[net.startrek] What does Kobayashi Maru mean anyway

gvg@hp-pcd.UUCP (gvg) (04/07/85)

> Subject: What does Kobayashi Maru mean anyway?

> Anyone out there know how this translates? (I presume from Japanese.)

from: G.V. Goebel / Hewlett-Packard / Corvallis Division
date: Tuesday, 9 March 1985

I do not speak Japanese, but I know that "maru" is a generic term for
a merchant vessel.  Kobayashi sounds like a proper name - for a person
or a city ... I will ask Mr. Katsuo Yokoyama at this site for more details.

                                         Regards - GVG
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