The Kobayashi Maru

A freak shuttlecraft accident and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications with nothing, in short but time on their hands Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maruthe Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes and does not make Discover now how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maruand became in turn Starfleet officers. Best Download [ The Kobayashi Maru ] By [ Julia Ecklar ] – kino-fada.fr I listened to the audio version of this book and was very impressed with James Doohan s performance in narrating It really added something extra to the story, and he was able to imitate the voices of the original actors for each character very well.This story recounts the Kobayashi Maru scenarios of Kirk, Chekov, Sulu, and Scotty as they were stranded on a shuttle waiting for the Enterprise to rescue them My husband introduced me to Star Trek a few years ago, and we have managed to watch every I listened to the audio version of this book and was very impressed with James Doohan s performance in narrating It really added something extra to the story, ...3.5 stars Some interesting reminiscences from Kirk, Sulu, Chekov and Scotty and their time at the academy tackling simulated command challenges.I m surprised it took as long as it did to finally write a flashback novel to the Enterprise crew s various Kobyashi Maru simulation experiences, during their cadet days Some of the vignettes weren t quite up to the expectations of my imaginationbut the novel is u...The Kobayashi Maru is getting a five star rating not because it s a dramatic well written novel that graces not only the scifi genre but any genre, it s getting the rating because I just love reading the novel The basic story is pretty straight forward, a serious accident on a shuttle leaves it helpless inside a rubble strewn solar system and the Enterprise has no practical way to determine it s location On board are Scotty, McCoy, Chekov, Kirk and Sulu with the latter two being injured and The Kobayashi Maru is getting a five star rating not because it s a dramatic well written novel that graces not only the scifi genre but any genre, it s getting the rating because ...I am pleased to learn that eighteen hours of unnecessary confinement has not adversely affected your social skills Oh, get out of my way mccoy and Spock, bickering as always it seems really odd to see that again, especially as I went to see the 2009 Star Trek film yesterday That, and the fact that the original series of Star Trek was never something I followed, r...An interesting read It s always good to learnabout the characters who don t feature so heavily in the novels series like Chekov and Sulu They were the highlight of this for me Chekov s sulking was truly deserving of an honourable mention xDFirst this seems to be the origin for Kirk s solution to the Kobayashi Maru scenario, and that s of course sorta fun But for some reason the writing in this thing is really disconnected, so disconnected in fact that I repeatedly wondered if the editor was sick the month they released this book So we have Kirk s story and except for Spock not having programmed the test it s pretty much what we saw in that J.J Abrams remake But then we have Chekov s version which is extremely weird, over First this seems to be the origin for Kirk s solution to the Kobayashi Maru scenario, and that s of course sorta fun But for some reason the writing in this thing is really disconnected, so disconnected in fact that I repeatedly wondered if the editor was sick the month they released this book So we have Kirk s story and except for Spock not having programmed the test it s pretty much what we saw in that J.J Abrams remake But then we have Chekov s v...The author fails to capture the nuances of the characters and the pathos that the actors brought to this American classic tv series.Read this over the course of a round trip flight and it is perfect as easy entertainment The setting is Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, Chekhov, and Mr Scott trapped on a damaged shuttle and trying to kill time and keep each other s spirits up while they work out a plan to be rescued They decide to pass the time relaying their individual experience with the Kobayashi Maru except for McCoy since he did not attend Command School Each character has a completely and not altogether b...Every Trekkie knows about the Kobayashi Maru, otherwise it is not a Trekkie S he also knows that Kirk cheated and was the only one to ever beat this unbeatable scenario designed by Spock although not mentioned in this novel But until now the details were unknown.This book brings the story of a few heroes, wounded and marooned in space in a wreck, waiting for a miraculous rescue or death To pass the time and ease the pa...

• English
• 01 March 2018
Julia Ecklar
• Mass Market Paperback
• 254 pages
• 0671658174
• Julia Ecklar
• The Kobayashi Maru