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The Trouble with Tribbles (episode)

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A dispute over control of a planet brings the Enterprise to a space station, where they must deal with , edgy Federation officials, and a previously-unknown species of small, unbearably cute, voraciously "The Trouble with Tribbles" hungry, and rapidly-multiplying furry creatures. TOS , Episode 2x13 Production number: 60342 First aired: 29 December 1967 Contents [hide ] Remastered version aired: 4 November 2006 1 Summary ← 43rd of 80 produced in TOS → → 1.1 Teaser → 1.2 Act One → 1.3 Act Two 1.4 Act Three 1.5 Act Four

2 Log entries 3 Memorable quotes 4 Background information 4.1 Story and script 4.2 Cast and characters 4.3 Production

4.4 Effects Written by 4.5 Sets David Gerrold

4.6 Continuity Directed by 4.7 Apocrypha 4523.3 ( 2268 ) 4.8 Reception Arc : Cyrano Jones and Tribbles (1 of 2) → 4.9 Remastered information Arc : Arne Darvin (1 of 2) → 4.10 Production timeline 4.11 Video and DVD releases

5 Links and references 5.1 Starring 5.2 Also starring 5.3 Co-starring 5.4 Featuring 5.5 Uncredited co-stars 5.6 Stunt doubles 5.7 References 5.8 External links

Summary Edit

Teaser Edit

The USS Enterprise is en route to Deep Space Station K-7 for assistance with an important assignment regarding a disputed planet . One parsec from the nearest outpost (" Close enough to smell them ," as Chekov puts it), the post is near Sherman's Planet , which is claimed by both sides.

In the Enterprise 's briefing room , Captain James T. Kirk , Commander , and Ensign review the area's history: twenty-three years after the inconclusive Battle of Donatu V , the Organian Peace Treaty is set to grant control of Sherman's Planet to the party that can demonstrate it can develop the planet's resources most efficiently.

Lieutenant Uhura reports from the bridge that K-7 has issued a Code One alert , which signals that it is under attack. Kirk orders a speed increase to warp factor 6, while Uhura initiates a red alert .

Act One Edit

The Enterprise arrives at maximum warp, ready for a fight, only to find no battle. Beaming over with Spock, Kirk demands an explanation from station manager Lurry , but is told he was ordered to do so by Nilz Baris , a Federation undersecretary in charge of the Sherman's Planet development project.

Baris and his aide, Arne Darvin , fear that the Klingons might try to sabotage the Federation's best hope to win control of the planet – a high-yield grain known as quadrotriticale , the only Earth grain that will grow on the planet. Tons of the grain are stored at the station, and Baris demands from Kirk security and protection. Kirk still believes they have misused the Priority One designation, but assigns only two guards to the station, and allows shore leave for the Enterprise crew.

On leave, Uhura and Chekov meet a dealer named Cyrano Jones , who is trying to wholesale to the skeptical bartender various rare galactic items, among them, spican flame gems and furry little creatures that Jones calls tribbles . While they bicker over the price, Chekov notices a has eaten a quadrotriticale sample left on the bar and Uhura is enchanted by it. Jones gives the tribble to Uhura, a move the bartender claims will ruin the market but Jones claims will help spur more sales.

Back on the Enterprise , Kirk receives an order from Admiral Fitzpatrick to render any and or all aid that Baris may require. The admiral informs Kirk that the safety of the grain – as well as the project – is the captain's responsibility. Kirk is exasperated, and just then learns from Uhura that a Klingon battle cruiser has arrived within a hundred kilometers of K-7. Kirk orders the ship to go to red alert and for Lurry to be notified. Lurry, however, discounts a possible attack, as the Klingon ship 's captain , Koloth , and first officer, Korax , are sitting in his office. Kirk orders the red alert canceled.

Act Two Edit

Kirk beams over with Spock and the Klingons assert their rights to shore leave under the terms of the Organian treaty. Kirk reluctantly accedes, but sets limits of twelve at a time, with one guard from the Enterprise for each Klingon soldier.

In the recreation room aboard the Enterprise , Uhura's tribble gives birth to a litter. The sounds the tribbles make seem to have a soothing effect on Humans . Dr. McCoy takes one of the offspring to study it. Meanwhile, Kirk argues with Baris about the adequacy of the security Kirk is providing, until Kirk claims he is getting a headache . Going to sickbay for treatment, Kirk sees that McCoy's tribble has also produced a litter. McCoy reports that almost 50% of their metabolism is geared towards reproduction. Koloth's ship orbiting Deep Space

Kirk tells crewmembers beaming over to shore leave on K-7 to avoid trouble with the Klingons. Montgomery Scott declines shore leave, but Kirk, concerned for him getting too wrapped up in his technical journals , orders him over to keep K-7 an eye on the others and to enjoy himself.

At the bar aboard K-7, Jones tries to sell more tribbles. The Enterprise crew aren't interested, and the tribbles and the Klingons react to one another with loud hostility. The bartender is uninterested in more tribbles either – the one he acquired earlier is already multiplying. Korax starts insulting the Enterprise crew, first by comparing the Humans to Regulan bloodworms . He then tries to provoke Chekov by repeatedly insulting Kirk, but Scott restrains Chekov. Korax then turns his attention to Scott by insulting the Enterprise itself, first calling it a garbage scow , then just garbage, provoking Scott to punch Korax in the face and start a brawl between the two groups. The barman retreats and Jones dispenses himself some drinks in his absence. Security officers from the Enterprise arrest the brawlers and restore order, and shore leave for both ships is canceled.

Act Three Edit

Kirk interrogates the crew involved in the brawl, but none are forthcoming about who started it. Kirk orders that they are all confined to quarters until he determines who started the brawl. After Kirk dismisses his officers, Scott confesses to Kirk in private that he started the fight after Korax insulted them, recalling some of the more colorful examples. Kirk presses further and is perplexed to find that Scott didn't start fighting until Korax insulted the Enterprise but realizes it was due to an engineer's sensitivities. Kirk restricts Scott to quarters, to which Scott happily complies, anticipating time off to catch up on his journals.

In sickbay, Spock and McCoy have a characteristic debate on the aesthetics and utility of tribbles, Spock in particular, notes to McCoy their one redeeming characteristic – they do not talk too much. The question soon attracts Kirk's attention. There are tribbles all over the bridge, including one in his chair . McCoy reports this is because they are "born pregnant" and are swamping the ship with their rampant reproduction. Kirk orders Uhura to call for Jones to be

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detained on K-7 – and to " get these tribbles off the bridge. " "This is my chicken sandwich and On K-7, Spock berates Jones for removing tribbles from their natural predators and letting them over-breed. Jones counters with excuses and insists that, at six credits each, they're making him money. Then Baris confronts Kirk on the coffee. " insufficient security detail for the quadrotriticale. Baris claims Jones is " quite probably a Klingon agent ," but Kirk is unconvinced by the evidence and finds that Jones has done no worse than disrupt activities on K-7, which is not unprecedented. " Sometimes, all they need is a title, Mr. Baris ", Kirk pointedly concludes, and he and Spock return to the Enterprise .

Back on board, the tribble problem has worsened. Kirk can't even get a meal, as tribbles have gotten into the food synthesizers . Scott reports that the tribbles are circulating through the Enterprise 's ventilation ducts , ending up in machinery all throughout the ship. Spock points out that there are comparable ducts aboard K-7 that lead to the grain storage tanks. Realizing the implication, Kirk orders all the tribbles removed from the Enterprise and rushes to K-7, gaining access to one of the storage compartments, but when he opens the overhead door, an avalanche of tribbles buries him.

