Do Tribbles have eyes?

[El Amigo Carlos]

Not much to say here...
Do they have eyes?
And did tbe Klingons really destroy their homeworld and genocide the name of honor?
If so, are any left?

 

[Sgt_G]

Eyes? No, they have sound-radar. Why do you think they "coo" all the time?

 

[Tosk]

If so, are any left?

Yes. Not only is there one seen in Generations, there's a big bunch of them brought forward in time to DS9.

Edit: We see some in Star Trek III too.

 

[The Wormhole]

Not only is there one seen in Generations

Not exactly. We just see one on a computer display.

 

[Tosk]

Not exactly. We just see one on a computer display.

A child is carrying one during the evacuation of the Enterprise D.

 

[The Wormhole]

A child is carrying one during the evacuation of the Enterprise D.

Well shut my mouth and fuck me up the goat ass. I've somehow missed that for the past twenty-three years.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

A child is carrying one during the evacuation of the Enterprise D.

I didn't notice that, either. It's the kid on the right?

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/generationshd/normal_generationshd1382.jpg

 

[Tosk]

Yep, that's him.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Wasn't there also a Tribble in "When the Bough Breaks"? The little girl sticks it on Picard's back at the end.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Wasn't there also a Tribble in "When the Bough Breaks"? The little girl sticks it on Picard's back at the end.

No mention that I can see on Memory Alpha, but:

http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x17/whentheboughbreaks_hd_497.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x17/whentheboughbreaks_hd_506.jpg

 

[SPCTRE]

holy shit!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ultra relevant to this thread, Ex Astris isn't 100% sure it's a Tribble because it
has something which might be an eye!

 

[at Quark's]

Hmm, I always assumed that Worf's line in Trials and Tribble-ations

Hundreds of warriors were sent to track them down throughout the galaxy. An armada obliterated the Tribbles' homeworld. By the end of the twenty third century they had been eradicated.

meant that they hunted them to extinction. But he could have just meant the homeworld, of course. Or even if Worf did mean extinction of the entire species, he could simply have been wrong.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Hmm, I always assumed that Worf's line in Trials and Tribble-ations



meant that they hunted them to extinction. But he could have just meant the homeworld, of course. Or even if Worf did mean extinction of the entire species, he could simply have been wrong.

Klingons like to talk big.

 

[at Quark's]

^so what really happened is probably that some pissed off, half drunk small Klingon crew complement just happened to pass close to the Tribble homeworld, decided to take a hike there and kill some tribbles there until they sobered up and tired of it ?

 

[SPCTRE]

can't wait to see the Dark Tribbles reimagined for STD

 

[at Quark's]

Probably they'll have some 'insidious mind control power'.

Hell, even the tribbles from the prime universe seem to have them, driving humanoids to cuddle them.

 

[Timo]

Worf obviously meant that after a while, the Klingon hunting party itself was eradicated by irate furverts.

Do tribbles have eyes? Hard to tell, but variants of this schematic are diamond-hard canon, from scenes in Keiko's schoolroom:

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070130043833/startrek/images/1/12/Tribble_crossection.jpg

So there. But are those stalks protruding from the bit marked "brain" sensory organs, and if so, what sort? Or is this just another example of the level of accuracy of Keiko's teaching material, like the book Jake stole to teach Nog how "Ba-jor has th-three moonnn-s", three episodes before the one that took place on the fifth moon of Bajor?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[at Quark's]

Worf obviously meant that after a while, the Klingon hunting party itself was eradicated by irate furverts.

Or those Tribbles have more defenses than we give them credit for

 

[The Wormhole]

Wasn't there also a Tribble in "When the Bough Breaks"? The little girl sticks it on Picard's back at the end.

No mention that I can see on Memory Alpha, but:

Memory Beta mentions it, though they posit that it's actually a toy based on it being "very quiet and still."