Star Trek X-Men #1: Context Is...Not Really Necessary

[perletwo]

Top Cow and Marvel put out the first ish of their Star Trek/X-Men crossover, and I bring you one page simply because everything on it made me giggle.

Full context is not altogether clear at this point; all y'all need to know is, a very 1990s X-Team has teleported onboard the Enterprise 1701-A to deal with a threat involving Proteus and the Shi'Ar on the X-side and Gary Mitchell (of TOS s1 ep "Where No Man Has Gone Before") on the Trek side.

After a bumpy X-port into the Enterprise's cargo bay, the two crews have to start meeting at some point, of course...







I don't know if I'll stick with this title, but it's hitting my fangirl sweet spots a lot better than that Trek/Legion crossover did.

Comments

[curlyjo1]

This must be a rerelease. The reason that it's a very 90's X-Men team, is that it WAS the 90's when this first came out.

[philippos42]

Yeah, that, "Doctor McCoy?!" gag seems familiar.

[icon_uk]

Yup, 1996.

[perletwo]

Ahhh. I was out of comic fandom during most of the 90s, so I no doubt missed it. Still looks cool, though.

[amaresu]

This is giving me flashbacks to that terrible Planet X book I read once. It was awful and written by someone who still thought the best reason to include people in a crossover was so that they could spend five paragraphs fighting six chapters in and never be seen from otherwise.

That was a terrible book.

[hybrid2]

I have that.

[amaresu]

I found it on my friend's bookshelf, she admitted to never reading it, so I read it. I gave her the play by play of the horribleness and she thanked me for insuring that she'd never have to read it.

There's been a copy sitting at my local Half-Price for awhile and I keep thinking about picking it up because people don't believe that the book is real.

[queenrikki]

I remember enjoying the heck out of that book but I don't actually remember anything about it.

[amaresu]

It kinda fell into the so-bad-it's-good camp, but it was built on so many terrible crossover tropes. Basically the X-Men (a very 90's version of the team) got transported to the Trek 'verse where a planet was developing strange mutations. The X-Men then had to help them develop a cure for the mutations and such.

The plot was very thin and it was mainly an excuse for the writer to get certain characters in the same room. I honestly couldn't tell you why Wolverine or Worf were there except to have a fight in the holodeck. It also had the problem of too many people so I often felt like characters had been left standing in the lift or ready room for hours.

[suzene]

Ah, nostalgia. There was this one, then the cross-over with TNG that mostly involved the All New, All Different crew (and only wrapped in the horrible book mentioned upthread). I admit, I was a little disappointed that DS9 never got one of these. 90's X-Force on the station would have been a hoot.

[sir_mikael]

That one had Sentinels with Borgs in their heads or something, right?
And that DS9 idea sounds awesome!

[halloweenjack]

Was this the one where Wolverine gets Vulcan-neck=pinched? And I'd assume that most of the crew would assume that Hank and Kurt (if he's along for the ride), among some of the more exotic mutants, were just members of other sentient species that they hadn't met yet.

[perletwo]

Yes! Wolvie gets Vulcan neck-pinched. (Go Spock!) And no, Hank is the only "exotic" mutant on this team - other than those seen here, we've got Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolvie and Bishop. Kind of a yawn of a team IMO.

[lieut_kettch]

Is there a similar scene where someone says, "Mr. Scott?" and both Cyclops and Scotty respond?