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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.
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.
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 .
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 ...
The Kobayashi Maru [v] Julia Ecklar December 1989 0-671-65817-4: 48 The Rules of Engagement: Peter Morwood February 1990 0-671-66129-9: 49 The Pandora Principle: Carolyn Clowes April 1990 0-671-65815-8: 50 Doctor's Orders: Diane Duane June 1990 0-671-66189-2: 51 Enemy Unseen: V. E. Mitchell October 1990 0-671-68403-5: 52 Home Is the Hunter ...
Peter is required to complete the Kobayashi Maru simulation test upon his return to the Academy, since he missed taking it with the rest of his class. Despite engineering a better-than-usual solution to the scenario, Peter decides to leave Starfleet for the diplomatic corps instead.
In 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship USS Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru, but is attacked by Klingon cruisers and critically damaged.
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).