Act Four Edit

Kirk finally climbs out from the pile of tribbles – a population Spock estimates at 1,771,561 – and Spock discovers that they are gorged on the grain. Baris claims Kirk's orders have turned the project into a disaster and that he will call for a Starfleet board of inquiry against Kirk.

But Spock and McCoy notice that many of the tribbles in the pile are dead or dying. Kirk orders McCoy to find out why they died, though McCoy protests that he doesn't yet know what keeps them alive.

Kirk assembles all the principals in Lurry's office. Koloth demands that Kirk issue an official apology to the Klingon High Command , though Baris says that would give the Klingons the wedge they need to claim Sherman's Planet. Koloth also asks that the tribbles be removed from the room. The guards do so, but they pass Darvin, at which point the tribbles shriek just as they did around the Klingons. With his medical tricorder , McCoy reveals Darvin to be a Klingon. He poisoned the grain with a virus that prevents its victim from absorbing nutrients, which is how the tribbles died. " They starved to "First, find Cyrano Jones, and death. In a storage compartment full of grain, they starved to death! " Kirk summarizes. Darvin is arrested, the Klingons are ordered out of Federation territory within the next six hours, and Kirk says he second... close that door. " could learn to like tribbles. Koloth and Korax In K-7's bar, Kirk and Spock then give Jones a choice: twenty years in a rehabilitation colony for transporting a harmful species, or pick up every tribble on the station (which Spock calculates would take 17.9 years). Jones accepts the latter. Back aboard the Enterprise , Kirk is happy to find the ship has been swept clean of tribbles, and asks Spock, McCoy, and Scott how they did it. They all deflect Kirk's questions until Scott reluctantly replies that before the Klingons went into warp, he beamed all of them into their engine room, " where they'll be no tribble at all. " The crew share a good, long laugh at this.

Log entries Edit

"Captain's log, stardate 4523.3. Deep Space Station K-7 has issued a Priority One call. More than an emergency, it signals near or total disaster. We can only assume the Klingons have attacked the station. We're going in armed for battle." The Enterprise crew gets the last "Captain's log, stardate 4524.2. A Klingon warship is hovering only a hundred kilometers from Deep Space Station K-7 while its captain waits in the station manager's office. Their intentions are unknown." laugh when Scott tells Kirk where "Captain's log, stardate 4525.6. A small disturbance between the Klingon crew and members of the Enterprise crew has out aboard Space Station K-7. I am forced to cancel shore leave for both ships." he placed the tribbles Memorable quotes Edit

"I was making a little joke, sir. " "Extremely little, ensign. "

- Chekov and Spock , as the Enterprise heads for Deep Space Station K-7

"Wheat. So what? "

- Kirk , upon first seeing the quadrotriticale

"I have never questioned the orders or the intelligence of any representative of the Federation. Until now. "

- Kirk , to Baris , on the matter of the protection of the grain.

"Is that an offer or a joke? " "That's my offer. " "That's a joke. "

- Cyrano Jones and the K-7 bartender , as the bartender offers him four credits per tribble

"Its trilling seems to have a tranquilizing effect on the Human nervous system. Fortunately, of course ... I am immune ... to its effect. "

- Spock , as he strokes a tribble (before becoming the subject of amused looks from Uhura and Freeman)

"Kirk, this station is swarming with Klingons! " "I was not aware, Mister Baris, that twelve Klingons constitutes a swarm. "

- Baris and Kirk , as Baris lodges a complaint

"Do you know what you get if you feed a tribble too much? " "A fat tribble. " "No. You get a bunch of hungry little tribbles. "

- McCoy and Kirk , on a tribble's metabolism

"When are you going to get off that milk diet, lad? " "This is vodka. " "Where I come from, that's soda pop. Now this is a drink for a man. " "Scotch? " "Aye. " "It was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad ."

- Scott and Chekov , at the K-7 bar

"Oh...I just remembered: There is one Earth man who doesn't remind me of a Regulan bloodworm . That's Kirk. A Regulan bloodworm is soft and shapeless. But Kirk isn't soft. Kirk may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, but he's not soft. "

- Korax , looking for trouble

"Of course, I'd say that Captain Kirk deserves his ship. We like the Enterprise . We, we really do. That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow. Half the quadrant knows it. That's why they're learning to speak Klingonese. " "Mr. Scott! " "Laddie... don't you think you should... rephrase that?" (Mocking Scott's accent) " You're right. I should. " (Normal voice) " I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage. "

- Korax , Chekov , and Scott , just before the fight begins

"What's the matter, Spock? " "There's something disquieting about these creatures. " "Oh? Don't tell me you've got a feeling. "

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"Don't be insulting, doctor. "

- McCoy and Spock

"I see no practical use for them." "Does everything have to have a practical use for you? They're nice, they're soft, they're furry, and they make a pleasant sound." "So would an ermin violin, doctor, yet I see no advantage to having one."

- Spock and McCoy

"They do indeed have one redeeming characteristic. " "What's that? " "They do not talk too much. "

- Spock and McCoy , as Spock compares him to tribbles

"Too much of anything, lieutenant, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing. "

- Kirk to Uhura, on the love of a tribble

"In my opinion, you have taken this important project far too lightly. " "On the contrary, sir. I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly. "

- Baris and Kirk , on the security measures for the grain

"My chicken sandwich and coffee. This is my chicken sandwich and coffee. " "Fascinating. "

- Kirk and Spock , after Kirk is served tribbles by the food processor

"I want these things off my ship! I don't care if it takes every man we've got – I want them off the ship! "

- Kirk , determined to rid the ship of the tribbles after discovering them in his food

"And as captain, I want two things done. First, find Cyrano Jones. And second ... " (A tribble lands on Kirk's head) " ... close that door. "

- Kirk , after an avalanche of tribbles falls on him

"They don't like Klingons. But they do like Vulcans. Well Mr Spock, I didn't know you had it in you. " "Obviously tribbles are very perceptive creatures, captain. " "Obviously. " (Carrying tribbles, Kirk walks over to Baris) " Mister Baris, they like you. Well, there's no accounting for taste. "

- Kirk and Spock , using tribbles to uncover a Klingon spy

"I gave them to the Klingons, sir. " "The Klingons? " "Aye, sir. Before they went into warp I transported the whole kit and kaboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all. "

- Kirk and Scott , discussing what happened to all the tribbles that were aboard the Enterprise

Background information Edit

Story and script Edit This script, one of 's most popular, was David Gerrold 's first professional sale ever. His working title for the episode was "A Fuzzy Thing Happened to Me...". Writer/producer Gene L. Coon did heavy rewrites on the final version of the script. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , p 333) While the episode was in production, noticed that the story was similar to Robert Heinlein 's novel, The Rolling Stones , which featured the "Martian Flat Cats". Too late, he called Heinlein to apologize and avoid a possible lawsuit. Heinlein was very understanding, and was satisfied with a simple "mea culpa" by Roddenberry. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , pp 333–334) According to , the story for this episode is based upon the short story, Pigs Is Pigs . ( "To Boldly Go...": Season 2 , TOS Season 2 DVD special features) The line in which Spock says that Kirk heard what Baris said, but could not believe his ears, was lifted directly from a Mad Magazine spoof of Star Trek (titled Star Blecch ) that had just been published. Chekov quips that Scotch whisky "was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad." That Russian city, originally St. Petersburg, had its name changed to honor Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Communist revolution in 1917. The name St. Petersburg was restored in 1991, after the breakup of the USSR.

