Star Trek's Most Incredible Tie-In Novel Is a Musical Comedy
A good book. I think I still have it. "How Much for Just the Planet? is weird and funny and perfectly balanced and paced. Farce is hard comedy to write because of the way it has to ramp up. Ford does it perfectly here, while also keeping true to the tone of The Original Series. McCoy explains why he, Sulu, and two Klingons aren’t going to bow to the queen of their captors this way: “You see, ma’am, these two gentlemen already have a dictator, it’s against Mr. Sulu’s religion... and I’m a Democrat.” And I can hear DeForest Kelley say that line."
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