2x15 The Trouble with Tribbles - Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Original Series

- Episode 02x15

Episode: 02x15
Title: The Trouble with Tribbles
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 60342
First Aired: Dec. 29, 1967

Season 2 » Episode #15 - The Trouble with Tribbles

Star Trek: The Original Series - 02x15 The Trouble with Tribbles

Summary: The Enterprise goes to Deep Space Station K7 responding to a distress call. After reaching the station, Kirk finds out the distress call to be unwarranted and the Klingons have come there looking for some shore leave. Kirk must maintain order as the Federation and Klingon tension is high. That and the fact that the station and the Enterprise are being overrun by small furry animals known as tribbles.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Dr. McCoy	played by DeForest Kelley
Nilz Baris	played by William Schallert
Koloth	played by William Campbell
Lurry	played by Whit Bissell
Scott	played by James Doohan
Uhura	played by Nichelle Nichols
Korax	played by Michael Pataki
Admiral Fitzpatrick	played by Edwin Reimers

	Season 2 / Episode 15: - The Trouble with Tribbles Korax: [speaking of the Enterprise] That sagging old rust-bucket is designed like a garbage scow. Half the quadrant knows it - that's why they're learning to speak Klingonee!
	Season 2 / Episode 15: - The Trouble with Tribbles McCoy: What do you get when you feed a tribble too much? Capt. Kirk: A fat tribble.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

SYNC: (DVD release) In the bar scene just before the fight with the Klingons, Chekov responds to Korax's needling by saying "That Cossack!" but the closed captions show him saying "That does it!"
SYNC: When Kirk and Scott discuss the fight aboard the space station, Kirk says, "What caused it, Scotty?" Right at the beginning of the next shot, we can see him clearly repeating the line, but we don't hear his voice saying it a second time.
CONT: Chekov's drink repeatedly changes hands between shots.

TRIVIA

This episode nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation at the 1968 Science Fiction Convention.
Tribbles continue to fall on Kirk after the container should have emptied out onto him. It is later revealed in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) {Trials and Tribble-ations (#5.6)} that the Tribbles are being tossed down the hatch at Kirk as they are being discarded for not being a Tribble-bomb which Sisko and Dax are attempting to find.
Captain Koloth pronounces his race, "Clingans". As in Bob Clingan, Gene Roddenberry's inspiration for the Klingons.
The producers of the Remastered Edition insist all shots of the station and ships are brand-new and not reused from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) {Trials and Tribble-ations (#5.6)} as had been rumored. Comparisons reveal no space shots were reused.
This is the first time in the series the Klingon language is mentioned, and the only time in the entire franchise where it is referred to as "Klingonee" (no 's').