Maggie's Farm

I'd have to disagree that Kirk's breaking the rules is a solution to the lose-lose test. if the test were to evaluate how a ship captain handles a battle against overwhelming odds* then his solution means nothing, because all he is doing is gaming a game, not fighting a one on three duel.

the post-exercise debriefing is interesting only to the point there the officer tested decides to cross into the neutral zone. in fact, the test could have ended there without the simulated combat.

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* I'm assuming the three on one scenario reaches the threshold of the 23d century Lanchester equation or combat salvo model where the destruction of the Enterprise is a certainty**. I assume that because the exercise is described as lose-lose, not lose-maybe.

** Exceptions to these models involve exceptional tactical insight on the part of the smaller force commander and/or serious errors in judgment by leaders of the larger force, for example the Battles of the Nile or Leyte Gulf.

trekkies and other fanboy nerds miss the point, which is that its a test of character, not of tactics or of gaming the system.