Great German translation:
"Peaceful like in uncle Erwin's garden."
(Kirk, when the Enterprise arrives at K-7)

That's "humor" !

By Scott Neugroschl on Friday, October 16, 1998 - 11:21 am:

Rented this one a couple of weeks ago... can't wait for the "special edition"... Working from memory here, it seems to me that in this episode, compared with "Errand of Mercy", the Klingons look more human. In EOM, Kor actually looks fairly exotic... the eyebrows and what looks like some minor facial appliances. In this episode, Koloth essentially looks completely human except for the golden/brown(?) makeup.

Also, how come Kor gets the Klingon sash (like Worf has), but Koloth doesn't?

By Chris Ashley on Friday, October 16, 1998 - 02:53 pm:

Interesting fact: the number Spock gives for the length of time it'll take to pick up all the tribbles is NOT 10 to the 12th, but 11 to the 11th. Sloppy math....

And while you're at it, tribbles are hermaphroditic, not bisexual. (The writer admitted later he was wrong.)

For both of these nits I owe my good friend Shira Karp.

By Anonymous on Friday, October 16, 1998 - 04:48 pm:

No, it is not sloppy math... It is somewhere in the vicinity of 11 to the 6th which is correct.
He assumed 3 days with a litter of 10 every 12 hrs.

Consider the initial case of one tribble. It has a litter of 10. Now there are 11 tribbles. 12 hours later, each of those 11 tribbles has a litter of 10 for 110 children and 11 adults for 121 (or 11 squared), etc etc etc... Spock's math is correct for the number of tribbles...

By Rene on Monday, October 19, 1998 - 02:29 pm:

How come I can't see any of the DS9
crew in this episode? :) Kidding...I know
the timeline was altered in "Trials
and Tribble-ations"...

By JM on Monday, October 19, 1998 - 11:14 pm:

I feel sorry for the people who were going to have a nice game of 3D chess and found Sisko and Dax hogging the board (and the DS9 pair didn't even finish the game :-/ ).

(I do like that in the novellisation Kirk didn't come off as so stupid, he did ask Spock about that Lt "Brisco" because he didn't look like a mere Lt. somehow)

By D.K. Henderson on Wednesday, November 04, 1998 - 10:36 am:

I just got to watch my tape of the Special Edition this morning. I enjoyed it very much, but I did hear a nit. When Nilz Baris is complaining that Cyrano Jones might be a Klingon agent, he said, "...he was involved in the altercation between your (Kirk's) men and the men of HIS ship." I rewound my tape to make certain I had heard it correctly. The way he spoke that sentence, "his" was in reference to Cyrano Jones. When did he take over Koloth's ship?

By Chris Thomas on Wednesday, November 11, 1998 - 08:30 am:

Actually, is there a valid explanation anywhere on how the Klingons changed from the boot polish faces and furry eyebrows to the Worf-like ones with cornish pastie arrangement on their foreheads?
They were like that in STar Trek: The Motion Picture so only 20-odd years had elapsed...

By Scott N on Wednesday, November 11, 1998 - 11:08 am:

Maybe tribbles cause a genetic mutation in Klingons to create the forehead ridges, and that's why the Klingons didn't like them in this episode J.

By Chris Thomas on Thursday, November 12, 1998 - 01:47 am:

Would have to be an advanced mutation to make the entire Klingon species look that way in 20 years.

By Johnny Veitch on Thursday, February 25, 1999 - 08:37 pm:

Is it just me, or are the nacelles at a weird angle while the Enterprise is orbiting K-7?

If Freeman is an ensign (according tot he end credits), then (to qoute Bashir in "Trials and Tribble-ations") why is he wearing lieutenant`s stripes?

During the fight with the Klingons, you`ll notice that the only Starfleet officers to precipitate in the fight are Scott, Freeman and Chekov. (And Bashir and O`Brien, in "Trials and Tribble-ations") At least according to most scenes. One scene, as cyrano Jones walks across the bar with a drink, shows a guy in a Starfleet uniform being beaten up by Klingons. He doesn`t look anything like Scott, Chekov or Freeman. He must be one of those really bad stunt doubles.

Here`s a good one. After Spock and McCoy`s argument concerning whether tribbles have a practical use, Spock says "If you`ll excuse me, sir." A didn`t think McCoy outranked Spock. In "The Immunity Syndrom" Kirk calls Spock a commander but McCoy only a lieutenant commander.

