That one Tribbles episode

[SithHappens]

These puns are excruciating

 

[Crewman6]

These puns are excruciating

There are extenuating circumstances.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The only thing that would have made it better would have been Dorn in TOS Klingon make up.

I heard they were actually going to do that - have Worf appear as a QuchHa' the whole time they were in the past, and nobody would notice the difference.

Don't know if that was just a rumor, but it would have been really cool.

That said, given that Worf punched a fair amount of Klingons during the bar fight, I wonder if any of them suspected that he was a Klingon! Because of his fighting style, or the way he smelled, or whatever.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I heard they were actually going to do that - have Worf appear as a QuchHa' the whole time they were in the past, and nobody would notice the difference.

Don't know if that was just a rumor, but it would have been really cool.

That said, given that Worf punched a fair amount of Klingons during the bar fight, I wonder if any of them suspected that he was a Klingon! Because of his fighting style, or the way he smelled, or whatever.

Might be rumor. I never heard of it until I made a joke about it years ago. So the rumor might have started with me.

 

[tomalak301]

I loved watching the special feature on how they did it. It was basically the Forrest Gump method, and without CGI at the time (Or at least it was in it's early stages), it was quite impressive.

 

[at Quark's]

In ENT, we learn that both types of Klingons exist.

I know, but I never needed that 'explanation'. I thought the genius of the DS9 approach was exactly that they refused to come up with one. Essentially telling the viewers (at least, that's my interpretation of it): Really, you get upset about things like these when the real-world explanation is very clear? Why not just sit back and enjoy the show for what it is?

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

These puns are excruciating

If you don't find them funny, does that make you an... exception?

 

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[Phoenix219]

The only thing that would have made it better would have been Dorn in TOS Klingon make up.

yup. switch without saying anything. ignore it. there would be a lot less fighting about visual retcons now.

Although, this episode is probably my ultimate proof in arguments that there can't be visual retcons like that. This episode commented on everything, from the designs, the the way things functioned, to the way one's hair was styled. TOS looked like TOS, and this episode went waaaaaay out of its way to prove it.

 

[Phoenix219]

The technical aspects are quite impressive.

Personally, this is the episode that made me more willing to engage with DS9, as before I found it just not enjoyable, especially with some characters. This one gave them a different environment and they really shown in it.

I just realized that this means I actually made it 5 seasons into DS9 as a child, because I know I saw this originally. I did NOT, however, see any of the serialized stuff. I had no idea I made it that far into the series.

 

[Alexspaceman]

I just realized that this means I actually made it 5 seasons into DS9 as a child, because I know I saw this originally. I did NOT, however, see any of the serialized stuff. I had no idea I made it that far into the series.

I was an on again off again viewer. Much is made of how it was a serialized show, but you could tune in to any of the first five seasons and you'd know they were on the space station, there was a Dominion, O'Brien would suffer, and if they took the Defiant into the Gamma quadrant they would typically come back by the end of an episode.

 

[E-DUB]

I've always thought that there was a story to be told about the two guys that weren't in the post-brawl line-up because Julian and Miles were. They didn't get a reprimand in their file, one of them might have gotten an earlier promotion. And the snowball effect from that could have been............

 

[flandry84]

Maybe they wound up in the Klingon brig.

 

[Lynx]

Very simple thread, but I'd like to take this moment to appreciate the DS9 tribbles episode. Not only is it just a fun episode but I find it so interesting how they just took the original episode from TOS and made an extention in such an interesting way.

Great episode, mostly because the way they used footage from old TOS episodes and manipulated it with the DS9 characters in it. So well done!

As for TOS retro stuff in common, that's the way it should be done.

Much, much better than what we saw in ENT and the NuTrek movies.

 

[kkt]

It's a wonderful episode that works both as an episode and as a technical achievement. But if we're talking about ideas for minor tweaks, I thought they should have remade the end credits in the style of the original series: original series theme music, stills from the show as background. Maybe ending with Quark in place of the puppet of Balok from "The Corbomite Maneuver". Add a frame "Star Trek, 1966-1996".

(Wow it's almost as long from DS9 to the present as it was from TOS to DS9.)

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Maybe ending with Quark in place of the puppet of Balok from "The Corbomite Maneuver".

Better that it would be Morn!

 

[RichMerk]

It cracks me up every time I watch it that the scene where the tribbles are dribbling out of the overhead hatch onto Kirk's head is just Avery Brooks chucking little furballs at Shatner's head from offscreen.