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CBS/Paramount is inviting attendees of San Diego's Comic-Con to get into some trouble with Tribbles -- and to take photos of the fur flying for all the world to see.

Announced by David Gerrold, Tribble inventor (not a title you hear every day) and writer of the fan-favorite "The Trouble with Tribbles," the Star Trek Comic-Con booth is offering a limited number of Tribbles for fans to steal away with into the San Diego night.

Fans are then asked to take creative photographs with their Tribbles and to post them at CBS-BDLive.com.

It's not often that two people are so connected in these TV obituary roundup posts I do every week or so, but these two people are worth mentioning in the same post.

Alexander Courage, who composed the theme song for the original Star Trek series, died on May 15 at age 88. He also did music for episodes of many other series, including Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Waltons, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, The Loner, Eight is Enough, Daniel Boone, Riverboat, and many others. He was also an orchestrator on several movies, including L.A. Confidential, The Haunting, The Mummy, First Knight, The Shadow, Rudy, Malice, Hook, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Poseidon Adventure, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, and a ton of others.

But Courage wasn't the only Star Trek figure to pass away that week...

Star Trek has been in the news quite a bit these last few weeks. There's the Comedy Central roast of William Shatner, the premiere of Star Trek:Enterprise on the Sci Fi Channel, and the announcement of a new Trek movie that will be directed by Lost creator J.J. Abrams. Now word comes that TV Land has acquired the rights to the original (and many say the best) Star Trek.

The show will join TV Land's regular rotation starting in November. However, in order to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary (feeling old yet anyone?) the classic-television network will air four episodes of Trek on September 8th; the date when it premiered way back in 1966 on NBC. The evening will start off with "The Man Trap", which was the episode that began the series, then follow with "City on the Edge of Forever" (with a young Joan Collins), "The Trouble With Tribbles" (one of my favorites), and "Plato's Stepchildren", which featured the very first interracial kiss shown on television (although some fans refute that statement).

After this initial four episode run the show will take a break and come back on November 17th in its normal time slot. Episodes will also be available online at TV Land's new broadband video channel.