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(io9) Cool Back in the late 90s, before Patrick Stewart left Starfleet and headed up Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, there was a Star Trek/X-Men crossover novel that wasn't nearly as bad as you'd think   (io9.com) divider line 67
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2012-01-07 06:31:38 PM
It is physically impossible for that to be as bad as I'd think.
 
2012-01-07 09:35:38 PM
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.
 
2012-01-07 09:36:04 PM
Does it involve undressing women with his mind?
 
2012-01-07 10:32:54 PM
I bought it but never read it.
Also own the comic book crossover but haven't read it.
 
2012-01-07 11:43:14 PM
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.
 
2012-01-08 12:42:27 AM
I remember it under it's original title: "Just Shut Up And Give Us Your Damn Money Already, Nerds!"
 
2012-01-08 12:43:02 AM
drake113: I remember it under it's original title: "Just Shut Up And Give Us Your Damn Money Already, Nerds!"

Hey, I got that one!
 
2012-01-08 12:46:17 AM
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...
 
2012-01-08 12:51:03 AM
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...


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You are a LOSER LOSER LOSER for that comment
 
2012-01-08 01:02:54 AM
I, uh... Oh, never mind.

*Punches self in head.*
 
2012-01-08 01:27:44 AM
I still have this sitting a few feet away in a plastic baggie. I don't know if I ever read the whole thing.
 
2012-01-08 01:42:06 AM
There's also a Star Wars / Star Trek crossover that isn't all that bad

Link (new window)
 
2012-01-08 01:57:27 AM
O_o
 
2012-01-08 02:07:55 AM
No, subby it was much, much worse.

Actually I only read a few pages in the bookstore, but I couldn't stop laughing.
 
2012-01-08 02:28:13 AM
If you mean (I didn't click the io9 link) "Planet X" I just read the synopsis over at Wikipedia...

...and cringed.
 
2012-01-08 02:34:23 AM
There were 2 X-Men/Star Trek crossover comics in the 90's- one with the original crew and another with the Next Generation group.

I mostly remember a joke involving Beast and Doc Bones, Someone asks for a "Doctor McCoy", and they both respond at the same time.
 
2012-01-08 02:39:04 AM
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?

roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com
 
2012-01-08 02:58:30 AM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]


Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.
 
2012-01-08 03:12:58 AM
Precious Roy's Horse Dividers: 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...

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You are a LOSER LOSER LOSER for that comment


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2012-01-08 04:48:24 AM
I think on the DVD extras of the original X-Men film (or some interview I saw) Patrick Stewart saw the comic and said to be cautious about it because he might want to play Professor X some day.
 
2012-01-08 05:46:42 AM
I have that book.

It's not very good, but it is entertaining.
 
2012-01-08 06:49:05 AM
Any crossover is generally as bad as I think.
 
2012-01-08 07:08:25 AM
What would that HBO miniseries with Patrick Stewart and Patrick Stewart be called?

Captain's Log: Tea with the Professor
 
2012-01-08 07:56:42 AM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.


doesn't shield them from beaming a photon torpedo on them
 
2012-01-08 07:58:35 AM
The video that someone embeded in the comments was pretty amusing. Worth a watch, if you have the time.

/"Good Lord"
 
2012-01-08 08:39:35 AM
While I am aware of both franchises, it would be hard for me to imagine a crossover that would be of less interest to me.

Maybe Archie/Happy Days?

Twilight/My Pretty Pony?
 
2012-01-08 09:55:04 AM
You know, I'm always looking for books to read that won't be as bad as I think. What a great use of time.
 
2012-01-08 10:10:20 AM
It's...all right. Nothing special. I did like a bit of fanboy wankery where Storm is being beaten back by some young mutants with more power than skill, finally has enough and decides to show them just what a fully trained mutant can really do and whips their asses in about two seconds.
 
2012-01-08 10:10:51 AM
mitchcumstein1: It is physically impossible for that to be as bad as I'd think.

Read the samples. It is.
 
