Star Trek/Novels/Awesome: Difference between revisions

** Which is shortly eclipsed by Scotty's solution...He ''breaks the rules of physics'', taking out an entire squad of Klingon ships with one torpedo. (A fan who hasn't read the book wants to know: did somebody say, "You can't ''do'' that!")

*** To give more detail: when Scotty's simulated starship got hit the Klingons did far too much damage, so Scotty gets peeved and decides that if the computer is going to cheat so is he. So although, as he has to admit to the Academy instructors, he knows the tactic doesn't work in practice, he tries it because he knew the maths said it should work and hoped it would work in the Kobyashu Maru simulation like it had in other computer simulations. What was awesome was when they looked up who it had been who had found it didn't work in practice...was Scotty, when he was 17, which had required him to build several shield generators and link them together. Also a touch of a [[Xanatos Gambit]] going on as the Engineering Instructor had set things up to provoke Scotty into cheating in that manner. That let him expose just how good an engineer Scotty was ("Oh! Imagine My Sur-prise! It was You who Did It!") and that he had remained on the Command Track despite being unhappy because he didn't want to disappoint his family by transferring. Result, because Scotty cheated he is "dropped" from the Command Track and transferred to Engineering like he wants.

 

{{quote|"Your move," Spock said, "risked your queen and your knights. It was... illogical."