In a search of the thread, your post was the only one with the word 'cold' in it.
In a search of the thread, your post was the only one with the word 'cold' in it.
It was a topic in the video in the post I quoted. I referenced the name of the person whose research has been discredited.
Who has time to watch every video folks post here, and not every video is captioned. It's a courtesy to summarize vids, no?
Yes, that's a great point. That's why I don't substitute videos for post content. I never do that.
I also don't propagate links to videos that attempt to advance debunked pseudoscience, so I didn't include a link to the video in my quote. I referenced the post it originated in, and that's as far as I'd intended it go. I made, essentially, a statement that the claims were junk, because of X, Y, and Z.
I hope I've explained myself clearly enough.
You addressed one researcher out of 20 mentioned in the video, and left no reference as to the "debunking." More importantly, you never addressed the possibility of pre-replicator recycling of raw materials in the Trek universe, as opposed to tossing all "trash" off into space.
I get that it’s “only a tv show” and it’s a light hearted episode played for laughs but….
I never actually thought about that before. (And, yes, I’ve seen the TAS sequel).
In reality, the Klingons would have just eradicated them thru any convenient means….
Kid to adult, I've always enjoyed this episode and its sequel (the Barry Waddle one, not the giant pink tribble one), but it's a young writer's indulgence from start to finish and it makes very little sense. The only readily available food to any of the tribbles is the grain, yet they magically appear everywhere. The main characters including Spock behave contrary to their established personalities. Jones is trying to make money off an animal that self-replicates like crazy; how did he not figure out in the first day that this was not a viable business model? Uhura and the barkeep acquire these animals without asking questions about their care and feeding. Koloth is a ridiculously weak pansy of a Klingon who never would have made captain (and even if he somehow did, Korax should have assassinated him less than a week out from the homeworld). Darvin was hired by the Federation without a background check or even a health scan, and he's apparently never been to a doctor since. And of course there's the morally nonsensical ending that's the subject of this thread and that we all saw right through even when we were 8 years old.
Now that I think about it, it's a lot like the Star Trek we've had over the last decade or whatever: written by people who either don't really understand this world and its characters, or just place their own creative freedom above what makes sense in the fictional universe. If TTWT hadn't succeeded in having its own quirky charm, it would probably be a candidate for the worst-episodes lists people are always making.
I still enjoy it, though. Maybe a good therapist could explain that to me.
Now that I think about it, it's a lot like the Star Trek we've had over the last decade or whatever: written by people who either don't really understand this world and its characters, or just place their own creative freedom above what makes sense in the fictional universe. If TTWT hadn't succeeded in having its own quirky charm, it would probably be a candidate for the worst-episodes lists people are always making.
I still enjoy it, though. Maybe a good therapist could explain that to me.
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According to David Gerrold's book, the role of the Klingons was originally a rival corporation feuding with the one purchasing the grain and Darvin was a human saboteur. The Klingons were brought in because the network censors felt that big business should never be the villains.
So you're saying that the giant tribble at the end of animated episode, which completely fills an engine room that would be massive by TOS standards, is actually not really much of an exaggeration as to what a ship full of tribbles beamed to the Klingon engine room would actually look like?
So you're saying that the giant tribble at the end of animated episode, which completely fills an engine room that would be massive by TOS standards, is actually not really much of an exaggeration as to what a ship full of tribbles beamed to the Klingon engine room would actually look like?
Just to be clear, the tribble colonies formed in the TAS episode because the metabolism of the tribbles had been altered by genetic engineering.
Don't even think about it. That idea doesn't hold up even in-episode.
Even granting that the fur of these tribbles was all the same color, instead of having a variety of hues as it did in the original episode, it never made any sense that they couldn't tell right away that what appeared to be giant tribbles were actually colonies composed of multiple tribbles.
(By the way, not that it's a big deal, technically, I may have misspoken in my previous post regarding what the dialog says about tribble metabolism. I was going from memory, and it's been a while since I've seen the TAS episode. What it says is that tribble metabolism was not properly adjusted.)
To quote Robin Williams in Patch Adams, "Donner, party of fifty."
Seriously though, I agree with you on this episode. The premise is ludicrous, as is the idea that a single glommer (or even a reasonable army* of them) could somehow keep up with the insane exponential propagation of tribbles.
I'm glad TAS exists, but even as a kid it was a challenge for me to focus on the nuggets of good and ignore all the self-indulgent nonsense. Yesteryear is a gem; it earns the S tier all by itself. That's my lifeline back to the shores of sanity.
* I asked Copilot
what you call a group of frogs, and got army, cluster, and knot.
I didn't really care, I was 6 or 7 when it came out. The music hooked me more than anything. I loved the background scores, and they became part of my soundtrack that I hummed when I played with my Megos.
You should buy a phone that's a Star Trek fan.
Glom little glommer, dinner, dinner... 
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