Star Trek

I watched “The Trouble with Tribbles.” The episode starts out with Captain Kirk getting a distress call from another ship. Once there, the capp’n finds out that nobody was in trouble, but instead there was a large shipment of grain that needed to be guarded. Meanwhile, the Harold Hill of outer space (a man named Cyrano Jones) gives a tribble (a furry furby puffball) to Uhura (the only chick on board) and, at first, the animals are cute (even to Spock!), but later they start to reproduce in large numbers and before anybody knows it, the whole ship is infested with them. Eventually, the tribbles get into the wheat (that Kirk wasn’t guarding), which started to kill them off because the wheat was laced with poison. In the end, all of the tribbles were beamed over to the Klingon ship as payback for the trouble the Klingons have given to the people on the Enterpirse.

I think that the biggest difference between the sci-fi today and the sci-fi from the Star Trek days is the plot. Nowadays people wouldn’t find a bunch of furby-like creatures infesting a ship that entertaining, compared to the other shows out there now where there are life and death battles going on in every episode. I think that the sci-fi now is more relatable because the struggles of the main characters seem more human-like than they did back then. For instance, in Buffy, the slayer has to ward off all of the evil in the world while still going to high school, dealing with the pressures of being a teenager, and dealing with the stress of a family. In Start Trek, their biggest problem is trying to keep furry animals from destroying the ship. The sci-fi now is more realistic and believable, which really makes it more entertaining to watch and more easy to relate to.