As also noted in Star Trek: The Magazine, it was Sowards' second draft, dated 10 April 1981, which included "the simulator sequence" and the Kobayashi Maru for the first time. In it, Kirk also ...

Saavik was psychologically wrecked by the test in Wrath of Khan. 2009’s Star Trek reinforced how cadets dread the Kobayashi ...

Strange New Worlds tells a better Kirk story than how J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009) rushed through James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) ...

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In fact, the Kobayashi Maru is never actually seen in The Wrath of Khan. Its counterpart is all but virtually absent from Star Trek (2009), save for a couple of screenshots. That version did get ...

Since its inception in The Wrath of Khan, 'Kobayashi Maru' has come to be used as a byword in Star Trek for, quite naturally, any kind of apparently unwinnable situation. On the supposedly ...

The Kobayashi Maru is all about the neighbours, doubly so. First, it wouldn't be much of a test, nor half as much fun, if it weren't for those pesky Klingons next door (even in the Star Trek ...

As Meyer himself stated in Star Trek: The Magazine, he was, in fact, sitting with Harve Bennett when he suggested opening the film with the Kobayashi Maru and killing Spock in it. "I sort of ...

Kobayashi, the season one episode of Star Trek: Prodigy, began with a basic premise, as writer/executive producer Aaron Waltke told Polygon in 2022: [We needed to] get Dal to realise that as much ...

No doubt the real point of the Kobayashi Maru is to have the grace to accept which way to lose. Or, Kirk could have just played Star Trek: Armada and/or Star Trek: Armada II, in which cheat code ...