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The Hur'q and Tribbles (SPOILERS)
sirimanda
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Wonder if tribbles originate from the Hur'q homeworld. they seem genetically engineered prior to the fall of the Hur'q to feed a ravenous population and metabolize food in such a way as their offspring have dramatically different attributes to their parents, which could be a method of having a varied nutrient diet for such a predatory species.
The Hur'q would easily keep their pop in check, and they would have easily spread tribbles to the beta quadrant during their occupation of the Klingon homeworld. Further the Klingon hatered of tribbles could be a race memory of their association with the hur'q. This is similar to how humans produce livestock in mass quantities but Tribbles take on the characteristics of livestock engineered by an advanced species.
The huge cave networks of Qo'nos could have easily been used to produce massive quantities of Ketracel while the surface could easily be a tribble farm. The Klingons could have hated the tribbles because the Klingons starved while the Hur'q fed the tribbles. The Klingons may not like to talk about why they hate tribbles other than 'they eat everything' because of the embarrassment of having had tribbles in a higher social order (the Hur'q would have valued tribbles and the ketracel more than the Klingons which they probably mostly didn't care about).
They left Qo'nos and took all evidence of them with them, all traces- possibly to avoid being detected during their sleep and this included the sword of Kahless since it was made from a Hur'q carapace.
The Hur'q would easily keep their pop in check, and they would have easily spread tribbles to the beta quadrant during their occupation of the Klingon homeworld. Further the Klingon hatered of tribbles could be a race memory of their association with the hur'q. This is similar to how humans produce livestock in mass quantities but Tribbles take on the characteristics of livestock engineered by an advanced species.
The huge cave networks of Qo'nos could have easily been used to produce massive quantities of Ketracel while the surface could easily be a tribble farm. The Klingons could have hated the tribbles because the Klingons starved while the Hur'q fed the tribbles. The Klingons may not like to talk about why they hate tribbles other than 'they eat everything' because of the embarrassment of having had tribbles in a higher social order (the Hur'q would have valued tribbles and the ketracel more than the Klingons which they probably mostly didn't care about).
They left Qo'nos and took all evidence of them with them, all traces- possibly to avoid being detected during their sleep and this included the sword of Kahless since it was made from a Hur'q carapace.
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You could always write in that this assessment was incorrect. We weren't provided with the exact evidence that [presumed] Federation researchers used to determine whether A. Geminorium IV was the tribble homeworld (ie. that they are definitely native parts of the local ecology) and B. that Greminorium wasn't settled by life from the Gamma Quadrant (the Hur'Q come, stray bits of their ecology begin to occupy open habitat...)
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Iotia Geminorium IV via memory alpha.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Iota_Geminorium_IV
It looks like it might have established as the tribble homeworld during the production of DS9 (on screen diagram.) It may have also been directly referenced in Enterprise (the wiki author doesn't use a proper citation format to illustrate what facts are from which sources.)
So, according to existing canon (or at least the most authoritative reference material available), this is the tribble homeworld. Hence, reappraisal of facts with new data rather than just tossing out information that's inconvenient to a desired plot point. Cryptic can work around to this if they choose, no worries.
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Granted, I also don't own any pets, and my inventory thanks me for it. Ok, I do, the ones you get from like getting a shuttle. The TO'duj fighter for example. But, they land in my overflow bag and stay there.
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and tribbles likely are prone to getting everywhere so it'd be very easy for them to get aboard a shuttle craft and spread to another world.... ya know now that I think of it the tribble could be used as the PERFECT representive of invasive species.
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Tribbles at War
If Klingons are more related to Targ instead of the monkey equivalent of Q'onos, maybe some kind of pig/boar like species was the original Tribble predator. (I kinda imagine something like a truffles pig smelling a delicious Tribble that is hiding somewhere in the bushes.)
The Klingons simply might not like Tribbles because they never act "cute" towards them, and otherwise are just a pest.