• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That game option is the perfect Starfleet choice, but I think canon of the test was that once you got in close enough to try a rescue it ended up that the Maru was a ruse. Of course if you didn’t do any rescue it would end up being a true ship, but that’s the no-win part. The game allowing a partial rescue made it not a “test”, but an actual reality with some chance. Which was Kirk’s point…reality can hand you many more possibilities than a test ever can.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah canon I believe is you can’t get close enough to transport without violating the neutral zone. So it’s a binary either or choice. You rescue and start a war or you watch those people die.

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        The latter is what Sulu did, but there’s more backstory to why he made that choice back then. Obviously from the movies he changed as a captain to do whatever it took when the assistance was needed by friends.