcore!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!m1b
Subject: Re: Kobayashi Maru
In-Reply-To: your article <682@rayssd.UUCP>

We can't post anything yet, so could you post this for me?
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> 
> 	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.
> 
> 	Anyone else care to comment?
> 
> 
> Joe Barone,		{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
> Raytheon Co,		 Submarine Signal Div., Portsmouth, RI  02871

1)  To enter the neutral zone was an act of war.  The Enterprise had
no business being there.  The Kobiyashi Maru had no business being there.
2)  Why didn't they sit on the border and use long range scanners to
peek at what was going on?
3)  Why did Kirk say Klingons never take prisoners?  In Elaan of
Troyius, the Klingon commander requested the surrender of the
Enterprise?  In Day of the Dove, Kirk and the landing party was
captured by Kang's party.

		Lord Kahless, Founder of the Klingon Empire
		Now studying at U.C. Davis
		Computer Center, U.C. Davis, CA, 95617