Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 21, Episodes 41 & 42: I, Mudd/ The Trouble With Tribbles
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Actor: James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Roger C. Carmel, William ShatnerBrand: SHATNER,WILLIAM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
DVD Reviews of Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 21, Episodes 41 & 42: I, Mudd/ The Trouble With Tribbles
DVD Review: No Tribble at All
Summary: 5 Stars
The enterprise receives a sub space emergency transmission for deep space station, K7 and Kirk assumes the station is under attack by the Klingons. Kirk receives permission to beam over. Kirk is coldly greeted by Nels Barrus, Under Secretary of Agriculture. Barrus demands federation protection and wants security guards placed around the storage compartments of Quadro Trida Kayela, a grain, wheat, and rye hybrid. Kirk believes Barrus has used trivially the emergency alert and wants to refuse entangling the Enterprise in the internal security matters of K7. Spock states that the Sherman Plant Affair is a federation interest and recommends security assistance; security assistance against possible Klingon military disruption; Spock reasons that the Klingons would not enjoy Sherman being developed as a Federation planet.
Suppose Self replicating Robots are tribbles, should we be afraid of them? The computer ethics associated with building self replicating robots is fear. Since the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki more scientist are alarmed at unlimited use of technology. Physicist Joesph Rotblat repeatly spoke against thinking computers which could also replicate themselves, for he consider the possibility of uncontrolled self-replication" to be one of the dangers of the new technology. David Bruemmer considered self-replicating intelligent robots to be a more sociological problem: "Inexorably, we will interact more with machines and less with each other. Already, the average American workers spends an astonishingly large percentage of his/her life interfacing with machines. Many return home only to log in anew. Human relationships are a lot of trouble, forged from dirty diapers, lost tempers and late nights. Machines, on the other hand, can be turned on and off. Already, many of us prefer to forge and maintain relationships via email, chat rooms and instant messenger rather than in person. Despite promises that the Internet will take us anywhere, we find ourselves, hour after hour, glued to our chairs." Just feed a robot power and it will reprogram itself to produce another robot. The robot will offer entertainment, information, and service eating up larger and larger percentages of power.
The tribble's pur is the "sweetest creature known to man". Likewise, Robots grinding of gears is the "sweets sound" to profit margin of man. "Tribbles have no teeth". Robots don't have teeth. Robots can be programmed with ethics, reflexive emotion respondent to positive and negative feedback from humans. Intelligent robots have the capacity for good for mankind: medical diagnosis, navigation alerts and emergency circumvention, ecological cleanup, manufacturing value added. What capabilities should be inhibited in robots? What ethical bounds should be set for robots? What constraints should be put in place to safeguard humans. Should robot populations be inhibited? Robots can have teeth. Robots can be used to build better weapons, unmanned missile drones, and anti-aircraft weaponry. Will more countries fight wars with robots sparring direct loss of life? What will happen when both sides deploy robot armies? In 2004, the US House of representatives set aside $126 billion for federal research By 2020, 1/3 of the US combat aircraft will be unmanned and ground and sear forces will rely heavily on robots according to Eric Baard.
HQ federation contacts Kirk and orders him to "render any safety for the project". The enterprise detects an Klingon battle cruiser and attempt to warn the station. The warning arrives too late. Captain Kolob has already arrived at K7 and explains that K7 has been chosen as a place of recreation. The Argainan Peact treaty does not prohibit Klingons from enjoying recreation on K7, but the activity seems suspicious. Kirk agrees to allow 12 Klingons on the space station at a time and to be matched one for one by Federation security personnel.
The tribble has a tranquilizing affect on the human nervous system. Humans can feel affectionate for robots. In 1996, Tamagotchi, the lovable egg, was released to the consumer. Tamagotchi would lets its owner know when it wanted attention: beep and cry with sounds that get louder and louder and if ignored the toy would act loudly and recklessly. If Tamagotchi was ignored for a prolong period of time, it would become ill. Business people would admit to postponing meetings to remove virtual waste or feed the virtual pet. Owners often feel attached to their digital pets and post memorial messages for their departed virtual pet in a Web cemetery. Sales of Tamgotchi exceeded ten million units.
Tribble body structure is 50 percent dedicated to reproduction. After being fed, Tribbles reproduce every 12 hours with a litter of 11. "What do you get when you feed a tribble? You get a who lot of hungry little tribbles." Tribbles don't like Klingons and emit a shrill sound around them. Apparently tribbles can sense and understand other people mental states or in other words, Tribbles can empathize. Empathy gives the tribble access to the other person's mental state and emotional interactions. Tribble respond negatively to the emotion of hate. Spock perceives peril in allowing the Tribbles to breed; Spock quotes Jesus, "Consider the Lillies of the field, how they toil not"; tribbles are born pregnant, bisexual, and can reproduce at will; tribbles consume supplies and return nothing.
A fight breaks out between the Klingons and the Federation security crew. Scottie throws the first punch, after a Klingon says, "the Enterprise should not be hauling garbage. The Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage". Kirk cancels shore leave. Kirk discovers that Scottie stopped Chekov from confrontation the Klingons, after they made rude comments about the Captain with Scottie telling Chekov, they were "big enough to take a few insults". Kirk asks Scottie then why did he strike the Klingon; Scottie replies, "it was a matter of pride".
Serino Jones is accused of being an Klingon Agent, but the evidence does not hold up against him. Serino Jones is an asteroid prospector and collector of rare merchandise. The tribble population growth has reached an alarming 1 million tribbles. The tribbles have began eating the wheat, but most of the tribbles are dead. Mr. Darwin has poisoned the grain with a virus designed to remove all the nutritional elements of the wheat; the tribbles have starved to death. Kirk forces Serino Jones to agree to clean up the space station and Spock estimates clean will take Serino 17.9 years. Scottie admits to transporting all the tribbles on the enterprise to the engine room of the Klingon ship, saying "no tribble at all".
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Description of Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 21, Episodes 41 & 42: I, Mudd/ The Trouble With Tribbles
In I, Mudd, Harcourt Fenton Mudd returns to cause problems for Captain Kirk when he sends a male android to the Enterprise in order to recruit humans for his female androids to serve; in The trouble with tribbles, furry creatures that live to eat and multiply cause problems on the Enterprise.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 24-APR-2001
Media Type: DVD
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