The Kobayashi Maru is a dreaded rite of passage at Starfleet Academy, but now the franchise has confirmed that it is absolutely necessary.

Second, according to an article in Starlog Magazine #67, Jack Sowards, the man who invented the Kobayashi Maru, named it, named the ship, after his former neighbours in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.

The Kobayashi Maru from Star Trek ... a bit inconsiderate to base a test for teenagers on the loss of a very real ship in the first place. Leaving only about seven year's distance to the actual ...