CentralNotice Kobayashi Maru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the fictional Star Trek exercise. For the 1914 historical incident, see Komagata Maru incident . For other uses, see Kobayashi Maru (disambiguation) . This Star Trek -related article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style . Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective . (April 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) William Shatner portraying Captain James T. Kirk , the first person able to defeat the Kobayashi Maru test The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the fictional Star Trek universe designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets in a no-win scenario . The Kobayashi Maru test was first depicted in the openi...