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00:10hey hey hey moon crew what's going on today we are playing star trek the kobayashi alternative
00:17you know we recently played the other two star trek adventure games and this was the first
00:23technically this was the worst by a quite a wide margin actually released in 1985
00:29for the apple 2 uh it had a ton of bugs got review panned pretty widely at the time and
00:38so
00:39schuster and schuster they were like oh boy simon and schuster whoever the hell they are
00:43they were like oh let's release a patched version we could try to milk some more money out of it
00:47so
00:47they released a patched version for the apple 2 and the ms dos and it also had a bunch of
00:54bugs it
00:54fixed a bunch of bugs but also introduced a critical bug at the end where your anti-matter
00:59can just disappear uh yeah it was kind of a mess but after playing it a couple hours i managed
01:07to
01:08work through there are no walkthroughs out there at all for it there's no full game playthroughs as far
01:13as i can tell either so we had to work through it bit by bit but we finally did it
01:18and we also even
01:19found a way to keep the anti-matter from disappearing in the final segment so you know what that means
01:24we are ready to speed run it we're ready to kick it out and uh we're getting it done here
01:28today so
01:29yeehaw let's go
01:32we're ready to speed run it and we're ready to speed run it and we're ready to speed run it
01:33and we're ready to speed run it and we're ready to speed run it and we're ready to speed run
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01:56it and we're ready to speed run it and we're ready to speed
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07:00The reaction can't do otherwise, nor does the splash of light and radiation look upward at you, for the terrible
07:06pseudo-gravity of the mass pressures, er, pressors, gives it nowhere to go but around, down, and in.
07:13Practically instantaneous annihilation of millions of tons of surface matter produces terrible heat, blinding light and vast power that is
07:21forced inward to eat and eat at its own heart until the inevitable happens.
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10:49death to those who gave you life. You don't quite believe the first terrible line of fire that comes
10:55lancing sideways out of the newborn star or a tangent to the curve of its sphere. It hits a
11:01Klingon vessel nearest to you and that vessel simply vanishes without even time for a puff
11:07or a vaporized metal or an explosion of atmosphere. Another beam leaps out. Another Klingon ship
11:14vanishes. Spock's voice comes from behind you. Even normal stars lays at some levels of their
11:20atmosphere. Captain, it's quite common. It's not illogical to theorize that a sentient star might
11:26be able to do so at will under certain circumstances. It's a nice gesture, you think, but the shields will
11:33never hold that long. Half the Klingon empire is still hammering at you. One ship at a time won't do.
11:38Thirty percent efficiency, sir, says Scotty. You know what he's thinking. At twenty-five percent,
11:44you and the Enterprise will cease to exist. And without warning, that star bursts out in hundreds
11:51of beams at once, all nearby spaces filled with a cat's cradle of blinding fire. A second later,
11:58the deadly webwork is gone. So are the Klingons, every last one of them. You look at the bridge
12:06crew in shock and sag slowly back in the center seat, and someone speaks in your head.
12:15My name is Ilakay, she says. Do we have time to talk now? You let out a long, long breath,
12:24and you say,
12:25All the time in the world. Without the interference of the Klingons, it takes you very little time to
12:32find the missing fleet ships. Many of them are not too far away, in long cometary orbits around a
12:38nearby star, embedded in its Oort cloud of comets to make them almost impossible to detect.
12:44You find their crews, and the crews of many other lost ships, in a space station that the Klingons had
12:50hidden elsewhere in the coal sack. There, they worked under Klingon taskmasters, assembling more
12:57pressors and framework sections from the raw materials and the cannibalized electronics the
13:02Klingons brought them. When you raid the place, calmly beaming the Klingon slave drivers out and
13:07into an empty Hulk ship you towed with you, there's a lot of explaining to do, and the Enterprise is
13:13for
13:13a very, very crowded, as she makes her way back to Federation space with the hundreds you rescued
13:19and the ship in tow. Of course, there's one issue you keep coming back to.
13:26It was, of course, the same technique so elliptically described to us by the aliens we had
13:32encountered, Spock says to you, Sulu McCoy over dinner, some nights after Enterprise is well on
13:38her way back. The species that first performed that technique must be hundreds of thousands of
13:43centuries dead, else we would still have a sentient star or two left to describe the technique to us.
13:48From a participant standpoint. Now, of course, we have Ilekay, and Ilekay has questions, for neither
13:56my initial meld with her nor the subsequent ones have been total. He looks at you soberly.
14:02And chief, among her questions, she wants to know why she was created. McCoy looks unhappy.
14:09I wouldn't want to have to tell a human child that she was bred to kill, but she's got to
14:14know the
14:14truth, and it's a good question to be asking. It's the beginning of choosing what to do with
14:20yourself, after all. You nod.
14:22Well, Starfleet will be sending her team to support her, you say. Astrophysicists and philosophers and
14:28exophysicists, among others. I'm just glad she came in on the right side. I wish I knew how she figured
14:35out.
14:37Spock puts his eyebrow up at you, a mild expression. Even in mind meld, she could hardly tell right from
14:43wrong in the first three seconds of her life. But she could certainly tell life from not life,
14:48and discern who was promoting which of them. It is not the worst place to start one's choices.
14:55Meantime, Sulu muddles. She wants planets, he shakes his head, looking very bemused. Not that we're
15:01going to have any trouble finding her some. It's towing them here that's going to be interesting.
15:07Scotty will think of something. He always considers her his goddaughter, after that bit with the
15:12pressors. And you know how she is about family. Sulu chuckles. True. I just hope the Klingons don't
15:19start building another of those starburst setups right away somewhere else.
15:25Spock looks very thoughtful. I doubt that we'll have much of a problem, he says. You nod again.
15:31Agreeing with Spock, it seems very likely that the Klingons will immediately give up the research
15:36that cost them half their battle fleet, in an accident which no report will ever return except
15:41terribly garbled substance messages about an angry star. Evidently, they will tell themselves there is
15:48some unforeseen, fatally deranging psychic fallout that results from the star-building technique.
15:53They will keep telling themselves that in more and more reasonable versions until they finally
15:58believe it. But Klingon starship commanders will wake up in the middle of the night sweating
16:02and wonder, where is the lost fleet for years and years to come? And you? You'll go on to the
16:10next
16:10job. But not right this minute. Coffee, gentlemen, you say? And pour yourself a cup.
16:20Hell yeah, baby. That is what I'm talking about. We got through it. It took so many hours to figure
16:28it all out. It took forever to find all the flags. It took forever to find the way around because
16:33there's no walkthrough for the DOS version. But we did it. And we are going to post this walkthrough
16:38for everybody else who might be interested in looking. Sure, there's more planets. Sure,
16:42it's not the high score. Whatever. We just created a star, ladies and gentlemen. And that's not Star
16:48Trek. I don't know what is. See you for the next one, Moon Crew. Yeehaw! Kobayashi Maru down.
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