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 not only help us, but achieve a measure of growth in their own sense. And so, we could all live together. Lee devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, "The Mutants," stating that readers would not know what a "mutant" was. Within the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have been named after Professor Xavier himself. The original explanation for the name, as provided by Xavier in "The X-Men" #1 (1963), is that mutants "possess an extra power ... one which ordinary humans do not!! That is why I call my