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The home port of the vessel was [[Amber]], [[Tau Ceti|Tau Ceti IV]]. The ship's master was [[Kojiro Vance]]. |
The home port of the vessel was [[Amber]], [[Tau Ceti|Tau Ceti IV]]. The ship's master was [[Kojiro Vance]]. |
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| − | According to the scenario, the ''Kobayashi Maru'' was located in [[Gamma Hydra]], section Ten, nineteen periods out of [[Altair VI]]. The vessel had struck a [[gravitic mine]], and its [[hull]] was [[hull breach|breached]]. The ship had lost all power, [[life support]] was failing and its crew had sustained many casualties. |
+ | According to the scenario, the ''Kobayashi Maru'' was located in [[Gamma Hydra]], section Ten, nineteen periods out of [[Altair VI]]. The vessel had struck a [[gravitic mine]], and its [[hull]] was [[hull breach|breached]]. The ship had lost all power, [[life support]] was failing and its crew had sustained many casualties. ({{film|2}}) |
| − | The term "kobayashi maru" may be a slang term in the 23rd century for a hopeless situation at least in Starfleet culture. When imprisoned in the [[Rura Penthe]] [[dilithium]] mines in [[2293]], [[Leonard McCoy]] commented to [[James T. Kirk]] in their first night there, "One day, one night... Kobayashi Maru," making a throat-slash motion before Kobayashi Maru, to suggest they weren't going to last another day. |
+ | The term "kobayashi maru" may be a slang term in the 23rd century for a hopeless situation at least in Starfleet culture. When imprisoned in the [[Rura Penthe]] [[dilithium]] mines in [[2293]], [[Leonard McCoy]] commented to [[James T. Kirk]] in their first night there, "One day, one night... Kobayashi Maru," making a throat-slash motion before Kobayashi Maru, to suggest they weren't going to last another day. ({{film|6}}) |
== Background == |
== Background == |
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Revision as of 22:31, 9 October 2008
- See Kobayashi Maru (disambiguation) for related links.
The Kobayashi Maru was a 3rd class neutronic fuel carrier and a component of the Kobayashi Maru simulation, a no-win-scenario at the Starfleet Academy.
The home port of the vessel was Amber, Tau Ceti IV. The ship's master was Kojiro Vance.
According to the scenario, the Kobayashi Maru was located in Gamma Hydra, section Ten, nineteen periods out of Altair VI. The vessel had struck a gravitic mine, and its hull was breached. The ship had lost all power, life support was failing and its crew had sustained many casualties. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
The term "kobayashi maru" may be a slang term in the 23rd century for a hopeless situation at least in Starfleet culture. When imprisoned in the Rura Penthe dilithium mines in 2293, Leonard McCoy commented to James T. Kirk in their first night there, "One day, one night... Kobayashi Maru," making a throat-slash motion before Kobayashi Maru, to suggest they weren't going to last another day. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
Background
Kobayashi Maru (小林丸) is a rather typical Japanese name for a ship. Kobayashi (小林) is a typical Japanese surname which means "small forest" and Maru (丸) means "perfection" or "purity" and is used to designate ships.
The term Kobayashi Maru can also be literally translated to "somewhere like this place and death circle" depending on how it is written. This could be a reference to it being a situation where you always die in the end.
Apocrypha
- Star Trek: Star Charts lists the year the real SS Kobayashi Maru was lost as 2245.
- The Pocket ENT novel Kobayashi Maru details the historical events which became the Academy simulation.
- The novel The Kobayashi Maru, written by Julia Ecklar, details the Kobayashi Maru tests taken by Kirk, Chekov, Scotty and Sulu during their respective enrollments at Starfleet Academy.
- In David Mack's novel A Time to Heal, Ensign Carmona identifies the Kobayashi Maru as having been lost in the Tezel-Oroko system, the location of the planet Tezwa, where most of this book occurs.