The Kobayashi Maru (1989)

by Julia Ecklar

Series: Star Trek (1989.12), Star Trek (47)

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This was not a bad book, but it was like eating an appetizer rather than a meal. Don't get me wrong, I love appetizers! A fun little romp to distract you for a day or two, but not memorable. (

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writing_librarian | Mar 18, 2012 |

I really fun story about the Kobayashi Maru. Worth finding if your a fan. (

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Nikkles | Aug 23, 2010 |

An enthralling Star Trek novel that centers around one of the most compelling bits from the second movie: the Kobayashi Maru, a training exercise that seeks to determine how a cadet will react to certain defeat and death. In the movie Kirk cheated to win. Here, Kirk and most of his senior officers are lost in a disabled shuttlecraft in space, with no hope of rescue. To pass the time, they share their accounts of their own ordeals at that time. I found Sulu's most enlightening, and Scotty's the most intriguing; after Kirk, he came the closest of anybody to beating the no-win scenario. (

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burnit99 | Jan 10, 2007 |

An accident strands Kirk onboard a shuttle with McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov. As the life-support systems on their small ship slowly fail, they pass the time by relating their experiences at Starfleet Academy, focusing on the Kobayashi Maru test---a no-win scenario.

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This adventure takes place shortly after the events chronicled in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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This is Enterprise hailing shuttlecraft Halley.

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SCOTT'S VOICE PIERCED THE SILENCE WITH A SHARP, FRIGHTENED CRY ...

Chekov clutched the helmet to him again, "Scotty!"

"I've got a suit breach! Ah, DAMN! Chekov! Listen, lad, you've got to - "

Silence engulfed the open channel.

Chekov threw his helmet to hte floor and began hastily stripping off his duty jacket.

"Where do you thing you're going?" McCoy demanded. "Chekov, don't be an idiot!"

Chekov didn't look up. "I won't leave the lock," he promised. "If I can't see him, I'll come right back."

"We need someone in this shuttle beside me who isn't incapacitated ..." McCoy began.

"Bones," Kirk said, interrupting the doctor. He turned to Chekov. "Go. But be careful."

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A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short but time on their hands.

Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes -- and does not make.

Discover now how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru...and became in turn Starfleet officers.

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When Captain Kirk and his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, they tell stories of how they conquered the Kobayashi Maru--a test of character that determines who will become a Starfleet officer.