Kobayashi Maru

The right way to cheat, is to cheat the third time taking a test that normally only gets administered once... and making it painfully obvious to everyone watching that, yes, you cheated.

It's so painfully weird in Star Trek that anyone acts as if Kirk was trying to fool anyone with that form of cheat. WEIRD. It should be so obvious that he put on a little show for everyone, a little joke. WTF.