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Tribbles are one of the most recognizable varieties of alien in the Star Trek universe. Born pregnant, these hermaphroditic creatures reproduce at a rapid rate. But just how plausible are various aspects of their biology?
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00:00 Intro
02:23 Biology
05:21 Homeworld
07:05 Scourge of the Klingon Empire
10:08 I Bless the Rabbits Down Under
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@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

@Doctoranthetardis 8 ай бұрын

Yes Captian!

@Watcher1134 8 ай бұрын

@@Doctoranthetardis There are Rainbow Tribbles but they are extramly rare, Starfleet officers can have tribbles as pets onbord starships if they nave been neutered.

@Watcher1134 8 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention the "Attack Tribble" from Star Trek Picard Season 3

@Watcher1134 8 ай бұрын

@@subraxas"A Mighty Klingon taken aback by the even Mightier Attack Tribble" 🤣

@joe9739 8 ай бұрын

He was about to have to rely on some good old-fashion 'Klingon Offense '

@michaelmutranowski123 8 ай бұрын

the way Odo scoffs at Worf when he says "This? Mortal enemies of the Klingon Empire?" is great and it shows Rene's incredible acting range.

@laurachapple6795 8 ай бұрын

My theory is that the ones on the walls didn't get there by themselves, people just discovered you can make 'em stick with static electricity.

@edmer68 8 ай бұрын

😂

@Ivan_Ooze 8 ай бұрын

This is cannon now, ty.

@andrewkappler5503 8 ай бұрын

The fact that the klingons take them seriously shows how potent they are.

@vicfontaine5130 8 ай бұрын

I had a guinea pig that had kids with his kids, it ended up into a Trouble with Tribbles situation

@codyofathens3397 8 ай бұрын

Imagine breeding tribbles with moopsys. Utterly terrifying, adorable bone drinkers that double their numbers every hour.

@Eric-md3mp 8 ай бұрын

I like the idea that Tribbles were a harmless species on some planet and somebody decided to engineer them into an ecology destroying bioweapon

@Clay3613 8 ай бұрын

I prefer they accidentally became a menace unintentionally.

@ericstaples7220 8 ай бұрын

That was the plot of one of the Short Treks, but it doesn't really make sense, as they were engineered after they would have devastated the Klingon world.

@Tyrone-Ward 3 ай бұрын

@@ericstaples7220short treks aren't canon

@tomkerruish2982 8 ай бұрын

Gerrold mentions in the TAS DVD set that the tribbles were made pink because some guy at the animation company was color blind. This is why other TAS episodes had a white Andorian and an orange Orion.

@mistermaumau 8 ай бұрын

Did that Andorian error lead to the Aenar?

@rych2474 8 ай бұрын

Yes

@RandomYT05_01 8 ай бұрын

@@mistermaumauyes actually.

@sjTHEfirst 8 ай бұрын

Really, and here I always thought they were Pride Month Tribbles.

@kurtmager1626 8 ай бұрын

I think you're a bit off on that. Hal Sutherland was colorblind, so that's true. Incidentally, Hal Sutherland was to Filmation in the same way as Walt Disney was to Walt Disney studios. In other words, he was an animator, and the top guy as well. Yes, the tribbles were pink because of his colorblindness, but the other two were never the colors you gave them as. Andorians appeared in just two episodes. In "Yesteryear" there was an alternate time Andorian first officer who had medium gray skin. Not even light gray. Yet in "The Time Trap", there was an Andorian who had pale blue skin. The Orions appeared twice in the series (maybe), though they were presented as being two different races. In "The Pirates of Orion" they had blue skin, but their name was pronounced "Or-REE-ahn. In " Time Trap" again, there was a pretty standard green-skinned Orion woman, and her species name was pronounced the usual way.

@kaitlyn__L 8 ай бұрын

I think the stomach-to-womb ratio, in that internal diagram of a tribble, is going to haunt me... 😨

@samkuzel 8 ай бұрын

There is so much more to Tribbles than I thought 🤣 You can tell each successive generation of Trek writers just loooved “The Trouble With Tribbles”

@samkuzel 8 ай бұрын

@@subraxas Haha thank you so much!!

@Numba003 8 ай бұрын

I completely forgot about Odo's crack about the "Great Tribble Hunt" 😂! That was hilarious. I also never knew about the planned tribble eating in The Undiscovered Country. This was an excellent video. Thank you for this. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@HellOnWheel 8 ай бұрын

Malaria is not the leading cause of death in humans. That would be heart disease followed by cancer. The statistic you may be thinking of is that mosquitoes are considered the deadliest animal for humans, due to them being a vector for the spread of malaria.

@RickReasonnz 8 ай бұрын

Yeah... In fact, I went to ourworldindata which suggests that Malaria accounts for just 1.1% of all human deaths per year, compared to 33% for heart disease.

