Yeah. There's a lot of 'talk' episodes in StarTrek, where problems are solved diplomatically... Plus, for ever Elementary Dear Data, there was a Best of Both Worlds to balance it.

But that isn't what I was talking about. There are literally pages of monologues in this book I gave up on reading about coups,queens,presidents,congresses, and various other things that normal people only reference passingly in conversation.

I swear the most interesting scene so far was a baseball game at the beginning of the second chapter...
AND I HATE BASEBALL!!!!!