• @[email protected]
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    31 year 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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      41 year 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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        31 year 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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            41 year 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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              31 year ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              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.

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                Do you know those animals like bees and some fish that copulate once for life?

                It’s heavily implied that the tribbles do it once in several generations. So I imagine they do it when they get luck to be thrown together.

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                  So they either evolved to be parasitic by nature, or they rely on being pushed along by the growing pile of tribbles or they originate from a very windy world, where they move like tumbleweed.

                  • @marcos
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                    21 year ago

                    Oh, I vote on the tumbleweed option. It’s the most reasonable one.