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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Kirk, Klingon, Kobayashi entitled The Kobayashi Maru?
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conversations.value: The Kobayashi Maru (Star Trek novel): While stranded in a damaged shuttlecraft, Kirk, Sulu, Chekov, and Scotty recall their Starfleet Academy Command School experiences with the simulation scenario The Kobayashi Maru.\nThe title is the name of the scenario, the name of the damaged freighter within the scenario, and an allusion to the situation the shuttlecraft is in.\nWhen communications with the Venkatsen Research Group were lost, theSS.\nEnterprise was sent to investigate.\nIn a system with 47 planets, the transporter is not usable, so Kirk and crew take a shuttle to Hohweyn VII.\nEn route, a gravitic mine damages the shuttle.\nCommunications and navigation are not responsive, and Kirk and Sulu are injured in the blast.\nMcCoy, in an attempt to pass time, convinces Kirk to tell his story about the "unwinnable scenario".\nThe training scenario itself involves a crippled fuel freighter in the Neutral Zone between the Federation and Klingon space.\nThe starship receives a garbled distress call, which, if responded to, results in an attack by three Klingon cruisers.\nThe opening volley causes heavy damage to the ship, and, despite any actions on the part of the cadet, the ship is destroyed.\nThe purpose of the no-win outcome is to test the cadets\' response to losing.\nKirk proceeds to tell how he reprogrammed the simulation so that the Klingon commanders recognize his name and assists Kirk in saving the freighter.\nChekov tells his story about the Kobayashi Maru and a secondary training exercise on an empty space station.\nChekov completed the scenario by evacuating his crew and physically ramming the ship into the Klingon attackers.\nIn the second exercise, Chekov commits group "suicide" by "killing" the others who had captured him.\nThe secondary exercise involves pitting all the cadets against each other to see who lasts a pre-determined time period.\nChekov creates a different plan.\nHe learns that when Kirk went through the same scenario he organized the cadets in such a way there was no need to fight each other.\nSulu tells his story about his great-grandfather Tetsuo, and about going to Command School for the first time.\nThe first exercise is a type of ModelN, where Sulu is a tech level 3 planet, Menak III, and trying to gain entrance into the Federation.\nWhen Sulu finds out Tetsuo is discontinuing treatments for a life-ending illness, he refuses to speak to him.\nSulu finds out about Tetsuo\'s death after returning from a field exercise.\nWhen he finally takes the Kobayashi Maru test, he decides that the freighter\'s distress call is probably a trap and chooses not to help it.\nScotty tells about his early years at Command School, and how his love of engineering made it difficult for him to pay attention to non-engineering subjects.\nUpon taking the scenario, Scotty used engineering solutions to destroy ever increasing waves of Klingon cruisers.\nReview of his performance shows that he used the Perera Field Theory to destroy the final wave, which was proven to be mathematically possible (thus acceptable to the computer), but physically impossible (as proven by Scotty).\nThe resulting decision had Scotty moved out of Command School and sent to study engineering.\nThe shuttle is rescued by the Enterprise after a plan to turn the shuttle into an electromagnetic black hole works, which lets the Enterprise know where to find them.
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conversations.value: What is the first two paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Kobayashi Maru
  Chekov looked up from where he'd been dogging Scott as the engineer wired the accelerators. It struck Kirk, for the first time, that Chekov was the only one who hadn't discarded his duty jacket when Scott reinstated the heating; the brass and silver pips at the shoulder and cuffs glinted dully as he stood. "I'm serious, Captain."
  Chekov glared down at him. "You're our only engineer," he persisted. "If something should happen to you, there isn't anyone else who could repair the systems!"
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conversations.value: What is another paragraph? Start with the sentence 'Sulu closed his own eyes, relishing the decadent feel of relaxation'.
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conversations.value: Sulu closed his own eyes, relishing the decadent feel of relaxation. After a week and a half on the other side of the North American continent, Sulu welcomed even San Francisco's damp, chilly autumn. They'd been dropped in ten degrees centigrade weather in the northern Allegheny Mountains and instructed to make their way to a predetermined base "as soon as you can." They'd had sufficient gear and food to keep them alive (Sulu had hoped), but it was a white-haired, smart-mouthed boy from upstate New York who saved them all. He reckoned directions by the stars better than anyone Sulu had ever seen; they reached their destination in record time, losing only a backpack and a sleeping tent in the process. Sulu, as commander of the excursion, was distinctly pleased.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Spock moved calmly out of the doorway, coming to stand by Kirk's shoulder as McCoy hurried back in with a stretcher and a small team of medics. Sulu tried to struggle upright as he was lifted from the floor. "What's going on?" he murmured fuzzily. "Where are we?"
  McCoy grumbled from the head of the stretcher. "That can be rectified, Lieutenant." When the security chief only looked startled, McCoy elaborated, "I'm taking this patient to sickbay. Now, either get out of my way or walk alongside, but quit holding up the wheels of progress."
  Chekov followed the medical team out the door, and Kirk watched a swarm of chattering engineers take their places. "Don't touch the walls!" Scott bellowed at the tech who scratched at the equations with a thumbnail, seeing if the script was permanent. "I haven't decided what I'm doing with 'em yet."
  Spock's voice caught Kirk's attention, reminding him of his first officer's presence. "Very good, Mister Spock—very efficient." He shifted position on the seat, angling his gaze up at Spock as though they were discussing a recent chess game. "I take it everything went well?"
  When the Vulcan swept a cool look about the interior of the shuttle, Kirk glanced about as well, seeing the destruction as if for the first time. "Kind of made a mess, didn't we?"