Tribble

• None

• None

• Non-humanoid

• Unknown

• Red (Iron-based)

• Ball of fur
• Emitted cooing sounds while touched

• Able to scale & cling to vertical surfaces

• Born pregnant, reproduced asexually

• Iota Geminorum IV

• Unsentient lifeform

• First encountered by Humans in the early 2150s
• Edward Larkin modified them with Human DNA, to increase their reproductive rate
• 2268: Cyrano Jones brought a small number of tribbles to Deep Space Station K-7;
• Most of them were wiped out by the Klingons, they destroyed their homeworld
• 2373: Defiant was sent back to 2268 & brought them back to the 24th Century