In the Star Trek universe, there is a test scenario which locks a star fleet academy trainee officer into a situation to supposedly test their strength of character and reaction to a no win situation.
The Kobayashi Maru is the name of the ship in the scenario where any attempt to rescue its civilian passengers ends in the destruction of the both ships. Kirk didn’t agree that there should ever be an unwinnable scenario so he changed the parameters of the computer simulation and thereby became the only trainee to ever “win” the Kobayashi Maru exam.
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