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No one knows...

Just watched the Star Trek classic "The Trouble With Tribbles"

Even when I know it's coming I still laugh when Kirk opens the storage container doors and all the tribbles fall over him. (What kind of mess would have occurred if all the grain in that storage unit hadn't been consumed by the tribbles as he suspected?)

I still think sending all the tribbles from the Enterprise over to the Klingon ship just before it warped away was an immoral act of animal cruelty (Spock of all people thought of this solution). Sure the joke was on the Klingons, given their innate revulsion of the meek little tribble; however, because of that inherent racial revulsion the tribbles were most certainly extinguished with a thoroughly cruel efficiency.

But then the captain of the Klingon vessel could honestly say, after the whole affair was finished: "No one knows the tribbles I've seen."