Cast and characters Edit George Takei ( Hikaru Sulu ) does not appear in this episode. For much of the second season, he was filming The Green Berets . Many scenes written for Takei were switched over to Walter Koenig. ( "To Boldly Go...": Season 2 , TOS Season 2 DVD special features) recalled the great enjoyment all the cast had filming this episode. He noted, " The trouble we had with 'Tribbles' was [to] keep your straight face. It was just a lot of fun. " ( "To Boldly Go...": Season 2 , TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Guy Raymond (the bartender ) also played a bartender in beer commercials during the '60s, in which he commented on the strange occurrences in his bar. is another actor who guested in two series of Star Trek , appearing as Karnas in TNG: " Too Short a Season". Some of the extras in the bar are wearing turtleneck uniforms from " The Cage" and " Where No Man Has Gone Before", another couple of extras are wearing colonist jumpsuits from " ". The gentleman who seems to be enjoying watching the fight and another man are wearing Finnegan 's and his stunt double's uniforms from " Shore Leave", another one is wearing a uniform of the Antares worn by Ramart or Tom Nellis in " Charlie X". A woman is wearing Aurelan Kirk 's costume from " Operation -- Annihilate!". Ed Reimers, who plays Admiral Fitzpatrick , was the TV spokesman for Allstate Insurance in the 1960s. In a funny sequence from the blooper reel, he catches a tribble thrown at him from offstage and, proffering it to the camera, says, " Oh, and captain: you're in good hands with tribbles " (a play on the Allstate motto, "You're in good hands with Allstate.") William Schallert later guest starred as Varani in DS9: " Sanctuary". insisted on doing his own stunts in the barroom brawl. Jay Jones only doubled for him in a few brief fight sequences. This is one of the few episodes in which Doohan's missing right middle finger ( due to injuries sustained during the invasion of Normandy in World War Two) is apparent. It can also be noticed as he carries a large bundle of tribbles to Captain Kirk, complaining that they've infested Engineering. This is one of the few times in the series that Scott and Chekov have a conversation with one another. (However, in " Friday's Child", when Scott remarks, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me," Chekov quips that the saying was invented in Russia.) Along with Kirk , they would be featured together in Star Trek Generations . Paul Baxley is credited as "Ensign Freeman," but is wearing lieutenant's stripes, as pointed out in DS9: " Trials and Tribble-ations" when Miles O'Brien mistakes Freeman for Captain Kirk and Julian Bashir questions his rank insignia. William Campbell ( Koloth ) and Charlie Brill ( Arne Darvin ) both reprised their roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine more than 25 years later: Campbell in " Blood Oath" and Brill in " Trials and Tribble-ations".

Production Edit Wah Chang designed the original tribbles. Hundreds were sewn together during production, using pieces of extra-long rolls of carpet. Some of them had mechanical toys placed in them so they could walk around. ( "To Boldly Go...": Season 2 , TOS Season 2 DVD special features) The original tribbles became sought-after collector's items, and quickly disappeared from the prop department. According to Gerrold, 500 tribbles were constructed for the episode and the tribble-maker, Jacqueline Cumere, was paid US$350. In a 2016 interview, Christopher Doohan recalls being on set during the production of this episode: " My father would often bring my brother and I along with him to the set when the show was shooting, " Chris recalled. [...] " He would park us in the shuttle craft and tell us to stay put." "Of course "staying put" is a difficult assignment for seven year-old twin boys... and one day they couldn't resist leaving the confines of the shuttle... and going where no child had gone before. As it happened, the day they chose coincided with the shooting of "The Trouble With Tribbles", one of the series' stranger – and enduringly popular &ndsah; episodes... Chris and his brother, Montgomery, crept around the set, keeping away from the active shooting, until they came to three tall cabinets with doors just out of reach. " "We were curious to know what was INSIDE, " Chris recalls. " So my brother got on my shoulders and slid the cabinet open. Instantly, more than 200 tribbles came tumbling out, nearly burying us. Not only did it scare us, but we knew we would be in big trouble if Dad – or anyone else – found out. So we rushed back to the shuttle. Five minutes later Dad appeared... and praised us for being so well-behaved! " Thirty years later Chris mustered up the courage to tell his dad the real story. " And he got mad at me, " Chris said with a bemused shake of the head. " It was like it had just happened yesterday! " [1] During production of the "buried in tribbles" scene, it took up to eight takes (a considerable number) to get the avalanche of tribbles to fall just right. Gerrold wrote in The Trouble with Tribbles , " If Captain Kirk looks just a little harried in that shot, it's not accidental. Having... tribbles dropped on you, eight times in one day, is NOT a happy experience. " DS9: " Trials and Tribble-ations" later established that the continuously falling tribbles hitting Kirk were in fact thrown by Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax , frantically searching for the bomb placed by the future Darvin. In reality, the tribbles kept falling out of the hatch because members of the production crew had no direct line of sight with William Shatner during the filming of the scene and could not tell when there were "enough" tribbles; a barrier in the set separated them from the storage compartment, which was filled with prop tribbles. In order to set up the avalanche scene, crew members kept throwing tribbles over the wall to ensure that the bin remained as "full" as possible; when the

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compartment was empty, these tribbles then fell onto Shatner's head as the crew tossed them one by one. Near the end of the scene, a perplexed Shatner – already chest-deep in tribbles – can clearly be seen turning his head toward the wall behind him, wondering when the prop men will stop. ( The Trouble with Tribbles ; "To Boldly Go...": Season 2 , TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Spock's estimate of how many tribbles there are in three days, dead or alive, starting with one tribble producing a litter of ten every twelve hours is exactly correct, assuming that every tribble always has a litter of ten. Tribble reproduction is exponential, starting when one tribble makes ten. In twelve hours the total number is eleven. twelve hours later, each of the eleven tribbles produce ten, making the count 110 babies. Include the original eleven tribbles, and the total is 121. The formula for tribble reproduction is x=11 n/12 , where x is the total, and n is the number of hours. Given three days (72 hours), the final result becomes 11 6, which equals exactly 1,771,561. According to David Gerrold 's The World of Star Trek , tribble props were misplaced about the set and were being found for several months after the production of the episode.

Effects Edit Sound effects editor Douglas Grindstaff combined altered dove coos, screech owl cries, and emptying balloons to create the tribble sounds. The Enterprise miniature seen out of Lurry's window doesn't move, but if it was orbiting at the same speed the station was rotating, this would make sense. The miniature is actually one of the plastic model kits that AMT was selling at the time. In the 1970s, AMT produced a model of the K-7 space station itself, complete with a tiny Enterprise . SCTV blew up a Klingon ship with phaser blasts from some of these K-7 model kits in a low-budget effects spoof of The Empire Strikes Back in 1981. Footage of K-7 was recycled in " ". According to Michael and Denise Okuda's text commentary on this episode for the second season DVD set, the last fresh footage of the Enterprise was done for this episode. In every episode to follow, the shots of the ship were all stock footage. It is possible that the last of the footage of the Enterprise was filmed during this production of this episode as it is true that they did not film any shots of the Enterprise after season two. But there will be five more episodes going by production order that have previously unseen shots of the Enterprise . " ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion", " The Immunity Syndrome", " The Ultimate Computer", and " That Which Survives" all have new shots of the Enterprise . [2]

Sets Edit The bar set, including the bartender's costume, is recycled from " Court Martial", with slight modifications, mostly in decoration.

