Spot

portrayed by one of the tribbles that fell on Kirk's head

Positions Held

Pet

Character Species

Tribble/Glommer

Character History

Spot's parent was a resident aboard a small Class-J trading vessel, so Spot was born in the interstellar void. He is forever telling anyone he meets about the time he really and truly met the legendary Captain James T. Kirk! Actually, he had bounced off Captain Kirk's head while aboard a space station near the Klingon border. It wasn't his fault! He was a victim of gravity. At present, he lives with a large bi-laterally symmetrical being who calls himself "Benton", aboard some sort of space-going vessel. None of that matters, of course...why in the world would it? After all, the only thing Spot wants is lunch. And he would do anything to get it.

Spot's survival after the Klingons' supposedly succesful pogrom against the Tribbles is due to the fact that Spot was brought forward in time by the USS Defiant and the Bajoran "Orb of Time" from about one hundred years in the past, before the genocide of the Tribbles had begun. Lest the galaxy be once again overrun by his kind, Spot and the other time-travelling Tribbles underwent some minor genetic cross-breeding with a species called the Glommers that rendered them virtually infertile.

Real Name

NPC - Richard Merk