Startrek 2009 - Kirk beats Spock's Test

I’d imagine the 1st time he tried to rescue them
2nd time he sacrificed the vessel
3rd time he beat the no win scenario

Missed opportunity to have the original distress call audio from WOK play on the bridge and have Kirk smugly mouth to it.

It was at this point I despised this movie and its creator, Jar Jar Abrahams. It’s all too obvious that he cheated, which is absurd.

I love how you can hear Kirk chomping on the apple through the speakers when that guy asked Spock how he beat his test 😂

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My favorite scene

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I never thought I'd say this, but Kirk may munch apples better than Barbossa.

I love how flippant Uhura was in the beginning of this scene.

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he's so cocky 🤣

Kirk's strategy confused Officer Harry Wu here.

The Apple lol

Alert medical 😌

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Dude being a real pain in the but

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>simulation glitches and disappears for several seconds
>enemy fleet has shields for no reason when it comes back up
>guy being tested took his sweet time and acted like he knew all that was gonna happen

how come they didn't realize immediately he did it

Lesson learned here kids. We all cheat sometimes in life, and it's ok. As long as the result is positive 😂

It’s Birds of Prey, not Warbirds. Warbirds are Romulan ships which Nero’s ship doesn’t look like at all.

Because he's Captain James Tiberius Kirk. No one in the galaxy can out wit, out fight, out manuvre, out score or out fuck Captain Kirk.

No, he the F#@$< Does Not! If nothing else was enough to prove that this series of crap movies is simply Not Real Star Trek, this sequence alone should be enough to prove how greivously unqualified was anybody involved in the creation of this abomination.

Could anybody with half a functioning brain cell have watched the relevant scenes of "The Wrath of Khan" (FFS, I'm not even asking you to sit through the whole movie, never mind how much you'd have learned about what makes actually-good movies different from the stupidity of your comic-book-movie crap, JJ!) No, even if all Your Highness could be bothered to do is watch the one scene at the beginning, and the one scene in the middle when they refer back to it, so as to have even the most basic understanding of what you're talking about... No, I guess trying to get through to an idiot who's been out there boasting about how he'd never even watched Star Trek, as if that was somehow some kind of qualification(?) ...

Where was I? Oh yeah: could anybody with half a brain cell have possibly thought that that arrogant, who-gives-a-$#!+, apple-biting idiot was what Kirk a and Bones are referring to when they tell Saavik the story?

NO! F'ING NO! YOU IDIOTS! WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! WHY COULDN'T THEY HAVE HIRED SOMEBODY QUALIFIED INSTEAD OF YOUR STUPID @$$3$???

I'll spell it our for you, as if to a 6-year-old, because apparently that's what's needed: Kirk was protesting against the fact that the test was rigged to make it impossible for him to win no matter what he did, right?

So, obviously, he'll reverse-rig it to make it impossible for him to lose, right?

Once again: NO, YOU 2ND-GRADE MORONS! WHO TF DECIDED TO GIVE YOU ANY CREATIVE CONTROL, AND WHY HAVEN'T THEY BEEN RIDDEN OUT OF TOWN ON AN ASS ALONG WITH YOU?!?!

Breathe

Okay, trying again...

So all he needed to do was un-rig it, so that there was exactly one path where, if he played it exactly right, he could, say, disable one of the Klingon ships, plot a course to get out from between the other two, and escape from the Neutral Zone back into Federation space. Right?

Then he would have them load up the sim; play it perfectly by-the-book; follow that Golden Path; escape; have the Proctors looking at each other like, "WTF just happened?"; say, "so... did I pass?"; forcing then to say, "Uh, yeah. Yes, it seems you did..."

My point? If the sacred duty of revitalizing Star Trek had been given to somebody halfway qualified, or even to somebody who, regardless of their qualifications, had even a partial understanding of the weight of the responsibility they were undertaking...

Then maybe the 2009 abomination of a "reboot" could instead have been something halfway worthy.

I mean , Kirk did not cheat , frankly .He took the needed action to complete his mission .And even if he cheated , it would still be a good solve to the problem .Because believing that impossible situations do not truly exist is a possible quality and the whole test is made to artificially remove any possibility of success .To reject the idea of being consigned to failure , especially when it means the deaths of other , is downright admirable .It would be a bit freightening to imagine a commanding officer who simply admitted defeat because he was told that the situation was unwinable .

This scene killed. I wasn't ready.

Geez, Kirk, If you were gonna cheat on a test you could have at least been subtle about it.

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Best scene ever.

Love how he just eats that apple with cocky confidence and sarcasm.

My favorite version of this was a convoy simulator we had in the military. Humvee chassis, surrounded by screens and air piston rifles and machine guns. Multiple rooms all linked together for the scenarios. Our platoon did such a good job they let us play the zombie program they wrote up for fun. 4-500 man army with only small arms pops up in a town. No civilians or friendlies, let us go off for a little bit and tear stuff up.

I love how cocky he is

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With Kirk if your goal is to beat the test and the only way to do so is to cheat then that’s what you should do.

It’s the only possible solution to achieve your goal.

Kirk's strategy was spot on. First, the test is supposed to make officers 'face 'death,' which is difficult considering you're in a simulation that you can retake. Second, they're supposed to face the consequences of their actions; again difficult since they were Ordered to rescue the ship instead of being allowed to make the decision themselves.

So basically, you're taking a test that makes you face death except you don't, you're ordered to perform the action that has no solution to show you the consequences of your 'decisions,' yet Kirk, who freely admits that he bypassed that to make a point, is accused of cheating?

I DO NOT KNOW 🤯

Kirk was eating an apple, or some other crunchy fruit, the day he told his son this story.

One photon each should do, lets not waste ammunition, lol😂😂😂

Captain pick
How in the he’ll that kid beat your test
Spock
I don’t know

I know it's science fiction and all, but come on spock! Do you really not know? Use the logic!

Some of Chris Pine's cadences during this scene are the closest he came to imitating Shatner in this trilogy.

Kirk firing a "finger gun" at the viewscreen while chewing on a huge mouthful of apple is so over the top I can't stop laughing.

“I got a commendation for original thinking.” - James T. Kirk

Uhura is SOO condescending, and is SO disappointed he didn't lose.

Shouldn't it be "target acquired and locked"?

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I always like this scene because even though the point of the test is deal with the reality of no-win scenarios. Kirk has the disposition of never giving up and finding a way out of every situation and being prepared for every contingency. Some will see it as cheating the test but I see it as facing any conflict with as many advantages that you can muster. He's kinda like the Batman of Starfleet, going above what anyone can ask of him as a captain.

What Kirk in the original timeline is even more badass. He rigged the test by amping up his reputation, enough to intimidate the Klingons. Kirk even managed to talked them into helping the rescue effort. Basically, the original-Kirk chose diplomacy over violence.

Missed the point. Bravo JJ.