Is MJF's infamous TNG/X-Men crossover novel Planet X worth bothering with if one only has a passing familiarity with the X-Men from the movies?
TNG/X-Men Planet X
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I think so. I've never read an X-Men comic (bar the Star Trek ones) but I enjoyed it. (Though I did watch the cartoon on occasion.) Most of the X-Men in the story are ones you'll know from the film.
That's great, thanks!
if you read it you need to find the comics that coinside with the story.
there is star trek / x-men crossover dealing with kirk and crew as well jean grey and the x-men with gladiator and the shiar empire.
and a second tng crossover with the avengers dealing with kang the conquer. one of the coolist things ini it was borg sentiels.
there is star trek / x-men crossover dealing with kirk and crew as well jean grey and the x-men with gladiator and the shiar empire.
and a second tng crossover with the avengers dealing with kang the conquer. one of the coolist things ini it was borg sentiels.
Planet X was a stand alone, actually. You do NOT have to read the crossover comics.
I DID like the X-Men/original Trek one, if only to see Spock take down Wolverine.
I DID like the X-Men/original Trek one, if only to see Spock take down Wolverine.
Well, no, you don't really have to, but it does make some things a bit clearer if you read the TNG crossover comic. From the X-Men's point of view, the novel takes place immediately after the cliffhanger ending of the comic (though substantially more time has passed for the TNG crew), and the book references the events of that comic, since the X-Men and the Enterprise crew already know each other from that prior adventure.
So it's not a question of "need," but you do get a more complete experience if you read the comic and the novel back-to-back. You don't "need" to know the specifics of how Picard's crew and the X-Men know each other, since everything relevant is explained in the novel, but if you're curious, the comic would answer your questions. People insist on defining these things in terms of "need," but it's not about whether you need to know, it's about whether you'd be interested in knowing.
As for the earlier TOS/X-Men crossover comic, it doesn't really connect to the two subsequent crossovers, although its events are alluded to briefly in the TNG/X comic. (The X-Men teams in the two comics are different, with only Wolverine and Storm in common.) As for myself, though, the TOS/X comic is my favorite of the three crossovers.
I DID like the X-Men/original Trek one, if only to see Spock take down Wolverine.
Or the "Dr. McCoy?!?" scene.
The comics were okay, the book was horrible, and out of the comics I dug the TOS/X-Men one.
Although I already did something along similar lines with Picard & T'Ryssa Chen.
I can't imagine how anyone could be exasperated by T'Ryss. She's so cute!
I remember back in college around 1988 or so, a friend and I got to talking about who should play Professor X, and we both instantly settled on Patrick Stewart. And if you read Diane Duane's X-Men novel Empire's End, written well before the movies came out, you can tell she was writing Xavier with Stewart's (and Picard's) voice in mind. I think pretty much anyone who was a fan of both TNG and the X-Men probably felt the same way. And of course Bryan Singer is a longtime Trekker...
A TNG/Spider-Man or TOS/Spider-Man team up would be brilliant! Peter's sarcastic wit combined with his scientific curiosity and talent would be an awesome mixture with the Trek universe I think. ^You should pitch this now Christopher!
Since Disney now owns Marvel, I think the odds of them licensing any more crossovers with CBS's Star Trek are exceedingly remote. The previous Trek/Marvel crossovers were a result of the Marvel Paramount Comics licensing deal that existed at the time, but that's long over.
^ I'd forgotten that...indeed that would cause a problem. Great suggestion though.
As far as crossovers go, I'd like to see Aliens vs. Predator vs. Star Trek.
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