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
- A19850355000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Materials
- material appears to be a synthetic, acrylic, dyed brown
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 9.5 × 7.6 × 5.1cm, 0.2kg (3 3/4 × 3 × 2 in., 0.4lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19850355000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9af48af8e-fddb-40d6-a1f6-4a09af74dfd4