As Kirk and Spock beam over to investigate the storage compartments, they use the Enterprise transporter, but beam onto the station`s transporter pads.

By MikeC on Saturday, January 16, 1999 - 04:30 pm:

GUEST STAR PATROL (No tribble at all)

William Schallert (Baris) played Dobie Gillis' teacher, Patty Duke's father, a reverend on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", the admiral on "Get Smart", and does life insurance commercials today.

Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones) had a Twilight Zone episode, "Once Upon a Time", in which he met Buster Keaton.

Whit Bissell (Lurry) was the doctor that created the Teenage Frankenstein, "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein".

Michael Pataki (Korax) was Amenophis Twefik, one of King Tut's guards, on "Batman".

By Anonymous on Friday, February 19, 1999 - 01:20 pm:

Animal rights activists should have protested Scotty's beaming of the poor tribbles onto the Klingon ship.

By Richie Vest on Thursday, February 25, 1999 - 07:19 pm:

Actually I believe Whit Bissell was in "I was a Teenage Werewolf"

By Mike Konczewski on Friday, February 26, 1999 - 07:17 am:

Richie, MikeC--re: Whit Bissel, you're both right. He was in both films. And for some total trivia, his full first name is Whitner.

Whitner?

By Todd Pence on Friday, February 26, 1999 - 12:01 pm:

Whit Bissell also played General Heywood Kirk in "The Time Tunnel".

By Hans Thielman on Tuesday, March 02, 1999 - 02:02 pm:

Do tribbles have bladders?

By Mike Konczewski on Tuesday, March 02, 1999 - 02:10 pm:

Hans--if they do, can you imagine the state of that storage compartment?

Ewwwww!!!!

By Chris Booton on Saturday, March 06, 1999 - 09:38 pm:

Are tribbles based on Chinchillas? They seem to have several simularities.

By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Sunday, March 07, 1999 - 01:56 pm:

I kinda doubt it. Chinchillas are rather playful, but tribbles are not playful and are very sedentary.

By Mike Konczewski on Monday, March 08, 1999 - 07:30 am:

Tribbles are based on guinea pigs. You can read about it in David Gerrold's book on the making of "The Trouble with Tribbles."

By Anonymous on Monday, March 08, 1999 - 12:11 pm:

The new fashion rage of the 23rd Century: Tribble coats.

By BrianB on Wednesday, April 07, 1999 - 01:51 am:

To Scott N 11/11/98:
You're on the right track. When James Doohan was a guest on Super Password (along with Micahel Dorn) around 1986, he replied to Burt Convey's discssion to Dorn of why Klingon's have bumps on their heads. He said, "When I sent the tribbles over to the Klingons, it upset them so much that they...", as he ran his finger down the center of his forehead.

By Keith Alan Morgan on Saturday, April 17, 1999 - 07:12 am:

So why didn't the Enterprise sensors detect the presence of the Defiant?

The monitor in the Rec Room seems poorly designed. It is not at Scotty's head level, it points slightly downward and Scotty has to bend his neck to read it. Haven't Starfleet engineers ever heard of Neck Strain?

Just before the fight in the bar, Cyrano is trying to sell the people Tribbles, but he has already sold the bartender a supply of Tribbles. First of all, won't the bartender get mad at him for doing this? Secondly, don't you think that the bartender and his staff have already tried to unload those things? If the customers didn't want to buy them from the bartender, then why would Cyrano think they would be willing to buy them from him?

Dr. McCoy says the Tribbles are bisexual, doesn't he mean asexual?

Mr. Spock says about Cyrano Jones, "He has never broken the law, well never severely." So doesn't that mean he has broken the law? I thought Mr. Spock was more accurate than that?

Those Tribbles seem to be selective in when they squawk at Klingons. At the end when Kirk is testing the Tribbles against all the people, he walks very closely by the two Klingons, but the Tribbles remain quiet. Then he walks up to the two Klingons, to confirm that Tribbles don't like Klingons, they remain quiet for quite a few seconds before throwing their little hissy fit, but they squawk almost immediately at Darvin, who is a disguised Klingon.

At the end when Kirk is trying to find out what happened to the Tribbles, take a look at the viewscreen behind Scotty and compare it to the image that the Metrons broadcast to the Enterprise in Arena. I think it might be the same picture.

The years have not been kind to Koloth, years later he appears on Deep Space Nine and he looks terrible. All those bumps on his forehead and he's completely lost his sense of fashion.

