Star Trek (IDW Publishing)
Star Trek is a comic book series by IDW Publishing, based on the Star Trek science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. Since 2007, IDW Publishing has released three Star Trek ongoing series along with many limited series, crossover series and annuals.
Cover of Star Trek #1, flagship comic of the line.
The Trouble with Tribbles
"The Trouble with Tribbles" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by David Gerrold and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast on December 29, 1967. In this comic episode, the starship Enterprise visits a space station that soon becomes overwhelmed by rapidly reproducing small furry creatures called "tribbles."
Captain Kirk, up to his chest in tribbles
"The Trouble with Tribbles" was the first sale of writer David Gerrold (photographed in 2010).
Nichelle Nichols said that she had never seen a script changed so much but stay the same.
During the course of filming, William Shatner was covered with five hundred tribbles on eight occasions.