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Friday, 8 September 2023

Star Trek: The Animated Series 1-05: More Tribbles, More Troubles

Episode: 5 | Writer: David Gerrold
| Director: Hal Sutherland | Air Date: 06-Oct-1973

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm finally watching a Star Trek: The Animated Series episode! That's because today is the series' 50th anniversary!

It's also the 50th anniversary of Lassie's Rescue Rangers, Everything's Archie, My Favorite Martians, and Mission: Magic!, the other four cartoon spin-offs started by Filmation in 1973, but Star Trek: The Animated Series has had a more lasting impact. People actually remember it existed. That's partly because they went to the trouble of bringing (most) of the original cast back and got scripts from writers who'd worked on Star Trek before. It's partly because the series goes absolutely crazy half the time. But it's mostly because it's got Star Trek in the title. The series did fall out of favour for a long while, but it's been invited back into the family in recent years. Maybe someday they'll invite Star Trek: Prodigy back as well.

Anyway, the episode I'm watching isn't the pilot. It's More Troubles, More Tribbles, the sequel to The Trouble with Tribbles, written by the same writer! Well, one of the writers, as Gene Coon wasn't around to do an uncredited rewrite this time. It'd been a long time since The Troubles with Tribbles had first aired, five years, but Trek had become a hit in repeats so I'm sure people were eager for more tribbles. I know I am.

There will be SPOILERS below for this episode and maybe some earlier ones as I go through it scene by scene and share my thoughts, but I won't spoil anything about later stories. Except for Harry Mudd showing up again eventually, I totally give that away.