Continuity Edit Star Trek returned to the events of this episode in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Trials and Tribble-ations" to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary . "More Tribbles, More Troubles" is the TAS sequel to this episode. Tribbles were seen in the bar scene (wherein McCoy is apprehended by "Federation security") being petted by a couple patronizing the establishment, on an adjacent table in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called "foto-novels," in which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a comic book formatted story. The third installment was an adaptation of this episode. The Organian Peace Treaty mentioned by Chekov in the teaser is a reference back to the first season episode " Errand of Mercy".

Apocrypha Edit Although Kirk comments in the episode on the irony of tribbles in a grain storage bin dying of starvation, in James Blish 's novelization of the episode, Spock also remarks on the elegant symmetry of the respective misdeeds: the poisoning of the grain eliminated the tribble infestation before it exhausted the cargo, whereas the tribbles disclosed the poisoning with no loss of Human life. A cat version of "The Trouble with Tribbles" was featured in Jenny Parks ' 2017 book Star Trek Cats .

Reception Edit This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1968 as "Best Dramatic Presentation", but lost to the version of " The City on the Edge of Forever" that was actually shown on-air. In a 1985 interview, director Joseph Pevney named "The Trouble with Tribbles" as the best episode he directed. He added that they couldn't do an episode like that anymore, because the franchise has become "deadly serious" (interestingly enough, one year after the interview took place, the light-hearted, comedic Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home premiered in theaters). [3] Pevney also commented that he " Fell in love with that show. I really enjoyed doing it, and I enjoyed working with Leonard and Shatner to make them think in terms of typically farce comedy. The show was successful and I was happy about that. I was proven right that you can do a comedy if you don't kid the script, and if you don't kid Star Trek . If you stay in character, you can have wonderful fun with Star Trek , and the kinds of things you can do with it are endless – if you don't lose the whole flavor of Enterprise discipline. " (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two ) Despite the broad popularity of this episode among fans, series Co-Producer Bob Justman wrote in his book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story that he never liked this episode, as he felt the characters parodied themselves, and that the episode's over-the-top humor lacked believability. Third season producer also disliked the show. David Gerrold recalled that when he pitched a sequel for the episode, Freiberger replied that he didn't like the original because "Star Trek is not a comedy. " Gerrold's pitch later evolved into the Animated Series episode " More Tribbles, More Troubles". ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) Writer Samuel A. Peeples was another individual who worked on the original series but found this episode to be problematic. " I thought that the one with the fuzzy little creatures wasn't my idea of what the show should be, " he remarked. " It was awfully cute and awfully nice, but it covered an area that I felt was unnecessary for that particular type of series. " ( The Star Trek Interview Book , p. 120) Gene Roddenberry also disliked "Tribbles" and the overall tendency for more comedy-oriented episodes, which became prominent under Gene Coon 's tenure as producer, feeling that it deviated from his image of the show, opting for the much more serious approach which dominated Star Trek during his time as line producer in the first half of season 1 . As Pevney put it, " This was the first out-and-out comedy we had done on the series, and Roddenberry was not in favor of it too much. He didn't cotton the idea of making fun on this show. " Eventually these disagreements between Roddenberry and Coon became one of the major reasons why the latter left the series mid-season 2. ( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two ) Roddenberry's opinion of the episode seemed to have changed over the years as he later picked it as one of his ten favorite episodes for the franchise's 25th anniversary. (TV Guide August 31, 1991) William Campbell ( Koloth ) recalled that, after this episode was aired, his neighbor's son consequently addressed his wife as "Mrs. Klingon". ( The World of Star Trek ) This was voted the best episode of Star Trek by viewers of Sci-Fi Channel's Star Trek 40th Anniversary Celebrations. It was also voted the best episode by Empire magazine when they ranked the series #43 on their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time." [4] The book Star Trek 101 , by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block , lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. Having been a big fan of the original Star Trek series during her youth, Diane Warren – the songwriter who wrote Star Trek: Enterprise 's theme tune, " Where My Heart Will Take Me " – cited this installment as her favorite episode of TOS, upon being interviewed shortly after the start of Enterprise . She went on to say, " That's one of the episodes that, even after all these years has stayed in my mind. " ( Star Trek: Communicator issue 145 , p. 57) Doug Jones , who avidly watched Star Trek: The Original Series as a child along with his family, also selected this as one of his favorite Star Trek episodes. " As a youngster, that was a fun episode [....] I like happy endings, I like low-stakes stories myself, and so that was kinda like, 'Oh, there's the fun episode.' " [5] In the Star Trek: Myriad Universes story The Chimes at Midnight , which explores the timeline from TAS: " Yesteryear", the Enterprise 's first officer Thelin discovered Darvin's role in poisoning the quadrotriticale. Darvin remained a Federation prisoner for several months until a prisoner exchange was arranged with the Klingons.

Remastered information Edit "The Trouble with Tribbles" was the ninth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of 4 November 2006 and featured significantly enhanced shots of the K-7 space station, now including the orbiting D7-class IKS Gr'oth . The Enterprise can now be seen more often from Lurry's office, moving toward the left side of the window as it orbits K-7. The remastered episode is marked by the introduction of a revised digital model of the Enterprise , allowing for more detailed and accurate shots of the ship to be created. None of the special shots from the DS9 tribute episode was included in the remastered version. Furthermore, the Gr'oth 's design is different from the Greg Jein model seen in the Deep Space Nine episode. That ship is greener, with an avian pattern on it, where this version of the Klingon ship is grey and does not bear that pattern, bringing it more in line with TOS counterparts. Coincidentally, the episode that aired after this was " Mirror, Mirror". Scenes from both episodes were used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's " Trials and Tribble-ations".

Original version...... and the CGI update

The next remastered episode to air was " Mirror, Mirror".

Production timeline Edit Treatment "The Fuzzies" by David Gerrold : February 1967 Story outline "A Fuzzy Thing Happened to Me": 13 June 1967 Revised story outline: 23 June 1967 Second revised story outline: 26 June 1967 First draft teleplay "The Trouble with Tribbles": 30 June 1967 Second draft teleplay: 19 July 1967 Revised draft by Gene L. Coon : 21 July 1967 Final draft teleplay by Coon: 25 July 1967 Revised final draft: 1 August 1967 Additional page revisions: 15 August 1967 , 16 August 1967 , 18 August 1967 , 21 August 1967 Filmed: 22 August 1967 - 29 August 1967 Day 1 – 22 August 1967 , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Bridge , Sickbay Day 2 – 23 August 1967 , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Briefing room , Transporter room , Admiral Fitzpatrick's office (redress of a wall in Transporter room) Day 3 – 24 August 1967 , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9 : Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room); Desilu Stage 10 : Lurry's office Day 4 – 25 August 1967 , Friday – Desilu Stage 10 : Int. Lurry's office , Storage corridor Day 5 – 28 August 1967 , Monday – Desilu Stage 10 : Int. Storage corridor , K-7 Bar

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Day 6 – 29 August 1967 , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10 : Int. K-7 Bar

Score recorded: 5 October 1967 Original airdate: 29 December 1967 Rerun airdate: 21 June 1968 First UK airdate: 1 June 1970 Star Trek Fotonovel #3: 1973 - ISBN 055312689X The Trouble with Tribbles: The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode paperback: 1973 The Trouble with Tribbles: The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode paperback: 1976 The Trouble with Tribbles: The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode paperback reissue: 12 April 1987 - ISBN 0345347889 "Trials and Tribble-ations", incorporating "Trouble" footage: 4 November 1996 Remastered airdate: 4 November 2006

