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

The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer had to scramble to ensure a crucial part of the film could be finished in time for its intended release.

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

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 ...

The fight for free speech is something that can be won if everyone's experiences and perspectives are on the table – the "Kobayashi Maru" was literally created to not be won – Kirk's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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