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 Origins: Wolverine backstory, and some goofy Liev Schreiber-as-a-villain thespianizing". Hugh Jackman later confessed being unhappy with the final result of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". The actor wanted primarily a film that would deepen the Wolverine character, but "somehow the first Wolverine movie ended up looking like the fourth X-Men — just with different characters." He tried to avert the same results while doing the next solo film for the character, 2013's "The Wolverine". Two cases exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and incorrectly believing this would convert their bones to metal similar to Wolverine. "Wolverine"