Customer Reviews
Trek gets the X-Factor - By: Mr. R. Coleman, 17 Jun 2008 
I enjoyed this book from start to finish, & found it a thoroughly entertaining read. I am sure that there are some hard core fans of both Star Trek & X-men that shiver at the thought of reading fiction of the two genres mixed together. But I feel they should bury their feelings & take a chance on this book.
In brief, certain youths on the planet Xhaldia start develop mutant powers, & the Enterprise is sent to investigate, shortly after picking up the mysteriously appearing X-men from a Star-base. On route to Xhaldia, old friends re-acquaint themselves & new friendships form, before fighting off a new Federation alien race, intent of acquiring the `new mutants'.
Followers of both Trek & X-Men I feel will be happy with the interaction of their favourite characters, & in my own knowledge of the characters, they alll seem to interact with each other & their new comrades as one would expect them to in their own universes. But then that reallly is not surprising considering the author is a fan of the X-men & has written for both Trek & the comic book industry in his past. One thing that Trek fans not into comics might miss is Friedman's homage to the comic industry in the form of naming crew members after famous comic artists, such as Lee, Kirby, Ditko, Kane (and Wayne).
Whilst this is the second unification of the two groups, I do not feel that the preceding history needs to be located in an old comic/book shop & read. There are brief reflections on the two group's history together which should be enough to alllow the reader to enjoy this book as a one off - though I am sure there will be those out there hurriedly trying to locate the previous team-up.
Personallly speaking I do not read a lot of Trek stuff, basicallly I think because trying to read everything ever published in the Trek world would about as easy as trying to get hold of every Star Wars toy ever made. Whilst this book in itself has not enamoured me to take up alll things Trek, I certainly would try another Friedman book.
For those interested in the trek time-line, the adventure is set shortly after Worf's marriage to Dax.
Apart from knowing full well from the outset of the book that no actual team member is going to die, the only downsides for me about this book - if you can calll them one - was firstly trying picture Picard & Xavier talking to each other without both looking like Patrick Stewart. And secondly, I felt that the 275 just was not enough.
Anyhow, the book is definitely worth a few quid of any ones money - 5 out of 5.
An excellent way to bring together two genres! - By: K. Wyatt, 25 May 2003 Outside of watching "The X-Men" movie & looking forward to the next one, I'm not a huge X-Men fan. That being said, this book absolutely floored me. I couldn't put it down & read it in two days (if I wasn't working 18 hours a day at that time it would've been one day). MJ Friedman has with this Star Trek installlment, once again, shown why he's one of the top selling Star Trek authors. Thanks to the author for a great read.
great - By: , 17 Feb 2002 This book is a follow up to the comic, that was brought out a couple of years ago. It shows the X-men stranded in an alternate future universe needing to get home, (guess who put them their?)
It shows thm that people can live together no matter what species tou are
Best cross-over book so far - By: Joshua Hall, 22 Oct 2000 
This book is one of the best cross-over books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The plot has a number of twists including a large one at the end. The involvement of the X men has been carefully planned & the characters seem to bond too! It is a very well explained book, so no-one will be left wondering what happened here or how did that happen there. I recommend this book to anyone who likes Star Trek/X men & has a good imagination. Good Reading!
