Daily Star Trek Quiz: "The Trouble with Tribbles"

In which Kirk is up to his neck in Tribble trouble!

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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Journey to the stars each weekday with a chronological quiz testing your knowledge of each episode in order. Let's see how long we can all keep the streak going!

It's up to you to keep track of your score, and we work on the honor system here in the United Federation of Planets. Missed a quiz? Just click here, and you'll have the chance to catch up!

This quiz is about Season 2, Episode 15: "The Trouble with Tribbles." See which details you recall, and which you might need a little refresher on. Good luck, have fun, and be sure to share your score (cumulative or otherwise) in the comment section below!

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  1. The episode begins with Kirk, Spock and ______ discussing the Battle of Donatu V.
  2. Who issued the Priority One call?
  3. What's the name of the grain the Enterprise is meant to guard?
  4. Which crewmember brings a Tribble onboard?
  5. Who says... "Its trilling seems to have a tranquillizing effect on the human nervous system."?
  6. What's the name of the man who sells the tribbles?
  7. Who throws the first punch in the bar fight with the Klingons?
  8. According to Spock, the tribbles have one redeeming characteristic. What is it?
  9. Spock calculates that after three days, there will be how many tribbles?
  10. What killed the tribbles?

Daily Star Trek Quiz: "The Trouble with Tribbles"

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61 Comments

jd4862 9 days ago
8/10 I haven't watched TOS in a while. The DS9 Tribble episode was great, if for no other reason than seeing Terry Farrell in the TOS uniform.
sjbang88 10 days ago
6/10 Thst's bad considering I had a girlfriend back in the mid '70's that had an actual tribble.
jd4862 sjbang88 9 days ago
I hope she kept it nicely groomed.
MichaelPowers 10 days ago
9/10. Classic Trek episode with plenty of humor and scripted by David Gerrold. Stanley Adams does a splendid job as Cyrano Jones.
One of the only episodes where the actors playing Klingons do not wear swarthy makeup for some reason.
Cmconnolly 11 days ago
8/10 but I did watch it not too long ago.
geatornez82 11 days ago
7/10. Eh. Not surprising. I'm not a Star Trek fan. I only watched this one because William Schallert was in it (though I had a "wait, WHAT?!" moment when I saw ending credits. Charlie Brill as Arne Darvin.)
And let's not forget Guy Raymond as the space station's bartender. Raymond was the real-life husband of Anne Morgan Guilbert, Millie Helper from the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Spaceseed geatornez82 3 days ago
Schallert was a fixture of 50s scifi
He certainly was! He even parodied those films in Matinee! Fun Fact: Brill & his wife Mitzi were on the Beatles' first Sullivan Show!
Nori 11 days ago
I got 8 out of 10, and had not watched this in over 40 years! lol scary!
JimmyAngel 11 days ago
Missed the first three questions and then ran the table. 7/10
Bapa1 11 days ago
9/10, a classic episode, really funny. The animated series also did an episode with Tribbles.
Mempatfan 11 days ago
9/10. 417/440. Disappointed that I missed #5.
frenchman71 11 days ago
10/10. You'd have to rate this episode as Trek's comedy episode. Even the Klingons, aside from the barroom brawl, were in no mood for a space battle. I loved it when Kirk had the whole crew from the bar lined up wanting to know who started the fight. Even Scotty was confined to quarters.
Yep, and no one gives credit to the great William Shallert! His slow burn is a great contrast to Shatner's calm authority!
Spaceseed frenchman71 3 days ago
Is this off the record?
frenchman71 Spaceseed 2 days ago
"No, this is not off the record"
Poolboy13 11 days ago
8/10 Soft tribble,warm tribble little ball of...whatever the hell they are.
cperrynaples 11 days ago
Whenever I see that photo on top, I think it should be captioned "Shatner considers his next toupee"...LOL!
edcrumpacker 11 days ago
9/10. "Highly Fascinating"
Surprised I did so well. Not one of my favorite episodes, but a cute, "Highly Entertaining" one. 🖖🪐🚀🛸🖖
BradBeall 12 days ago
9 of 10. As a cat lover, this is one of my favorite episodes. After all, tribbles are basically just cats without the appendages. Anything that likes to be held and cuddled, and is soft & furry, is basically a cat. Although tribbles seem to multiply a bit quicker than cats... just a bit.
sjbang88 BradBeall 10 days ago
but not as fast as rabbits
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