"GOLDEN, CHRISTIE - THE LAST ROUND-UP" - читать интересную книгу автора (Golden Christie)

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You know what they want, and you know their tactics. They've never left
anyone alive before." He paused in midstride and whirled back, catching
their eyes with his own hazel ones.

"But they've never wanted anything from an outpost before.

They might take you prisoner. They might agree to let you go.

You just don't know. Now do you see why Cadet Lasskas's answer wasn't
correct?"

They stared at him blankly. Skalli was obviously frustrated that she
couldn't grasp what her instructor was getting at, and the rest seemed
uneasy as well.

Kirk sighed. Maybe they were just too young. Maybe at their age, he
wouldn't have been able to comprehend this either.

After all, wasn't he the one who secretly reprogrammed the simulation
computer in order to become the only Academy student able to wring
victory from the Kobayashi Maru simulation?

"Cadet Lasskas's answer was factually correct. But you've got to take
into consideration more than just facts if you're to be a good officer
in Starfleet. You've got to consider things like hunches, intuitions,
gut feelings ... and knowing that you always have a choice." He glanced
over at Lasskas, who was hanging his reptilian head. "You said Commander
Lowe didn't have a choice. From our perspective, a hundred-odd years in
the future, that statement seems obvious."

He spread his hands. "Of course she had to destroy the colony, and
sacrifice every one of those one hundred and forty eight men and women,
didn't she? We all know that's what she had to do, don't we?" he said,
exaggerating the words. "She couldn't risk having that much dilithium
fall into Romulan hands at that crucial juncture. Just push a button. An
easy decision.

It's in all the textbooks, so it must have been obvious, an easy choice.
It has as much relevance to us now as the fall of

Lamaria, or the losses at Normandy in 1944, back on Earth.

Which is to say, not very much."

Again, he surveyed them, standing tall and imposing. He had come to
realize, somewhat ruefully, that to many of these youngsters he was a
living legend. If he could drum this lesson into their heads, he