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NOVEL
The Kobayashi Maru
Attribution

Kirk and his crew face certain death... while journeying deep into their own pasts!

Summary

From the back cover 

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 Maru - the 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 how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru...and became Starfleet officers.

References

Characters

James T. Kirk • Spock • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Hikaru Sulu • Pavel Chekov • Nyota Uhura • Baasch • Anne • Cantini • Robert Cecil • Sasha Charles • Rachel Coan • Constrev • Laurel Gugin • Hohman • Howell • Tetsuo Inomata • Janda • Gregory Jao • Arthur Kobrine • "Kozor" • Aldous Kramer • Nabuda • Narv • Maria Theresa Perez-Salazar • Shoji • Walgren • Westbeld

Referenced only 

Agrippa • Babin • Cheryl • Das Res-Pamudan • Friendly John • Fr'nir • George Custer • Garth of Izar • Hoshe-Igga • Korrd • Shaitani • George Temmu • Von

Starships and vehicles

USS Exeter • USS Farragut • USS Saratoga • USS Potemkin • USS Yorktown • USS Enterprise (Enterprise-subclass refit) • Halley (shuttlecraft) • "SS Kobayashi Maru" (neutronic fuel carrier) • "IKS Kh'yem" (Klingon cruiser)

Locations

Gast • Isrando-on-Sheshwar • Tiatris • bridge • transporter room • recreation hall • shuttlebay • sunside

Planetary locations

Aberdeen • Allegheny Mountains • Australia • California • Fisherman's Wharf • Golden Gate Bridge • Golden Gate Park • Iowa • Japan • Kare Conference Hall • Little Bighorn • Los Angeles • Mexico • Mexico City • Mount Tam • North America • Oakland • Old El Cerrito • Ohio • Palace of Fine Arts • Rhineland • San Francisco • Scotland • Tempe

Stations and outposts

Aslan Industrial Station • Station F9

Planets and planetoids

Altair VI • Carstair's Planet • Earth • Hohweyn VII • Luna • Menak III • Rigel V • Rukbat V

Stellar

Altair • Gamma Hydra • Hohweyn • Menak • Rigel • Rukbat • Sol system • Klingon Neutral Zone • Magellan sector • Murasaki sector • the galaxy

Races and cultures

Andorian • Altarian • Barbarbaar'yoat • Human • Asian • Cheyenne • Maori • Russian • Klingon • Romulan • Tseyluri • Vulcan

States and organizations

Klingon Empire • Romulan Star Empire • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets • Venkatsen Research Group • Cadet Bloc G • Cadet Bloc W • Babin's sixth fleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Academy Command School • Starfleet Academy Engineering School • World Library

Technology and weapons

computer • coolant system • deflector shield • environmental suit • gravitic mine • impulse drive • phaser • photon torpedo • plasma weapon • record tape • subspace radio • torpedo launcher • tranporter • warp drive

Materials, substances and energies

antimatter • coolant • iron • kurite • light • liquid nitrogen • neutrino • nickel • ozone • radiation • titanium

Events

Battle of Tiatris • Hoshe Offensive

Other references

Aberdeen Solution • asteroid • biology • black hole • blood • chemotherapy • court martial • crane • drugs • duck • earthworm • Encyclopedia of Engineering Development and Design • Filbert • food • Georgian Russian • glioblastoma • gravity • gravitic anomaly • hypothermia • iguana • Japanese • Klingonese • Kobayashi Maru scenario • medicine • medikit • mihka • Modern Russian • Muscovite High Russian • origami • parrot • particle beam • Perera Field Theory • philosophy • planet • psychology • raisin • Reinhold pirouette • Rosserian ivy • sector • shore leave • solitaire • starbase • star system • Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry • Starfleet uniform • Tellurian greencat • trinary star • uniform

Appendices

Information

On the cover of the book, the USS Tritium is shown, having been modeled based on a painting by Rick Sternbach originally created for the TOS reference: Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology. Which ship it might represent from the story is unclear, although it seems implied that the Tritium image might represent the Kobayashi Maru herself.

Connections

Timeline

External link

• The Kobayashi Maru article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.