There's an interview on You Tube with David Gerrold where he says that when he wrote this episode he deliberately downplayed Spock (who'd gotten lots of screentime in other episodes) in favor of Scotty, Chekov and Uhura. But Spock's line about the "ermine violin" is one of the funniest in the series.
Yesss i knew abot star trek thanks to the reboot movies but now i adore all of them. Still i tend to appreciate this original more than the others, there's something heartwarming i cannot explain. I adore the characters ❤ long live Star Trek for ever!!!
MCCOY: What's the matter, Spock? SPOCK: There's something disquieting about these creatures. MCCOY: Oh...don't tell me you've got a feeling. SPOCK: Don't be insulting, Doctor.
Spock-Always with the last word! Then, he leaves. He and Dr. McCoy had many interesting little confrontations like this... which made their relationship unique.
I'm betting Tribbles were the outcome of a gentic experiment to make a cheap pet or FOOD, but it backfired. I love Worf's story about the Great Tribble Hunt! 😆
In the United States Marine Corps chow halls (cafeterias), 5 inch individual "Meat Loaves" are often served for dinner. They are quite meaty and delicious. Does anyone want to guess what they're called?
The tribbles we're always kind of weird looking to me. Like they look like a newborn baby's head but with no facial features and just a ball. Like no eyes nose mouth body anything. It just looks like a pulsating head with no body or eyes or anything
Now that would be something Leonard Nimoy as Snape. Even in an audio book that could work. He can use his emotionless demeanour around Harry, but when thinking of Lily, the emotion cracks.
Tribbles make great pets. Just remember to spay and neuter them-their bi-sexual! And remember: Never feed a tribble. Never feed a tribble. Never feed a tribble. Never feed a tribble...
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039Sure, but then you beam them into a Klingon ship? That’s just doing the same thing one step removed, because you know the Klingons will have no problem shoving them all out an airlock.
That was one thing I always wondered about growing up watching this show and the movies how is it those 2 can stand being in the same room without getting into a debate about something and McCoy always explaining how much he hates Vulcans Spock in particular without throwing insults like he always does and continues that banter in the movies like 'That Green Blooded Son of a Bitch' or 'It's a Song You green blooded Vulcan' or 'You Green Blooded Inhuman' I mean seriously McCoy should take anger management classes with the attitude he always portrays towards his shipmates Spock in particular.
It's called banter. Among men insulting each other constantly is reserved only for the people they respect the most. I've seen fathers and sons greet each other with put downs but it's actually how they say they love each other in code. The thing is though you have to know that person before you can get away with it, and it can't be one sided, or else it is just abuse. Men do it in all sorts of situations and it builds trust and builds self esteem when you can shake it off because you know it's banter. McCoy knows Spock will never actually be hurt by his insults, and Spock is perfectly willing to serve the insults back, so he is the ultimate banter partner. It's kind of like how sometimes two young guys will get in a fist fight and mid way through they realize how stupid they were and become friends. Spock trusted McCoy so much that he was willing to implant his soul for safe keeping inside McCoy's body. You don't do that to just anybody.
To everyone thinking that nobody in their right mind would own a tribble, please remember the Furby craze that many girls and even women had in the late 90s to early 2000s.
0:53 Emotion Fallacy Just because someone likes/dislikes something does not mean That thing is good/ bad. Example There are some terrorist's who think terrorism is good Because they emotionally like it. We know that terrorism is a bad thing.
For being the one man on the ship without emotion, Spock sure is an expert on sass
@UncleMikeNJ I could watch this exchange repeatedly. Lol!
He has emotions. He just keeps them under more control than the rest of us most of the time.
Spock is a sassy lil bitch and it's something the movies never really did well
Spock's right. You can play with a cat and a dog, but not a tribble. All they do is eat, multiply and coo, literally.
cats hunt vermin, dogs keep watch. Tribbles gorge on grain and do nothing.
I wonder how they would taste
@@PeoplecallmeLucifer according to a couple an Andorians, they taste nice. but you always keep finding fur.
@@ZackExplorer28 huh .... Note to self, try Andorian cuisine
@@ZackExplorer28 Just shave them
Tribbles are useful. They are great klingon detector.
Star trek 6 will end it around an hour if some ofiicer happen to have the tribble around.
Tell me, do they still sing songs about the great Tribble wars?
Watching season 1 of Discovery. Clearly the Tribble in Lorca's office wasn't going by union rules!
To be fair, he didn't know that at that point.
