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Kent Taylor
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Posted on Tue, 01/25/2364 - 03:34 by startrekmankent
I have a question, Really, are tribbles characters? ???
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I would think, since they were alive, caused problems, and were a focus of the episode they were on.
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Excuse me, but the tribbles were not alive !!!!!
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
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Then what were they? How did they reproduce than?
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In reality they were just props, but in the ep they were supposed to be living things because they consumed nutritional needs and reproduced. That would make them alive. And they did wreak havoc on K-7.
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Correct, that's what I'm trying to say.
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I know. That was my way of agreeing with you. LOL.
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I still look at them as props, I read about it today, see if you can find if Tribbles are characters...
character:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Character&x=14&y=16
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
714 posts
So you think that dogs are props too?
Commodore Roy Veldman
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No, dogs are alive after the show is over.
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
714 posts
I have to agree on you that tribbles are not characters. But they are alive in the story, so they are not props in the story.
Commodore Roy Veldman
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No, they are not props in the story, they are Tribbles, but that does not make them Characters, in the story.
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
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true, and usually dogs aren't character either, except in Dr. Dolittle
Commodore Roy Veldman
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LOLOL, this is true, dogs are characters ether, there dogs..LOL
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
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You mean like Porthos on Star Trek Enterprise? (or is he a prop too?)
Lt. Salikar
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I beleive prop is the wrong word for porthos. Props don't move and arn't alive. Maybe the word is "secondary actor"
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so the tribble that ate the Quadrotridicale is a secondary actor? it moved to eat it
Lt. Salikar
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Right.
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See kent? Tribbles are actors (secondary at least)
Lt. Salikar
Chief Science Officer
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Well back in reality, they are only props, the computer talks is it a character or a prop?
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
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does it move and have an effect on the show?
Lt. Salikar
Chief Science Officer
Starbase 49
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the chairs do!!!
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
561 posts
Wow, I never thought Tribbles would be such a hard thing to figure out. We should have a site wide vote on this.
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What is a porthos? I haven't seen one tribble sence that episode, so I guess they all died-LOLOLOL
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
561 posts
Porthos is Tucker's dog on Enterprise, consideredas a character. Also, maybe the tribble was never mentioned again because they did die.
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Could be..
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
413 posts
Wrong. Sorry. Porthos is Archer's dog.
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OH OK, I remember that!!!
Is that how to spell it?
Trouble with Tribbles:
Cast & Creative Staff,
 Cast:
William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
DeForest Kelley as Leonard H. McCoy
James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
Walter Koenig as Pavel Andreievich Chekov
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
Guest Cast:
William Schallert as Nilz Baris
William Campbell as Capt. Koloth
Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones
Whit Bissell as Mr. Lurry
Michael Pataki as Korax
Ed Reimers as Admiral Fitzpatrick
Charlie Brill as Arne Darvin
Paul Baxley as Ensign Freeman
David L. Ross as Guard
Guy Raymond as Trader/bartender
Eddie Paskey as Security Guard
Creative Staff:
Director:  Joseph Pevney
Written By: David Gerrold
I don't see Tribbles named here!!!
Captain Taylor
Commander Starbase 49
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Hey, there was a deep space 9 episode and an animated series episode with tribbles. They got eaten by a tribble eating monster instead of getting picked up. so they did have an effect again
Lt. Salikar
Chief Science Officer
Starbase 49
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Ok, after all this,I have finally figured out what the tribble is. A PLOT ELEMENT! That means its not a actor or character on the show, but relates to the show.
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I still agree with your first suggestion steve, Secondary actor
Lt. Salikar
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