By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Saturday, April 17, 1999 - 01:30 pm:

The Defiant (NX-74203) was cloaked.

By ScottN on Sunday, April 18, 1999 - 12:57 am:

The tribbles didn't like the fact that Darvin was disguised, as well as the fact that he was a Klingon.

By Keith Alan Morgan on Sunday, April 18, 1999 - 05:15 am:

The Defiant cloaked after they saw the Enterprise, quite close, on their veiwscreen.

By Mike Konczewski on Monday, April 19, 1999 - 08:22 am:

Keith--David Gerrold admitted in his book that he meant asexual, not bisexual.

By Keith Alan Morgan on Monday, April 19, 1999 - 10:13 am:

OOOPS, I thought I mentioned that.

By Tribbles fan on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 04:28 pm:

David Gerrold mentioned a short story by

Ellis Parker Butler, called "Pigs is Pigs". It was a comedy like this Tribbles episode. It's online at The Gutenberg Project, and here's the site:

ftp://beta.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/_Gutenberg_Etext_Books_NEWEST/etext99/pgpgs10.txt

Thought you'd be interested.

I read once about a species of insect where the female gets pregnant with at least one male and several females, and the unborn male impregnates the females! While they're still inside the pregnant female! I think it's a species of aphid, I'm not sure, and I haven't tracked down which species. But I was remembering McCoy's comment, "These tribbles are born pregnant!"
"Is that possible?" Kirk says.
"No, but it would be a great timesaver wouldn't it?"

By Tribbles fan on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 04:30 pm:

Somebody asked if tribbles had bladders. Well, they might have a 99.999999999 percent efficient metabolism, and any waste is in the form of perspiration. So don't worry about it, grin.

By Todd Pence on Sunday, July 11, 1999 - 08:25 pm:

Does anyone else think that it's strange that it's going to take Jones 18 years to round up all the tribbles on the station, but that Scotty apparently had a relatively easy time rounding them all up to beam to the Klingons?

By D.K. Henderson on Tuesday, July 13, 1999 - 06:18 am:

Scotty presumably had help from the crew.

By Christer Nyberg on Sunday, March 26, 2000 - 07:19 am:

Johnny, er... Padawan. Would that "really bad stunt double" be Jimmy Jones, AKA Jackson and Mallory? Then it's Scott. Jerry Summers was Chekov's double. Hopefully, Paul Baxley did his own stunts...

By Todd Pence on Monday, April 03, 2000 - 05:47 pm:

This is the first reference made to the fact that the Klingons have their own spoken language, when Korax makes the crack that the quadrant the Enterprise is patrolling is all learning to speak "Klingoneese". In the original series, we never see any evidence of this language and all the Klingons we see seem to speak Earth english fluently. In "Errand of Mercy", when the Klingons conquer Organia, they speak english to everyone and even among themselves. Even in the later series and movies when a language was invented for the Klingons, they still use fluent english primarily in their dealings with Terrans and most other races. So then why, as Korax suggests, would a race bother to learn the Klingon language even if they feared being conquered by them?

By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Tuesday, April 04, 2000 - 01:52 pm:

I believe the language mentioned in Kligoni. It probably is a dialect of Klingoneese.

By Supertribble on Wednesday, April 05, 2000 - 06:11 pm:

Tribbles fan, I like your name!!
purrrrrrrrr!!!
Will you join me to avenge those klingonbastards who killed my family?

(Just kidding!)
:-)

By Padawan on Friday, April 07, 2000 - 01:59 pm:

I was actually talking about Jerry Summers, we get a better view of him. (But Jay Jones is bad, too)

By Padawan on Thursday, October 12, 2000 - 03:44 pm:

This reminds me of a story called Pigs is Pigs. Jack Kinney once made a Disney cartoon of it.

What exactly are "solar years"? Earth years? But Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc. all have "solar years", they all orbit Sol.

How come only Kirk, Spock and Chekov are in the briefing?

WISINWIT: Kirk says that "a couple" of guards should beam over to K7, then Kirk calls the Enterprise to send 2 guards down, and Barris complains about it being only 2. Isn`t that what he asked for?

By Padawan on Thursday, October 12, 2000 - 03:44 pm:

This reminds me of a story called Pigs is Pigs. Jack Kinney once made a Disney cartoon of it.

What exactly are "solar years"? Earth years? But Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc. all have "solar years", they all orbit Sol.