2012-01-08 10:43:26 AM
FuryOfFirestorm: There were 2 X-Men/Star Trek crossover comics in the 90's- one with the original crew and another with the Next Generation group.

Actually, there were three. The TOS comic, the TNG novel, and the TNG comic set before the novel that it seems even fewer remember than the novel
 
2012-01-08 10:46:34 AM
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.
 
2012-01-08 11:07:58 AM
BeerBear: doesn't shield them from beaming a photon torpedo on them

Uh oh, it's on now.
/goes to get popcorn
 
2012-01-08 11:18:50 AM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.

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



Except for the episode "Relics," which the writers admit was a goof, transporters don't work through shields.
 
2012-01-08 11:26:32 AM
Eddie T. Head: 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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.

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


Except for the episode "Relics," which the writers admit was a goof, transporters don't work through shields.


I doubt that Str Destroyers sheilds are equipped to handle phasers, especially continuous fire, frequency shifting beams, so overload them with that, THEN beam two photon torpedoes into the ship, one on the bridge, the other near the engines.
 
2012-01-08 11:30:54 AM
I've seen everything
 
2012-01-08 12:12:00 PM
PizzaJedi81: Eddie T. Head: 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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

Except Imperial-Class Star Destroyers DO have shields.

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


Except for the episode "Relics," which the writers admit was a goof, transporters don't work through shields.

I doubt that Str Destroyers sheilds are equipped to handle phasers, especially continuous fire, frequency shifting beams, so overload them with that, THEN beam two photon torpedoes into the ship, one on the bridge, the other near the engines.

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2012-01-08 12:16:46 PM
kukukupo: Any crossover is generally as bad as I think.

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Ahem. Batman Vs Predator, the first miniseries.

/The cover art was meh, but the inside art was AWESOME!
//Best. Batman costume. Ever.
 
2012-01-08 12:24:01 PM
Ha! I've been using this panel for ages:

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2012-01-08 12:25:31 PM
Summer Glau's Love Slave: kukukupo: Any crossover is generally as bad as I think.

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Ahem. Batman Vs Predator, the first miniseries.

/The cover art was meh, but the inside art was AWESOME!
//Best. Batman costume. Ever.


If he'd been wearing that against Bane, he wouldn't have gotten his back broken, now would he?
 
2012-01-08 01:01:01 PM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]


And yet Star Wars had lasers big enough to blow up planets. Both series are wildely inconsistant with the power of the weapons.
 
2012-01-08 01:10:31 PM
And I think there's a Legion of Superheroes/TOS Star Trek crossover going on right now.
 
2012-01-08 02:13:49 PM
SilentStrider: 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.


Same. I'm a bit ashamed to admit I read it too. Mainly because I expected it to be terrible, and was curious to see how bad it could be.

I would also describe it as "so bad and cheesy and campy that it's kind of fun and funny" category.
 
2012-01-08 02:40:14 PM
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.").
 
2012-01-08 03:21:48 PM
I remember having two friends in high school who owned and read both the TOS and TNG X-Men books. Now, I can watch five seconds of any TNG episode and know what episode it is, season, plot, etc... I can tell you pretty much everything you'd ever need to know about Doctor Who, I told the HR woman at my last job that I was bilingual: English and Klingon, I attended the midnight showing of Star Wars episode one and the advanced screening of Star Trek XI, my wife hates the Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel/DC Comics toys in our living room and even I think those two nerds who read those Star Trek/X-Men crossover books should have had their asses kicked and heads stuffed into flushing toilets.
 
2012-01-08 03:37:16 PM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

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.
 
2012-01-08 03:46:16 PM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]


I think it was this one.

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2012-01-08 03:46:31 PM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

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.
 
2012-01-08 03:47:58 PM
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?

[roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com image 398x505]

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.
 
2012-01-08 04:08:12 PM
unyon: I've seen everything

Oh yeah, well I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
 
2012-01-08 04:32:17 PM
Uchiha_Cycliste: unyon: I've seen everything

Oh yeah, well I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.


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If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes.
 
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