{"id":7387,"date":"2009-09-25T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2009-09-25T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:38:17","slug":"gerrold-on-trouble-with-tribbles-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/09\/gerrold-on-trouble-with-tribbles-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrold On Trouble With Tribbles Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer <strong>David Gerrold<\/strong> shared his thoughts with the Official <em>Star Trek Magazin<\/em>e on why he wrote <em>The Trouble With Tribbles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Trouble With Tribbles<\/em> was meant as a way to show that a starship captain might have to deal with petty annoyances as well as things that might threaten a whole planet, system or galaxy. &#8220;My original intention for <em>The Trouble With Tribbles<\/em> was to demonstrate that not every problem a starship captain might have to deal with would be a big problem, threatening the safety of the galaxy,&#8221; said Gerrold. &#8220;Once in a while, the little problems could be just as annoying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Gerrold didn&#8217;t initially envision the episode as a broad comedy. &#8220;At the beginning, I had no idea that <em>The Trouble With Tribbles <\/em>was a laugh-out-loud comedy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I thought we were doing quiet whimsy, but moment by moment the comedic opportunities started piling up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> proved to be a pleasant surprise when it came a certain well-known scene from <em>The Trouble With Tribbles<\/em>. &#8220;Prior to this episode, we&#8217;d seen only hints that William Shatner could be a great comic actor,&#8221; said Gerrold. &#8220;The giveaway moment was the storage compartment scene. I had written in the outline and the script that the tribbles fall on Kirk&#8217;s head. I had always assumed that at some point, Shatner would say, &#8216;This makes my character look too silly,&#8217; and I was prepared to have him step aside just before the tribbles fell. But William Shatner has always been the consummate professional and I believe he was eager to show off his comic abilities as well. The moment when he is up to his neck in tribbles, when he gives Dr. McCoy a very annoyed look, that&#8217;s equal to any expression that <strong>Oliver Hardy<\/strong> ever gave to <strong>Stan Laurel<\/strong> at his most exasperated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe now <a href=\"http:\/\/titanmagazines.com\/app?service=external\/Product&amp;sp=l640\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7388\" title=\"092509STM21-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/092509STM21-1.gif\" alt=\"092509STM21-1\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer David Gerrold shared his thoughts with the Official Star Trek Magazine on why he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2838,2853],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-gerrold","tag-the-trouble-with-tribbles"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7389,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}