Just not after midnight…
On which time cycle/planet/arbitrary bullshit requirement?
Edit: Also, the don’t get it wet part. Does that include moisture in the air? If it’s foggy in the morning, is that enough to cause them to multiply?
Ah, the logic of 1980s movies…
It gets way more interesting if you are in orbit.
The least believable think in Star Trek is that they figured out a universal time to keep track of. That would have been the biggest hurdle to that future from now.
When were tribbles on Enterprise?
s2e21 “The Breach”
That must be why human Klingon relations started off so rough
The tribble “ecological disaster” is technically the fault of humanity as a result of experimentation with an existing species. Watch the Short Trek “The Trouble with Edward” for more insight.
What was the explanation for why Kirk’s Enterprise didn’t know what they were? They just weren’t common knowledge?
I would assume redacted info thanks to Section 31, covering Starfleet’s mistakes regarding Edward’s experiments. Besides, Dr. Phlox only shows Hoshi the tribble, which is promptly fed to one of the doctor’s pets.
Oh, so it was just a quick reference. But wasn’t it Edward that made them breed so prodigiously, which was quite some time after this episode took place?
That’s just a problem with too many prequels trying to retcon too much stuff.
Ah, so Q did it, gotcha.
You just gave me a great idea for some truly epic van art.
Because The Trouble with Tribbles aired back in the seventies.
*sixties
I mean you are correct, but he is also technically not wrong.
If tribbles are born pregnant, do they actually need to be fed?
Only to an extent, I imagine. Expended energy, diminishing returns, yadda yadda. I could see Mirror Phlox being the sort to test out how far a single tribble could stretch itself without food.
Aphids have a crazy reproduction cycle, with subsequent generations alternating between sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction (parthenogenesis). Sometimes, the eggs that are of the asexual generation can be and often are born pregnant. But i’m pretty sure they all eat my tomato plants… So, I’m gonna have to go with “yes”.
If I recall correctly, he feeds it to one of his lizards a few second after this image.
Indeed. Scan through the comments where I posted a gif of it.
