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Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 21, Episodes 41 & 42: I, Mudd/ The Trouble With Tribbles | 
 enlarge | Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Roger C. Carmel
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
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Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792173449
UPC: 097366002144
EAN: 9780792173441
ASIN: B000059XTZ
Theatrical Release Date: September 8, 1966
Release Date: April 24, 2001
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"I, Mudd"
Lovable scoundrel Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel) returns following his debut appearance in the first-season episode "Mudd's Women," this time as the leader of a race of helpful (and leggy) androids. Mudd tries to take control of the Enterprise, but soon finds that the androids have plans of their own. This is one of Trek's few purely comic episodes, and it hits a nice level of whimsy as Kirk and the crew fight android efficiency with good old human illogic. "I, Mudd" also sets a benchmark achievement for the Star Trek design crew: It called not just for beautiful women in revealing costumes, but for beautiful twins in revealing costumes. Truly a tough one to top, cheesily foreshadowing the "Fembots" of Austin Powers infamy. --Ali Davis "The Trouble with Tribbles"
It's time to face one of the great questions of the television age: Is "The Trouble with Tribbles" really as good as everyone thinks it is? You bet. While the story might be a little slower than many of us remember, the episode is deservedly beloved for writer David Gerrold's witty, mildly acerbic script, and the way the cast took to heightened comic possibilities against network resistance. (Heavens! Comedy on a science fiction show?) Stanley Adams is delightful as the huckster Cyrano Jones, who gives a trilling furball called a tribble to Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), who brings it aboard the Enterprise and watches it reproduce... and reproduce... and reproduce. Soon, hundreds of tribbles are in every part of the ship, making Captain Kirk (William Shatner), already grouchy about guarding a mere grain shipment from Klingons, even grouchier. There's no question that Gerrold made a major contribution to Trek culture with this show, setting a tone that Star Trek has visited again and again, including the feature film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and sundry episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. --Tom Keogh
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"I, Mudd," Ep. 41 - That intergalactic rogue, Harry Mudd, is back to his old tricks as one of his schemes backfires, leaving Kirk, the Enterprise crew and himself held captive by a race of androids. "The Trouble with Tribbles," Ep. 42 - There are headaches for Kirk when Tribbles (furry creatures which eat incessantly) and Klingons invade a space station storing a valuable grain shipment.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Christmas gift September 3, 2008
Clare Garabedian (North Grafton, Ma. United States)
I received this item very quickly. This is a Christmas gift for my son and he is missing Vol. 21. He will be happy to add it to his collection.
Even as the 2nd best DVD of the series, it's awesome! January 9, 2008
Patrick W. Crabtree (Lucasville, OH USA)
The first best DVD is the one with "Shore Leave" and "The Squire of Gothos" on it. Ironically, the guy who played 'The Squire' in that fine episode, also plays THE VERY FIRST KLINGON that we ever see in "The Trouble with Tribbles"! William Campbell, as Captain Koloth, defined for us what Klingons were all about.
I have known Bill Campbell for many years and he always felt it was important to point out to fans, "I was a Klingon before they acquired the 'nodules' on their foreheads." As far as I can ascertain, Bill also held one other unique position in regard to Star Trek -- he was the only returning major actor to the series who ever played two different roles (unlike Roger C. Carmel who played Harry Mudd in multiple episodes).
In "The Trouble with Tribbles," Kirk runs into big diplomatic problems with the Klingons and with The Federation's own Administrator. Klingon agents are also wreaking havoc. And then those dang, incredibly prolific Tribbles are found eating up the Enterprise's precious grain cargo, the Quadrotriticale (the scientific name for common wheat is Triticum aestivum). But the Tribbles might just be the answer to the whole mess...
All the "Harcourt Fenton 'Harry' Mudd" entries are just great, and that's a second episode on this particular DVD.
A steal for Original Series Star Trek fans!
 There's light comedy throughout the episode. And there's some kind of trouble with Tribbles... February 6, 2007
MagicSinglez (North Carolina)
In 'I Mudd' once again the crew is captured or the Enterprise taken over. In this case the crew is captured with the goal of taking over the Enterprise.
For many fans 'The Trouble with Tribbles' is a favorite. An episode of Deep Space 9 had the crew go back in time and actually participate. The images of the crew of Deep Space 9 are superimposed on this original footage. There are Klingons in The Trouble with Tribbles, but the scenes with Klingons aren't just funny, they are especially funny. This is a fun, light-hearted, comedy episode. And there's some kind of trouble with Tribbles...
No Tribble at All December 24, 2006
Golden Lion (North Ogden, Ut United States)
The enterprise receives a sub space emergency transmission for deep space station, K7 and Kirk assumes the station is under attack by the Klingons. Kirk receives permission to beam over. Kirk is coldly greeted by Nels Barrus, Under Secretary of Agriculture. Barrus demands federation protection and wants security guards placed around the storage compartments of Quadro Trida Kayela, a grain, wheat, and rye hybrid. Kirk believes Barrus has used trivially the emergency alert and wants to refuse entangling the Enterprise in the internal security matters of K7. Spock states that the Sherman Plant Affair is a federation interest and recommends security assistance; security assistance against possible Klingon military disruption; Spock reasons that the Klingons would not enjoy Sherman being developed as a Federation planet.
