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From: tli@oberon.UUCP (Tony Li)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Origin of the Tribbles
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 00:59:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 00:59:48 1985
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In article <2231@topaz.ARPA> quint@topaz.UUCP (Amqueue) writes:
    I dont have my copy around, but in The Trouble With Tribbles, by David
    Gerrold (which is a book about the filming of the episode), he mentions
    that someone connected with the show noticed the similarity. Heinlein 
    was written to, and he said go ahead, teh idea wasnt new with him, they
    both owed something to gerbils (or something like that). 

Actually, it was the rabbits in Australia

ps.  Hi amqueue!



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