Piper meets briefly with Brian Silayna, an Academy cadet in the engineering program and her friend and lover.
The simulator's commander comments during the debriefing that she has come closer to checkmating the no-win scenario than any other command-line candidate, then tells her that she has been reassigned to the starship Enterprise by special request. The technique results in the computer controlling the simulation crashing. Piper uses an unusual method to issue commands to the ship's computer via handheld communicator. After her 'ship' takes several hits and sustains heavy damage, Lt. Piper (no last name), a native of Proxima Beta, taking the Kobayashi Maru simulation at Starfleet Academy. ( August 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
