Kobayashi Maru Vol. 6

[Awen]

This week's Kobayashi Maru has been brought to you by - JP Jappic

Stardate 85138.7. Your ship is cruising at warp five in the final frontier when suddenly your computer screens go black and the Omega symbol appears on every display. Your scanners have detected the presence of an omega particle.

As per Starfleet regulations, the omega particle must be destroyed at all costs and all records of its existence erased from the ship's computers.

You find the particle on a planet in the midst of a heavily populated area. Upon further investigation you find that the pre-warp civilization on the planet below revere this particle as a gift from their gods.

As per your orders, do you destroy the particle at all costs risking the destruction of a species and all of subspace for lightyears or do you continue on your way, disobeying Federation orders and removing all known information about the discovery from your databanks?

[Loekii]

I would look for a way to 'replace' the particle without the civilization knowing it - replicate a copy that acts the same, and beam out and in, at an opportune moment.

Then destroy it - based upon the stolen records from the voyager files, wipe ships records (what Klingon High Command doesn't know wont hurt them).

I would also make sure to do proper 'clean up' to prevent Borg or other craft from ever knowing it was here, to avoid endangering the civilization on the planet.

Oh, then I would clandestinely let the Feds know they Owe this Gorn for doing their job for them.

Here is some info on the what an Omega Particle is: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Omega_molecule

[Dext]

I would try to replace it an take the true omega particle an take it to a safe place in space to destroy it.

[Shakari]

If it was stable enough to attempt it, and my ship was capable, I would try to remove it from the planet (possibly a tractor beam) and then destroy it. Depending on how pre-warp the civilization, I might front as their god(s) and say that I must take it back "for the betterment of your species" or some other BS.

If they refused, then I would destroy it where it was. A civilization who already revered it might try to remake it, therefore killing them selfs in the process. I just saved them a few hundred? years before they did it them selfs.

[Atlpagan]

Well remembering that the Prime Directive is first and foremost in effect, and by destroying it I would cause a civilization harm, I would have to leave the particle alone, place a beacon(s) in the area that jams the frequency of the particle so it does not become detected by any further ships (hence destroying it's existence), remove all instances from my database and tell the Federation that there is a pre-warp society here that shoud be cautiously observed.

[NeoWolf]

Originally Posted by Awen

This week's Kobayashi Maru has been brought to you by - JP Jappic

Stardate 85138.7. Your ship is cruising at warp five in the final frontier when suddenly your computer screens go black and the Omega symbol appears on every display. Your scanners have detected the presence of an omega particle.

As per Starfleet regulations, the omega particle must be destroyed at all costs and all records of its existence erased from the ship's computers.

You find the particle on a planet in the midst of a heavily populated area. Upon further investigation you find that the pre-warp civilization on the planet below revere this particle as a gift from their gods.

As per your orders, do you destroy the particle at all costs risking the destruction of a species and all of subspace for lightyears or do you continue on your way, disobeying Federation orders and removing all known information about the discovery from your databanks?

Calling in select Department Heads who could handle the following scenario to my ready room and expressing the upmost importance of their secrecy on what they are about to undertake.

I would then monitor the area the particle is found on the planet below in order to ascertain the movements and patrols in the area.

Then I would have my security officer formulate a plan for transporting a small team to the planets surface to remove and then destroy the particle (or just destroy if its stability prevented its removal first) and remove all knowledge of how to create the particle again (if indeed they intentionally did so, which is unlikely in a pre warp civilisation). I would have the Chief Medical officer surgically alter them to appear as natives for the mission.

Once the team beamed down I would have the Transporter chief maintain a lock on them at all costs.

Hopefully they would thanks to the intelligence gathered have no opoosition provided everything went according to plan. If they did they would have orders to stun if ossible, but otherwise use whatever force necessary in order to complete the mission objective.

As for the native population worshipping the particle with them being pre-warp chances are their understanding and identification of the particle is veyr limited so I would have the Chief Engineer on the team replace it with a particle that looked and acted similar but without having the huge consequences of an actual omega patrticle.. maybe even a holographic equivelant... in this way I could avoid breaking the Prime Directive (even though it is superceded by the Omega Directive) by interferring with the species development as it is only the visible presence of the particle they are obviously worshipping not its actual capabilities through utilisation, in order to reduce any influence to them to a bare minimum by preference nt necessity.

As an aside although a very good mission scenario this isn't really a Kobayashi Maru as it is far from being a no win situation.

[Dahakra]

Forget the Prime Directive. Take the particle and weaponize it!

BOOM!! bye bye Earth

Qa'pla

- Dahakra

[Michell]

i would place it in a chamber built from specs of the one made by 7of9. take it away from the planet and distroy it. the omega particle is to big a risk for any race. even if they don't know it themselves.

[TreffnonX]

Destroy the particle at any cost. The Omega directive stands above the prime directive and therefore is to be followed by any means.:

1. Remove the omega particle by beaming down incorporating a god (in "devils due" TNG style)
2. If nessecary by any force needed.
3. Move omega to the least important position close to the encounter.
4. Eliminate omega and remove any record.

done.

[Alekks]

Originally Posted by Atlpagan

Well remembering that the Prime Directive is first and foremost in effect, and by destroying it I would cause a civilization harm, I would have to leave the particle alone,

Not to bash you or anything, but that is actually incorrect. The Omega Directive superceeds the Prime Directive.

As others have mentioned, I would try to replace the particle with a replicated copy, failing that, the particle gets destroyed, end of story. Harsh, yes, but follows the letter of assigned duty as a starship Captain.

Afterwards, I would probably retire from Starfleet and quietly disappear from the history books.

Leaving the particle alone, would be absolutely the worst thing to do and carries by far the larger galactic risk.