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Summary: The best Star Trek comedy yet!
Review: Who said that Star Trek was a Drama series? This is a very funny book and I agree with the other reviewers--Buy it if you can find it.If you don not think Star Trek should be a comedy, then don't read it!
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Summary: A fine story built upon an extremely funny premise
Review: As far as I'm concerned, this is the only Star Trek novel that reads well, no matter what your opinion of the series (or its fans). It's hilariously funny, picking at each character's foibles and inveting some new ones (a Klingon ensign who's a vintage movie fan?) John M. Ford did write another Star Trek novel, The Final Reflection, which is as good as this one, although much more serious. It has the unique distinction of being the only Star Trek novel with no Star Trek characters in it.
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Summary: Gilbert and Sullivan meet Star Trek (The Original Series)
Review: This is the best book in the ST:TOS genre by Pocket Books. Think of a comedy musical version of Star Trek, and you're close. Great lines, great subplots, great takeoffs, and the characters are still left intact. The climax leaves something to be desired, but considering all the fun the crew has getting there, it doesn't matter much. Just remember - no one likes being laughed at.
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Summary: Arrrgh! I can't believe no one mentioned Neil Gaiman!
Review: Yes, folks, Neil Gaiman is actually IN the book! If you look in the dedication, it lists a bunch of people, then "and Neil, who wanted a walk-on". He is Ilen the Magian (anagram, anyone?). This was confirmed by Mr. Gaiman himself when I saw him at a book signing in Long Beach, CA, for Neverwhere. Just thought I'd mention it.
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Summary: Star Trek Meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Review: One word: Hilarious! The first time I read this novel I was very angry because I'd gone into it expecting a serious novel like all the others before it. I hated it. I didn't want to ever read it again. Then I thought about it a year or two later and went back and re-read it. I died laughing, especially during the Vulcan Milkshake and the chase sequences. Do _not_ go into the book expecting a serious story, but if you go into it in the right frame of mind you _will_ laugh until your sides hurt.
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Summary: If you can find it, BUY IT.
Review: This is Classic ST on the order of "Trouble with Tribbles." In this book they get it right - they have a lot of fun WITHOUT making fun of our favorite characters. My copy was loaned out to someone - it was not returned, and I've regretted it ever since!
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Summary: WARNING! WARNING! Humor invades the Star Trek series!
Review: Who let Ford write a Star Trek novel? Wish they'd let him write another one. The crew of the interstellar survey ship with the dipsy female Vulcan Star Fleet officer must be free for another adventure by now. Let's hear more about them. ANYWAY in this novel Jim, Spock, Bones, Scotty and the others just have fun and adventure contending with the Klingons over a planet rich in dilithium. After the second chapter you realize the planet's inhabitants might be playing both sides for a laugh, and you'll be laughing too if you read this book. Ford knows his Trek and it shows in this decidedly different Star Trek story.
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Summary: A Star Trek novel for people who hate Star Trek novels
Review: Too bad this one's out of print. If you can find it, buy it and read it. What Terry Pratchett does for fantasy, John Ford does for Star Trek.
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Summary: Star Trek a la Gilbert and Sullivan
Review: This is a jaunty tale of our favorite Star Trek (Kirk era) characters caught up in bargaining for a very musical planet. The inhabitants of this planet break into song at the drop of a hat. Riotously funny to imagine the crew of the Enterprise singing and dancing their way through the universe. If you can get a copy of this book you will love it. Star Trek fanatics be warned, you may find the premise specious, but get a life! Have some fun and read "How Much For Just the Planet".
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Summary: Trek meets the 3 Stooges?
Review: This book has occasionally been called the sequel to "The Final Reflection". Actually, it is no such thing. But it is the book which *could have been* the sequel, had Paramount granted John M. Ford free rein to write another about the Klingon culture he had so meticulously developed in his first Trek novel. Instead, Paramount had begun to exercise tighter control over pro-novelists' creativity, and this book was Ford's response to such stiflement. And by Kahless' Hand, did he have fun with it! "How Much For Just the Planet" is not just a spoof of Star Trek, but a spoof of Paramount itself: "...Scott's eye was caught by an unusual constellation: a ring of stars haloing a distant peak. 'Look at that, now. Doesn't it awe you a little? To think there might be a higher power than us, arranging matters?'..." (To fully appreciate that passage, envision the Paramount icon.) So we get Kirk and the Klingons in a riotous quasi-musical Busby Berkely-type comedy production culminating in the intergalactic pie-fight. Trek purists tend to hate this novel as much as Paramount and Pocket do, but Ford's fans laugh along with him. Vengeance is a dish best served cold, and this one tastes sweet as a pink n'gaan milkshake!
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