Influences
Heinlein later credited the 1905 Ellis Parker Butler short story "Pigs is Pigs" with informing the flat cat incident. A similar concept and plotline appeared in the noted Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". According to screenwriter David Gerrold, the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked Heinlein for permission to use the idea. Heinlein asked for an autographed copy of the script, but otherwise did not object, noting that both stories owed something to the Butler story "and possibly to Noah". The steampunk novel Starcross also included references to a 'flat cat', but whimsically described it as a terrestrial domestic cat flattened by an automatic laundry mangle.
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