How Much for Just the Planet?
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A wildly comic Star Trek: The Original Series adventure featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise in a bizarre battle for dilithium crystals against the Klingons.
Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation’s starships...and the Klingon Empire’s battlecruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found.
Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, the planet will go to the side best able to develop its resources. Each side will contest the prize with the pride of its fleet. For the Federation—Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. For the Klingons—Captain Kaden vestai-Oparai and the Fire Blossom.
Only the Direidians are writing their own script for this contest—a script that propels the crew of the Starship Enterprise into their strangest and funniest adventure yet!
John M Ford
John M. Ford was, in his lifetime, a favorite author of many writers better known than he was, including Robert Jordan and Gene Wolfe. He won World Fantasy Awards for both his novel The Dragon Waiting and his poem "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station," and he won the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel, Growing Up Weightless. His Star Trek(TM) novel, The Final Reflection, essentially created the nuanced Klingon culture seen later in the feature films, and his other novel in that universe, How Much For The Planet?, was a Star Trek(TM) tale told as a Gilbert & Sullivan musical, complete with songs. He was a genius. He died in 2006.
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