I love how Spock only admits to liking them when they give him the opportunity for the last word.
watching those 2 bicker and mock each other over everything was one of my favorite things about TOS
It was like watching two of your favorite people have a cut-down contest.
Spock won more of those, than Dr. McCoy ever did!😁😁😁
"So would an ermine violin, Doctor, but I don't see the advantage in having one." One of the best lines from TOS😂
"I like em better than you" XD
"They do have one redeeming characteristic, thry dont talk much." XDDDDDD
exchanging burns. lol
@Loki1701e
spock is a genius
Actually think McCoy won that one.
@@ronaldfrechette2045 I can't tell if Spock's pissed at the end or not
Rebound 100
...did Mccoy just stuff tribbles in a container?!
I'm pretty sure they multiplied in there.
Animal cruelty!! Call space PETA!!
Nih, better idea
Must be where the food is.
@@kampfmeersau PETA would kill them.
There's an interview on You Tube with David Gerrold where he says that when he wrote this episode he deliberately downplayed Spock (who'd gotten lots of screentime in other episodes) in favor of Scotty, Chekov and Uhura. But Spock's line about the "ermine violin" is one of the funniest in the series.
I always liked the exchanges between McCoy and Spock the best. They cracked me up, kind of like R2D2 and C3P0 bickering.
Spock disses the dribbles but they still like him.
50+ years later and TOS is still the best.
Yesss i knew abot star trek thanks to the reboot movies but now i adore all of them. Still i tend to appreciate this original more than the others, there's something heartwarming i cannot explain. I adore the characters ❤ long live Star Trek for ever!!!
It's the ONLY.
i always wanted a pet tribble even though my house will be infested in hours
No. Just be a bent, uneven trapezoid
@planetchinchilla Just buy Fed's genetic-altered ones.These versions breed less often.
Will make sure to get only a couple then breed and sell them for food or pets. Hey the Inca’s ate Guinea pigs.
I would mail one to Putin's office.
MCCOY: What's the matter, Spock?
SPOCK: There's something disquieting about these creatures.
MCCOY: Oh...don't tell me you've got a feeling.
SPOCK: Don't be insulting, Doctor.
The banter between Spock and the doctor is hilarious 😂😂😂
Yeah, I wish SNW had some of it.
This was one of the most hilarious episodes. XD
Oh damn...GOT HIM!
McCoy 'thoughts': I feel like I was just insulted.
Actually Kirk said something like that at the end of a episode:th-cam.com/video/MbOxIyPWAOM/w-d-xo.html
To Dr. McCoy:"You were"!!!
Spock-Always with the last word! Then, he leaves.
He and Dr. McCoy had many interesting little confrontations like this... which made their relationship unique.
McCoy was so upset he watched Spock leave LOL!
They’re cute furry locusts.
Lol at one point it looks like Bones just shoved a bunch of tribbles in the container.
Spock quoting scripture ftw.
Spock Vs McCoy who will win?!
OrangetangyOrka neither. Because it's always going to be Kirk on top.
The audience.
Spock. His mind meld with McCoy was revenge for all of the arguments he lost. (o:Þ
Spock
Spock- no contest.
In the McCoy vs. Spock banter contest, point to Spock.
There they are, the Creechurs. So majestic~
I'm betting Tribbles were the outcome of a gentic experiment to make a cheap pet or FOOD, but it backfired. I love Worf's story about the Great Tribble Hunt! 😆
According to this one Star Trek short it is. A human created them and crashed them on the Klingon homeworld. Oh, and the tribble has some human DNA.
I would like to have one as pet! 😮It's like space guinypigs 😁
In the United States Marine Corps chow halls (cafeterias), 5 inch individual "Meat Loaves" are often served for dinner.
They are quite meaty and delicious.
Does anyone want to guess what they're called?
I'll bite. Could they be. . .
Tribbles?
Spock: -They don't talk too much
McCoy: *[TRIGGERED]*
Enough with that immature "trigger" nonsense. Go back to your pokemon or ponies or whatever you kids are into these days.
JanetFunkYeah Calm down, grandpa
Get a room, lovebirds.
Is it next to the one you and your dad share?
Nah....in fencing that would be an attack from McCoy, parry-riposte by Spock....touch to Spock.
I like both of them. Their discussions were the icing on the cake. 😏
At least Spock’s not a Klingon then the tribbles would go crazy.
The tribbles we're always kind of weird looking to me. Like they look like a newborn baby's head but with no facial features and just a ball. Like no eyes nose mouth body anything. It just looks like a pulsating head with no body or eyes or anything
awww 😂 come on bones you know you care for Spock. yes the tribbles are so cute. 😂
the sound of tribbles so cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤❤
I always wanted a pet tribble. The little blighters are cute.
