Trouble With Tribbles Essay

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The episode, “Trouble with Tribbles” directed by Joseph Pevney, uses many actor and director choices to portray the written script version of “Trouble With Tribbles”. To begin with, the director made choices that kept the performance in the episode very true to the script. For example, the script talks about “The storage compartments with the quadro-triticale.” (Gerrold 254). The episode also talks about the quadro-triticale because the whole episode revolves around protecting the storage compartments that contain the special grain. Not to mention, the script talks about the tribbles being cute little furry things, and in the episode, they were in face, fluffy, sweet things that particularly didn't like Klingons. One change the episode contained …show more content…

The script portrays the character of Korax as a sarcastic, mean person, but in the episode, I think he could have done a better job at showing his sarcastic nasty side rather than just politely standing there. Overall, I think the actor’s performance stayed really true to the script because Scotty asked like he was Scottish and Chekov was very good at showing his heavily Russian side. In conclusion, the director and actor choices reflected on the episode version of “Trouble With Tribbles”. Director and actor choices are important to ensure that they succeed at entertaining their audience. To start off, I think directors make certain choices because it will either help with the budget of the show, or how the show plays back. They also have a certain time limit that they have to fill with only the lines and events that are important to the plot of the story. Although the actors can’t make choices on their own, I think their choices affect the plot as well because if they get out of character, even for a second, it could ruin the whole show. Many of the characters chose to look beyond what the script said because most of them really portrayed what their characters were supposed to be like because for example, Spock was a smart being

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