Awesome / How Much for Just the Planet?

• The fact that John M. Ford managed to use the word PLERGB in a sentence in a published novel.
• The book's denouement includes Kirk watching a recording of the story's events, as compiled by the Diredians. Having recounted the embarrassing course of events, the video ends with the title card: "The Klingons also have a copy." Thus, the Diredians have guaranteed that not only will the Federation and the Klingon Empire not violate the Diredians' arrangement, but that they will blackmail each other into compliance as well.

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