How Much for Just the Planet? (Star Trek, No 36)
by:
John M. Ford (author)
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...
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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 the planet and its resourses. Each side will contest the prize with the prime 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 -- script that propels the crew of the "Starship Enterprise" into their strangest adventure yet!
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780671038595 (0671038591)
ASIN: 0671038591
Publish date: 1999-08-01
Publisher: Star Trek
Pages no: 253
Edition language: English
Yes, indeedy, this one has to be right up there with Ishmael for the oddest, strangest, but funniest ST novel out there. All I can say is that the author must have been on some pretty heavy medication while he was writing this one up.
I originally gave this novel one star. I first read it as a teen-ager and couldn't finish it. I had had high hopes because - at the time - I had just come off of reading Ford's phenomenally good [b:The Final Reflection|216722|The Final Reflection|John M. Ford|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1172785046s...
[These notes were made in 1987:]. Frankly, not one of my favourites. Based on a personal whimsy, in fact, which I don't share. Ford has transported the principals of the Enterprise, with a few made-up extras, plus an equal number of Klingons, onto a planet where no matter how they try to resolve s...
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