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** Most of the musical numbers are designed to fit the meter of ones the reader might already know, since it's hard to convey music in plain text, leading to, for example, nomadic raiders singing about their lives in the style of the theme from ''Series/{{Rawhide}}''.
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** The shopkeeper wanting to haggle with Uhura gives a speech that cribs heavily from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheLifeOfBrian'', wherein the eponymous Brian got a similar lecture from a seller of gourds and fake beards.
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** The shopkeeper wanting to haggle with Uhura gives a speech that cribs heavily from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheLifeOfBrian'', ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', wherein the eponymous Brian got a similar lecture from a seller of gourds and fake beards.
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** The shopkeeper wanting to haggle with Uhura gives a speech that cribs heavily from ''Film/TheLifeOfBrian'', ''Film/MontyPythonsTheLifeOfBrian'', wherein the eponymous Brian got a similar lecture from a seller of gourds and fake beards.
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* FilkSong: Most of the songs in ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' are based on existing tunes, including "Falling in Love Again", "Just a Gigolo" and "Theme from Rawhide", to avoid the problem of the readers otherwise not being able to hear them.
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* CookingDuel: Scotty gets challenged to a duel by a Klingon security officer. He chooses "the ancestral weapon of the Scots" -- that is, golf.
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* CookingDuel: Scotty gets challenged to a duel by a Klingon security officer. He As the one challenged, Scotty is allowed to select the weapon, so he chooses "the ancestral weapon of the Scots" -- that is, golf.
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* WinWinEnding: The Direidi would prefer not to have to deal with either the Federation or the Empire, but are pragmatic enough to realise that the dilithium is such a vital resource that they have no realistic chance of stopping one or the other side from taking it eventually. They decide to join the Federation, but with the condition that the Federation contract out the dilithium mining operation to the Klingons with the idea that the two powers would keep each other in check and prevent either of them annexing the entire planet. Both the Federation and the Klingons get dilithium (most likely 50% each) and the Direidi get to keep their planet and way of life.
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* WinWinEnding: The Direidi would prefer not to have to deal with either [[spoiler:either the Federation or the Empire, but are pragmatic enough to realise that the dilithium is such a vital resource that they have no realistic chance of stopping one or the other side from taking it eventually. They decide to join the Federation, but with the condition that the Federation contract out the dilithium mining operation to the Klingons with the idea that the two powers would keep each other in check and prevent either of them annexing the entire planet. Both the Federation and the Klingons get dilithium (most likely 50% each) and the Direidi get to keep their planet and way of life.life]].
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* SkunkStripe: Queen Janeka has a white stripe in her hair, the width of which varies depending on when she last did the LifeDrinker ritual.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Ilen the Magian.
-->"This isn't a movie, Proke."\\
-->"This isn't a movie, Proke."\\
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* CardCarryingVillain: CardCarryingVillain:
** Ilen the Magian.
-->"This --->"This isn't a movie, Proke."\\
** Ilen the Magian.
** Queen Janeka goes so far as to have a musical number called "In My Own Sweet Tyrannical Way."
* TheChosenOne: [=McCoy=] is declared to be the destined saviour of Queen Janeka's slaves based on his breakfast order.
* MedalsForEveryone: Apart from Kirk and Kaden (who are both given blackmail material), everyone is given a present at the end, ranging from food and drink to trick swords to art objects to Chekov and Korth being awarded the Direidi Cluster for [[BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame Courage Under Par]].
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** The Federation diplomat, Charlotte Sanchez, turns out to be an old girlfriend of Kirk's. [=McCoy=] takes great pleasure in hanging a lampshade on how often that seems to happen.
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** Thed's record of breaking into Flyter's house during her and Orvy's adventures.
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** The precise circumstances of Spock's encounter with T'vau are inferrable but never specified.
** We never do learn why Chekov was once called "a disgrace to the Pioneer Railroad Porters' Corps."
** We never do learn why Chekov was once called "a disgrace to the Pioneer Railroad Porters' Corps."
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* SanitySlippage: The crew of the ''Jefferson Randolph Smith'' do seem to be losing it just a little bit by the end of the story.
