TOS credits, as done by Saul Bass…
Tired of enduring tribulations. Don't wanna be tribulated no more.
“I’ve got to get to the captain!” ft. spock having all the grace of a newborn giraffe learning to walk
THIS SCENE MAKES ME SCREAM
60s Trek: This can only point to the existence of a race of aliens who are beyond what humanity can even conceive, not even carbon based, perhaps lacking in solid form at all, more of a concept than a race of beings really. Communication will be impossible, for they operate on a much higher level than us. This species will change our entire understanding of the universe, redefining perhaps what it is to be human.
60s Trek: also they look like this
Lieutenant Uhura take the helm
I was watching this episode with an ex-military friend and this scene came on. He made this weird kind of grunt, which I took to be a sound of disgust.
But when I asked him what his problem was, he just smiled.
“No! This is AWESOME. The senior bridge crew is all cross-trained on each others stations! She’s a lieutenant so of course she’d be trained up on driving the ship… that’s exactly the kind of redundancy you’d want in an emergency situation.”
Starfleet Science/Medical’s version of the Kobayashi Maru is the Hypospray Maru. You’re left in a room containing just a random hypospray, told its use has the potential to stop someone’s suffering but it’s never been tried before, and if you inject it into yourself to see what it does, you’re officially crazy enough to lead a department.
I’m just picturing a timed test situation though where the cadets are supposed to deduce and delegate resources to figure out what’s in the hypospray.
Then Bones just rolls in, injects himself immediately, tests his own blood, and calls it a day.
To this day, he holds the record for fastest time completing the test.