How come only Kirk, Spock and Chekov are in the briefing?

WISINWIT: Kirk says that "a couple" of guards should beam over to K7, then Kirk calls the Enterprise to send 2 guards down, and Barris complains about it being only 2. Isn`t that what he asked for?

By TomM on Thursday, October 12, 2000 - 07:23 pm:

This reminds me of a story called Pigs is Pigs. Jack Kinney once made a
Disney cartoon of it.

David Gerrold has on many occasions admitted that Those guinea pigs and the Martian flat-cats were the inspiration for the Tribbles.

By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Friday, October 13, 2000 - 03:34 am:

In the book The Trouble With Tribbles, Gerrold said he thought the idea came from the rabbit problem in Australia.

When the lawyers noticed a similarity between his story & the Martian Flat-cats in Heinlien's story (The Rolling Stones), he remembered reading the book as a kid, but couldn't be certain if he had unconsciously plagiarized Heinlien or not.

Heinlien didn't think there was any copying and referred to the Pigs Is Pigs story & Noah & the Ark.

By Nove on Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 12:26 am:

Another math question: The bartender buys the tribbles from Cyrano Jones for six credits each. Then he says a ten percent markup would be reasonable and announces his retail price as ten credits. He needs remedial math if he hopes to keep up with his finances.

By Adam Bomb on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 02:34 pm:

I heard that the purchase of this script was Gene Coon's doing; that Roddenberry had nothing to do with it, he was away from the show for a bit. I also heard that Roddenberry was unhappy with the show, exclaiming,"You're turning my show into a comedy!"

By Adam Bomb on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 02:37 pm:

To Nove: Maybe the bartender used Dubya's "Fuzzy Math."

By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 02:51 pm:

IMHO, here is the 10 credit explanation: Wholesale is 6 credits, the Bartender's "markup" is 10% or .60 credits. At this point we are up to 6.60 credits. The other 3.40 credits would be storage, overhead, Etc. (aka more profit). THis brings us to a total of 10.00 credits.

Simpler explanation: The Bartender can sell the for whatever he wants to.

By ScottN on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 09:49 am:

Chekov states that vodka was invented by a "little old lady from Leningrad".

There is no longer a city called Leningrad, it is again called St. Petersburg.

By JD on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 10:32 am:

Yep, there's another "We didn't forsee the fall of the Soviet Union" nit.

By ScottN on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 11:10 am:

Sorry, JD, but nitpickers don't deal in reality

By ScottN on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 11:15 am:

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Quote:

By Tribbles fan on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 05:30 pm:


Somebody asked if tribbles had bladders. Well, they might have a 99.999999999 percent efficient metabolism, and any waste is in the form of perspiration. So don't worry about it, grin.

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By Rene on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 12:41 pm:

Figures that Roddenberry would be against one of the best Classic Trek episodes.

By John A. Lang on Saturday, March 03, 2001 - 02:37 am:

CLASSIC SCENE: Kirk opens the grain bin and over a million Tribbles come a tumblin' down! They musta done a lot of retakes on this because I do recall seeing DeForest Kelley turning away when the Tribbles fall out, it looks like he's laughing.

By Adam Bomb on Saturday, March 03, 2001 - 02:45 pm:

According to David Gerrold's book on the making of this ep (Ballantine, 1973) Shatner had to endure eight takes of this scene. Just think of the amount of time it took to pick up the tribbles, put them back in the storage compartment, and shoot it all over again eight times. No wonder Shatner looks exasperated on screen.

By KAM on Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 01:12 am:

Spock was wrong about there being over a million Tribbles in the bin. According to the book there were only 500. ;-)

[removes tongue from cheek]

I wonder, on the 8th take when the director said that's it, do you think Shatner spiked a Tribble & did a victory dance? ;-)

By GCapp on Wednesday, March 07, 2001 - 10:38 pm:

Spock says there were 1,771,561, assuming an average litter of 10, every 12 hours over a period of three days.

Kirk says, that's assuming they got here three days ago.

Spock adds, "also allowing for the amount of grain consumed and the volume of the storage compartment".

Ahem? Dax didn't add that qualification. Furthermore, 1,771,561 is exactly how many you'd have if you had unlimited grain, and unlimited space. If Spock was going to allow for volume and a limited amount of grain, the number should have been a lot lower, say, 697,403? Or 502? Or exactly 500?

1 tribble gets in and munches away. At least 60 hours before discovery, it drops ten. You have 11.

