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Here's the link to the thread

http://forums.startrekonline.com/sho...ilated+tribble

Tribbology probably sounds the more likely, however silly it sounds but I am sure there is a more generic term not affiliated with tribbles in particular. I just can't think of it at the moment. If there was more science involved I would say genetics but sigh, alas tis not.

ZINC + Croissant = SPARKES for me instead of a DOTSON
ZINC + Cardassian Kanar = SPARKES
ZINC + Root Beer = DOTSON

I pulled out 'polygeminology' from their scientific name, since their genus and species is Polygeminus grex. I checked the definitions for different things that were very close to these proposed names.

Tribology is the study of interacting surfaces in motion, or basically the study of friction.
Polyology means 'verbosity'
Geminology is the study of twins.
When I did a google search on grexology and polygeminology, my post with this word was the first thing that showed up in the list. LOL

Since the little buggers reproduce like crazy, and polygeminus implies 'lots of twins', 'tribbologist' could be confused with 'tribologist', and 'tribblologist' is too hard to say 3 times fast, along with sounding a bit silly, may I recommend 'polygeminologist' for those of us who enjoying studying tribbles?

My guess (and it's simply a guess of course) is that this new Assimilated Tribble will end up being a standalone bonus critter that won't relate to the standard Tribble system at all.

They told us the new Tribbles' ability is specifically geared toward the Borg so it already has little in common to any other preexisting Tribble. And as an "assimilated" Tribble I could easily accept that it might not even be able to create/breed any other normal Tribble.

It'll be interesting to see how it might fit into the current Tribble scheme.
I'm just not counting on it "playing nice" with any other normal Tribble at this point. :p

Blame Guinan and Worf. Now it's a staple among the Federation-aligned Klingons.

I'm definitely not leaving it alone with any of my rare tribbles until I've first seen what happens to some tier 1s.

What do you call someone who studies tribbles?

Dr. Gregory Cyrano Jones of course.

I expect, that in typical borg behavior it will assimilate other tribbles to be assimilated tribbles, much in the way tribbles eat food to replace that with other tribbles.

So it will possibly eat food and tribbles to produce copies of itself.

Or would it enhance the tribble it assimilates to produce an additional buff ? hmmm