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 -- UUCP:{ihnp4,decvax}!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!alcmist ARPA:ssc-vax!alcmist@uw-beaver This article should not be taken as reflecting on my employer... USENET: where ignorant armies clash by night