So worrisome was this matter that the producers contacted Heinlein and asked for a waiver, which Heinlein granted.
The similarities to the flat cats and some specific story events involving them was brought to the attention of the Star Trek staff when Desilu/ Paramount's primary in-house clearance group, Kellam de Forest Research, submitted a report on the script on August 11, 1967, noting the similarities of “a small, featureless, fluffy, purring animal, friendly and loving, that reproduces rapidly when fed, and nearly engulfs a spaceship”. Heinlein's flat cats are often said to have been the inspiration for the tribbles of the 1967 Star Trek episode " The Trouble with Tribbles". They are later revived and sold to miners in the asteroid belt. The family solves the problem by rounding up the flat cats and putting them into the storage hold at low temperature, where they hibernate. The boys take the flat cat onto the family space ship, where it soon has eight "kittens", each of which soon gives birth again, until the ship is overwhelmed with flat cats.
"They're affectionate little things and many of the sand rats keep them for pets - a man has to have someone to talk to when he's out prospecting and a flat cat is better than a wife because it can't talk back. It had no discernible features, being merely a pie-shaped mass of sleek red fur a little darker than Castor's own hair. Angelo, a shopkeeper on Mars, introduces Castor and Pollux Stone to a flat cat:Īngelo tickled it with a forefinger it began to purr like a high-pitched buzzer. In the chapter "Free Enterprise", the character Mr. Heinlein's 1952 science fiction novel, The Rolling Stones, flat cats are a species of Martian animal which reproduce rapidly and overrun a spaceship. For the punk rock band, see Flatcat (band).
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