Kirk probably already slept with someone who knows how the core of the simulator works.
I gather* that was the way the screenplay was originally intended to work: Gaila (the green girl worked as some kind of TA in the computer / Kobayashi Maru section. Kirk was bonking her for fun, but also to get access to the codes, without her knowledge. He'd arranged for her to received an email (or equivalent) from him whilst he was running the test, when she opened it it released a virus that cause the shieds to drop.
They cut it all for brevity and because they thought how Kirk did it was irrelevant.
* I read every ST interview I could find the first week, I didn't bookmark any but I'm fairly sure I've got the gist of the explanation. All that remains of that subplot is the line at the end of the novelisation when Spock asks Kirk how he did it and Kirk says Orion girls talk in their sleep...
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I gather* that was the way the screenplay was originally intended to work: Gaila (the green girl worked as some kind of TA in the computer / Kobayashi Maru section. Kirk was bonking her for fun, but also to get access to the codes, without her knowledge. He'd arranged for her to received an email (or equivalent) from him whilst he was running the test, when she opened it it released a virus that cause the shieds to drop.
They cut it all for brevity and because they thought how Kirk did it was irrelevant.
* I read every ST interview I could find the first week, I didn't bookmark any but I'm fairly sure I've got the gist of the explanation. All that remains of that subplot is the line at the end of the novelisation when Spock asks Kirk how he did it and Kirk says Orion girls talk in their sleep...