@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

Fair distinction!

@Dreamphile 8 ай бұрын

I fucking lost my tea all over my screen when you said "Am i going to be able to monetize this video?" Thanks man i needed that today.

@miguelvelez7221 8 ай бұрын

If you crossed an Ewok with a Tribble...? (Shudders in fear)

@GeekFilter 8 ай бұрын

Given how fast Tribbles replicate I’m surprised they have not rapidly evolved. In our Star Trek Adventures Animated Series Supplement we explain why the TAS Tribbles are pink 😁

@lunakingsley.7247 8 ай бұрын

I hope we get more original series videos and species. Oh and a video on the moopsy would be neat and v'ger would be neat too.

@captainyossarian388 8 ай бұрын

5:03 "Am I going to be able to monetize this video?" HA! Knowing the supercensorship route that YT is headed in, likely not, but we appreciate all your hard work, Tyler. 👍

@SnarkNSass 8 ай бұрын

Tyler Taking On The TRIBBLEZ❤

@RetroGameStream 8 ай бұрын

Tribbles are like future Tumbleweeds.

@RokkitGrrl 8 ай бұрын

I think that the most horrifying thing to behold would be a facehugger attached to a tribble.

@SidlyBoDidly222 8 ай бұрын

Cyrano Jones enjoyed his beverages. Great channel.

@JanetStarChild 8 ай бұрын

The wonderful thing about tribbles is that tribbles are wonderful things.

@ahar1401 8 ай бұрын

tribbles are interesting, i think their ability to reproduce so fast and overpopulate is probably their only real threat (some species are dangerous iirc, but that's according to STO and not canon). if we are talking about Fearsome and possibly dangerous creatures in canon, look at Hortas. (star trek probably has a lot more, but I always used to confuse hortas and tribbles outside of their obvious size difference. and hortas aren't fuzzy hehe)

@quantafreeze 8 ай бұрын

I love The Trouble With Tribbles. It's my favorite episode from OG Star Trek.

@Nick_Lavigne 8 ай бұрын

I think this is the first time I saw a video with an in video ad related to the subject.

@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@augusth3532 8 ай бұрын

Currently watching this vid after watching DS9's "Trials And Tibble-Ations" for the first time!

@Reddotzebra 8 ай бұрын

Odo: "Soothing isn't it? The bartender called it..." **Tribble rears up** Worf: "...A Tribble." The best part is he looks like he really, really wants to facepalm as he says it.

@jacara1981 8 ай бұрын

Are you going to do one on the Klingon Targ?

@jfrankcarr 8 ай бұрын

Good job mentioning the Animated Series episode.

@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

Haha, I had to

@starclone4 8 ай бұрын

I always thought there was more to those little critters, than what meets the eye !!!!

@miguelvelez7221 8 ай бұрын

Tribbformers?

@circamagoo 8 ай бұрын

that list of steps to unlock rewards points in Star Trek fleet command was hilariously long

@hoey2323 8 ай бұрын

I dunno man, I think maybe the Moopsy could be worse.

@knitcrochettiger361 8 ай бұрын

you didn't mention the genetically altered attack tribble seen on season 3 of Picard

@sjTHEfirst 8 ай бұрын

I wish you would have touched on the Short Trek episode

@nealjroberts4050 8 ай бұрын

Cohen and Stewart did a good possible evolution of the basic tribble to explain it's extreme behaviours and reduced defence.

@MKDumas1981 8 ай бұрын

You forgot about the one at Daystrom Station.... 😂😂😂😂😂

@ericpohlman5131 8 ай бұрын

You know, Tyler, i download the game. It sucks. How you play the game: Well, the main task it asks you is to press, basically, OK. And, the game plays itself. It's not even worth being free. Love your show. You make me happy inside. Keep it up.

@yesspazsmith9895 8 ай бұрын

You left out the Picard S3 genetically engineered attack tribble! :D

@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

@subraxas Lol I knew people would say something about it

@dannation8836 8 ай бұрын

U got a Lions Mane mushroom and tried to pass it off as a Tribble... MYCELIAL NETWORK!

@jeremybrazier786 8 ай бұрын

I play star trek fleet command and in game the Borg have assimilated some Tribble. What would the Tribble have to offer the Borg?

@wendyheatherwood 8 ай бұрын

Instant surrender from any Klingons they come across. A tribble with Borg implants? Most terrifying thing in the galaxy to them.

@nickdirienzo2849 8 ай бұрын

Great video, more like these please!

@TheIronWaffle 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info about Grindstaff and the sound effects. That topic gets too little attention. Would love a deep dive! Oh, and pro tip: if you need an alarm you can’t possibly sleep through, the “violent tribble reaction” from the original CD release of Grindstaff et al as worked wonders for me for a decade.

