Object Details
Manufacturer
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Summary
This television prop is a "tribble," a fictional alien creature featured in the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" in the "Star Trek" TV show, which aired on NBC from 1966-1969. A tribble was a living furry creature on Space Station K-7. They did nothing but eat and multiply. Eventually, tribbles are found aboard the Spaceship Enterprise and created an enormous problem by over-multiplying.
The popularity of this episode led the writer, David Gerrold, to produce the book of the same title, "The Trouble With Tribbles," published by Ballantyne as a paperback in 1973, in which tribbles threaten to overun the entire galaxy. The episode also led to a variety of tribble merchandise and their own cult following almost as big as the show itself.
Paramount gave this prop to the Museum in 1973.
Credit Line
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Inventory Number
A19850353000
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
Materials
Formerly identified as cotton, but when sample hairs examined under a microscope, material appears to be a synthetic, acrylic.
Dimensions
3-D: 12.7 × 10.2cm (5 × 4 in.)
Country of Origin
United States of America
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Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nasm_A19850353000
