Kobiyashi Maru test - what would you do?

[thelordharry]

Can someone please refresh my memory, were comms down on the KM?

[Foxbat]

I remember thinking Scotty's solution was bizarre, sort of a cheat of a different sort:


Scotty tells about his early years at Command School, and how his love of engineering made it difficult for him to pay attention to non-engineering subjects. Upon taking the scenario, Scotty used engineering solutions to destroy 3 waves of Klingon cruisers (3, 5, 9). Review of his performance shows that he used the Perera Field Theory to destroy the final wave, which was proven to be mathematically possible (thus acceptable to the computer), but physically impossible (as proven by a 16 year old Scotty). The resulting decision had Scotty kicked out of Command School and sent to study engineering.


I'm trying to think of something else that would be mathematically possible, but physically impossible...

[Sionnach Glic]

Well, the mass-lightening effect functions at impulse, but I've never heard of it being used at warp. However, I agree with Sunny that attempting to ram at warp could easily cause the attacking ship to drop out of warp short of the target, leaving it more as a vulnerable target than as a desperate threat.

You're right - I got mixed up and thought that mass lightening worked at FTL, for somme reason.

[Tsukiyumi]

...I'm trying to think of something else that would be mathematically possible, but physically impossible...

DVDA?

Uh... I mean, good question.

[Captain Seafort]

Well, the mass-lightening effect functions at impulse, but I've never heard of it being used at warp. However, I agree with Sunny that attempting to ram at warp could easily cause the attacking ship to drop out of warp short of the target, leaving it more as a vulnerable target than as a desperate threat.

You're right - I got mixed up and thought that mass lightening worked at FTL, for somme reason.

It does - when the E-D tried to do it to a moon in Deja Q they used the warp engines to project the field.

[thelordharry]

Are COMMS up on the KM so you can get through to them and get them doing something to help?

[Mikey]

Well, the mass-lightening effect functions at impulse, but I've never heard of it being used at warp. However, I agree with Sunny that attempting to ram at warp could easily cause the attacking ship to drop out of warp short of the target, leaving it more as a vulnerable target than as a desperate threat.

You're right - I got mixed up and thought that mass lightening worked at FTL, for somme reason.

It does - when the E-D tried to do it to a moon in Deja Q they used the warp engines to project the field.

I thought that was a secondary effect of the projection of the warp field - i.e., the mass was lessened due to the shift into subspace of part of the rock rather than a dedicated mass-lightening effect.

Are COMMS up on the KM so you can get through to them and get them doing something to help?

I don't recall - they were at first, obviously, but IIRC they were failing further into the attack.