Still consistent - spacing the tribbles would be inhuman. Klingons aren’t human. Therefore… 
Well, I don’t think Spock would have went along with it. He HAD to know what would happen.
Bloodthirsty humans!
What Scotty should have done was transport them into various storage bins, cupboards, cabinets, etc.
Were I the Klingon Kommander, I’d order everyone into space suits and open the doors.
How can you put on space suits when they’re full of tribbles?
I’m going to be the contrarian and say that one has aged well. It makes racism look ridiculous by having the characters be both black and white (but which side matters!) The destructiveness of racism with the entire civilization wiped out. The irrationality of racism with the pursuit continuing even when there is no purpose. And Kirk is perfect as the surrogate for us the viewer explaining how ludicrous their hatred is.
I love the subtlety of the scene when Bele explains the “obvious inferiority”. I remember it being Uhura, Sulu and Spock, at least he was lecturing to. Diversity on Full, captain!
I also liked the way Bele says “humans have descended from aaa-ppp-ssss”. He’s learned a lot about race bating in his long life.
But I have to say, pointing out that Cheron is in the “southern part of the galaxy” was a bit much!
IIRC, Gerrold mentioned that point in his book about the process of writing the episode – quoting that line and attaching a footnote something like “What do you suppose the Klingons did with all those tribbles? I’ll be they didn’t let any concerns about inhumanity bother them…”.
We should also point out that Gerrold stole the Tribbles idea from Robert Heinlein’s ‘flat cats’. Heinlein was a good sport about it, saying he likely lifted the idea from an earlier story himself (“Pigs is Pigs”). Heinlein wrote to Gerrold, “we both owe something to Ellis Parker Butler…and possibly to Noah."
That was the number of tribbles that Cyrano Jones was tasked with picking up on the star base, not the number given for the infestation on the Enterprise, which surely would have been not as many due to the lack of quadrotriticale.
But they got into the food processors via the air vents. Who knows how many managed to breed in the Jeffries tubes!
Has anyone conjectured that the Klingons eat tribbles? Seems like they’d be a great source of protein on long-duration space flights.
They would breed prodigiously, eh? There will be much food, and little to do.
It’s even worse in my view. The way I interpret that “Open your heart to me” scene is that it’s seduction by rape. They obviously weren’t going to show an actual rape on screen, but the way it’s depicted, I see it as Khan forcibly raped McGivers and as a result, she fell in love with him. There’s an idea or fantasy that some men have that they can “convert” a woman through rape.
Ah, but you forget the Jeffries Tube gap!
There’s a whole Dom/sub thing between Khan and Lt. McGivers that you don’t often see outside the holodeck programs we all know take up countless kiloquads of storage space on the Enterprise-D.
Riker: “Uhhh… it’s still* moving.”
Klag: “Tribble is always best when served live.”
Bond movies, too.
I didn’t see any mention of Space Nazis?
I was under the impression that the tribbles, although cute, were actually pretty dangerous as they were reproducing exponentially and consuming all the food?
I don’t think being “inhumane” was really a consideration as they had to get them off the station one way or another and was really just an F-you to the Klingons.
Oh yes. But just to be clear, I don’t mean converting a woman from lesbianism—or at least not only that. It’s the idea that you can subdue and make a woman devoted to you by raping her. That she will realize her true bliss and see you as her sun and moon and stars.
Technically, in the movies she wasn’t lesbian. More or less. But I see your point.
I revise my answer to: Luke and Laura.
More Gor and less Bond.
Tribbles were a menace and had to be Dealt With.