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
X-Men: The End series progresses, several characters who have died in "X-Men: The End" are revealed to still be alive, such as Cyclops and Gambit. "GeNext" was planned as a five-issue miniseries, with a sequel mini-series published in 2009. The story line was originally conceived with the idea of the X-Men aging in real-time. In an early 2006 interview with IGN, Chris Claremont summarized the concept as followed: Some 1990s characters appeared, such as Stryfe and Cecilia Reyes, both of whom appeared in "X-Men: The End". In the February 2006 IGN interview, Claremont also mentioned that Xavier and Magneto were both alive, contrary