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* CommonalityConnection: Many of the humans and Klingons find common ground. Sanchez and Arizhel bond over unwanted male attention and fathers who didn't agree with their life choices, and Chekov and Korth bond over a shared exasperation with the odd ways of elder officers while Scotty and Maglus bond over a shared exasperation with the odd ways of junior officers. Foreshadowed in the opening scenes on each starship, which all involve the respective crews having issues with the food replicators.
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* NotSoDifferent: Many of the humans and Klingons find common ground. Sanchez and Arizhel bond over unwanted male attention and fathers who didn't agree with their life choices, and Chekov and Korth bond over a shared exasperation with the odd ways of elder officers while Scotty and Maglus bond over a shared exasperation with the odd ways of junior officers. Foreshadowed in the opening scenes on each starship, which all involve the respective crews having issues with the food replicators.
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%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The barbarian queen Janeka.
%%* HeKnowsTooMuch: At the climax of Uhura and Aperokei's ''noir''-flavored subplot.
%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The barbarian queen Janeka.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Well, ExpandedUniverse continuity error ''with'' series, but still. When expressing surprise that the beautiful little harp she's found costs a mere two credits, Uhura mentions once spending ten credits on "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles a little ball of fur]]". Actually, she didn't spend ''anything'' on it -- the barman ''tried'' to sell her one for ten credits, but then Cyrano Jones gave her one for free.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: At the climax of Uhura and Aperokei's ''noir''-flavored subplot.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Thed and Orvy.
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* AshFace: After Kaden gets pushed down the hotel's incinerator chute, he reappears covered in soot with his clothes smouldering and clearly [[AngryAnimalisticGrowl very,]] ''[[AngryAnimalisticGrowl very]]'' [[AngryAnimalisticGrowl annoyed]], but otherwise unscathed.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Joked about by Ambassador Sanchez. When she sees the person knocking on her door was Arizhel, she exclaims "Thank god." Then they hear a strange noise from outside (it's actually Kaden falling from a broken fire-escape).
-->'''Arizhel''': What was that?\\
'''Sanchez''': If it was a thunderbolt, he missed me.
-->'''Arizhel''': What was that?\\
'''Sanchez''': If it was a thunderbolt, he missed me.
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* NoodleIncident: The last time Thed turned down the sensible course of action because she had a much better idea.
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** The Direidians make one up just to [[{{Troll}} screw with Kirk]], claiming that they once had lions on their planet, but "someone left them outside all night and -- well, you know...", then acting annoyed and refusing to talk about it when Kirk asks what happened to them.
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* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: Invoked intentionally. After Uhura and Aperokei are captured by Ilen the Magian, he leaves them tied back-to-back in the projection room of his movie theater, with a liquid explosive that will go off at about the time the movie ends. Aperokei, knowing that Ilen -- who is obsessed with movie tropes -- will have [[GenreSavvy left them a way to escape]], realizes they can cut through their ropes with the spinning projector wheel. [[spoiler:In reality, Ilen did this because he's an actor playing a caricatured villain, as part of the Direidian "Plan C". Oh, and the explosive was actually just ginger-beer.]]
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* KlingonsLoveShakespere: As noted under TheMovieBuff, Proke is a huge film noir fanboy.
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After large quantities of dilithium are detected on the planet Direidi, the Federation and the Klingon Empire each send a delegation to persuade the planet's inhabitants to grant them mining rights. The starship ''Enterprise'' draws the duty of transporting the Federation's diplomat.
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After large quantities of dilithium are detected on the planet Direidi, the Federation and the Klingon Empire each send a delegation to persuade the planet's inhabitants (independent human colonists) to grant them mining rights. The starship ''Enterprise'' draws the duty of transporting the Federation's diplomat.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Thed and Orvy are big fans of the ''[[GentlemenThief Macmain the Magnificent]]'' series.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Thed and Orvy are big fans of the ''[[GentlemenThief ''[[GentlemanThief Macmain the Magnificent]]'' series.
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* BrandishmentBluff:
** Proke and Uhura manage to escape their captors by claiming that his busted communicator is a disruptor.
** Proke and Uhura manage to escape their captors by claiming that his busted communicator is a disruptor.
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* EverybodyLives: Near the end, the servant girl who was supposedly drained of her LifeEnergy by Janeka makes an appearance and takes a bow.
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* YouMonster: Sulu calls Janeka a fiend after he thinks she's killed TheWoobie kitchen slave.