Wednesday, July 13, 2016

More Tribbles, More Troubles

WHY AM I WATCHING MORE TRIBBLES, MORE TROUBLES?

In which Kirk and friends find themselves in a spot of tribble.

Where did my career go wrong?
The Enterprise is escorting a shipment of grain to Sherman's Planet, which is a very important planet, strategically, for the Federation. And it's a good thing too, because wouldn't you know it, Klingons show up! YESSSSSSSSSSS! Klingons on my dumb, yet surprisingly engaging, Saturday morning 70's cartoon. I'ma break my format just so I can show you a sweet Bird of Prey.

Even Filmation's dumb, colorblind animators can't make this ship look bad.

And who is in command of that Bird of Prey? None other than General Koloth, son of K'Vek! Honorable Descendant of the Most Honorable Kahless! Immediate Superior ot Korax the Curly Haired! Dahar Master of the Klingon Empire! He's got a bone to pick with Kirk, since last time they hung out at Sherman's Planet, it did not go well for the Klingons, to say the least. The Klingons are chasing a small scout ship, and the Enterprise swoops in to save the pilot. Why, it's our old friend Cyrano Jones! He just happened to be here at Sherman's Planet last time too! And he's got piles and piles of tribbles. As I'm sure everyone knows, tribbles are little balls of fur that do nothing but eat and breed. But Cyrano says that these tribbles are genetically altered so that they don't reproduce. I'm thinking that, much like seedless watermelon, they must come from somewhere, but I suppose that's some other future person's problem. (SPOILERS: That someone is the Klingons, and the future is 20 minutes from now)

Not only that, but Cyrano has got another way to keep the tribbles in check. It's called a glommer and it's a little dude that looks like a frisbee with legs and spikes. But it eats tribbles, that's the important thing. The important thing is that he stole it from the Klingons, which is why they're chasing him. Koloth wants Cyrano Jones, Kirk says no, and now we are at an impasse.  But Koloth has a trick up his furry sleeve. Some sort of super weapon that disables all the Enterprise's systems. No phasers, no shields, no warp drive. They're sitting ducks out there. Kirk tries some moves with his drone ships full of grain, but it's not very effective. 

Luckily the new Klingon weapon uses too much energy, so Koloth has to retreat. This repeats for a while, but not in a bad Filmation way, but in a good Star Trek space fight way. And throughout this pretty sweet space fight, tribbles are wandering around the ship eating all the grain and getting bigger and bigger. McCoy figures out that the tribbles aren't growing though, they're reproducing, but sticking together, essentially becoming tribble colonies. Gross. Over on the Klingon ship, Koloth is putting together a boarding party to take out the Enterprise for once and for all. But Scotty works up some transporter magic and overruns the Klingon ship with tribbles. The High Command must be wondering if Sherman's Planet is really worth all this tribble. 

You! The one who is moving! Experience bij! 
THE RANDOM THOUGHTS
  • I love Klingons
  • For the last time Scotty punk'd some Klingons with bioterrorisim, see the TOS episode The Trouble with Tribbles and the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations
  • That wasn't a joke, by the way. Filmation actually hired a guy who was color blind to do the colors for their cartoons.
Oh fine. Here's another cool spaceship picture.

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