At least 48 hours before discovery, those 11 drop ten each, 110 newborns, for a total of 121.

At least 36 hours before discovery: those 121 drop ten each, 1210 newborns, for a total of 1,331.

At least 24 hours before discovery: those 1,331 drop ten each, 13,310 newborns, for a total 14,641.

At least 12 hours before discovery: those 14,641 drop ten each, 146,410 newborns, for a total of 161,051.

Before discovery (and not merely 60 minutes, because I didn't see any newborn-looking ones), those 161,051 drop ten each, 1,610,510 newborns. You now have a total of 1,771,561.

Where, in there, is the factoring of amount of grain consumed and the volume of the storage compartment?

BILC - because it "looks" cute.

By GCapp on Wednesday, March 07, 2001 - 10:49 pm:

Chekov was in the briefing because, as David Gerrold explains the scene, he's a future commander material, and he's being grilled. However, the reality of TV and stars being stars, meant that Spock did a lot more talking than he should have - Chekov should have given all the facts about the region of K-7 and Sherman's Planet. Instead, he sits there listening and recalling Russian revisionist history.

BTW, the John Burke ("Ivan Burkhoff") mentioned in this briefing resurfaces in the novel "Federation" as Zefram Cochrane's grandfather-in-law when he marries Monica Burke. Burke establishes an observatory at Alpha Centauri in the 2080s and does more of the work that he did in Britain before the Optimum shut him down.

By John A. Lang on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 03:00 am:

RUMINATION: We won't see the Tribbles again until "Star Trek III-The Search for Spock" and then not again until "Trials and Tribble-ations"

By Joe King on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 02:29 pm:

What about TAS episode More Tribbles, More Trouble.

By Chris Todaro on Sunday, March 25, 2001 - 10:37 am:

I think that most fans feel the same way about TAS as they do all the Trek novels. They were good and fun but not canon.

By ian livingstone on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 12:59 am:

Actually I like to think of TAS as Canon

By John A. Lang on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 12:34 pm:

The station guy indicates that the Klingons are already on the station....well their ship must be cloaked, because it's never seen in the episode.....and according to Gen. Koord in STV, if a Klingon ship is cloaked, that means it's prepared to attack.

RED ALERT! SOMEBODY!

By Rene on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 01:02 pm:

We do see the Klingon ship in "Trials And Tribble-ations".

By Todd Pence on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 04:11 pm:

TAS was closest to the source material both chronologically and a good deal of the creative team the original had, therefore it has a better claim to canonicity than ANY movie or spinoff series. Certainly TAS should have a greater claim to canonicity than anything Berman and Braga had their hands in.

By ScottN on Monday, March 26, 2001 - 08:01 pm:

Paramount broadcast TAS, and it's on the official Trek website. I think it should be canon.

By Will S. on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 11:04 am:

FINALLY! Some people that agree with me that TAS was closer to TOS than anything else, and should be canon! Jodie Foster was right; We are not alone!

By Derf on Thursday, April 05, 2001 - 10:50 pm:

I remember as a teenager watching the animated series and wondering to myself why it was put on Saturday mornings? The plot lines rivaled anything the original series produced. (or AT LEAST duplicated them)

By John A. Lang on Sunday, April 08, 2001 - 12:40 am:

FUNNY THOUGHT:

If Space Station K-7 has Tribbles, does that mean Space Station K-9 has alien dogs?

By John A. Lang on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:40 pm:

The doors opening on Space Station K-7 sound like the "bottle sound effect" from the opening credits from "I Dream of Jeannie".

Who is Sherman and how does he get an entire planet named after him? There is no explanation in the show....only in the encyclopedia.

The Enterprise's approach & departure from K-7 looks very real! KUDOS!

Scotty's black eye looks real! KUDOS!

Once again the red alert lights stay on instead of blinking during the alert status.

When McCoy explains how the Tribbles breed to Kirk, he says it in a very calm voice...in the preview trailer, he has a slight giggle in his monologue. (an out take?)

Space Station K-7's transporter pad looks a lot like Balok's transporter pad. Also the creators bypass the beam in sequence when Kirk & Spock beam over after the Klingons show up...you just hear the SFX.

There's a Tribble in Kirk's coffee...I certainly hope it's de-caf! Tribble: "Whee! Caffeine!"

When the Tribble is in the command chair, I wonder what orders it was giving....Sherman's Planet, Warp 9. Prepare to beam up that grain into my mouth?

