Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series)

More Tribbles, More Troubles (1973)

William Shatner: Captain James Tiberius Kirk

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• [last lines] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : Someday I'll learn.

  Scotty : Aye, Captain, but you've got to admit, if we've got to have tribbles, it's best if all our tribbles are little ones.

• [the Enterprise, threatened by Klingons, also has a large amount of fat tribbles to contend with] 

  Commander Spock : [of the Klingons]  We could always throw tribbles at them.

  Captain James T. Kirk : I thought Vulcans didn't have a sense of humor.

  Commander Spock : We don't, Captain.

• Captain James T. Kirk : Status report on the damaged grain ship, Scotty.

  Scotty : Well, sir, we managed to transfer all the grain aboard, but it severely limits us. We filled the shuttlecraft hangars, all our extra holds, and we've even got containers of that wheat - that quintotriticale - in the corridors of the ship, and then we've got that other robot ship to escort, too. I don't like it at all, sir!

  Captain James T. Kirk : Nor do I, Mr. Scott, but we've got to do it. Sherman's Planet needs that grain desperately.

  Scotty : Aye, sir, but we've got tribbles on the ship, quintotriticale in corridors, Klingons in the quadrant... It can ruin your whole day, sir!

• [Kirk has been tufting tribbles of ever-increasing size out of his command chair all day] 

  Mr. Spock : Aren't you going to sit down, sir?

  Captain James T. Kirk : [now with a giant tribble of significant weight in his chair]  I think... I'll stand.

• Captain James T. Kirk : You... sold... tribbles... on a Klingon planet?

  Cyrano Jones : Well, I didn't know it was a Klingon planet.

  Captain James T. Kirk : Tribbles don't like Klingons. That should have given you some clue.

  Cyrano Jones : Klingons like tribbles even less.

• Koloth : If I have to take him by force, I will.

  Captain James T. Kirk : The first Klingon to step aboard this ship will be the last Klingon.

• [first lines] 

  Captain James T. Kirk : Captain's Log, Stardate 5392.4. The Enterprise has been assigned to escort two robot grain ships to Sherman's Planet, which has been struck by crop failures and famine. This shipment of seed grain, quintotriticale, is necessary to the survival of the colonists. We are breaking course to Sherman's Planet to investigate what appears to be a Klingon battle cruiser pursuing some kind of smaller ship. Observation may confirm a rumor that the Klingons have a new weapon, type: so far unknown.

• Captain James T. Kirk : The new weapon. Spock?

  Mr. Spock : Some kind of field effect, Captain. It will hit us in precisely four seconds. It produces a most remarkable...

  [the field effect hits the Enterprise] 

  Mr. Spock : ... disruption.

• Captain James T. Kirk : I am concerned about that new Klingon weapon.

  Mr. Spock : It is an energy-sapping field of great strength, Captain. It immobilizes a starship and it's weapons capability; but, apparently, it also immobilizes the attacking ship's abilities at the same time.

  Scotty : Aye, and if that's true, then it's a weapon that leaves them as helpless as it does us.

  Mr. Spock : I believe I just said that, Mr. Scott.

• Captain James T. Kirk : [of the Tribbles]  In any case, they're eating the quintotriticale.

  Cyrano Jones : The what?

  Captain James T. Kirk : The wheat!

• Captain James T. Kirk : How fat do these things get?

• Captain James T. Kirk : Well, at least we can report the stasis field is not as effective a weapon as we thought. The power drain is too high and takes too long for the Klingon ship to recover to make it practical.

  Mr. Spock : Agreed, Captain. Tribbles appear to be a much more effective weapon.