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144			THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
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WRITER: David Gerrold

GUESTS: William Schallert
	William Campbell (Klingon Commander Koloth)
	Stanley Adams
	Whit Bissell
	Michael Pataki
	Charlie Brill
	Ed Reimers
	Guy Raymond
	Paul Bradley
	David L. Ross

AIRED:  December 29, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .993
Usenet rating:   .818

QUOTES:
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 - "Storage compartments? Storage compartments?" --Kirk
 - "Wheat? So what?" --Kirk
 - "Kirk  may  be  a  swaggering,  overbearing,  tin-plated  dictator  with
   delusions of godhood, but he's not soft." --Klingon first officer
 - "He called you a tin-plated, overbearing dictator with delusions of God-
   hood!" --Scotty  "And *that's* when you  hit him!" --Kirk  "Ah, no, sir.
   We're big enough to take a FEW insults!" --Scotty
 - "Scotty, you're confined to quarters." --Kirk   "Yes, sir.  *Thank you*,
   sir!  That'll  give m e a chance  to catch up on me technical journals!"
   --Scotty
 - "... where [they'll] be no tribble at all." --Scotty
 - "Extremely [little] joke, Ensign." --Spock
 - "On the contrary, sir...it is *you* I take lightly." --Kirk
 - "[Scotch] was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad." --Chekov


			THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES

PLOT:
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Kirk must put up with Federation bureaucrats and hoards of hungry tribbles,
while protecting  a  shipment  of  quadrotriticale  (wheat) against Klingon
sabotage.

The tribbles get in through the air vents  and eat  all the  grain from the
storage compartments.

There was  one Klingon  agent who  was (apparently)  modified to  pass as a
human.

FACTS:
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 - Tribbles multiply quickly.
 - Tribbles have no mouths.
 - Tribbles hate Klingons.
 - It will take 17.9 years to dispose of all the tribbles on the base  (but
   it took practically no time to get all the fuzzballs off the ship).

OPINIONS:
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The best of the "campy" episodes.