Cute scene: There's a Tribble in Uhura's collar.
Tribble: "Nice cleavage!"

By Todd Pence on Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 07:32 pm:

Re: Sherman's planet. Writer David Gerrold named it after his girlfriend Holly Sherman.

By John A. Lang on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 03:16 am:

Scotty lied to Kirk...he said that the fight started after the Klingons called the Enterprise a garbage skow...that is not correct. The fight was started after the Klingons said that the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage.

When Adm. Fitzpatrick wishes to speak to Kirk, Uhura is hailing Kirk...however, her face does not appear on the tabletop viewer like it did earlier in the show.

It appears also that Shatner has some grey hair sprouting on the left side of his head.

By John A. Lang on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 09:06 am:

Why does the barkeeper have to leave in order to get security? Don't they have some kind of communications panel in the bar?
(Phil already mentioned that security should have already been in the bar to begin with)

Once again it looks like everyone had fun filming this episode.

By John A. Lang on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 09:08 am:

Phil mentioned that Koloth looks like Trelane...well, not only that....he ACTS like Trelane too. All that's missing is that "boing" noise.

By margie on Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - 12:51 pm:

>Scotty lied to Kirk...he said that the fight started after the Klingons called the Enterprise a garbage skow...that is not correct. The fight was started after the Klingons said that the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage. <

He didn't necessarily lie. Memory is a funny thing. Scotty could be remembering the Klingon saying the Enterprise was a garbage scow, even though he didn't say that exactly. He was so angry at that point he's probably lucky he remembers anything the Klingon said!

By John A. Lang on Saturday, April 28, 2001 - 02:25 am:

When Cyrano Jones in brought in for interrogation in Mr. Lurry's office, Cyrano Jones pronounces the race "Klingon" wrong...he says, "KlingIN".

Geez folks,is saying "KlingON" REALLY that difficult?

This whole "KlingIN" bit started in "Errand of Mercy" with Sulu being the first "victim" of mispronunciation.

By Adam Bomb on Saturday, April 28, 2001 - 03:44 pm:

Remember how John Colicos as Kor in "Errand of Mercy" pronounced "Veg-a-ta-ble"?
Cyrano did pronounce Klingon correctly when asked by Kirk "What was at the bar?" He points to Korax and says "Klingons. Him for one."

By John A. Lang on Saturday, April 28, 2001 - 04:39 pm:

He said it so fast, it was hard to tell.

Cyrano does say "Klingon" at a much slower speed in the final bar scene where he's sentences to pick up all the Tribbles.

By John A. Lang on Wednesday, May 16, 2001 - 02:18 am:

The door near the transporter on K-7 must be broken, it stays open all during the show.

Someone needs to adjust the boom mikes...at one point it SOUNDS like Kirk asks Uhura, "How did all these Tribbles get on the BRIG" (Instead of BRIDGE)

The censors musta been down for their nappies or something...take a REAL close look at all the women working at the bar on K-7...they wear butterfly wings, micro-micro miniskirts, and pantyhose...but NO PANTIES! The shot where Kirk & Spock are at the bar shows a waitress wearing the outfit, but you can see the lower half of her crotch!!

By John A. Lang on Friday, May 18, 2001 - 12:21 am:

FUNNY INNOTATION: When Spock talks to Jones about removing the Tribbles from their preditor filled planet, he says,"You have removed the cork from the bottle and allowed the genie to escape" (or something like that) ANYWAY...it's funny because the SFX from "I Dream Of Genie" is used in this episode. (as I mentioned earlier)

By ScottN on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 11:16 pm:

At the end, when the two security guards take Darvin away, one of them is still holding some tribbles! And they don't even make tribble noises at Darvin!

By LUIGI NOVI on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 02:59 am:

I�ve usually left out my challenges and comments on Phil�s nits from his Guides when posting my nits for episodes, because doing so would require readers to know Phil�s original nit, and I know not all of you here have read them, so I�m going to include brief summaries of his nits in small type. If most of you already have the Guides, tell me, and I�ll dispense with posting the originals nits from here on to conserve space. I�ve put his nits in blue.

PO#1: Kirk allows only 12 Klingons on the station at a time, and puts 12 security guards there, but none are present when the fight breaks out in the bar. Didn�t Kirk put them there to guard the Klingons?
Addition to PO#1: For some reason, the guards in the bar walk out when they see Scotty and the others walk in, as if they�re under the impression that the three are there to relieve them, and not for shore leave. Even odder, there are four Klingons in the bar, but there were only two Starfleet guards. Where were the other two?

