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UNCUT REACTION - Star Trek The Original Series - S2E15 The Trouble with Tribbles (Patreon)

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Here is our full uncut reaction to The Trouble with Tribbles

Early Access to the YouTube edit should be up tomorrow, with it hitting our YouTube channel Monday.

We won't be able to record this upcoming week as Josh will be out of town, but uncut reactions for Firefly and Battlestar Galactica are recorded and will still be coming throughout the week! We will resume with Star Trek in the beginning of October!

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Timothy Nikiforovs

When people talk about classic trek episodes, it doesn't get much more classic than this. The tribbles are a little more of a background element than the title might indicate, but still pretty central to the story. As for the tribbles being dangerous, well individually they're harmless, but then so are locusts. With how fast they reproduce, they could wipe out entire ecosystems in weeks. Also as a kid growing up in Canada, it was nice to hear my home country referenced in my favourite franchise. Happens a couple more times. I do like how this whole episode Kirk is more annoyed by the events of the episode than anything else. Not every story has to be some dire, life and death scenario. Sometimes you're just trying to run a starship and keep the kids out of trouble. That bar fight is epic though. Definitely one of the most fun sequences in the entire show to watch. Kirk's love of the Enterprise was established early on, but this episode shows that the ship really is Scotty's baby. I love how he doesn't just admit he started the fight after the klingons insulted the Enterprise, he's PROUD of it. Hell, he even says so. I forget what ultimately happened to Jones in the TAS episode, but I don't think the sentence would really play out the way Spock said. Also picking up pleasant fuzzy animals is nowhere near as cruel as leaving Mudd with 500 nagging wives. First off, the station management would want the tribbles gone for the sake of their own operations. McCoy already figured out that if they stop feeding them they'll stop breeding, and that's putting aside many died from the grain anyway. The ones that didn't die......well let's face it, what do we really think they were going to do with them? Tribble stew, anyone? Regardless, Jones has to put them SOMEWHERE, so lets just say they had some storage containers to put them in and to keep it PG, they get dropped off back on the tribble homeworld(where they get eaten anyway). Assuming the station staff, on McCoy's recommendation, secures and tribble proofs every bit of food on the station, Spock's 1.7 million tribble estimate won't change much(perhaps it's already less given he hadn't noticed the dead tribbles and worked it into his calculation). If Cyrano went from room to room with one of those 95 gallon garbage totes or something similar, and assuming roughly 100 could fit in there, if he fills that up 10 times a day and dumps it in the storage container, he clear 365,000 tribbles a year, so really he'd be done in under 5 years. With all the tribbles running around filling a tote like that should take 10 minutes at most with a decent working pace, plus time to take the turbolift to empty it out, in a 10 hour shift he could probably collect 3000-5000 tribbles. If he works hard enough he could be done in under a year. This of course assumes the station management doesn't just let him use the transporter to get him out of their hair. Anyway, I'm just nerding out. Great episode. Always fun to watch.

Prof Moff

TOS Sex Scoreboard No new ones at least officially. Kirk 5 Chekov 2 Bones 1 Spock 1 Extra: Well the big scores is the tribbles +1,000,000 actually way more. Here is a question though, did Chekov and Uhura do the deed? Help her shop? really? We will not count it but it is a maybe for those two.

Brad Barter

Separate content topic: I was wondering when the next episode of Battlestar Galactica was coming out? I saw it that it said one to two episodes a month but it's been a while since the first episode reaction.

tyranusfan

David Gerrold, who wrote this episode, was a student at the time, and loved ST. He pitched a few ideas before landing this one. He said later that he didn't want it to be a threat to the universe or anything like that. The biggest threat in this episode is that Kirk might lose his job!

tyranusfan

There was at the time a little fuzzy keychain that was basically a ball of fur (you can see them sold to this day in some places!), that served as the inspiration for the Tribbles. They built them all, most were inanimate furballs, but some had little mechanical dog toys sewn inside, so they could "walk" around on their own.

Collin Freeman

This is my favorite fun/comedic TOS episode. I think Scotty's comment about not going on shore leave was directed towards not wanting to leave the Enterprise and read his technical journals. Remember Kaylee in Firefly "Bushwhacked"? Same character trait. As for the tribbles, they did have to manufacture all of them. And they would turn up as gags on blooper reels on subsequent episodes. Actors would produce a tribble out all kinds of places.

David Felgate

It wasn't a red shirt coming through the door that took away Cyrano Jone's glass, it was the bartender reclaiming a drink that Jones hadn't paid for.

David Felgate

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has a fan-favorite episode that's very closely related to this one, and would be a fun one to react to. Even though DS9 is a much more serialized show than the original series or The Next Generation, the episode I'm referring to is mostly stand-alone and could be watched out of sequence.

