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: Pryde of the X-Men board for 1992's "X-Men". Funding for this pilot actually came from the budget for "". Instead of making a 13th episode of "RoboCop", Marvel Productions decided to use their funding to have Toei Animation produce the animation for this pilot. The pilot itself is most specifically influenced by issues #129-139 of "Uncanny X-Men". Shortly after this pilot was delivered, Marvel started having financial issues (New World Pictures, who purchased the Marvel Entertainment Group or MEG from Cadence Industries in 1986, sold MEG in January 1989 to the Andrews Group) and stopped work on just about everything but "Muppet Babies". This