# Tribbles Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349/tribbles Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349/tribbles.md Podcast: [Popcorn Science Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349) Published: 2025-06-14T13:38:26+00:00 Episode link: https://www.popcornscience.ca/tribbles/ Audio file: https://www.popcornscience.ca/tribbles/ff873023b1d9f74bb61cdca52d2c5dec.m4a Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349/episodes/tribbles Duration seconds: 3625 ## Resource 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! ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349/episodes/tribbles/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/popcorn-science-podcast-7320349/tribbles.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.