Blame this guy
Klingons are the mortal enemy of the klingon empire
This is brilliant.
How is that an enemy? It’s food that moves, easier to come by than gagh.
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?
Yeah, I know… I just don’t get it. They would cram them in a container and at least try it, I think.
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.
True, but eating them on a planetary level would counteract that, no? They could breed them to bite, even.
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.
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.
Maybe there‘s just not much to eat with a tribble being mostly fur.
Mostly uterus, it seems.
How do they move?
From top to bottom: space goblins, space elves, space triangle shoulder elves, variations of Gene Roddenberry’s alien fetish, space cube, tiny space ewoks
I remember reading a fan theory that the Klingons went from TOS smooth faces to Worf-like ridges due to the tribbles.
The canon theory is more that they originally had ridges but augmented themselves to look like humans for the sake of espionage. Over time that became seen as cowardice so they reverted back. The real reason, of course, is make up budget.
It would be considered sacrilege, but I’d like to see a reboot where there are no human looking aliens at all. Not even things like Gorn. No half-human hybrids. imho