Video and DVD releases Edit US CED LaserDisc release: 1 April 1982 Original US Betamax release: 1986 US LaserDisc release: 11 October 1986 UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 22 , catalogue number VHR 2357, 2 April 1990 Japan LaserDisc release: 25 March 1993 US VHS release: 15 April 1994 As part of the UK VHS Star Trek: The Original Series - Tricorder Pack collection: catalogue number VHR 4373, 3 June 1996 UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.5, 5 May 1997 UK LaserDisc release: 11 August 1997 As part of the US VHS Star Trek - Tribbles Gift Set : 6 October 1998 Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 21, 24 April 2001 As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Klingon DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection As part of The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: The Original Series - Origins Blu-ray collection

Links and references Edit

Starring Edit William Shatner as Capt. Kirk

Also starring Edit as Mr. Spock

And

DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

Co-starring Edit William Schallert as Nilz Baris William Campbell as Koloth Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones Whit Bissell as Lurry

Featuring Edit James Doohan as Scott as Uhura Michael Pataki as Korax Ed Reimers as Admiral Fitzpatrick Walter Koenig as Chekov Charlie Brill as Arne Darvin Paul Baxley as Freeman David L. Ross as Galloway (as "Guard")

And

Guy Raymond as K-7 Bartender

Uncredited co-stars Edit Richard Antoni as Klingon (unconfirmed) William Blackburn as Hadley Dick Crockett as Klingon brawler 1 Frank da Vinci as Vinci Steve Hershon as security officer Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli William Knight as Moody Jeannie Malone as yeoman Bob Miles as Klingon brawler 2 Bob Orrison as Klingon brawler 3 Eddie Paskey as Leslie Joe Paz as Sciences division lieutenant Unknown actors as Human civilian Human colonist Human waitresses 1 and 2 Human workers 1 and 2 Starfleet cadets 1 and 2 Starfleet officers 1 , 2, 3, and 4 Command lieutenant 1 Command lieutenant 2 Command crew woman Crewman Crew woman 1 Crew woman 2 Crew woman 3 Lieutenant Operations crewman Sciences crew woman Sciences lieutenant Security guard 1 Security guard 2 Security guard 3

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Stunt doubles Edit Phil Adams as stunt double for Michael Pataki Jay Jones as stunt double for James Doohan Jerry Summers as stunt double for Walter Koenig

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e Trouble with Tribbles

"e Trouble with Tribbles " is the 44th episode of the American science ction television series, Star Trek , the 15th episode of the second "The Trouble with Tribbles " season. It was rst broadcast in the United States on December 29, 1967, Star Trek: The Original Series episode on NBC. e episode was the rst professional work of writer David Gerrold, and went through a variety of dras before it reached the screen. Because his typewriter used a less common, smaller size font, an approved version needed to be reduced by twenty pages before lming. Nichelle Nichols remarked that she had "never seen a script go through so many changes—and stay so much the same". [2] "e Trouble with Tribbles" was directed by Joseph Pevney, who was one of the most prolic directors of the series.

In the episode, the starship Enterprise arrives at Deep Space Station K7 to guard a consignment of grain bound for Sherman's Planet. On arrival, Captain Kirk, up to his chest in tribbles a trader named Cyrano Jones ( Stanley Adams) gives Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Episode no. Season 2 Nichols) a tribble, a small, furry alien lifeform, with dramatic Episode 15 consequences. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew also have to deal Directed by Joseph Pevney with the arrival of Captain Koloth ( William Campbell) and his Klingon Written by David Gerrold balecruiser, but the tribbles unexpectedly reveal a plot to poison the grain. Featured music Jerry Fielding Cinematography by Jerry Finnerman Around 500 tribbles were created for the episode, with special tribbles Production code 042 created for certain purposes with beanbags or surgical balloons inserted in them. ree additional sets were created for the episode, although Original air date December 29, 1967 there were problems with nding enough matching chairs for the Guest appearance(s) trading post area. e chairs had to be pulled out of showrooms around Los Angeles County, and Pevney was warned to make sure they were William Schallert – Under-Secretary not damaged during the episode's brawl scene. William Campbell had Nilz Baris previously appeared as Trelane in " e Squire of Gothos" and was William Campbell – Captain Koloth intended to be a recurring villain as Koloth. Because of his other work Stanley Adams – Cyrano Jones commitments, these plans were not followed up on until he returned as Whit Bissell – Station Manager Lurry Koloth in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Blood Oath" in 1994. Michael Pataki – Korax William Schallert appeared as Nilz Baris, and later appeared as a Bajoran in the DS9 episode " Sanctuary". Ed Reimers – Admiral Fitzpatrick Charlie Brill – Arne Darvin While initial fan reaction to the episode was mixed, it was more popular Paul Baxley – Ensign Freeman with the general public. Critical response to the episode was positive, and it was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic David L. Ross – Guard Presentation which instead went to fellow Star Trek episode " e City Guy Raymond – Trader [1] on the Edge of Forever". It has since been included in several "best of" episode lists and features, including as part of the Best of DVD collection alongside three other episodes. It has also been

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released as part of the season two DVD box set.

"e Trouble with Tribbles" was intended to have a third-season follow-up episode, but it was not completed. e follow-up episode was developed for Star Trek: e Animated Series as " More Tribbles, More Troubles". Gerrold explained that the episode was almost uncut from the original premise. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek in 1996, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Trials and Tribble-ations" used digital techniques to insert the Deep Space Nine actors into the events of "e Trouble with Tribbles". Gerrold appeared on-screen as an extra, and the episode was nominated for three Emmy Awards and also for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Contents

Plot Production Writing Filming Casting

Reception Broadcast Retrospective critiques

Awards Home media release Legacy More Tribbles, More Troubles Trials and Tribble-ations Erroneous claims Further appearances and parodies Merchandising and adaptations

Footnotes Bibliography External links

Plot

e Enterprise is summoned to Deep Space Station K7 by a "priority one" distress call, used only in case of disaster. On arrival, Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner) is infuriated to learn that there has been no disaster: the distress call was ordered by Nilz Baris ( William Schallert), the Federation Undersecretary of Agricultural Aairs, who only wants guards for his shipments of quadrotriticale grain bound for Sherman's Planet. e grain is crucial for the Federation's plan to develop the planet and claim it under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty. Stareet Command shares Baris's concerns and orders Kirk to cooperate.

As the Enterprise crew enjoy shore leave on the station, Cyrano Jones ( Stanley Adams) arrives with goods for sale, among them tribbles. He presents one to Lt. Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols), who brings it on board the Enterprise , where it quickly begins to reproduce. e human crew adore the animals and Uhura gives the ospring away.

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A Klingon ship arrives under the command of Captain Koloth ( William Campbell), who invokes his right under the Organian treaty to shore leave for his crew. e tribbles, multiplying rapidly on the station, disgust the Klingons, and the feeling is mutual. Baris, for his part, is terried of possible Klingon interference with the grain project, and suspects Jones of being a Klingon agent.

Doctor Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley) and Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy) are concerned that the increasing number of tribbles threaten to consume all the food aboard the Enterprise . It is discovered that they are entering ship systems, possibly through air ducts. Kirk realizes that they could be a threat to the grain aboard the station. He is too late, however: when he opens an overhead storage compartment, he is literally buried in grain-gorged tribbles. Spock and McCoy discover that many of the tribbles in the hold are dead or dying, suggesting another problem with the grain.

