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
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19850353000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv941b72547-1748-4ef8-8e6a-ce3641b24b8a