PO#2: There were only a few Starfleet men in the fight, but in the next scene where Kirk dresses down a line of his men, there�s a bunch of them, and two have blue shirts, even though no one in the fight had one.
Comment on PO#2: There were blue-shirted officers in the bar, and I thought that perhaps they fought off camera, because the creators chose to focus on the regulars, but then it hit me: There were only 4 Klingons in the bar, but there were 10 Starfleet officers in the line! Not very sportsmanlike for our Starfleet boys, was it?

PO#4: Why does Kirk stand under the grain storage door and fiddle with the lock? If the grain were in there, and it all fell onto him, he�d be pretty hurt.
Addition to PO#4: My first instinct when reading this was to inform Phil that the grain were probably stored in individual containers. How else did they get the grain in the compartments, and how did they plan to remove it? The only problem is, the creators aren�t helping me out. When Kirk opens the door, the tribbles fall out, but no gnawed-through containers fall out with them. Trials and Tribble-ations(DS9) also shows the tribbles on the grain with no containers in sight (I believe it�s the last shot of Act 4).

Well, ya gotta prioritize
Great Moment: Kirk�s dressing down of Scotty after the brawl, and his softening when he Scotty was defending him from Klingon insults, and then his disappointment when he realizes that Scotty did not snap because of an insult to Kirk, but to the Enterprise.

Only players in the NBA breed faster
After Kirk almost sits on a tribble in his command chair on the bridge, he calls Bones to the bridge, who tells him that the tribbles seem to be "born pregnant" and that they seem to reproduce "at will," referring to the critters as "bisexual." A lifeform able to reproduce at will without sexual contact is not called "bisexual." It�s called asexual.
He�s shopping for a new toupee, and this is how he tries them out
Why doesn�t Kirk get out of the way when all the tribbles fall on top of him when opening the grain storage bins?
Just wait until he sees Scotty in ST II
When the tribbles fall out, how does Spock deduce that they are gorged? Throughout the episode, there is a visible variation in size among the tribbles, which can be presumed to be due to difference in age. The ones here don�t seem any bigger than before, and a lot of them are very small.

By ScottN on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 10:48 am:

Great Moment: Kirk�s dressing down of Scotty after the brawl, and his softening when he Scotty was defending him from Klingon insults, and then his disappointment when he realizes that Scotty did not snap because of an insult to Kirk, but to the Enterprise.

This is also one of my favorite scenes. The look on Kirk's face is priceless.

By ScottN on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 - 10:54 am:

By ScottN on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 09:49 am:


Chekov states that vodka was invented by a "little old lady from Leningrad".

Whoops! After seeing it again last night, I think that Chekov was saying SCOTCH was inwented by the little old lady. He was insulting Scotty's drink.

By John A. Lang on Friday, June 08, 2001 - 11:33 pm:

Scotty's black eye is healed at the end of the show. MY! That was a quick recovery!

Also I saw a Tribble on Spock's scanner...

Tribble: "Scanning the station for the storage bins of grain. AHA! Section 7-04! Beam over everyone!"

By Padawan on Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 03:35 am:

WISINWIT: Kirk says that "a couple" of guards should beam over to K7, then Kirk calls the Enterprise to send 2 guards down, and Barris complains about it being only 2. Isn`t that what he asked for? - Myself

I must have meant "Barris" instead of the first "Kirk". Sorry for any confusion.

By John A. Lang on Wednesday, June 20, 2001 - 05:18 pm:

When Scott comes into the rec room with an armload of Tribbles, he believes that they got into the food processors via the air vents.
Spock the points out there are simular air vents at K-7 & then Kirk adds that air vents exist near the storage compartments...SO.... why is it he asks the question, "Who put the Tribbles in the storage comapartments?"...Uh...Hello? They crawled in there themselves.(?)

By ScottN on Sunday, July 29, 2001 - 09:12 pm:

Darn it. John got one of my nits. Here's some more.

Same scene as John's. Scotty comes in with an armload of tribbles. Why? Kirk confined him to quarters!

Great line, and yes I know it's been done before. Three Words: "A Fat Tribble".

Kirk tells Barris something to the effect of "I have never questioned any Starfleet orders or Federation officials... Until Now." What about Ferris in "The Galileo Seven", or Fox in "A Taste of Armageddon"? Methinks Kirk has a rather selective memory.

