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EPISODE
The Trouble with Tribbles
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Written by:	David Gerrold
Directed by:	Joseph Pevney
Novelization in:	Star Trek 3 by James Blish
Production information
Episode no.:	2x13
Production no.:	6149-42
First aired:	29 December 1967
Chronology
Date:	4523.3 (2267)

Summary

References

Characters

Nilz Baris • Pavel Chekov • Arne Darvin • Fitzpatrick • Jerry Freeman • Dave Galloway • Hadley • Cyrano Jones • James T. Kirk • Koloth • Korax • Roger Lemli • Ed Leslie • Lurry • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Nyota Uhura • Vinci

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • IKS Gr'oth (D7-class)

Locations

Sherman's Planet • Deep Space Station K-7

Referenced only 

Canada • Russia • Earth

Races and cultures

Human • Klingon • tribble • Vulcan

States and organizations

Klingon High Command • Starfleet Command

Other

Argilian flame gem • chicken sandwich • coffee • credit • distress call • Earther • Organian Peace Treaty • quadrotriticale • Sirian glow water • system locator • triticale • Undersecretary • John Burke • Peter the Great • Regulan bloodworm

Appendices

• The novelization in James Blish's Star Trek 2 makes a number of changes:
  • An introduction on tribbles is added
  • The briefing room scene is removed
  • Spican flame gems and Antarean glow water become Argilian flame gems and Sirian glow water
  • The brawl between the Klingons and the Enterprise crewmen is removed along with the lineup
  • Scotty's closing line "they'll be no tribble at all" is replaced with "all their tribbles will be big ones."

Related stories

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: I, Mudd	TOS episode produced	Next episode: Bread and Circuses
Previous episode: Wolf in the Fold	TOS episode aired	Next episode: The Gamesters of Triskelion
Previous story: First story in book	Star Trek 3	Next story: The Last Gunfight
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Beneath the Skin Pages 12-19	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: Trials and Tribble-ations (Time Travel)
Previous Adventure: The Galactic Whirlpool	Pocket	Next Adventure: Trials and Tribble-ations (Time Travel)
Previous Adventure: The Galactic Whirlpool	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next Adventure: Beneath the Skin

Images

A mountain of tribbles

Pavel Chekov arguing about vodka

Arne Darvin

External link

• The Trouble with Tribbles (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.