Tribbles for Ichneumon

Tribbles for Ichneumon.

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"Tribbles for Ichneumon" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

Plot

The Ichneumon, an alien ambassador from the "Spock's Bug" parallel universe, is sterile, and will soon die without progeny, threatening the intra-universe treaty between Insects and Humanoids.

In a desperate effort to save both universes from extinction, Doctor McCoy synthesizes an experimental fertility drug using compounds isolated from living tribbles, but The Ichneumon refuses to take the drug unless it can first sting its eggs into a living host, naming McCoy as its host of choice.

McCoy is ready to sacrifice himself, but is knocked unconscious by a stunt double playing Kirk, who is in turn neck-pinched by the actual Leonard Nimoy (who narrates the episode).

During this human-on-human action, The Ichneumon grows increasingly impatient, finally stinging itself in a tantrum of alien petulance.

Thus does The Ichneumon bear its own young, which eat their progenitor and then sting themselves, sub specie aeternitatis.

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