Suppose Self replicating Robots are tribbles, should we be afraid of them? The computer ethics associated with building self replicating robots is fear. Since the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki more scientist are alarmed at unlimited use of technology. Physicist Joesph Rotblat repeatly spoke against thinking computers which could also replicate themselves, for he consider the possibility of uncontrolled self-replication" to be one of the dangers of the new technology. David Bruemmer considered self-replicating intelligent robots to be a more sociological problem: "Inexorably, we will interact more with machines and less with each other. Already, the average American workers spends an astonishingly large percentage of his/her life interfacing with machines. Many return home only to log in anew. Human relationships are a lot of trouble, forged from dirty diapers, lost tempers and late nights. Machines, on the other hand, can be turned on and off. Already, many of us prefer to forge and maintain relationships via email, chat rooms and instant messenger rather than in person. Despite promises that the Internet will take us anywhere, we find ourselves, hour after hour, glued to our chairs." Just feed a robot power and it will reprogram itself to produce another robot. The robot will offer entertainment, information, and service eating up larger and larger percentages of power.
The tribble's pur is the "sweetest creature known to man". Likewise, Robots grinding of gears is the "sweets sound" to profit margin of man. "Tribbles have no teeth". Robots don't have teeth. Robots can be programmed with ethics, reflexive emotion respondent to positive and negative feedback from humans. Intelligent robots have the capacity for good for mankind: medical diagnosis, navigation alerts and emergency circumvention, ecological cleanup, manufacturing value added. What capabilities should be inhibited in robots? What ethical bounds should be set for robots? What constraints should be put in place to safeguard humans. Should robot populations be inhibited? Robots can have teeth. Robots can be used to build better weapons, unmanned missile drones, and anti-aircraft weaponry. Will more countries fight wars with robots sparring direct loss of life? What will happen when both sides deploy robot armies? In 2004, the US House of representatives set aside $126 billion for federal research By 2020, 1/3 of the US combat aircraft will be unmanned and ground and sear forces will rely heavily on robots according to Eric Baard.
HQ federation contacts Kirk and orders him to "render any safety for the project". The enterprise detects an Klingon battle cruiser and attempt to warn the station. The warning arrives too late. Captain Kolob has already arrived at K7 and explains that K7 has been chosen as a place of recreation. The Argainan Peact treaty does not prohibit Klingons from enjoying recreation on K7, but the activity seems suspicious. Kirk agrees to allow 12 Klingons on the space station at a time and to be matched one for one by Federation security personnel.
The tribble has a tranquilizing affect on the human nervous system. Humans can feel affectionate for robots. In 1996, Tamagotchi, the lovable egg, was released to the consumer. Tamagotchi would lets its owner know when it wanted attention: beep and cry with sounds that get louder and louder and if ignored the toy would act loudly and recklessly. If Tamagotchi was ignored for a prolong period of time, it would become ill. Business people would admit to postponing meetings to remove virtual waste or feed the virtual pet. Owners often feel attached to their digital pets and post memorial messages for their departed virtual pet in a Web cemetery. Sales of Tamgotchi exceeded ten million units.
Tribble body structure is 50 percent dedicated to reproduction. After being fed, Tribbles reproduce every 12 hours with a litter of 11. "What do you get when you feed a tribble? You get a who lot of hungry little tribbles." Tribbles don't like Klingons and emit a shrill sound around them. Apparently tribbles can sense and understand other people mental states or in other words, Tribbles can empathize. Empathy gives the tribble access to the other person's mental state and emotional interactions. Tribble respond negatively to the emotion of hate. Spock perceives peril in allowing the Tribbles to breed; Spock quotes Jesus, "Consider the Lillies of the field, how they toil not"; tribbles are born pregnant, bisexual, and can reproduce at will; tribbles consume supplies and return nothing.
A fight breaks out between the Klingons and the Federation security crew. Scottie throws the first punch, after a Klingon says, "the Enterprise should not be hauling garbage. The Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage". Kirk cancels shore leave. Kirk discovers that Scottie stopped Chekov from confrontation the Klingons, after they made rude comments about the Captain with Scottie telling Chekov, they were "big enough to take a few insults". Kirk asks Scottie then why did he strike the Klingon; Scottie replies, "it was a matter of pride".
Serino Jones is accused of being an Klingon Agent, but the evidence does not hold up against him. Serino Jones is an asteroid prospector and collector of rare merchandise. The tribble population growth has reached an alarming 1 million tribbles. The tribbles have began eating the wheat, but most of the tribbles are dead. Mr. Darwin has poisoned the grain with a virus designed to remove all the nutritional elements of the wheat; the tribbles have starved to death. Kirk forces Serino Jones to agree to clean up the space station and Spock estimates clean will take Serino 17.9 years. Scottie admits to transporting all the tribbles on the enterprise to the engine room of the Klingon ship, saying "no tribble at all".
A Keeper! Two of the Funniest Episodes of the Second Season! November 1, 2006
Frederick Baptist (Singapore)
If you are picking which volumes to collect, this falls in between the "must have" and "good to have" categories. An aspect of Classic Trek that is much beloved and sometimes overlooked is the humour that appears in many episodes in various doses but never in the quantities that we get on these two episodes although the second one is far, far better than the first.
On the first episode, we get that irritating character Harry Mudd again this time as a virtual slave of androids no less. The plot is very similar to a first season episode and just like in that episode, the manner in which Kirk so easily outwits the androids and the overall storyline leaves much to be desired and places this as an average episode at best.
The second episode is a must have in any TOS collection though. "The Trouble with Tribbles" has gone down as one of the best and favourite episodes in the history of Trekdom. It has even an episode paid in tribute to it on Deep Space 9 which is also a classic. The overall plot, timing, acting and extremely humourous storyline makes this an episode that I find myself able to watch over and over again without getting tired as each time, I seem to catch another comedic gem that I seemed to have missed the previous time. Who can forget the scene in which Scotty confesses to starting the brawl with the Klingons for example which is my favourite. This among many other scenes make this the most lovable TOS episode for me and I'm pretty sure you'll like it as well.
Recommended.
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