Baris vows to see Kirk punished for the asco, and Koloth demands an apology from Kirk for what he considers disrespectful treatment of his crew. eir arguments are cut short, however, when Baris's assistant Arne Darvin ( Charlie Brill) walks into the room, and the tribbles react as if in the presence of a Klingon. Darvin confesses to having contaminated the grain with what McCoy explains is a virus that interferes with an organism's ability to digest food, eventually killing it.

Aer Darvin's exposure and arrest, Cyrano Jones is ordered to remove the tribbles from the station (a task that Spock estimates will take 17.9 years), or he may face charges for transporting dangerous life forms. Just before the Klingons depart, all the tribbles aboard the Enterprise are transported onto the Klingon vessel by Chief Engineer Montgomery Sco ( James Doohan) where, in his words, "they'll be no tribble at all."

Production

Writing

Writer David Gerrold had been a fan of science ction since he was a child. [3] When Star Trek was rst broadcast, he was concerned that it might turn into something similar to Lost in Space , which he described as "one full-color hour of trash reaching into millions of homes". [4] His rst story outline was sent into Star Trek aer his agent suggested that he waited until the shows started to air under the theory that the show might drop an existing episode in favor of a beer script. [5] e story was entitled "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and was about the Enterprise coming across a generation ship which had descended into a two-tier class system. [5] His agent received a rejection leer from producer Gene L. Coon dated October 3, 1966. e leer stated that the "outline was by no means inadequate. It is, as a maer of fact, very adequate." [6] It went on to say that it would require a budget larger than that available to television, but would have made a "The Trouble with Tribbles" good lm treatment. Coon oered to meet with Gerrold and explain what they were was the first sale of writer looking for, because they were not purchasing scripts at that time. [6] David Gerrold (photographed in 2010) Coon suggested that Gerrold should wait until the following February to see if the show was renewed for a second season. ey also discussed several story ideas, including some small furry creatures that bred too quickly. Coon thought it was a cute idea but would be too expensive as they'd have to build each creature. [7] In preparation for the second series submission, by January, Gerrold had put together ve premises to pitch. [8] He had his best hopes on two treatments called "Bandi" and "e Protracted Man", [9] but decided to submit his h story despite Coon's earlier dismissal of the idea. [9] It was called "e Fuzzies". [10] e idea was based on the introduction of rabbits in Australia in 1859, who reproduced at a vastly increased rate owing to the lack of predators. [11]

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e initial premise placed the story on a space station to avoid the ecological damage that the creatures would have on a planet. However, Gerrold's agent was concerned that requiring a miniature of the station to be built as well as the additional sets would cause it to be too expensive for a single episode. [12] Because of his agent's comments, Gerrold modied the pitch to place the action on a colony planet instead. [13] is pitch included the plot points such as the creatures geing into a poisoned grain storage, but omied the Klingons; and Cyrano Jones was called Cyrano Smith. [14][15] e ve pitches were submied by Gerrold's agent in February 1967, and received a response in June. At the time the show had already purchased too many scripts for the second season but story editor D. C. Fontana suggested that they should purchase the story and assign it to a sta writer as it was beer than some of the other stories they already had. [16]

At the time that Coon got in touch, Gerrold had just been employed at CBS as a typist working on scripts such as the pilot of Hawaii Five-O . As soon as he got the response, he quit the job. [17] Gerrold and Coon met once more, [18] and revealed that the network had recently made a request for more episodes based on other planets. Coon told Gerrold to work up a further pitch. [18] is version of the story added the Klingons, [19] and moved the action from planetside to a space station. [20] During a visit to the set, Gerrold had the opportunity to speak to Leonard Nimoy and ask his advice on how to write for Spock and was allowed to watch the dailies from each day's shoot of the episode " e Doomsday Machine" which was being lmed at the time. [21][22] is version of the story was entitled "A Fuzzy ing Happened to Me…", [20] which was purchased by Coon as a plot outline.[23] He oered Gerrold a chance to write the script himself, by promising not to hand it to another writer for a month. However, Coon made it clear that he was not oering Gerrold a script assignment, but was giving him the option of submiing a dra. [24]

Gerrold turned around the rst dra script in two and a half days. [25] Both Coon and Associate Producer Robert Justman gave feedback on the script, and pointed out a few gaps such as there needing to be some way in the plot for the crew to discover that Darvin was a Klingon agent. [26] e following dra had Cyrano Jones discover that Darvin was an agent, which Coon thought was not "punchy" enough. [27] It was then re-wrien so that the fuzzies were allergic to Klingons. Both Gerrold and Coon thought the idea was "trite… shtick… hokey" and "had been done before". [27] but Coon agreed that it was the direction the story should go. [27] e re-write of the script took a further week. [28]

On a further visit to the set, Gerrold was called into Coon's oce. He was informed that he needed to change the name of the fuzzies, as the legal department was concerned about similarities in the name with H. Beam Piper's 1962 novel Lile Fuzzy .[29] He subsequently came up with a variety of alternative names. rough a process of elimination, he ended up with the name "tribble". [30] He took the name to Coon, who hated it. But aer seeing the alternatives, he agreed to it. [31] Gerrold turned in the script on July 17, entitled "You ink You've Got Tribbles…?". While Coon disliked the name of the small furry creatures, he bought the script. [31][32] Gerrold's submied script was within the standard page count for an episode, but, when it was retyped for distribution by the production's mimeo department, it ballooned from 60 to 80 pages due to Gerrold's not having used a typewriter with the 10 point pitch (10 characters per inch) Pica standard of the TV and lm industry. [33] is meant that some twenty pages needed to be cut from the script. [33] Nichelle Nichols said that she had never seen a script Scenes which were cut from the script included the Enterprise chasing aer Jones in his changed so much but stay vessel, [34] and resulted in the scene where Kirk has tribbles tumbling onto him while in the same the grain locker. Gerrold felt that this enforced editing process "tightened up the story and made for a beer series of gags". [34] Nichelle Nichols said to Gerrold "I've never seen a script go through so many changes – and stay so much the same". [2]

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e proposed title "You ink You've Got Tribbles…?" had to be discarded aer a Shulman short story was discovered with the title "You ink You've Got Troubles?" (upon which the third-season e Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "Dig, Dig, Dig" was based), which could possibly have presented a copyright infringement. e episode was then renamed "e Trouble with Tribbles". [35]

Coon's participation in terms of suggestions and edits was such that Gerrold thought he should have been given a co-writing credit. [36]

e producers liked the resulting script so much that Gerrold was later tasked with re-writing the script for " I, Mudd", [37] but did not take any credit on the nal script as he did not want to take the credit from Stephen Kandel, the creator of Harry Mudd.[30]

Gerrold worked on "I, Mudd" before "e Trouble with Tribbles" began to lm. He was surprised one morning when he was handed a copy of the tribbles script and told to sign it for Robert A. Heinlein. e Kellam de Forest script clearance and research rm [38] had cautioned that the tribbles in the episode resembled the Martian at cats in Heinlein's 1952 novel e Rolling Stones, and suggested that the rights to the novel should be purchased. Gerrold became concerned that he had inadvertently plagiarized the novel which he had read een years before. [39] Coon phoned Heinlein, who, according to Gerrold, only asked for a signed copy of the script and later sent a note to Gerrold aer the show aired to thank him for the script. [40]

Heinlein’s own recollections were at odds with this account. In his authorized biography Heinlein said he was called by Gene Coon about the issue and agreed to waive claim to the "similarity" to his at cats because he’d just been through one plagiarism lawsuit and did not wish to embroil himself in another. He had misgivings upon seeing the actual script but let it go, an action he later regreed: "If that maer had simply been dropped aer that one episode was lmed, I would have chalked it up wryly to experience. But the 'nice kid' did not drop it; 'tribbles' (i.e. my 'at cats') have been exploited endlessly… Well that’s one that did 'larn me.' Today if J. Christ phoned me on some maer of business, I would simply tell him: 'See my agent.'" [41]

e ctional quadrotriticale's real-world antecedent, the grain triticale, was a fairly new invention at the time of the episode.

