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An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike.


Written by Dana Horgan & Bill Wolkoff

Directed by Dermott Downs

  • Prouvaire@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is there somewhere a list of the songs that Ford was parodying in How Much For Just The Planet? Even though I’m a huge musical theatre nerd, I didn’t get some of the references in the book and it always bugged me.

    (And speaking of John M Ford: Personally I still regret that the Klingon culture that the franchise developed through TNG and subsequent shows differed so much from the one Ford created in The Final Reflection.)

    • khaosworks@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      It’s a puzzle that has confounded readers for years. There are some obvious ones like “Rawhide”, but a lot are still unidentified. Here’s a good attempt at it.