"Kirk may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with
delusions of godhood, but he's not soft."
--Klingon first officer
"He called you a tin-plated, overbearing dictator with delusions
of Godhood!"
--Scotty
"And that's when you hit him!"
--Kirk
"Ah, no, sir. We're big enough to take a FEW insults!"
--Scotty
"Scotty, you're confined to quarters."
--Kirk
"Yes, sir. Thank you,
sir! That'll give m e a chance to catch up on me technical journals!"
--Scotty
"... where [they'll] be no tribble at all."
--Scotty
"Extremely [little] joke, Ensign."
--Spock
"On the contrary, sir...it is you I take lightly."
--Kirk
"[Scotch] was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad."
--Chekov
PLOT
Kirk must put up with Federation bureaucrats and hoards of hungry tribbles,
while protecting a shipment of quadrotriticale (wheat) against Klingon
sabotage.
The tribbles get in through the air vents and eat all the grain from the
storage compartments.
There was one Klingon agent who was (apparently) modified to pass as a
human.
FACTS
Tribbles multiply quickly.
Tribbles have no mouths.
Tribbles hate Klingons.
It will take 17.9 years to dispose of all the tribbles on the base (but
it took practically no time to get all the fuzzballs off the ship).
