penny wrote:Apparently like Captain Kirk the MA doesn’t believe in a no win scenario. Reminds me of the Kobayashi Maru test. Kirk is the only cadet who beat the test by reprogramming the simulator to change the variables. Similarly, the MA changed the variables by developing the streak drive.
Dal beat the test too (after failing 100 times), by doing really unexpected and unorthodox actions (barrel rolls, ejecting the warp core, etc.) that the Klingons left - see the Prodigy episode "Kobayashi". In the expanded universe, Nog also beat the test by trying to negotiate with the Klingons and buy passage for the freighter.