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** More Trek goodness. The TOS novel ''How Much For Just the Planet?'' by John M. Ford features, among other things, a Klingon who's a fan of Humphrey Bogart, a milkshake-obsessed computer, spontaneous musical numbers, inflatable starships, a [[Planet of Hats|planet whose hat]] is comedy routines, a [[Neil Gaiman]] cameo, a Paramount [[Shout-Out]], and a truly epic Starfleet vs. Klingon... pie fight. And blue orange juice. And it is awesome.

*** Exceedingly.

*** During one of these, a comment about how much Picard and Professor X look alike was made...[[Reverse Funny Aneurysm|years prior to Patrick Stewart earning the role of Professor X]].

** Then there is ''Uhura's Song''. A Federation planet of humanoid felines is having their worst known outbreak of a disease that periodically incapacitates most of their planet's population. Then Christine Chapel catches it -- and it affects humans more quickly than the feline race. The surest hope of finding the cure to this plague is to go to the planet the felines originally came from -- which they previously told outsiders doesn't exist despite biological evidence to the contrary; the medic who admits that planet's existence tries to commit suicide because he told them. The only clues for finding this planet are in the folk songs of the feline race, which the Federation only knows because Uhura befriended one of this race previously. This mission to find that planet and get the cure presumed to be on it, is deemed so important that the ''Enterprise'' crew is given permission to completely ignore the Prime Directive... And it only gets stranger. It's great fun, but if ''Star Trek's'' [[Expanded Universe]] was canon, this story would really wreak havoc with later continuity.