Filming

e use of live animals to represent the tribbles was immediately ruled out. According to Gerrold's account, the inspiration for the form of the tribble instead came from a uy keyring owned by Holly Sherman. [11] Sherman's Planet in this episode was subsequently named aer her. [42] e design came from Wah Chang,[43] but they were individually sewn by Jacqueline Cumeré. She was paid $350 to sew ve hundred tribbles from synthetic fur and stu them with foam rubber. [11][44] Six ambulatory tribbles were made using the mechanisms of walking toy dogs, which were quite noisy and required the dialogue to be looped in during editing. [45] Other tribbles were created by Jim Rugg out of beanbags for when it was required for one to sit on a person or object, and the breathing tribbles were hollow with surgical balloons inserted. [11][45] Some of these tribbles were later displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. in 1992. [46] e sale During the course of filming, at Christie's auction house in 2006 included tribbles from this episode as part of a larger William Shatner was Star Trek sale. [47] Because of the synthetic fur technology of the 1960s, relatively few covered with five hundred [48] original tribbles exist as of 2010 because the fur fell out over time and they went bald. tribbles on eight occasions An original tribble was sold at auction in 2003 for $1,000. [49]

Filming began during the second week of August 1967.[50] ree temporary sets and a portion of corridor were constructed for

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specic use in this episode, which included the large trading post set. [51] e chairs in that set were a problem, as the set designers wanted 24 matching chairs and decided that folding ones would not do. John M. Dwyer sourced them from a local company, but the numbers required meant that they had to be pulled out of showrooms from all over the county. When it came to the ght scene in the episode, Dwyer warned director Joseph Pevney not to damage the chairs. [52] at scene was lmed twice aer a cameraman with a handheld camera wandered onto the set. [52] e scene where Kirk is covered with tribbles in the grain container needed to be lmed eight times, using all ve hundred sewn tribbles. [53] Gerrold had expected that scene to be cut at some point during production, as he thought that William Shatner would not agree to it. He said that Shatner was the "consummate professional and I believe he was eager to show o his comic abilities". [54]

Pevney was pleased with the outcome of the shoot, calling the episode "a delightful show from beginning to end". [1] In addition to directing, Pevney also sourced some of the parts to create the tribbles and was directly responsible for the casting of Stanley Adams. [1] He had pushed for the episode to be made as he recalled that there was some resistance at the time against making a comedy-style episode. [1] ese types of episodes were unusual for the series, as only "e Trouble with Tribbles" and " A Piece of the Action" were considered to be comedic episodes from season two. [55] Pevney was one of the two most prolic Original Series directors alongside , and directed fourteen episodes of the show. [56] e cast responded favorably to the script. Nichelle Nichols was particularly pleased as it allowed Uhura to be a woman and took her o the bridge.[45] It was one of her largest roles in any single episode in the series. [57]

Casting

William Campbell had previously appeared in the rst season episode " e Squire of Gothos" as Trelane.[58] In "e Trouble with Tribbles", he portrayed the Klingon Captain Koloth. At various points Star Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry claimed it was his intention to bring back Koloth during the third season of e Original Series , as Kirk's recurring Klingon adversary, some internal production documents contradict this story. Although Koloth returned in Star Trek: e Animated Series , Campbell did not voice the role. [59] He returned to the role in 1994 for an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ,[58][60] entitled " Blood Oath". [59]

At the time of casting, William Schallert had just nished lming the ABC sitcom e Pay Duke Show . He described himself not as a fan, and had not read any science ction since 1948. He thought that the role of Nilz Baris was just another guest spot, and the role of a "rather stuy bureaucrat… [was] not the most appealing character". [61] He did not remember the character's name, only recalling it when he rst aended a Star Trek convention at a hotel near Los Angeles Airport, as the fans called it out when he entered the lobby. [61] He was later cast in the role of the Bajoran musician Varani in the DS9 episode " Sanctuary". [61]

Whit Bissell, who played the station manager, Lurry,[1] was beer known at the time in the main cast role of Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk in the ABC science ction television series e Time Tunnel .[62] Michael Pataki, who portrayed the Klingon Korax, went on to play Karnas in Star Trek: e Next Generation rst season episode " Too Short a Season". [63] Charlie Brill portrayed the Klingon agent Arne Darvin. [1] Brill has previously been a sketch comedy artist with his wife Mitzi McCall, and had appeared on e Ed Sullivan Show when e Beatles made their rst appearance. [64]

Reception

Broadcast

"e Trouble with Tribbles" was rst broadcast in the United States on December 29, 1967 on NBC.[65] e initial fan reaction was undecided, but the episode connected beer with the mass market. [66] is eect was later explained in 2012 when Jordon

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Homan on StarTrek.com described "e Trouble with Tribbles" as "quite possibly, the rst episode of Star Trek you ever saw". [67] It entered popular culture and remained well known to the public outside of the Star Trek community. [68]

Retrospective critiques

e New York Times described the scene with Kirk and the tribbles in the grain container as one of the "best-remembered moments" of the series. [44] Time magazine ranked "e Trouble with Tribbles" as the sixth best moment in Star Trek .[66] IGN ranked it as the h best episode of e Original Series ,[69] while TechRepublic ranked it as the fourth best. [70] e A.V. Club included "e Trouble with Tribbles" in a list of ten must-see episodes, [71] and USA Today' listed as one of the three best. [72] In 1998, "e Trouble with Tribbles" was listed as the eighth best cult moment of all time by e Times newspaper. [73] In a list of the top 100 episodes of the Star Trek franchise, "e Trouble with Tribbles" was placed sixth by Charlie Jane Anders at io9.[74]

Zack Handlen's July 2009 review for e A.V. Club in July 2009 gave the episode a grade of A. [75] Cyrano Jones was Handlen's least favorite part of the episode, and with the exception of that character, it was one of the beer scripts seen in e Original Series . He thought that despite the lack of a sense of real danger, the plot all comes together neatly and praised the story's eects on Kirk, saying "e way the episode unfolds means Kirk's constantly dealing with things he does not really want to deal with, and there's a surprising amount of enjoyment to be had in seeing him complain about it to Spock." [75]

Michele Erica Green, writing for TrekNation in March 2006, said she thought that the episode would have dated, but found it was "as funny as ever." She thought that Scoy's lines were "unforgeable" and the scenes between McCoy and Spock were "priceless". [76] Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson reviewed the episode for Tor.com in April 2010. ey described it as "easily the most celebrated episode of the entire original series (if not the whole franchise)". [77] ey went on to describe it as a "perfect episode", and both gave it maximum scores of six out of six. [77] Jamahl Epsicokhan at "Jammer's Reviews" said that the team behind Star Trek were "at the top of their game" with this episode. [78] He gave it a score of four out of four, saying that "'Tribbles' is perhaps the best, most enjoyable comic piece the franchise has ever put out." [78]

