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The Kobayashi Maru is a fictional spacecraft training exercise in the Star Trek continuity. It is designed by Starfleet Academy to place Starfleet cadets in a no-win scenario. The Kobayashi Maru test was invented for the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media.
The Kobayashi Maru is a 1989 Star Trek science fiction novel by Julia Ecklar which centers around several characters from The Original Series marooned in space on a disabled shuttlecraft. Its title comes from the unwinnable Starfleet Academy training scenario first introduced in the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .
The novels were more closely plotted to events of the television series compared to previous book lines. Daedalus (2003) and Daedalus's Children (2004) form a two-part novel that explores the aftermath of a prototype warp ship's disastrous launch thirteen years prior the launch of the Enterprise (NX-01).
Following the Kobayashi Maru simulation, the command staff approaches Forrester with an idea to create a ruse and force the culprit into the open, on which Forrester plays along. When approached by Faith Gage, who assists Forrester in breaking into the science lab to look for clues, she falls for the ruse and exposes herself as the bomber, on ...
As Kirk is having lunch in his quarters, a gigantic glowing sphere approaches the Enterprise, filling the bridge viewscreen even at low magnification. Commander Balok identifies his ship as the Fesarius , the flagship of the "First Federation", explaining that the destroyed cube was a border marker .
Sarek succeeds in the negotiations and discovers that the Klingon commander Keraz who led the raid is also a victim of the Romulans' mental influence. When Sarek returns to Vulcan for Amanda's funeral, he shares his findings with Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Leonard McCoy, and Kirk agrees to take him to Freelan aboard the Enterprise.
Titles like Star Trek: Armada, Star Trek: Elite Force and Star Trek: Bridge Commander were all published during this period, as were over half of all the other major Star Trek PC games. The absence of new titles after 2003 was due in large measure to a split and subsequent lawsuit between Activision and Viacom which ended in 2004.
Sowards created the term Kobayashi Maru (a simulation test in The Wrath of Khan), naming it for his next-door neighbors in Hancock Park. [1] A native of Texarkana, Texas, Sowards had numerous writing credits which extended from episodes of The Bold Ones: The Lawyers in 1969 to an installment of B. L. Stryker in 1990.