• @ummthatguy
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    1010 months ago

    Worf: They were an ecological menace, a plague to be wiped out.

    Odo : Wiped out? What are you saying?

    Worf : Hundreds of warriors were sent to track them down throughout the galaxy. An armada obliterated the tribbles’ home world. By the end of the twenty third century they had been eradicated.

    Odo : Another glorious chapter of Klingon history. Tell me, do they still sing songs of the great tribble hunt?

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Yeah, I know… I just don’t get it. They would cram them in a container and at least try it, I think.

      • @ummthatguy
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        510 months ago

        I imagine the cuteness factor is also antithetical to Klingon culture. Like the ongoing joke of Klingon “dungeons” being filled with stuffed animals, cuddling, and tickling.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          True, but eating them on a planetary level would counteract that, no? They could breed them to bite, even.

          • @ummthatguy
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            410 months ago

            Section 31 saw to that detail a century later. I’m sure some were eaten, but Klingon thinking is like a blunt instrument: simple and lacking nuance.

            • @[email protected]
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              310 months ago

              Man, I thought I was fairly well versed in Trek, but this is next level. I had to look it up. Here I was thinking that they might eat them out of spite and anger.

                • @[email protected]
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                  410 months ago

                  As far as I can tell, none have ever been seen moving - they’re just reproduction machines. The lungs would make them, uh, pulsate? Also, I’m 90% this picture is not canon at all. I posted it mostly as a joke.

                  • NegativeNullOPM
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                    310 months ago

                    I love this community. Having in depth conversations about the edibility and biomechanics of troubles. Don’t change!

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                    110 months ago

                    Interesting. So, if they can‘t move, they would have to reproduce by sending pollen into the air or something similar. I wonder how they birth their offspring. They would have to eject them at high speeds to reach new areas.