But crew whispering "If anyone can get us through this it's him, he beat the Kobayashi Maru" in the hallways during a tense moment does a lot more to build Kirk up to an audience. Okay, Kirk hacked the test so he won by default. I think Kirk beating the Kobayashi Maru falls into the category of story events where the less you know about them the better they are. As a storytelling device the point of Kirk side-stepping the Kobayashi Maru is that later in the movie he faces a no-win scenario anyway: the Death of Spock. If I cheat and slip an easier test onto my desk at the mid-terms, I haven't outsmarted anything, I've sidestepped having to demonstrate my abilities. The people in Starfleet are the weirdos that want to do something productive and explore.Īnd I think Matt is missing the point of the test. In Star Trek the only resource bottlenecks are organization, time, and knowledge. The "non-triggering" phrase/term Destin's buddy was looking for was "post-scarcity society". I wrote this post because I’m curious about other perspectives and think they’ll be helpful to better understanding my own feelings on Destin (and perhaps person perception more broadly), or might even change my mind. I feel guilty writing this as I fear Destin might read it and I imagine that would feel cruddy. But something about Destin’s humility feels less like it arises from a place of aligning with core values and more from a place of insecurity (e.g., because someone has knocked him down a peg or two and he wants to avoid that happening again).
The way he talks to Matt also strikes me as valuing humility (which Matt seems to come by so authentically). FWIW Destin’s words often reflect an effort to be/sound more humble. And frankly, he’s done a lot of things that are really impressive (certainly more than me). What I keep coming back to is a character flaw of Destin’s that I recognize (and often despise) in myself: he’s really impressed with himself. But I don’t think my gut feeling is that carefully considered.
At the same time, he puts out really interesting content that teaches a lot of people a lot of things for free while inspiring the kind of curiosity that seems good for humanity and I do genuinely believe him that he wants to do good. You could make an argument that from a utilitarian perspective the answer might be no because his prior work almost definitely contributed to a bunch of people dying. Reflecting in the content at the end of the episode, my gut tells me no, he’s not a net good guy.
TL DR To me, probably not, but I’m not sure exactly why.
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