I didn’t read Kobayashi Maru. I’m just talking about Kirk as we know his background on the TV show.
The Kodos incident. The Vampire Cloud incident on the USS Faragut that kill half of his crewmates including Capt Garovick. Kirk has seen a lot of death.
I remember one of the novels getting into Kirk’s past, regarding Kodos. I coulda swore it was ‘Kobayashi Maru’ but it could have been ‘Prime Directive’. Now that I think about it, I read those over ten years ago. Ugh!
Interesting - a darker episode I think than the ones I’ve seen so far. Very baroque - being vs. seeming. I liked it.
The daughter was annoying to me. “Are women in space still women?” ugh. I know I know I’m a broken record on this but that doesn’t make it any less true. 
Perhaps I missed something but I felt like the episode needed more explanation of Kirk being there - was he from that planet? How old would he have been (because he doesn’t seem particularly old or mature even though he’s a ship’s captain)? I assume that this is addressed extra-diegetically but it did stick in my mind.
The problem, I think, is that it’s relatively recent portrayal of the future.
Try approaching it like Shakespeare. (Too grand? Marlowe?) Take it as being a creature of its times, and don’t worry about, say, Richard III being a negative stereotype of the disabled.
Kirk was 13 when he witnessed the massacre. Not much is known about Kirk’s childhood or the way he was raised. But he was on the colony at the time. Not sure if it was with family or not. Maybe the EU can answer. The man to ask is Thot.
Meh. It’s all going to be changed in a few months…
Just like Jesus. Coincidence? :rolleyes:
shiver
He is the godslayer afterall. It is what monotheism is best at. So I’m told.