“Nobody Knows the Tribbles I've Seen” is a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic that was written by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels. It was published in 1998.
Summary[]
At Quark's, Bashir, Dax and O'Brien tell the stories of why they think Klingons dislike tribbles.
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Characters[]
- Julian Bashir • Enjana Dax • Jadzia Dax • Kho • James T. Kirk • Koloth • L'Ray • Morn • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Quark • Spock • Worf • Xhemp
- Referenced only
- Kahless the Unforgettable • Molor
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Races and cultures[]
- Changeling • Human • Klingon • Romulan • Trill
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Other references[]
- bat'leth • Bat'leth of Molor • gagh • fuzzgourd • Klingonese • prune juice • tribble
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Background[]
- In O'Brien's story, the Klingons kept tribbles as pets, until the Romulans invaded having seen them as weak for doing so. Bashir's story presents the theory that a Klingon allergy to tribbles caused the Klingon head ridges that were first seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Michael A. Martin commented that "Nobody Knows the Tribbles I've Seen" was: "a very strange tribble story that ended up in issue #14, near the finish of our half-year run on Marvel's Deep Space 9 title. That story - which featured most of the principal characters' inebriated speculations about the origins of the Michael Westmore-era Klingon foreheads as well as the long-standing Klingon-tribble mutual antipathy - made it through the studio's approval process within twenty-four hours, which I'm told set a record at the time". [1]
- The cover art was a homage to a National Lampoon cover. Martin commented: "You might remember the cover, which was a goof on an old National Lampoon magazine, the one with a gun pointed at a dog and a caption that read, 'buy this magazine or we’ll shoot this dog.' In our version, Worf held a Tribble in one hand and a phaser in the other, and shouted, 'Buy this book or the tribble gets it!' I don’t mind calling that cover a work of genius, since it sprang from the brow of Tim Tuohy, our editor at the time". [2]
- The comic was reprinted in 2020 as Volume 114 (DS9: Command Decisions) of the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection.
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| published order | ||
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| Previous comic: Telepathy War: Day of Honor |
DS9 comics | Next comic: Requiem in Obsidian |
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External links[]
- Nobody Knows the Tribbles I've Seen article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.