Most Gratuitous Trek MacGuffin!
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Exaclty. You can replace the quadrotriticale's with, I don't know, a vaccine or some rare element that they need for their weather stabilizer and the overall plot remains the same.
Because tribbles are likely to interact with a weather stabilizer or vaccine.
This is so not a MacGuffin.
The way the story is structured, we have the Klingons there, and the tribbles are in your face constantly through the show. Quadrotriticale is given some importance in early scenes, and we almost completely forget about it except for Baris' always bringing it up and being portrayed as an idiot.
Wank:
Smaller quantities are less stable. They need a large quantity to maximize the probability of making it to the destination without detonating.
Expanding on the wank:
It takes time to prepare that much red matter. The Vulcans have a choice: wait to prepare more red matter and risk the possibility of arriving at Hobus too late to save Romulus, or leave with a smaller quantity and risk it detonating en route and losing the whole galaxy. Figuring the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the (relatively) few, they opt to wait. Nero, understandably, disagrees with the decision.
Nero didn't believe in banks.
Yep, and the fact people could have died because the poisoning was barely mentioned...Cyrano Jones pointed that out to defend himself. Sherman's Planet is only there to set the context.
IInstead of eating the ressource, Tribbles could have broke it. "Captain, these panels could have support hundred of Tribbles. They must have been sabotaged.
Right. Classic MacGuffin.
Did MacGyver ever do MacGuffins?
I guess this one would fall under "Near Nudity and Sex," but that episode where Kirk and "Flint" are all about the android, "Reena." Flint, it turns out, was the real, living/breathing Leonardo da Vinci! And not a courtesy question did Kirk give him about The Renaissance Period, or anything of the sort. No. Because, despite the ENTERPRISE crew - all of them - being quite ill and in desperate need of medicine from the planet, Kirk is busily chatting up, dancing with and falling hard for Flint's robot - with Mona Lisa's smile upon her face. All whilst time is of the essence - even playing billiards to while away precious hours.
Finally, Leonardo - I mean "Flint" - puts his foot down and says, basically, "I'm not having this. Get your hands off my property." And Kirk proceeds to beat the living shit out of Old Man Flint for the love of an android. Mind you, this was not anywhere near the last assignment for Kirk. Next planet on his itinerary likely had all the smokin' hotties he could handle ... but he's in mad love with a "McGuffin" mechanism. And if she didn't decide to just up and die on her own accord, right then, Kirk probably would've taken her with him.
Finally, Leonardo - I mean "Flint" - puts his foot down and says, basically, "I'm not having this. Get your hands off my property." And Kirk proceeds to beat the living shit out of Old Man Flint for the love of an android. Mind you, this was not anywhere near the last assignment for Kirk. Next planet on his itinerary likely had all the smokin' hotties he could handle ... but he's in mad love with a "McGuffin" mechanism. And if she didn't decide to just up and die on her own accord, right then, Kirk probably would've taken her with him.
Quadrotriticale gets a bit of an explanation. Red matter gets none whatsoever.
and your point is..?
Three words:
Starboard. Power. Coupling.
Starboard. Power. Coupling.
No one wants it. No one cares. It's technobabble, not a MacGuffin.
And really, red matter is just technobabble too, in weapon form.
Yep. That's all it is. It's not something that Kirk even finds out about until he mind-melds with Spock Prime. Kirk's goal as the protagonist has already been established by then: defeat Nero.
^^Classic presentation sir!!!^^
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