kobayashi maru test
Inside 'Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience'
I'm not smart enough to reprogram the Kobayashi Maru test so I can beat it, but then that was never the point (unless you're James T. Kirk). Instead, like nearly a dozen other activities in the new Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience opening on July 9 at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum in Manhattan, it's designed to assess what kind of Starfleet member I might be. The museum opened up the interactive exhibit, which is designed to celebrate the iconic, nearly 50-year-old Star Trek franchise, to the press a week early, allowing us to experience the interactive installations, see the original costumes, and ogle the show and movie props (or as they were called by Experience guides, "artifacts"). My tour couldn't tell me if these Tribbles were from the original series or from the Deep Space Nine Trouble with Tribbles tribute episode. The Starfleet Academy Experience conceit is that Star Trek – all 50 years of it – is real and you are attending career day at the Academy, which in Star Trek lore is located in San Francisco.