Star Trek: Ranking The Short Treks From Worst To Best

You may not agree with the ranking of "The Trouble with Edward", but talk about a swing for the fences. This is hands down the most twisted installment in the Star Trek Universe ever.

A riff on the classic "The Trouble with Tribbles", H. Jon Benjamin plays a man child of a science officer who is rightly questioned for just how he was able to make it through the ranks of Starfleet. The episode plays a little fast and loose with the lore of the tribbles, but implies Benjamin's Edward is the reason the fuzzy critters are born pregnant and able to propagate so uncontrollably. Because he wants to eat them.

The short treats us to a bizarre tribble hunt in which Captain Lucero (a welcome Rosa Salazar) and crew literally fire on them with phaser rifles before having to flee the hoard of fluffs. And we get a glimpse of some kind of tribble sucking vacuum machine. Of course the creatures' breeding ultimatley overwhelms the crew and rather than ending with some clever way to deal with the adorable menace, "The Trouble with Edward" simply has the USS Cabot destroyed and a deserving Edward killed by his own creation.

And then there's that post-credit faux commercial for Tribbles brand cereal, which... you know you just have to go watch this thing.