alcmist@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick Wamsley) (04/18/85)
One proposed "solution" to the Kobayashi Maru training exercise was
to ignore the distress signal.
Neglecting a distress signal is obviously a violation of regulations,
tradition, and ethics --
but there is precedent.
In Friday's Child, the Klingons try to lure the Enterprise away from
the planet with faked distress signals. They succeed in getting
Scotty to leave orbit - ONCE. The second time the Klingons tried
that particular trick, Scotty ignored the distress signal, even
though it was supposedly from a ship known to be in the area!
If hostile forces were in the habit of using spurious distress signals
to decoy starships, I'd expect a policy of not answering distress
signals from inside the neutral zone (and forbidding civilian ships
to approach it).
Fred Wamsley
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