Planet X (Star Trek)

Planet X () is a 1998 "Star Trek" novel by Michael Jan Friedman that is a crossover between the X-Men comic book series and the characters of '. A "New York Times" bestseller, it was a sequel to an earlier crossover, detailed in the Marvel Comics one-shot "Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men" #1 (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 novel hinted 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 ' and the "X-Men" film series).