Author(s):	John M. Ford
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #36 Titan Books #5 Worlds Apart #2
Published:	1 October 1987 1 August 1999 (Worlds Apart edition)
Pages:	251
Stardate:	Unknown (2268)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671629980 ISBN 0671038591 (Worlds Apart edition)

An inconceivable fortune - a bewildering population... an impossible situation.

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

Dilithium. In crystalline form, is the most valuable mineral element in the galaxy. It powers the Federation's starships... and the Klingon Empire's battle cruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever 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 resources. 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 IKS Fire Blossom.

Only the Direidians are writing their own script for this contest – a script that propels the crew of the USS Enterprise into their strangest adventure yet!

Chapters:

1. In Space, No One Can Fry an Egg
   - Educational Short Subject
2. The Dilithium Crystal as Big as the Ritz
   - Historical Interlude
3. Organian Jumpball
4. Overtures
5. All's Fair in Love and Dilithium
6. The Dawn Patrol
7. Afternoon Matinee
8. All Through the Night
9. Come Up and See Me Sometime
10. Dilithium Split

Background InformationEdit

Cover gallery Edit

Worlds Apart reissue cover

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Characters Edit

Main Edit

James T. Kirk

Spock

Leonard McCoy

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Hikaru Sulu

Uhura

Pavel Chekov

Christine Chapel

Other Edit

Ilen the Magian 

singer of "Monochrome"

Tatyana Trofimov 

Captain, USS Jefferson Randolph Smith

T'Vau 

Vulcan science officer of same.

Tellihu

References Edit

Direidi

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USS Jefferson Randolph Smith (NCC-29407) 

Sulek-class Federation starship

Chronology Edit

• 2268

External linksEdit

• How Much for Just the Planet? at Wikipedia
• How Much for Just the Planet? at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works