Headcanon Meme

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HEADCANON MEME

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Someone posted this meme once in the before time, the long-long ago. Was it me? No. yes

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Jim Kirk

[finalfrontiersman]

[ ooc: we were robbed of the green shirt ]

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This might be answered in canon but how much does Kirk know about programming, given he cheated the Kobayashi Maru test? cheated

[finalfrontiersman]

It's not fully explored in AOS' canon much beyond that, but I wager a great deal! He's been tested at a genius-level IQ and tests out of a lot of the courses he needs for Starfleet; makes to graduate from the Academy in three years, as opposed to the requisite six it would take him otherwise, in between his first commission assignment and completing his Command courses.

All that being said, programming goes hand in hand with Engineering, which is Jim's second-best area of expertise. He used to fix his dad's antique car with his brother, which kickstarted his enjoyment of it; and that just translated into a passion for learning more, especially once he joined Starfleet and had access to all the materials there.

Regarding the Kobayashi Maru, he forwarded a virus to one of the technicians working on the test (whom he was seeing at the time, which made it convenient, if incidental, for his suspicious email to pass unnoticed) which allowed him to gain backdoor access to install the subroutine undetected. He also had to integrate it seamlessly with Spock's (typical) flawless code so that it wouldn't be caught until it was activated.

At present in Aldrip, Jim and Spock have been coding apps for the network and take on work as the handy dandy IT gays to earn their bread and butter (: Still didn't stop the AI from ripping through his anonymous protocols like they were tissue paper, but he tried.