"No Tribble At All"
May. 19th, 2014 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowOver at tor.com, they're doing a retrospective on tribbles in the various Star Trek series.
In "The Trouble With Tribbles", Scotty's last line, after revealing that he's beamed all of the tribbles onto the Klingon ship, is justly remembered: "...where there'll be no tribble at all". But is anyone else bothered by the callousness of this? What did Scotty think the Klingons would do, when they found the tribbles on board?
(It was later revealed, in DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations", that the Klingons went so far as to exterminate the furry little menaces. Again, I see the humor in it, but ye gods, does no one feel pity for the fuzzballs?)
In "The Trouble With Tribbles", Scotty's last line, after revealing that he's beamed all of the tribbles onto the Klingon ship, is justly remembered: "...where there'll be no tribble at all". But is anyone else bothered by the callousness of this? What did Scotty think the Klingons would do, when they found the tribbles on board?
(It was later revealed, in DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations", that the Klingons went so far as to exterminate the furry little menaces. Again, I see the humor in it, but ye gods, does no one feel pity for the fuzzballs?)
