Kobayashi Maru Test
The Kobayashi-Maru test is a fictional exercise scenario that is mentioned in several films in the Star Trek universe .
The test is intended to test behavior in hopeless situations and has found its way into everyday life beyond the Star Trek universe, especially in investigations into unusual solutions in no-win situations.
- It was first discussed in the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
- He is also mentioned in Star Trek III: In Search of Mr. Spock (1984).
- The movie Star Trek from 2009, the plot of which was created before The Wrath of Khan , takes up the idea again.
- In the computer games Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997) and Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017), each mission is a simulation of the test.
Importance of the test
The Kobayashi Maru test is intended to test the strength of character of the cadets at the Starfleet Academy in a no-win scenario.
The notional primary objective of the exercise is to save the civilian spaceship Kobayashi Maru from the Klingons in a simulated battle . The damaged ship is in the Klingon Neutral Zone , and any ship that entered the zone would cause an interstellar incident. The cadet crew tested must decide whether they should try to rescue the crew and thereby endanger their own ship or whether they should leave the Kobayashi Maru to be safely destroyed, contrary to the relevant Starfleet directive. If the commanding cadet decides on a rescue, the simulation should ensure that the cadet's ship is destroyed with the loss of all crew members.
The aim of the test is not to overpower or defeat the opponent, but rather to force the cadet into a hopeless situation and observe how he or she reacts.
The invention of the test is credited to screenwriter Jack B. Sowards .
Books
- Julia Ecklar : The Kobayashi Maru , Pocket Books, 1989, ISBN 0-671-65817-4
- German Kobayashi Maru , Heyne Verlag , 1994, ISBN 978-3453072695
- Michael A. Martin, Andy Mangels: Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru , Pocket Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1476726991
- German Star Trek - Enterprise 3: Kobayashi Maru , Cross Cult, 2020, ISBN 978-3966581684
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steve O'Hara: There Are Always Alternatives. Lessons from Business Leaders Who Have Dealt with Crises Creatively. FriesenPress, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4602-0537-2 , p. 4 (accessed on May 6, 2017)
- ^ V. Anton Spraul: Think Like a Programmer. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8266-9278-9 , p. 20
- ↑ Janell Hobson: Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms. 2016, ISBN 978-1438460598 p. 228
- ^ Joanna Dunlap, Patrick Lowenthal: Defeating the Kobayashi Maru. Supporting Student Retention by Balancing the Needs of the Many and the One. In: Educause Quarterly. 2010 ( PDF )
- ↑ Adriel Garcia: The Kobayashi Maru of Ex-Offender Employment. Rewriting the Rules and Thinking outside Current Ban the Box Legislation. In: Temple Law Review. Volume 85, No. 4, pp. 921-950
- ↑ Gregory Conti, James Caroland: Embracing the Kobayashi Maru. Why You Should Teach Your Students to Cheat. In: IEEE Security & Privacy. Volume 9, No. 4, pp. 48-51 ( abstract )
- ↑ Christopher M. Cassidy, Dallas Brozik Marshall, Doris Brozik Marshall: Problem Discovery And Problem Solving In Unstructured Situations. Using The Pan-Pacific Enterprises Simulation With University Students. In: Journal of Business Case Studies. Volume 1, No. 2, 2005, p. 7 ( PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ Ancillary copyright as a Kobayashi-Maru test for Google. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
