Episode
Tribbles
- Podcast
- Popcorn Science Podcast
- Published
- Jun 14, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 3625
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Summary
References The Trouble with the Tribbles Trials and Tribble-ations Misc In this episode of "Popcorn Science," John and Catherine discuss the science behind two Star Trek episodes: "The Trouble with Tribbles" (1967) from The Original Series and "Trials and Tribble-ations" (1996) from Deep Space Nine. In both episodes, the crews try to grapple with an outbreak of a number of fuzzy spheroids known as Tribbles, with the DS9 crew coming from the future to help out Kirk and Spock!