On: The $5000 Compression Challenge

[sjwright]

> If you design an impossible game, the only possible thing for anyone to do is to break it.

Which is the Kobayashi Maru in a nutshell. In that fictional case, Kirk was disqualified but also received a commendation.

[qbrass → sjwright]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kobayashi_Maru_%28Star_Tre...

I don't know if the novel is canon, but it ought to be.

Kirk beat it by cheating, Scotty beat it legitimately, then proved that what he did only worked in the simulation.