Planet X (Star Trek)
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| Author | Michael Jan Friedman |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
Publication date | May 1998 |
| Pages | 265 |
| ISBN | 0-671-01916-3 |
| OCLC | 39043569 |
| LC Class | CPB Box no. 1920 vol. 8 |
Planet X (ISBN 0671019163) is a 1998 Star Trek novel by Michael Jan Friedman which is a crossover between the X-Men comic book series and the characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation.[1] A New York Times bestseller,[1] it was a sequel to an earlier crossover, detailed in the Marvel Comics one-shot Second Contact (which was itself similar to an earlier Star Trek/X-Men crossover comic, where a slightly different team of X-Men encountered the characters of the original Star Trek series). The novel is noteworthy for hinting at an attraction between Jean-Luc Picard and Ororo Munroe (Storm), and made a forward-looking reference to the (then uncast) X-Men feature film by remarking on the uncanny resemblance between Picard and Xavier, as the two converse via the holodeck after a reasonable facsimile of Xavier is programmed into it; (both characters were played by Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the X-Men film series).
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- 1 2 "Best Sellers Plus". New York Times. May 17, 1998. Retrieved 22 October 2014.