For a brief moment during the saucer crash sequence in STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, we see that a scientist aboard the Enterprise-D is studying Tribbles. #StarTrek
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Andrew McGrae 路 May 16
Picard thought he saved Veridian III with his blatant violation of the Temporal Prime Directive, but everything still died due to food shortages.
Maxwell Mercy 路 May 16
Can't believe Worf approved this
Dr Like Dr Pepper is a Doctor Graeth 路 May 16
In case the Klingon Empire got out of hand again.
George W Harris 路 May 18
So this must be after the Klingons exterminated them but before they were misguidedly brought back by the crew of Deep Space 9
John Wells 路 May 16
I鈥檇 totally missed the Tribble screen but always thought it was odd that he was still working on it while the ship鈥檚 going down. That鈥檚 dedication to science, I guess!馃槀
postdrome 路 May 17
not a starfleet scientist?
Rob Neurotic 路 May 16
Well, now it makes sense that they had to haul the saucer off the planet. It was probably infested by the time they got to it.
Veritas et Felicitas 路 May 16
There will ALWAYS be trouble with Tribbles. 馃枛
@thoughtwelldeep.bsky.social 路 May 16
He鈥檚 actually the chef. Anyone up for some nuggies?
Rick 'Rocket' Rose 路 May 16
The Trouble With Tribbles remains my favorite episode due in part to the musical cues.
ohlookashinysquirrel 路 May 16
are you sure he's not just looking at tribble videos on youtube
FINN 路 May 16
DEEP cut
Chris 路 May 16
And after over 30 years I just noticed another person in that lab on the extreme right
Chuck Topley 路 May 16
That means some tribbles almost certainly survived the crash, escaped the crashed saucer, and infested the planet! Kind of like any ALIEN movie except...it's more of a long-term disaster.
Henry B 馃幐馃枛馃徎鉁★笍馃敡 路 May 16
He also kind of looks like he's in main engineering from TOS!
Phil Plait 路 May 17
Veridian 3 is screwed
Brian Smith 路 May 16
But what were they doing?!???