Edward Gorey watched television for the first time this summer, or so he claims, and in the process the 52-year-old artist became a "Star Trek" fan. He watched the science-fiction program re-runs twice a day, five days a week and once on the sixth day, and despite this faithful viewing he has yet to see the TV show's most famous episode, "The Trouble With Tribbles," which is about these furry little creatures in outer space, or so he says.
That was from a 1977 Boston Globe story about Gorey's work as a set designer for a stage production of Dracula. It inspired Shaenon K. Garrity to imagine how Gorey might have drawn the story of the Tribbles. It is dead on and hilarious, especially if you know and love both Gorey and Star Trek. I won't spoil the visuals, but here is one of the captions:
By morning, the mass of mewling fluff had become quite suffocating.
(Hat tip to Ephemeral Isle.)
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