What I really wonder is, is the very act of coming back and taking this thing repeatedly a failure?
I thought the exact same thing!
I think of it as more like a right of passage that the students see as an "exam" but which isn't graded, more sort of annotated and analysed and added to the body of psych work they must be collecting on all the cadets. In an atmosphere like starfleet academy, with all those clever, ambitious people, I expect there's more than a little competition and most things are seen as a test.
Although my original trek knowledge is at best incomplete and I could be waaaay over here in makebelieve land :)
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Date: 2009-07-08 07:46 pm (UTC)I thought the exact same thing!
I think of it as more like a right of passage that the students see as an "exam" but which isn't graded, more sort of annotated and analysed and added to the body of psych work they must be collecting on all the cadets. In an atmosphere like starfleet academy, with all those clever, ambitious people, I expect there's more than a little competition and most things are seen as a test.
Although my original trek knowledge is at best incomplete and I could be waaaay over here in makebelieve land :)