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More Tribbles, More Troubles

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Title :
More Tribbles, More Troubles
Series :
Rating :
1
Overall Ep :
5
First Aired :
6 Oct 1973
Stardate :
5392.4
Director :
Year :
Writers :
Season Ep :
1 x 05
Main Cast :
Guest Cast :
YATI :
In one scene, Captain Koloth is shown on the Enterprise bridge instead of being on the viewscreen.
Great Moment :
The Tribble predator.
Factoid :
This episode began life when Gene Roddenberry asked David Gerrold to write a sequel to 'The Trouble With Tribbles' for TOS. When the management changed the idea was dropped, then revived for TAS. Gerrold would ultimately go on to help Gene create TNG in the 80s.

My year for this episode is estimated from the Stardate; a group of TAS episodes are set between 'The Empath' and 'The Mark of Gideon'.

This episode is a nominee for the DITL "Worst of Trek" award.

Plotline

Whilst escorting robot cargo ships carrying quintotriticale to Sherman's Planet, the Enterprise rescues Cyrano Jones from a Klingon vessel commanded by Captain Koloth. Jones is carrying a new breed of Tribbles, genetically engineered to slow their notorious reproductive process. When the Enterprise is forced to beam the grain aboard from the freighters the tribbles begin to feed on it - and grow to enormous size as a result!

Analysis

My biggest complaint here is the lack of originality. An animated series, being free of FX budget restraints, could and should be allowing the writers to give free reign to their imaginations, bringing us new and exciting ideas. Instead, only five episodes in and we're re-hashing TOS episodes already.

Introducing a Tribble predator is sensible - surely the Tribble home world must be crammed with such predators to explain the Tribble's massive rate of reproduction! Having a version of the Tribbles modified to reduce that reproductive rate is also a sensible idea; given their popularity there is surely a huge market for such "safe" Tribbles as pets, at least on Human worlds. However, the super-sized Tribble idea is just silly, both in scientific credibility and in simple common sense terms - most especially so given that the super-Tribble can break apart into small ones!

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