And by all accounts it was a fight to get them in there.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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It did, but it was never quite as stark as TOS. You didn't see the away team consist of Janeway, the Doc, and Seven every week.
I think TNG varied...
Early on: Picard, Data, Riker, Wes, Worf, everyone else.
Later on: Picard, Data, Worf, everyone else.
Ds9 was just plain ensemble. When Bashir foundered, they introduced S31 and his genetic skills to salvage him.
VOY was badly done ensemble. When a character foundered, he was kicked rudely to the side.
They should have showed "The Great Tribble War", or at least let Worf drop-kick or punt a few in front of the camera. I mean, if Sculler or Mully made a blatant dig at Kirk... Oh wait, it's Dulmer and Lucsly. Or Dullard and Slurpy, it's just silly references aimed at the X-Files leads as that show was popular at the time.
The Great Tribble War clearly wasn't 100% successful since a child aboard the Enterprise-D has a pet tribble when the crew and families are being evacuated in GEN. That's in 2371, nearly two years before the DS9 crew travel back in time and return with tribbles from K-7. 
If you ever see one tribble it's not a real tribble.
Could be post More Tribbles. Or maybe Plum didn't think to share that discovery. There was a lot going on.
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The Temporal Fur War wreaked havoc on whole ecosystems.
The common mythology is that TOS was "all message, all the time". But Tribbles actually HAD an intended message. Tribbles were fine as long as they lived in their native ecosystem. (What the heck LIVED there that was eating Tribbles like M&Ms?) Funny that even Gerrold then had the Klingons engineering a predator. Of course maybe the Tribbles NATURAL predators were more than even the Klingons could handle?
I haven't seen the Tribbles Short Treks, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to want to.
I haven't seen the Tribbles Short Treks, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to want to.
It is... cute. But, I wouldn't take it any more seriously than fan fiction.
Yeah, if the Short Treks fit into two categories, "absolutely stuff that literally happened" (Calypso/Runaway), and "just having fun" (Ephraim and Dot), The Trouble with Edward sits next to Ephraim and Dot. Especially the post-credits scene.
"it's fun" is my default standard to Trek. If it hits that standard it's good.
I think of it as a story related directly by Edward somehow. As in, he’s an unreliable narrator and it’s told from his unhinged perspective.
I can’t remember what happened in Ephraim and Dot.
The fact that he dies in the end of the story makes me love this idea even more.
That's the cartoon with the tardigrade. Lots of Looney Tunes chases.
He was an idiot.
It's worth watching again, then. Because it's SUPER cute!
A tardigrade and a robot have a series of adventures that spans the life of the 1701.
I remember it. Yes. It’s sweet.
I wish they still did them. I loved a lot of them and at least found something to like in the ones I loved less.
I wish they still did them. I loved a lot of them and at least found something to like in the ones I loved less.
Was Gerrold inspired by what happened when they introduced rabbits to Australia?
No. Heinlein.
Probably both?
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