Tribble, Large, Brown, "Star Trek" TV Show, Prop
Object Details
- Date
- 1967
- 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.
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Credit Line
- Paramount Pictures Corp.
- Data Source
- National Air and Space Museum
- Inventory Number
- A19850353000
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Materials
- Formerly identified as cotton, but when sample hairs examined under a microscope, material appears to be a synthetic, acrylic.
- Dimensions
- 3-D (L x W x H) (32 g.): 14 × 11.1 × 9.5cm (5 1/2 × 4 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Record ID
- nasm_A19850353000
Simulated living furry ball-like alien creature, roughly oval, light brown and white; some yellow fabric in fur; "fur" hair, probably synthetic, acrylic, attached to white fabric oval underneath; ball has slight spring-like consistency when squeezed.