Why does Kirk carry the tribble from the Enterprise transporter all the way from Lurrie's office to the storage compartments? He even holds it while he's trying to open the grain storage bays.

By TrekGrrl on Sunday, July 29, 2001 - 09:15 pm:

At the bar-fight, Cyrano Jones puts a little drink in his pocket. After the bar tender takes his other one, he pulls his second drink out of his pocket, but the cup has changed.

(Gee, for a kid i'm good at this-smirk)

By Lolar Windrunner on Sunday, July 29, 2001 - 10:43 pm:

ScottN maybe he saw it and wanted to take it home with him. :-)

By margie on Thursday, August 02, 2001 - 01:19 pm:

He became rather fond of it!

By John A. Lang on Thursday, August 02, 2001 - 09:17 pm:

Maybe the drinking glass had a crack in it & was spilling liquor all over the place....

If that's the reason, maybe this episode should be renamed...

"The Trouble With Dribbles"

(Ducks behind the bar)

By Klingon behind the bar on Friday, August 03, 2001 - 04:28 am:

There you are!

*and is about to beat John up when Yeoman Rand shows up and says*

Hands off! He's mine!

By ScottN on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 03:22 pm:

McCoy comments that tribbles are soft, furry and make a pleasing sound (not an exact quote). Spock retorts, "so would an ermine violin".

An ermine violin would most likely NOT make a pleasing sound, the acoustics would be all wrong.

By ScottN on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 03:25 pm:

By ScottN on Wednesday, February 21, 2001 - 09:49 am:

Chekov states that vodka was invented by a "little old lady from Leningrad".

Nit on myself. It's SCOTCH that Chekov claims was inwented by the little old lady, not vodka.

By Lolar Windrunner on Thursday, August 16, 2001 - 05:33 pm:

Not if it was ermine covered. Then it would sound ok.

By John A. Lang on Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 03:08 pm:

Mr. Leslie musta been demoted...in "Shore Leave", he was at the helm...now he's a security guard.

By KAM on Monday, October 22, 2001 - 03:22 am:

Maybe he's in Section 31 & has to move around to keep a low profile? This would also explain why he's not listed as Leslie (or Lesley) in some credits.

By LoneCoyote on Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 12:05 am:

The scene in the Enterprise mess hall: Kirk tries to get a chicken sandwich and coffee for lunch, but gets a tray full of tribbles instead. When Scotty points out that the tribbles probably used the air vents to infest the ship's systems, Spock realizes that the storage compartments on space station K7 also have air vents. Kirk makes arrangements to go over to K7 to check out the storage compartments, then, as he leaves the room, it sounds like he's saying, "Come on, Spocks." Spocks?

By Padawan Observer on Wednesday, October 31, 2001 - 01:45 pm:

KAM - go to the "Obsession" board!

By Todd Pence on Tuesday, November 06, 2001 - 05:36 pm:

MISSED OPPORTUNITY:

Kirk, on his first sighting of Lurry:

"Hey, you look just like one of my ancestors . . . General Heywood Kirk, who pioneered Earth's first time travel experiments back in the 1960's!"

By Todd Pence on Tuesday, November 06, 2001 - 05:50 pm:

Disrupting a space station is not an offense??? Why the heck not?

By Bill C. on Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 11:20 am:

That would depend on what your definition of 'disrupting' is, just as what your definition of 'is' is.

By ScottN on Wednesday, November 21, 2001 - 04:28 pm:

Re: Cyrano Jones and the drink in his pocket.

Would you really want to drink that? His pocket probably has tribble dander, and all sorts of lint and stuff in it. And the drink was put in uncovered. So, in addition to it probably spilling in his pocket, it should have gunk in it too...

By gcapp on Monday, April 08, 2002 - 11:49 am:

Actually, it was Mr. Lurry who suggested Kirk post a couple of security guards. Baris didn't seem put out until he actually heard Kirk say, "beam over two... AND ONLY TWO security guards..."

Grain was probably being shipped in bulk, but there should have been some sort of containers small enough to fit through the hatches.

I suppose there could have been a better design.

By Todd Pence on Sunday, May 12, 2002 - 06:22 pm:

Apparently Scotty didn't get rid of ALL the tribbles on board ship . . . in the last epsiode, "Turnabout Intruder", there are still tribbles plainly visible in one of the specimen cases in sickbay!