A short list of stupid Trek ideas rolling around in my head.
Item One: Weaponized tribble eggs
You scoff, oh yes, but consider: tribbles already breed like bacteria and it wouldn't take much more to adapt them to a more carnivorous diet, increase the growth factor a smidge and make the eggs more like little spores. Perhaps other additions to their genome could be made as well, so they could stand vaccum for short periods, noxious atmospheres, and resistance to certain poisons. After weaponized tribbles have consumed your planetary food sources, they will start in on you.
Item Two: Tribble farming
An outgrowth of weaponized tribble technology. Think of huge orbital farms, filled with free range tribbles, and giant scoops to dump them in vats for protein harvesting. You think that resequenced chicken salad sandwich is just algae? With additional tweaking, all sorts of animal fats can be produced for the black market as well...I'm certain transfats are outlawed in the Federation and replicators will refuse to provide triglycerides.
Item Three: 1st Horta Battalion, Space Marine
What could be more unnerving than having sentient rocks slam into your hull, burn through every deck and expose all of it to space, and know it was done for the price of a few bags of gravel?
I'm sure I can cough up more, but work calls.
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