Spock was like STFU.
Spock with the dark hair and the bit of uncaring like feeling kind of reminds me of Snape from the Harry Potter universe lol
Now that would be something Leonard Nimoy as Snape. Even in an audio book that could work. He can use his emotionless demeanour around Harry, but when thinking of Lily, the emotion cracks.
LOL...as the younger ones say these days...McCoy got owned!
Did Spock just quote Proverbs?
Spock just quoted The Sermon on the Mount
Tribbles make great pets. Just remember to spay and neuter them-their bi-sexual! And remember:
Never feed a tribble.
Never feed a tribble.
Never feed a tribble.
Never feed a tribble...
Don't put them in water or direct sun light. And especially don't feed them after midnight.
Oh wait...wrong universe.
Is there a canonical explanation why a tribble infestation isn't just beamed into the next sun?
how could you incinerate them when they're so cute!!
Tribbles make people want to take care of them.
@@mickeye6428 ***At least for humans
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039Sure, but then you beam them into a Klingon ship? That’s just doing the same thing one step removed, because you know the Klingons will have no problem shoving them all out an airlock.
@@danieloneal7137 I've been wondering the same thing.
The tribbles are the best
Classic Spock/McCoy bickering. Gotta love it. 😆
Bones followed Spock at the end like he was ready to throw hands.
That was one thing I always wondered about growing up watching this show and the movies how is it those 2 can stand being in the same room without getting into a debate about something and McCoy always explaining how much he hates Vulcans Spock in particular without throwing insults like he always does and continues that banter in the movies like 'That Green Blooded Son of a Bitch' or 'It's a Song You green blooded Vulcan' or 'You Green Blooded Inhuman' I mean seriously McCoy should take anger management classes with the attitude he always portrays towards his shipmates Spock in particular.
It's called banter. Among men insulting each other constantly is reserved only for the people they respect the most. I've seen fathers and sons greet each other with put downs but it's actually how they say they love each other in code. The thing is though you have to know that person before you can get away with it, and it can't be one sided, or else it is just abuse. Men do it in all sorts of situations and it builds trust and builds self esteem when you can shake it off because you know it's banter.
McCoy knows Spock will never actually be hurt by his insults, and Spock is perfectly willing to serve the insults back, so he is the ultimate banter partner. It's kind of like how sometimes two young guys will get in a fist fight and mid way through they realize how stupid they were and become friends.
Spock trusted McCoy so much that he was willing to implant his soul for safe keeping inside McCoy's body. You don't do that to just anybody.
This came from the writer’s conversation with his wife about having kids😂
Why did Spock call Bones “Sir” when he outranks him?
What's with the framerate?
I Wonder what a tribble would taste like
Yeah. Their stupid "let's find the best new way to dis" sensors probably went off.
SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE!!!
"They do have one redeeming quality. The do not talk too much."
I wonder why they never thought of eating them
They DID,but maybe because these things are so much that humans lose taste on them.
Reminds one of a wise North Korean slogan "Americans serve animals while people go without".
To everyone thinking that nobody in their right mind would own a tribble, please remember the Furby craze that many girls and even women had in the late 90s to early 2000s.
0:31 It is useful to have a cute tribble
Because they are useful for a person's wellbeing.
0:53 Emotion Fallacy
Just because someone likes/dislikes something does not mean
That thing is good/ bad.
Example
There are some terrorist's who think terrorism is good
Because they emotionally like it.
We know that terrorism is a bad thing.
No, M's are only bad if they are boys
Plus, T's are only graceful if they're girls
Bones and Spock remind me of Doc and Festus.
Same time frame, so maybe intentional
Reminds me of those Firbys 🤔
that was a nova burn from spock
Boom!
This episode was a nightmare disguised in a cute dress.
A Bible-quoting Spock! 😂
The one dislike is Spock
coats
Spock never responded warmly to his sehlat?
Do these mites have teeth and feet? Like how do they do it??
Cyrano Jones said that tribbles have no teeth.
@@leerichardson5842 where do you keep yours? What do you feed them?
@@yabbadabbadoo8225 Lol!!!
XD LOL
This is probably where Spock walks away and laughs so the whatever-it-is can be passive aggressive
Lol.
Like kids 😂
Bones was really a dick to Spock in this scene. More than usual.
Mammalian nurturing run amok of how they want pets no one can take care for possessiveness toward others.
Plagiarized from Heinlein as was most "Star Trek".
So Embarrassing