How Much for Just the Planet?
An inconceivable fortune – a bewildering population… an impossible situation.

How Much for Just the Planet? is a Pocket TOS novel – #36 in the numbered series, and the second of the retroactively designated Worlds Apart novels – written by John M. Ford. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
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:
 In Space, No One Can Fry an Egg – Educational Short Subject
 The Dilithium Crystal as Big as the Ritz – Historical Interlude
 Organian Jumpball
 Overtures
 All's Fair in Love and Dilithium
 The Dawn Patrol
 Afternoon Matinee
 All Through the Night
 Come Up and See Me Sometime
 Dilithium Split

Background information 
 The Science Fiction Book Club released a special edition of the novel in hardback in .

Cover gallery

Characters

Main 
 James T. Kirk
 Spock
 Leonard McCoy
 Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
 Hikaru Sulu
 Uhura
 Pavel Chekov
 Christine Chapel

Other 
Ilen the Magian  singer of "Monochrome"
Tatyana Trofimov  Captain, USS Jefferson Randolph Smith
T'Vau  Vulcan science officer of same.
Tellihu

References 
 Direidi
grilled cheese
USS Jefferson Randolph Smith (NCC-29407)  Sulek-class Federation starship

Chronology 
 2268

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