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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 145: Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles and The Gamesters of Triskelion
🕑 Added 2025-07-28 22:04:03 +0000 UTCOn this week's Watchcast we've got an all-timer of a Star Trek episode in the The Trouble with Tribbles, an episode so chock full of quality jokes and adorable creatures that it's impossible not to love. We also have The Gamesters of Triskelion, which we'll charitably describe as not quite as good as the preceding episode.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 145: Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles and The Gamesters of Triskelion
(00:00:20) - Intro.
(00:02:19) - Launching straight into them Tribbles.
(00:05:30) - Production talk.
(00:12:22) - An all-star cast.
(00:21:01) - Getting into the episode proper.
(00:30:35) - The Klingon factor.
(00:34:23) - They're spreading.
(00:36:16) - It's a donnybrook!
(00:44:32) - We are lousy with tribbles.
(00:49:45) - Which guest actor could have done this terrible thing?
(00:53:50) - What did we do with all them fuzzies?
(00:58:28) - Final thoughts.
(01:00:49) - Break!
(01:01:12) - We're back and it's time to reckon with The Gamesters of Triskelion!
(01:08:07) - Who is responsible for this mess?
(01:16:56) - Alright, let's dig in.
(01:22:32) - Pain collars and spinning our wheels with command disagreements.
(01:27:38) - The treatment of Uhura here just sucks.
(01:31:50) - The brutally flat romance, and it's gladiator academy time.
(01:42:05) - Brains in bubbles, folks.
(01:48:25) - A (confusing) contest of life and death.
(01:52:23) - No, you can't come with us. You have to rebuild society first. Yes, that's it.
(01:57:02) - Final thoughts.
(01:59:18) - Next week's episodes, and outro.
Comments
WulfBane
Also in Star Trek Online, you could have a tribble that I think gave a small buff if you pet it. It wasn’t until an early patch, but yes they would his at you instead if you were a Klingon. Also if you had any food items in your inventory, they would eat them over time and it was replaced by a new tribble
WulfBane
The TAS tribble ep had Cirino solve the breeding issue somehow but instead they are growing bigger and fatter (eventually almost person sized). Got some good reoccurring comedic bits of Kirk having to push a larger and larger tribble from his seat. It’s then revealed they weren’t fat, just filled with more and more babies. Also this time the Klingons have engineered a Glommer that eats tribbles but of course it runs away when it sees the giant tribble
Michael Green
"Little Fuzzy" is a great book, and I also really enjoyed John Scalzi's "reboot" "Fuzzy Nation" that came out in 2011: both are pretty breezy reads that still manage to hit some emotional depth
