until they were reintroduced by the deep space 9 crew. sparking a second “great tribble hunt”! opera to be announced later.
In the Star Trek MMO: Tribble of Borg.
Unit 1978567402 of 7819234965378929.
Romulan Ale is blue. The green stuff was unidentified in its original appearance, and later (tentatively) identified as Aldebaran Whiskey.
(It’s interesting that the green stuff is so commonly misidentified as Romulan Ale, though, I will certainly say that…)
It depends upon what you’ve been drinking.
That sounds more like a Langolier. 
Even to the point of smooth-headed young TOS Klingons like Kor and Koloth growing new ridges?
It makes more sense to me to just assume that they, and all Klingons, had ridges all along, and that their on-screen appearance–to our eyes, not Kirk’s, et al.–was an effects limitation, as of course it was. TOS on screen had all kinds of visual incongruities with the other series deriving from the terms of its television production; it just seemed weird to canonize this particular detail into the Trekverse instead of leaving it in ours. (What happened to the Romulan foreheads then?)
It was either give the tribbles to the Klingons or beam them out into space. I mean, what else could Scotty do?
(Which brings up an interesting question: In “Day of the Dove,” Chekov says to leave the Klingons in the transporter rather than materialize them on the Enterprise, a state he calls “nonexistence.” How long can something remain in the transporter buffer before its molecular pattern is lost? Indefinitely? In that case, they could have waited until they found a suitable predator-rich planet on which to deposit the tribbles and let nature take its course.)
Toward the end of the animated episode, McCoy actually produces genetically modified tribbles that aren’t breeding machines and can be kept as pets. Between the glommer and the GMing, there was really no need to destroy their homeworld (which was in any case predator-rich), but Klingons gotta have their fun…
Apparently, their homeworld wasn’t in Federation space. Otherwise its destruction might have sparked the Great Tribble War! 
With regard to the Klingons, it was obvious from discrepancies in the original TOS make-up that their homeworld (or Empire) contained different races (or species), some conquered and some not. Until they started thrashing the matter, I always just assumed that some Klingons naturally had brow ridges and some didn’t. There was no need to create retro histories.
I even remember reading back in the '70s (when they were working on the aborted “Star Trek II” TV series) that Roddenberry, with his love for things Japanese, was planning to reveal that Klingons were not a separate race at all but rather a warrior caste within the Empire, similar to the Samurai on Earth. Not only would THAT have been more interesting, it would have made a lot more sense!
ST:TNG episode Relics
Scotty survives 75 years in the transporter buffer. It did require Scotty do a little modification of the transporter.
Wow! That’s pretty close to indefinitely! :eek:
I think I’ve seen all of the first 101 episodes of TNG, but only a handful of the remainder. I keep trying to fill in the gaps, but I never live long enough in one market to manage it. 
I haven’t had the pleasure of trying Romulan ale, what with the embargo, you know, but I’ve heard that once you’ve tried a couple of bottles of it, everything looks green.
In a long-ago retcon thread, I went into my own theory of the differences at some length…okay, probably too much length. It’s based on the existence of distinct subspecies within the Klingon population. In my ever-so-humble opinion, it remains better than any “official” attempts to explain it, as it covers both morphological and sociological elements.
A long time, certainly, but it was a near thing at that point. They had some trouble getting him out of it, as I recall, and the other survivor who had taken refuge in the buffer didn’t make it. His pattern had deteriorated too much to be recovered.
I remember the episode of the animated series in which Robert T. April (the first captain of Enterprise-1701) and his wife used the transporter to restore Kirk and crew, who had been reduced to children somehow, to their proper age. They could have remained young themselves (they had been subjected to the same rejuvenating phenomenon) but decided not to because they had already lived “satisfying, full lives.”
Apparently the transporter has some powerful capabilities (I also remember the geriatric Dr. Pulaski in TNG) that people in the 23rd–24th centuries are just too high-minded to take advantage of.
Well, yes. The augment virus affects a phenotypical change in the infected persons. Why do you think that the countervirus wouldn’t do the same thing?
Those Klingons were not themselves infected; they’re descendants. It was a heritable, genotypic change.
You’re rather severely missing the point.
The Augment virus changed the infected on every level - genetics, psychology, and gross anatomy - bringing the infected closer to humans, then the change stayed.
Some hundred and change years later, they develop a cure that does the exact same thing, but in reverse, resetting all 3 to the pre-viral Klingon baseline.
Once you accept the first, you cannot reject the second.
Yes, the end of “Trouble with Tribbles” bothers me too. I’ve seen it many times, but only lately have I realized that the fate of those poor tribbles is not bright. My family and I figure the next time we see those Klingons, they will be wearing coats made from tribbles. In the DS9 episode about the tribbles, Worf says that the Klingons hunted down every last tribble and eradicated them. Nice.
And as I watch it over and over, I realize that I don’t really like this episode that much. In fact, I’m not impressed with David Gerrold, but I don’t find anyone else of the same opinion. All I find are glowing reports of how wonderful he is. Anyone else not so enamored of him?
IIRC Gerrold himself mentioned parenthetically that he never thought for a moment the Klingons had any trouble doing whatever needed to be done to get rid of the Tribble horde.
Tribbles don’t, it appears — or doesn’t appear — poop. No one is up to their armpits in tribble poop.
Of course no other carbon units do, either. (But spaceships have tailpipes.)