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[Star Trek] Did Kirk fail the Kobayashi Meru?

I understand it's meant to test you are your ability to keep a cool head and make decisions when all the options are bad ones. So when Kirk rigged it so he would win, did he actually fail the intended rubric?
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Yes he failed the purpose of the test. It's not supposed to be winnable. To pass all you need to do is react decisively and adjust to the situation. Accept that winning is impossible and instead find the least tragic outcome in the situation while under pressure. Panicking or surrender or going for a hail Mary are fails. Kirk both ethically and morally failed the test. He created a scenario he controlled and one that required little to no input to win. Instead of cheating or even just giving up he chose instead to give himself an impossible to fail test that wasn't the kobayshi test and pretend it was.