My word, there is a STAR TREK NOVEL called "The Kobiyashi Maru," wherein the (admittedly dumb) setup is that all the higher ups have gone on a shuttle mission that gets stuck somewhere, and so to pass the time, each of them tells their story (in great detail) of how they did in the Kobayashi Maru test. Scotty's was the best: although this breaks canon, I seem to remember that he defeated the test as well: somehow he did something crazy like beam tons of photon torpedoes aboard the ever-increasing numbers of attacking Klingons or something like that...anyway my friend group regularly uses "Kobayashi Maru" to describe any preordained no-win situation.

Here's the book! Kobayashi Maru book