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The Trouble with Tribbles.December 29, 1967
Ive always preferred the Star Trek episodes with abit of humour in the storyline,nothing more satisfying than seeing Kirk or Spook getting taken down a peg ot two,or seeing Bones look smug as he informs some poor extra who has been beamed down on to another planet only to be diagnosed with some incurable alien disease.And say what you like about the tribbles (and you probably can as I don't think they got any ears) at least Kirk will not try to copulate with them or get them drunk on Romulan Ale and drag them back to his cabin.The Trouble with Tribbles has a fairly ludicrous story line,but then again what Star Trek episode isn't. Cyrano Jones (Stanley Adams) an intergalactic space trader give one of the furry little blighter's to the sexy Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) who takes it aboard the Starship Enterprise,where low and behold not only does it eat everything in sight but copulates and reproduces at a frighteningly fast rate,even faster than Kirk does.There is something really satisfying see Kirk truly befuddled by these furry critters and even more funnier seeing him buried up to his chin in these things,and although it is one of the more sillier episodes the cast still give it there all and really sell the idea that these things are truly alive,you do get a sense that they are an actual creature,which you don't always get with special effects,I mean at the end of the day it just a ball of fur.isn't it?? That said they do make use of the tribble in a fairly good plot point,by the fact that tribbles hate Klingon's,and get all freaked out whenever a Klingon is close by or present.Which makes for a nice little plot device when there is a Klingon spy aboard.This may not be the best ever episode but has got to be in the top ten at least.