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BoringHusband ,

That full stop.

Kolanaki ,
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I’d rather be Boimler on this one. Kirk cheated. Boimler just got gud.

StillPaisleyCat ,
@StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website avatar

Stamets - you may have a future as ‘an independent artist/designer’ on TeePublic.com.

I’d buy it.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

If I made this, sure, but I only found this online.

StillPaisleyCat ,
@StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website avatar

Appreciate your integrity.

It just sounded like something you might actually say this week…

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

If I wrote something it’d be far more bleak. Something like

Everyday is like I’m being tortured by Cardassians. Five lights. Please. Five lights…

Madison_rogue ,
@Madison_rogue@kbin.social avatar

OMFG...funny. Stealing this!

Sharpiemarker ,

10 bars of gold pressed latinum to anyone who finds this on a shirt for me.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Can I just get food if I find it?

VindictiveJudge ,

10 bars of gold pressed latinum can buy many peanuts.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Alas I get no latinum

ummthatguy ,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

https://media.tenor.com/b416V0Yoe4YAAAAd/simpsons-money.gif

Sharpiemarker ,

Sure!

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Alas I cannot find it. No foods for me

Sharpiemarker ,

Tired of replicated foods or out of rations?

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Out of rations and the nearest M Class planet is 2 days away at current warp speeds.

VindictiveJudge ,

You live on the Moon?

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Might as well

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

Then my best advice is: Mr. Sulu, RAMMING SPEED!

ryan ,

Star Trek: Bridge Crew, great game which was sadly abandoned and left to rot, started you out with the Kobayashi Maru. My friends and I got in there, beamed out as many folks as we could without firing a shot on the Klingons, and then got the hell outta the neutral zone as soon as the Kobayashi Maru was destroyed.

Is that considered a loss? I'd say we saved a bunch of people and hopefully avoided a war. Best we could do given the circumstances. And that's how we manage life sometimes, as well. You can't win, but you manage as best you can given the circumstances and take the small victories wherever you find them.

Rhaedas ,
@Rhaedas@kbin.social avatar

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.

Chetzemoka ,

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.

Rhaedas ,
@Rhaedas@kbin.social avatar

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.

ApostleO ,

When I did that mission, they never specified the neutral zone was there, so I operated under the assumption we were in Federation space. When the birds of pray appeared, there was no option to hail (or they didn’t respond), so I just beat them. And they attacked one at a time. Felt really cheesy, like they used Kobayashi Maru as a reference without actually replicating the test, because it also served as the tutorial.

Kobayashi Maru should have been the last mission, not the first. And it should be properly impossible.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Kobayashi Maru WAS the last mission. Youre talking about part of the opening tutorial. There was a final mission titled Kobayashi Maru that required a decent degree of teamwork to successfully pull off. You needed to beam off at least 80 civilians from the ship. You could succeed but it was pretty difficult to do so. You could also rescue everyone but it was both difficult and tedious.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Yup. I used to play it online a lot. Still do on occasion.

Seraph ,
@Seraph@kbin.social avatar

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.

Ashyr ,

One of my life quotes when things are hard.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Well I’d like life to wrap things up

Seraph ,
@Seraph@kbin.social avatar

My friend, in the grand scheme of things I promise it will, at least for you and me. No need to rush it!

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Eh. I’m tired.

RedWizard ,
@RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml avatar

And sometimes we must seek alternative pathways to success, and recognize them as such. Data stopped trying to play to win and found success in playing to not lose. He rejected the stated objective in favor of his own goals, and in turn was rewarded with new perspectives and greater understanding.

Sometimes the stated objectives can confine us to narrow thinking and obscure other possibilities. One man’s draw is sometimes another man’s victory. It is all a matter of perspective.

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

Yeah, well

stephfinitely , (edited )

You mean you have higher morals and wouldn’t cheat.

WYLD_STALLYNS ,
@WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

James T Kirk taught me it’s okay to cheat, as long as you don’t get caught. 🤫

NielsBohron ,
@NielsBohron@lemmy.world avatar

As my old tech teacher in HS used to say, “if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’”

WYLD_STALLYNS ,
@WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sad but true.

armus ,

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/ffd305d2-e6f9-4bc9-afb3-86691caa8941.jpeg

ummthatguy ,
@ummthatguy@lemmy.world avatar

That would make for a great framed motivational poster.

armus ,

We all need a Shaxs looking out for us

bionicjoey ,

When things seem hopeless, just remember to try ejecting the warp core

BarrelAgedBoredom ,

That’s what I call the morning after a night of heavy drinking

GreenMario ,

We are all part of the Bear Pack here. 🐻

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

I’ve been hanging on for so long. Just want to be happy.

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked long ago.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

I… What?

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

If you immediately know the tractor beam is Borg, then the assimilation began long ago.

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

It’s embarrassing that I understood that metaphor more. But still confused as to how it applies here. You sayin that I am happy and don’t know it?

Sorry. I’m a moron to start with and I haven’t really slept in days or eaten in as long… It’s been a really upsetting week.

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

Open your mind, Paul.

Happiness will not come when you seek it.

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

This might help:

youtu.be/4R1Q2CiMYoI?si=31LULmYh7nsTLrSL

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

It’s less that I’m lookin for it and more that it never found me. My whole life has been… Unpleasant. Honestly I’ve never been happy or anywhere even close to it. It’s whatever. Some people don’t get to be happy. I’ve just sort of accepted it.

Also have never seen SG-1 which explains why I was so confused

JWBananas ,
@JWBananas@startrek.website avatar

You should check it out!

Stamets OP ,
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

I’ve been meaning to but my ADHD keeps making me forget

ummthatguy ,
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https://media.tenor.com/gJ2wlx7GlgsAAAAd/figuring-out-impossible-problems-is-what-we-do-carol-freeman.gif

wizzor ,

Kirk isn’t the only one who can reprogram simulations tho…

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Starfleet be like

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e686ea61-97df-437b-bed8-76fd638054ae.jpeg

GreenMario ,

https://media.tenor.com/aGTzUDgNYeYAAAAM/picard-perfect.gif

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/401aa3c9-90cf-4bee-8073-76e91ae3da9a.jpeg

GreenMario ,

I’m glad they got my boy Broccoli in the shot lol

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

They call him “vegetable” because after a fight with him, that’s how people end up.

TonyToniToneOfficial ,
@TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml avatar

James. T Kirk

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