Planet X (novel)

{{short description|1998 novel by Michael Jan Friedman}}

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| name = Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Planet X

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| image = Planet X Star Trek.jpg

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| author = Michael Jan Friedman

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| country = United States

| language = English

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• Science fiction
• Superhero
• Space opera}}

| publisher = Pocket Books

| pub_date = May 1998

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| pages = 265

| isbn = 0-671-01916-3

| congress= CPB Box no. 1920 vol. 8

| oclc= 39043569

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Planet X ({{ISBN|0671019163}}) 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 Star Trek: The Next Generation.{{cite news|title=Best Sellers Plus|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/bsp/bestpaperfiction.html|accessdate=22 October 2014|work=New York Times|date=May 17, 1998}} 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 original Star Trek series).{{cite book |author1=Robert G. Weiner |title=Marvel Graphic Novels and Related Publications: An Annotated Guide to Comics, Prose Novels, Children's Books, Articles, Criticism and Reference Works, 1965-2005 |date=March 17, 2008 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9780786451159 |page=278 |url=https://www.google.fi/books/edition/Marvel_Graphic_Novels_and_Related_Public/npIsZV7grboC?hl=fi&gbpv=1&pg=PA278&printsec=frontcover |chapter=V. Selected Marvel-Related Publications |quote=This novel is a sequel to the comic book Star Trek/X-Men Second Contact [...]}} 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 Star Trek: The Next Generation and the X-Men film series). The author stated that "The book sold very, very well".{{cite book |author1=Jeff Ayers |title=Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion |date=November 14, 2006 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=9781416525486 |url=https://www.google.fi/books/edition/Voyages_of_Imagination_The_Star_Trek_Fic/_Enmn8Vs688C?hl=fi&gbpv=1&dq=%22star+trek%22+%22planet+x%22&pg=PA243&printsec=frontcover |quote=Mike continued, "The book sold very, very well. [...]}}