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1. William Smith says:

   February 10, 2010 at 12:04 pm

   This is my least favorite disc to hit from the final fron­tier. And is at best a for­mal­ity for me as a col­lec­tor of the Star Trek DVDs. Once again there are no xtras to be had of any value but thats not really the prob­lem for you see my dear reader I am used to that, what I’m not used to is 2 duds on one disc (OK, one dud and one NEAR dud).

   Mudd: 1 star: Actu­ally both of the scripts of these episodes seem sim­i­lar in that the Kirk and Spock I know would not have the con­ver­sa­tions they have here out­side of these episodes; very sur­real; sim­il­iar to the ani­mated series. Harry Mudds char­ac­ter is not funny. And for a comedic role that doesn’t bode well. I find the android story to be laugh­able (not to men­tion pre­dictable), and for all the char­ac­ters to bring back (Miri?), Mudd should not have been it.

   Trou­ble W/Tribbles: 2 1/2 Stars: I can hear the yelling from here; THIS IS A CLASSIC! In my opin­ion this is far from a clas­sic. I find Cap­tain Koloth to be a poor xcuse for a Klin­gon (As the Squire he was dash­ing, how­ever) and Cyrano Jones to almost be a nui­sance. This show does have one redeem­ing value, Mr. Scott. The exchange with the Klin­gon in the bar is gold, as is his “rea­son” for start­ing the fight. I find most of the moments with the Trib­bles them­selves to be unbe­lie­ve­able. I do not believe Kirk would have per­mit­ted them to be scat­tered all about the bridge, silly.

   I do STILL have to rec­c­om­mend this disc. After all this is Clas­sic Trek, even if this disc is less “clas­sic” than oth­ers. Besides where else can you get Star Trek from 1967 in Dolby Dig­i­tal 5.1?
   Rat­ing: 2 / 5
2. bernie says:

   February 10, 2010 at 1:02 pm

   While on a mis­sion to pro­tect the cargo of space sta­tion K-7 the crew of the enter­prise is on a lit­tle R&R. The sta­tion also hap­pens to be hold­ing a spe­cial hybrid grain quadrotrit­i­cale that is ear marked for a planet in need. Also due to a mutual agree­ment, vis­it­ing the sta­tion is a Klin­gon crew.

   You think you see the pat­tern but just wait there is also a pitch­man Cyrano Jones (Stan­ley Adams) that is trad­ing in cute lit­tle fuzzy crea­tures known as Trib­bles. As with stray cats, all you have to do is feed them and love them. If you have ever started feed­ing stray cats then you can guess what is going to hap­pen next.

   The pro­gram is kept on a light and comic tone but has sin­is­ter impli­ca­tions. After you find the prob­lem and guess, who is the culprit(s) are your next task is to find a solution.

   I have a few my self (oh, those are cats)

   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
3. David R. Mcarthur says:

   February 10, 2010 at 3:32 pm

   great video if you are into star trek and this is my wife’s favorite episode it was pur­chased as a gift it arrived very fast and in plenty of time for her birth­day. I like buy­ing from ama­zon web site as there has never been a prob­lem. I pre­fer not to deal with pirated videos. I like the rat­ing of deal­ers and the wide range of prices offered
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
4. Clare Garabedian says:

   February 10, 2010 at 5:45 pm

   I received this item very quickly. This is a Christ­mas gift for my son and he is miss­ing Vol. 21. He will be happy to add it to his col­lec­tion.
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
5. Patrick W. Crabtree says:

   February 10, 2010 at 7:45 pm

   The first best DVD is the one with “Shore Leave” and “The Squire of Gothos” on it. Iron­i­cally, the guy who played ‘The Squire’ in that fine episode, also plays THE VERY FIRST KLINGON that we ever see in “The Trou­ble with Trib­bles”! William Camp­bell, as Cap­tain Koloth, defined for us what Klin­gons were all about.

   I have known Bill Camp­bell for many years and he always felt it was impor­tant to point out to fans, “I was a Klin­gon before they acquired the ‘nod­ules’ on their fore­heads.” As far as I can ascer­tain, Bill also held one other unique posi­tion in regard to Star Trek — he was the only return­ing major actor to the series who ever played two dif­fer­ent roles (unlike Roger C. Carmel who played Harry Mudd in mul­ti­ple episodes).

   In “The Trou­ble with Trib­bles,” Kirk runs into big diplo­matic prob­lems with the Klin­gons and with The Federation’s own Admin­is­tra­tor. Klin­gon agents are also wreak­ing havoc. And then those dang, incred­i­bly pro­lific Trib­bles are found eat­ing up the Enterprise’s pre­cious grain cargo, the Quadrotrit­i­cale (the sci­en­tific name for com­mon wheat is Triticum aes­tivum). But the Trib­bles might just be the answer to the whole mess…

   All the “Har­court Fen­ton ‘Harry’ Mudd” entries are just great, and that’s a sec­ond episode on this par­tic­u­lar DVD.

   A steal for Orig­i­nal Series Star Trek fans!
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5

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