Kobayashi Maru

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Chap 1: Beginnings

James T. Kirk was an ordinary cadet in his last year of Starfleet training. Or so it appeared...

If anyone had happened to look into his small, cramped quarters in the weeks preceding the final exams, they would see him tirelessly staring at his LCARS system. As the test drew closer, many students started following his example of taking a data padd into the cafeteria and studying through lunch.

His teachers and peers alike admired him.

"Look at that young James Kirk over there!"

"Yep, that Kirk can't keep his eyes off the padd."

"He must be really worried about the exams..."

But Cadet James T. Kirk wasn't the top of his class for nothing. He already knew everything that would be on the written tests. No, he was studying the psychological holodeck tests Starfleet Command subjected its graduating cadets to.

And one in particular.

The Kobayashi Maru...

So, whaddya think so far? Worth continuing?

-the Grim Reaper