@poil8351 8 ай бұрын

well they were so terrifying that the klingons went to war against them.

@Jon6429 8 ай бұрын

2:44 what species is the skull on the wall?

@MatthewCaunsfield 8 ай бұрын

Didnt Gerrold also get inspiration from a story about guinea pigs? I could be misremembering

@jasonbourneistreadstone 8 ай бұрын

(sarcastically) Tell me, do they still sing songs of the Great Tribble Hunt?

@palmercolson7037 8 ай бұрын

Cuteness could be a evolutionary adaption. A hominid from Sherman's Planet takes a kind-of cute one and makes it pet. They species adapts by becoming more cute and quicker to reproduce. Later, some alien (like Cyrano Jones) sees their cuteness as something to sell and they get off their homeworld to spread through the galaxy.

@RickReasonnz 8 ай бұрын

Cute ones tend to survive more often, thus making cuteness an evolutionary successful trait. That tracks!

@MCHeisenberg 8 ай бұрын

Love your videos man. Keep up the good work

@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@doctorclu 8 ай бұрын

"Good hunting". LOL!!

@colinleat8309 8 ай бұрын

Too bad their possiblity toxic...I bet they taste like chicken 🍗🤣🤣. I wasn't too keen on what they did with them in Picard season 3. Making them Carnivorous Predators... Fun episode, thanks Tyler! 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦

@NutronicAtomic 8 ай бұрын

This was a great episode, Jokes were on fire!

@OrangeRiver 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@aquariandawn4750 8 ай бұрын

Seems like a good source of meat, leather, and fur

@zerrodefex Ай бұрын

Another thing about that DS9 episode was that it raised the question of the forehead ridges which led to the stupid Enterprise plotline about a virus to explain it. It would have been funnier if instead after they ended up in the 23rd century Michael Dorn suddenly walks in wearing the TOS Klingon makeup and nobody notices anything different about him.

@joshfarrow9707 8 ай бұрын

Great video

@vinnieharper 8 ай бұрын

Tribbles... Amazing creatures in the verse... The huggable destroyer of worlds.

@susansokoloski2233 8 ай бұрын

No info about tge genetically modified Attack Tribble at Daystrom Station?

@SMunro 8 ай бұрын

Species: Tribble Category: Asymmetricly Agressive Predatory Omnivore Its hairs are like the portugese manowar, fragmentic ballistic fibers which affect the humanoid (particularly klingons) by their olfactory nerves causing passive, peaceful behavioye..

@jpotter2086 8 ай бұрын

the tumbleweeds of outer space!

@Marcus51090 8 ай бұрын

How do they move? Like a slug or like roll around?

@PauperJ 8 ай бұрын

Yes they are!

@PwncakeOW 8 ай бұрын

Man I love ur content

@DeconvertedMan 8 ай бұрын

What side of the Tribble has the most fur? ... *THE OUTSIDE*

@adeimousragnarok8150 8 ай бұрын

Tribbles left to do what they do would leave you (On a Space Ship Mind You) a not so round organic crushed or suffocated by little Hairy Round Tribble...I imagine then your body cavity would then be smooshed against anything else in the ship wich is harder than your body, to make more room...after that the Tribble would continue to breed and die en mass as the ship floated aimlessly systems shutting down one by one until the Oxygen scrubbers were overwhelmed with decayed Tribble smell... All in all Id say a fate near worthy of an SCP File

@captwrecked 8 ай бұрын

Now imagine if they genetically combined a Moopsy with the reproductive rate of Tribbles.... Galaxy ending crisis. lol

@captwrecked 8 ай бұрын

@@subraxas Would love to see some reference to Sector 31 stopping a potential future where someone did it. HAHAHA.

@ralfsstuff 8 ай бұрын

So that's why these things spam my inventory in STO...

@JillShaw 8 ай бұрын

I'm feeling like the glommer has something to do with moopsie..🤔😉

@Geoffrey___ 8 ай бұрын

yes, but do tribbles taste good?

@kloassie 8 ай бұрын

tribbles are space mogwai glommers are space gremlins

@Bastet674 7 ай бұрын

I all ready play fleet command

@AcornElectron 8 ай бұрын

Yes.

@Wimmle 8 ай бұрын

Anything that scares a Klingon should be respected and watched with a wary eye

@canis2020 8 ай бұрын

Ive always thought of tribbles as a biological nanite analog in storytelling. Something innocuous that becomes overwheling very quickly.

@StevenHouse1980 8 ай бұрын

Thay just eat a small amount and multiply a lot. That is a plague spices for you.

@aquariandawn4750 8 ай бұрын

Strikes me as a good source of meat ,leather and fur

@M-V-C 8 ай бұрын

Live long, and... good hunting

@Valcien 8 ай бұрын

One time the local newspaper asked me if a lunar eclipse was better than Star Wars. I said "No." The newspaper article rewrite that to me saying "Yeah it's way better!".

