One of them drew on his teenage experiences of raising frogs, mice, rats, and fish. An unknown budding writer in September 1966 when he saw Star Trek’s first episode, he almost immediately began thinking of story premises. “The Trouble with Tribbles” was the first professional sale for David Gerrold, a 23-year-old California college student. Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, once dismissed it as “frivolous.” Surprisingly, it irritated some of those who helped put it on screen-including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. It was an unintentional comedy that has delighted generations of fans. But in the fictional Trek universe, tribbles were cute, purring, alive and-because they bred so rapidly-hilarious.įifty years after its small-screen debut, “The Trouble with Tribbles” may be the most famous episode of any iteration of Star Trek. Enterprise and its brave crew, were merely sewn-up pouches of synthetic fur stuffed with foam rubber. These small, plush alien beings, which swamped the U.S.S. When America tuned in to Star Trek on December 29, 1967, it got its first glimpse of tribbles.
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