It is physically impossible for that to be as bad as I'd think.

I've read it.

It was...
Well, don't read it if you're lactose intolerant, because it was incredibly cheesy.
But entertaining in a "so bad its good" sort of way.

Does it involve undressing women with his mind?

I bought it but never read it.
Also own the comic book crossover but haven't read it.

serial_crusher: I bought it but never read it.

The only saving grace was Michael Jan Friedman wrote it. The man gets a pass, having written Death in Winter and Reunion.

Representative of the unwashed masses: drake113: I remember it under it's original title: "Just Shut Up And Give Us Your Damn Money Already, Nerds!"

I didn't know that Michael Cole wrote comics...


You are a LOSER LOSER LOSER for that comment

O_o

Representative of the unwashed masses: John Nash: There's also a Star Wars / Star Trek crossover that isn't all that bad

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isn't it this one?

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Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.

What would that HBO miniseries with Patrick Stewart and Patrick Stewart be called?

Captain's Log: Tea with the Professor

The video that someone embeded in the comments was pretty amusing. Worth a watch, if you have the time.

/"Good Lord"

I know in the 90s there were all sorts of comic-book crossovers but I didn't remember an X-Men/Star Trek novel. Asked my husband, who then launched into a 10-minute synopsis.

My God, that guy WILL read anything!

/Right now he's reading The Glass Tower, one of the books The Towering Inferno was based on.

I've seen everything

And I think there's a Legion of Superheroes/TOS Star Trek crossover going on right now.

I think this beats that

Ishmael

The novel draws on both Star Trek: The Original Series and Here Come the Brides, a television series that ran for two seasons from 1968 to 1970. It told the story of the Bolt brothers and Aaron Stemple, who safeguarded their logging investments in the Pacific Northwest shortly after the American Civil War by bringing women from the East Coast to be married off to the loggers. The show featured Mark Lenard in the role of Aaron Stemple, along with David Soul and Robert Brown as Joshua and Jason Bolt.
Spock and Sarek's family name is given as S'chn T'gai.
The British science-fiction television series Doctor Who is referenced at least four times: the Fourth Doctor is described on page 13, Metebelis crystals (from "The Green Death" and "Planet of the Spiders") are mentioned on page 57, the Second Doctor is described on page 154, and Kirk recalls legends of a planet of stagnant time-travelers (meaning the Doctor's people, the Time Lords) in the Kasterborous galaxy on page 200.
Other Western and science-fiction characters make cameo appearances throughout the book. Page 13 features Han Solo ("a scruffy-looking spice smuggler") from Star Wars, as well as Apollo and Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica ("a pair of brown-uniformed pilots from some down-at-the-heels migrant fleet"). Pages 153-154 feature Little Joe and Hoss Cartwright from Bonanza ("a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City, and his oxlike older brother"), and either Bret or Bart Maverick from Maverick ("a dark-haired gambler"). Page 180 features Spock playing chess against Paladin from Have Gun - Will Travel ("a big man dressed in black clothes a bit too dandified for a rancher. A knight's head stickpin glinting in the dark silk of his cravat.").

Great Janitor: BeerBear: video man: Representative of the unwashed masses: John Nash: There's also a Star Wars / Star Trek crossover that isn't all that bad

Link (new window)

isn't it this one?

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Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.

doesn't shield them from beaming a photon torpedo on them

However, it would require the Enterprise to drop its shields, thereby making them vulnerable to the Star Destroyers' lasers.

In the episode The Outrageous Okona, the Enterprise was threatened by a ship  armed with lasers and there is mention that just the main deflector dish could defend the ship from such weak weapons.  So the Enterprise could just arm deflectors and transport torpedoes onto the bridge and sensitive locations of Star Destroyers without risking damage.

That's what the Ion Cannons are there for.