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I am a tool of the Marketing Machine
After weeks of delay, I finally received my latest order from Amazon.com: Star Trek/X-Men: Planet X.

That's right. It's a cross over between Star Trek (the Next Generation) and X-Men. How brilliant is that?

I've only gotten through the first ten chapters (out of thirty four), but I couldn't wait to share it with my loyal readers, so I decided to write an ongoing review.

WARNING THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!

First of all Star Trek is awesome, and X-Men is also awesome. Thus it is impossible that this book could do anything other than rock.

The next major observation I noticed is that the book’s author, Michael Jan Friedman knows his Star Trek. Maybe a little too much. I appreciate the fact that he captures the spirit of the characters and stays firmly within the Star Trek cannon. But when Picard talks about his flute it sounds like Michael is trying to prove that he watched 525: The Inner Light. The book is filled with tiny episode summaries like this, which I find distracting at best.

While it pains me to say it (out a feeling of disloylaty) the part I am enjoying the most so far is actually the story of the original character: Erid Sovar. Erid is a young man from the planet Xhaldia (The Planet X of the title), who has recently developed strange powers. He and the other "transformed" (a.k.a. mutants) were rounded up by the government of Xhaldia and placed in a secret camp. Most recently the escaped under the leadership of Rahatan (a.k.a. "the Magneto corollary").

So far this story is the most dramatic and engaging. It deals with characters in a turbulent conflict. To date the X-Men and Enterprise crew only have to worry about how the X-Men got there (it's set in the Star Trek Universe incase I forgot to mention) and how to get them home. I have no doubt that the conflict on Xhaldia will soon draw the Enterprise into close orbit, hopefully for more than just a Deus ex Machina ending.

That's all for now. I'll continue my review later, possibly including other trivial details like my new job.ll