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*** 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.

* In ''Enterprise: The First Adventure'' by Vonda N. McIntyre (1986) we see the first meeting between Kirk and Spock. Kirk's just taken over command of the Enterprise from the departing Christopher Pike, and Spock is very unsure about his new captain. In the officer's lounge that evening, Kirk walks past Spock who is sitting alone with a 3-D chessboard in mid-game. Kirk first figures out from the configuration that it's black's move, then watches Spock make a move, and then announces "White to checkmate in three" and strolls away. Sometime later Spock comes over to Kirk and, after ascertaining that Kirk was serious ("One can never be certain when a human being is making a joke") asks to see the mate-in-three maneuver. Kirk makes the first move and then Spock sees it and resigns.

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

"But effective," Jim said.

* ''Star Trek Destiny''. More specifically the latter half of the third book, "Lost Souls". {{spoiler|The Borg cease to exist, and every single drone is freed from the Collective, ''all at once''. The Collective entity is faded into nonexistance, and the liberated ex-Borg leave to [[Walk the Earth|travel the universe]] [[We Help the Helpless|to fight on behalf of those who cannot]].}} This Troper can't quite settle on who to assign the awesome to. {{spoiler|Though [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Captain Hernandez]] seems the most deserving of it.}}

** The entire plot of the Destiny trilogy is something of a polarizing agent on the Trek fandom at large.

* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' novel ''Fallen Heroes'', {{spoiler|Sisko's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and the code wherewith he warns anyone still alive while making sure the Bekkir are none the wiser.}}

* Surprisingly, '''B-4''' gets one in the Star Trek Online tie-in novel ''The Needs of the Many.'' Geordi has managed to access Data's memories inside B-4's head. Data, realizing that he is functionally dead, chooses to basically commit suicide rather than destroy his brother's consciousness. Geordi gives Data information on a threat to the Federation, believing Data to be capable of helping them, but Data is unmoved, wanting to give his brother the opportunity at life. Then, at the last moment, B-4 takes over the 'suicide command,' having read the same information sent to Data and believing that Data is more important to the than him. His last words are in the form of a message to Data are 'I love you brother. Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.'