Planet X (Star Trek) Planet X (Star Trek) Planet X () 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 "". A "New York Times" bestseller, 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 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
Professor X passes over, which are Kurt Wagner, Piotr Rasputin, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, and Ororo Munroe. Xavier also trains Tessa in order to spy on Sebastian Shaw. Xavier founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which provides a safe haven for mutants and teaches them to master their abilities. In addition, he seeks to foster mutant-human relations by providing his superhero team, the X-Men, as an example of mutants acting in good faith, as he told FBI agent Fred Duncan. With his inherited fortune, he uses his ancestral mansion at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York as a