@OdariArt 6 ай бұрын

How the hell did I miss this video? Thanks for another great one, Tyler! Tribbles are the loveable cockroaches of the Star Trek Universe. Lol!

@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Odari!

@kfcroc18 8 ай бұрын

They would be the prefect food source for starships.

@ThommyofThenn 8 ай бұрын

The Kligons wouldn't have genocided them if they werent an exisntial threat to all that lives

@FrancisR420 8 ай бұрын

I feel like the Klingons would be more than happy genocide something that Just smells bad to them.

@ThommyofThenn 8 ай бұрын

@@FrancisR420 that's true most klingons love to kill. They often pretend to be offended just to kick ass haha. Its my new head canon that a tribble purred at a Klingon which caused it to roar and chop it in half with a bat'leth lmao

@Azrael__ 8 ай бұрын

Just sounds like the snails in my yard.

@JeffDrennen 8 ай бұрын

Tyler I would be careful wearing that red shirt if I were you.

@misterlau5246 8 ай бұрын

😳🤯 It's too fast for entities that size, they need to devour like hekkk and metabolize so quickly, they would BURN 🤯 Imposible with photosynthesis also 🤔 As a logical solution, those Tribbles are very interesting to be used as matter for the replicators🤔 there's also the fact that they can be in a controlled way, a renewable energy source. Except in reality this can't be. Too much energy 👿🤓 It's weird how these Tribbles are so famous and frequently referenced 🖖

@Missionsandmadness 8 ай бұрын

Good Hunting! 😆😆😆

@eacalvert 8 ай бұрын

Leaving a comment for algorithm

@jasonmarkus3834 8 ай бұрын

I would use them against the borg. just beam tribbles onto their ships and let nature take its course. Or against the Hurk.

@miguelvelez7221 8 ай бұрын

Imagine a Starfleet vessel coming up on a Borg Cube dead in space. Scared but needing answers they beam aboard only to find it filled with Troubles who went undetected on the Cube, just ignored by the Hive, as we have seen them do often if they do not consider an incursion into the Cube to be a legitimate immediate threat. The Tribbles get into the nourishment system for the drones and by the time our crew gets inside it's a nightmare. Drones covered in Tribbles who once the nutrient supply ran out began digesting the organic parts of the Borg drones. For our crew it's like finding out smallpox had a beef with the Plague and kicked it's ass.

@FrancisR420 8 ай бұрын

There's no food on Borg ships right? They just charge with electricity I would say never let the borg come in contact with a tribble cuz they might assimilate their breeding

@miguelvelez7221 8 ай бұрын

@@FrancisR420 The biological parts of Both drones are still, just that, biological. And... You can't feed cells on electricity or build tissue with it either .

@ericstaples7220 8 ай бұрын

@@miguelvelez7221You could build tissue with electricity if Borg are utilizing replicator technology.

@brandonlordbaltimore5182 8 ай бұрын

Klingons would tell you irrefutable, YES!

@jeffreyrobinson3555 8 ай бұрын

If there is life in the universe it’s still going to have to follow laws of motion and chemistry Over the last four billion years our world has been alien, in all but our DNA, types of life.

@oklahomaaudiophiles1133 8 ай бұрын

Yep this officially makes this video your funniest one so far.

@citizenVader 8 ай бұрын

Has anyone thought of the tribbles in terms of being matter for the replicators? It could perhaps close some long scrutiny

@FrancisR420 8 ай бұрын

How? They can't create matter, Just put grain in the replicator And there will be no energy loss from their body heat and movement

@glennlaroche1524 8 ай бұрын

K fr tho "Good hunting!" cracked me up too......dirty lil space rats. Hmmmm... KzintiChow, anyone?

@mind-numbingtasks1575 2 ай бұрын

Tribbles are a metaphor for "human beings", except they are not cute , cuddly or harmless.

@sjprdude 8 ай бұрын

Moopsy!!

@beepboop204 8 ай бұрын

they are just mini Wookies

@miguelvelez7221 8 ай бұрын

Yub-Nubb?

@haydennoble9253 13 күн бұрын

Is a group of Tribbles called a trouble?

@thecondescendinggoomba5552 8 ай бұрын

They so cute

@xdproductions3087 29 күн бұрын

Are you going to do an episode on Janeway’s route?

@OrangeRiver 29 күн бұрын

Probably so!

@xdproductions3087 27 күн бұрын

@@OrangeRiver cool. What’s interesting is that the ship probably should have been in the beta quadrant by season 7, based on the distance travelled and multiple shortcut leaps taken. The writers and producers never said this because they didn’t want to confuse audiences. So I’m curious what your own findings will show.