Awards

e episode was nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation at the 1968 Hugo Awards.[79] All of the nominees that year were episodes of Star Trek , with the award instead going to " e City on the Edge of Forever". [79] From the number of votes, "e Trouble with Tribbles" was placed second. [80]

Home media release

"e Trouble with Tribbles" was one of the rst episodes to receive an ocial release by Paramount Home Entertainment. In 1980, it was released on VHS on a two episode tape alongside " Let at Be Your Last Baleeld". [81] It was re-released towards in 1991 as part of the rst full season release on VHS. [82] is was re-released in 1993, [83] and was released on laserdisc.[84] In 1998, a "Talking Tribble Gi Set" was released which contained both "e Trouble with Tribbles and "Trials and Tribble-ations" on VHS. [85] e rst DVD release was in 2000, when all of e Original Series episodes were released in individual releases of two episodes per disc. [86] e rst season set that the episode was included in was as part of the season two DVD set released in the United States on November 2, 2004. [72]

In 2009, it was included in a best of collection with three other episodes of e Original Series alongside " ", "e City on the Edge of Forever" and " Balance of Terror". [87][88] e re-mastered DVD sets were also re-launched to coincide with the release of the lm, Star Trek . e Blu ray release included the un-changed scenes as alternative angles. Disc ve of each set contained only "e Trouble with Tribbles" from e Original Series but otherwise contained tribble related extras. ese

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included both "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Trials and Tribble-ations". [89]

Legacy

More Tribbles, More Troubles

"e Trouble with Tribbles" was originally intended to have a follow-up episode during season three, but aer Gene Roddenberry stepped back from the production of the show aer a time-slot change and further cuts in the budget, the idea was scrapped. [77][90] In 1973, Gerrold had become friends with D. C. Fontana from their time spent on the Star Trek convention circuit together. He had heard about Star Trek: e Animated Series , and oered to do an episode. Fontana responded that she wanted the tribble episode that was cut from season three. [90] is episode was entitled " More Tribbles, More Troubles". [76][77] e episode introduces the natural predator of the tribbles and genetically engineered tribbles which no longer reproduce but instead grow much larger. [91] As with his other Animated Series episode " Bem", he later explained that almost nothing was cut from the original pitches for the third season of e Original Series as animation played out quicker and so everything still t into the episode despite the reduced running time. [92] Both of Gerrold's Animated Series episodes were novelised by Alan Dean Foster, and Gerrold later said that he thought that he did "a ne job". [92]

Trials and Tribble-ations

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek in 1996, producers of both Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine decided to incorporate elements of e Original Series into episodes. e Voyager episode " Flashback" showed events on board the Excelsior under Captain Hikaru Sulu during the period in which Kirk and McCoy were imprisoned in Rura Penthe in Star Trek VI: e Undiscovered Country .[93] However, the Deep Space Nine homage used the original footage from nineteen scenes in "e Trouble with Tribbles" and other episodes in order to digitally insert the actors into the events of the episode, entitled Actors such as Avery Brooks were [77][94] digitally inserted into scenes from "Trials and Tribble-ations". e episode was nominated for three Emmy "The Trouble with Tribbles" for the Awards and as with the original episode, the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic DS9 episode Presentation.[95][96]

As the 30th anniversary approached, Gerrold had heard rumors of a tribble- sequel in the works but had only heard denials from executive producer Rick Berman.[97] Following an interview request from e New York Times ,[97] he telephoned Berman once more to ask what was happening as he did not want to say he did not know about the sequel episode and embarrass anyone if it actually was going to happen. [98] Gerrold suggested that an acknowledgement of the creator of the tribbles might be in order and asked if he could be an extra. [97] He was cast as a security redshirt.[99] While Gerrold was on set, he also advised director Jonathan West on the integration of new scenes into "e Trouble with Tribbles". [98] Gerrold later said that "Trials and Tribble-ations" "turned out beautiful. I think it was the best episode of Deep Space Nine ever and possibly the best episode of Star Trek aer the Original Series." [98] Charlie Brill returned as Arne Darvin to lm new scenes set in the DS9 timeframe. [100]

Erroneous claims

On the 2016 home video release e Roddenberry Vault, in a commentary track for the episode Gerrold states of the episode: "is was the rst time the word 'pregnant' was used on TV." is is false. While the very rst use of the word on American

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television is not known, the word was in fact spoken over ve years earlier in "Never Name a Duck," the rst episode of the second season of the Show in September 1962. [101] [1] (hps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLau3wIdss&t=875)

Further appearances and parodies

Tribbles have been further seen in other Star Trek episodes and lms, including Star Trek III: e Search for Spock and the JJ Abrams-helmed lms Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). [77][102] While on a visit to the set of Star Trek , Gerrold was told by Abrams that the tribble had been deliberately "snuck in" to the scene. [97] It appears in the scene where Kirk ( Chris Pine) and Spock Prime (Leonard Nimoy) meet Sco ( Simon Pegg) on the Vulcan moon. [103] "e Trouble with Tribbles" was also re-imagined in that timeline's comic book series by IDW Publishing and entitled "e Truth About Tribbles". [68][104]

In 2003, tribbles appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " e Breach". In that episode, Doctor Phlox ( John Billingsley) uses them as food for his medicinal pets in sickbay. [105]

Gerrold has been in discussions with the fan-created series Star Trek: New Voyages to bring back the tribbles for a further Original Series era episode. [97] Both his Original Series pitch "e Protracted Man" and his Star Trek: e Next Generation script Blood and Fire have been turned into episodes of New Voyages .[44][97]

Tribbles have been parodied in a variety of other television shows and types of media. Futurama featured a parody in the second season entitled " e Problem with Popplers", which included several Star Trek jokes. ese include a reference to "Roddenberries" and features Zapp Brannigan, whom the Futurama sta have said is intended to be a parody of Captain Kirk. [106]

In the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , the player's ship becomes infested with a frog-like species called Gizka, prompting the player to receive the quest "e Trouble with Gizka" in order to remove the pests. [107]

Merchandising and adaptations

Gerrold published a book describing his experiences in the creation of "e Trouble with Tribbles". Entitled e Trouble with Tribbles: e Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode , it was published in 1973. e book was well received by the former cast and crew of Star Trek and was used as a textbook for teaching screen-writing. [30]

A variety of tribble replicas have been made over the years, [108][47] with the most recent licensed product coming from QMx, released in 2013. [109] A plate to commemorate the episode was the rst to be launched as part of an eight plate Star Trek: e Commemorative Collection in 1986. It featured an image of Kirk with the tribbles in the grain compartment created by artist Susie Morton. [110] e rst Original Series expansion for the Star Trek Customizable Card Game was launched in 2000. It was entitled "e Trouble with Tribbles" and was based on this episode and the associated episode of Deep Space Nine . It also introduced the Tribbles game which used only tribble-related cards. [111]

In 2010, two movie posters for "e Trouble with Tribbles" featuring Uhura and Spock being slowly covered in tribbles were created by Justin Ishmael for the art boutique aached to the Alamo Drahouse Cinema in Austin, Texas. It was a follow-up to earlier posters created for the episode " ". [112] Juan Ortiz later created a 1960s-retro style poster for each of the eighty episodes of Star Trek . e "Trouble with Tribbles" poster made it appear that the warp nacelles of the Enterprise were sprouting tribbles which then bred rapidly as the ship ew on, creating a cloud of them behind the ship. [113]

Footnotes

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