Paul Rymer

There’s an episode of Deep Space Nine that was made for the 40th anniversary where they time travel to this episode and have the 1990s crew integrated with the 1960s footage. It’s really well done, pity it’ll be years before you get to it. I don’t want to spoil it but the DS9 episode manages to add depth and background to the original while at the same time being equally humorous. It’s voted one of the best Trek episodes of all time. The 40th anniversary also saw a Voyager episode that features Sulu and Rand, based on scenes from one of the TOS movies, so all of the original crew were celebrated in some way that year. Unlike the DS9 show George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney were able to film new scenes as it was only a few years after the movie it was based on was made. Majel Roddenberry (Chapel) wasn’t in either episode but was a recurring star in TNG and DS9 in another role so wasn’t forgotten. There’s also a sequel to this episode in the animated series which was originally pitched for the main show.

BURKE Wells

The guy selling the tribbles was in a comedy Twilight Zone episode which involves 1890’s to 1960’s time travel.

BURKE Wells

BTW, Alex looked like he was in bad mood towards the beginning of the episode. You guys usually talk during the opening credits. I was think you had an argument before recording or he had some bad news prior to starting.

Firekrys FWO

One of my top five favorites. I loved this episode soooo much as a kid, and still will always watch this with a big grin. We had a ST screensaver, and at one point there would be tribbles falling down from the top of the screen and forming a pile. My dad picked up one of the Tribble props at a convention. We'd love to make squeaking/purring noises while moving it. And yes, now you know why all of us got excited when you mentioned Scotty in a bar fight

Ricky Johnson

If you don't like this one you must be a Klingon! I remember a kid in the third grade trying to look smart asking the teacher if she knew what quadrotriticalie was. We used to just like to say it when we were little kids. Trivia - Robert Heinlein wrote a novel with a similar creature called flat cats. After the episode they were afraid he might sue(ala Harlen Elison and City on the Edge of Forever) but Heinlien loved the tribles and didn't have problem with it.

Brad Barter

Just like Harry Mudd, Cyrano Jones as well as the tribbles will return in one of the animated Star trek episodes and like Mudd will be voiced by the same actor who played Jones. You are correct that is indeed the same actor who played Trelane in The Squire of Gothos. Four actors in this episode will return in other Star Trek shows. Klingon Captain Koloth as well as the Klingon spy and the tribbles will eventually return in an episode of Deep Space 9 playing the characters seen here. The annoying Baris constantly on Kirk's back about the grain will play a Bajoran character in a completely separate episode of Deep Space 9 and the actor playing the Klingon who got Scotty to punch him will return as a human in one of the first season episodes (and one of its weakest episodes although in season one there are many) of ST Next Generation.

MaskOfBorro
>>92288703

Wow, trolling your teacher with Star Trek lore in third grade🤣🖖 I've tried that trick on my physics professor in college concerning the warp drive, and well, it didn't go as I expected^^

Chuck Rice

One of my favorite Treks. The character work in a humorous episode is top notch.

Sherman Lin

Timeless classic probably the most beloved star trek episode

Elizabeth N

I just love this episode! Favourite bit has to be when Kirk is up to his neck in tribbles and keeps getting hit by them. The expression on his face is just "I am so done with this" 😂 Kirk's attitude through the whole episode is hilarious. One of my favourite Christmas presents I got as a kid was a tribble. Made all the noises and everything! 😂

Rich Cirivilleri

Hey Josh – I just discovered that the Blu-ray disc with the trouble with Tribbles also includes the animated episode, the deep space nine “trials and tribblations” episode, and a commentary track from David Gerrold, who wrote the ep. There is an Easter egg as well. There is a tab called Starfleet communications or something like that on the menu. Click that link and it will play the episode but with video annotations and interviews with DC Fontana, David Gerald, etc. it’s really interesting. I watched the DS9 episode again and it is just absolutely fucking brilliant. I strongly suggest you watch that ASAP, as Tribbles is still fresh in your mind. It doesn’t need to be watched out of order with the other DS nine episodes it’s totally standalone and you will really enjoy it, both of you. I have spoken.

James H

Think someone was talking during the Klingon captain’s reference to the Organian peace treaty from “Errand of Mercy,” but it’s a nice little continuity thread running through the series.

T’Pynyn of Vulcan

The orbiting Enterprise is enhanced in the remastered version plus an orbiting Klingon ship is added. Also, “Klingon” was originally “Clingan” (named after someone Roddenberry worked with and didn’t like at the LAPD). Hence, the different pronunciations. Additionally, you can completely see Scotty’s missing finger when he’s holding a pile of Tribbles. They should have just written the injury into the script when Apollo shot Scotty’s hand in “Who Mourns for Adonais”.

David Felgate
>>92281390

As a general rule, I agree with you. However, at the pace at which these are reactions are coming out, it will be quite some time before they get to the DS9 episode naturally, at which point they may have forgotten many of the details of this episode which would take some of the fun out of it. That's the only reason I suggested watching it out of order. Maybe a better solution would be to suggest they re-watch this episode shortly before the DS9 episode.

Shane Davis

If you liked this one, "A Piece of the Action" is even goofier, or more comedic, depending on your point of view. You can tell in "A Piece of the Action" they're just having fun, even bordering on lauging at their own character stereotypes. I think you'll like that one, and don't fret over whether it makes any sense....that's not the point. The point is to have fun, and they do!