# The trouble with The Trouble With Tribbles - open spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408 "2012-06-07T17:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/21 "2012-06-07T20:28:06Z")
Scotty used a malignant biological agent against another race. Shouldn’t he be charged with a war crime? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/22 "2012-06-07T21:55:56Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Scotty used a malignant biological agent … “It’s GREEN!” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/23 "2012-06-07T21:57:32Z")
\*\* > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > [COLOR=“Green”] **“It’s GREEN!”** [/COLOR]\*\* This post has been greened by a drunken scotsman in space. . ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/24 "2012-06-07T22:02:17Z")
“Soylent Quadro-triticale is Tribble!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/25 "2012-06-07T22:14:22Z")
They’re just lucky they didn’t pick up a few of their more “frisky”(read: Vicious) cousins, the Dire or Vorpal Tribbles. Just like their cuter counterparts but with big sharp teeth and a taste for humanoid flesh. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/26 "2012-06-07T22:38:44Z")
Never feed a Tribble after Midnight Don’t get water on a Tribble. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/27 "2012-06-07T22:41:28Z")
I liked the reference to the Human-Kllingon encounter in a DS9 episode. Worf was questioned by his DS9 coworkers as to why the Klingons in ST: Classic have no brow ridges. Worf’s answer was priceless. “Klingons don’t like to talk about that.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/28 "2012-06-07T22:51:07Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Don’t get water on a Tribble. …They dribble. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/29 "2012-06-07T23:36:45Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > There’s actually a reference in the Star Trek Online MMO. Something like “Do they still sing songs of the great Tribble purge?” when worf told of the klingon’s determination to have a tribble free universe, odo gave him “the look” and dryly asked: “do they still sing songs of the great tribble hunt?” worf then gave odo “the look”. i bet there is quite the klingon opera, rather like “the ring” cycle, that recalls the glory of the “great tribble hunt”. poor worf had a tough time in this episode. with the ridge question, he gave “the look”, and growled " we don’t speak of it". there is a good book on the deep space nine episode as well. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/30 "2012-06-07T23:43:51Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > …with the ridge question, he gave “the look”, and growled " we don’t speak of it"… If I recall correctly, there was an episode of \*Enterprise \*where they attempted to ret-con the whole brow-ridge issue. It was kinda complicated (something to do with a virus?), but made sense to me at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/31 "2012-06-07T23:46:21Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > They could made made a fortune marketing Tribbles (dead or alive) as: > > Stripper pasties > […] > Earmuffs Merkins. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/32 "2012-06-08T00:56:42Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > I liked the reference to the Human-Kllingon encounter in a DS9 episode. > > Worf was questioned by his DS9 coworkers as to why the Klingons in ST: Classic have no brow ridges. > > Worf’s answer was priceless. “Klingons don’t like to talk about that.” > ~VOW Best part of that episode was Dax and Sisko in the grain hold, scanners in hand, looking for an infected tribble… …and tossing the clean tribbles over their shoulders… …where they fell through the open hatch onto Kirk’s head! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/33 "2012-06-08T01:13:25Z")
OP: GET A LIFE! I mean, for crying out loud, it’s just a TV show! I mean, how old are you? What have you done with yourself? … have you ever kissed a girl? I didn’t think so! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/34 "2012-06-08T01:24:15Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > … have you ever kissed a girl? More than have spoken to you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/35 "2012-06-08T01:31:15Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > OP: > > GET A LIFE! I mean, for crying out loud, it’s just a TV show! > > I mean, how old are you? What have you done with yourself? > > … have you ever kissed a girl? > > I didn’t think so! _Somebody_ didn’t get any last night! Lighten up, Francis. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/36 "2012-06-08T01:34:00Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Somebody_ didn’t get any last night! > > Lighten up, Francis. Umm, it’s a reference to an old SNL skit with William Shatner. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/37 "2012-06-08T01:36:13Z")
I seem to remember that Scotty beamed them to the Klingons just before the Enterprise left the area at warp something-or-other. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/38 "2012-06-08T02:03:02Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > There’s actually a reference in the Star Trek Online MMO. Something like “Do they still sing songs of the great Tribble purge?” Along with a couple of (Klingon side) crew assignments involving Tribbles; one involves a meal for the Captain and another a bounty on Tribble carcasses. Which reminds me, it’s been quite a while since I logged into STO… by now I imagine any food in my Orion captain’s bank has been consumed by the Tribbles I left therein, who have in turn been consumed by the cannibal Tribble I was also keeping in there… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/39 "2012-06-08T02:14:22Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Umm, it’s a reference to an old SNL skit with William Shatner. Sorry. It wasn’t me, you can’t prove anything, nobody saw me, I didn’t do it! 😛 I had forgotten that one, mainly because Bill has embraced the fans. Hell, he even is friendly with Wheaton. Quite a change from [William](http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/20562/) [Fucking](http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/03/geek_in_review_.html) [Shatner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7cwz7DJ4N8) I blame the tribbles. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408/40 "2012-06-08T02:18:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Somebody_ didn’t get any last night! > > Lighten up, Francis. You just HAD to screw up my Witty Repartee, didn’t you? Die Young and Poor! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trouble-with-the-trouble-with-tribbles-open-spoilers/624408.md?page=3)