10 Bizarre Cameos In X-Men Comics

With how often the X-Men go to space, you'd think it was just a matter of time until they met Captain Kirk and the Star Trek crew. If anything it's surprising that it took till 1996 to finally get it done.

While chasing Proteus through dimensional portals, most of the cast of X-Men: The Animated Series wind up in the Star Trek universe. Their ship is destroyed and they are forced to board The Enterprise, doing so in secret. Spock soon finds them and, after some misunderstandings, the two teams decide to team up to stop Proteus.

And just in case you're disappointed that they featured the wrong Star Trek cast, a few years later, a second series landed the X-Men and The Next Generation cast into a team-up. Eventually, in a move that feels weird for both franchises, a crossover novel was published under the name Planet X. Only dare read it if you must.

It's curious that this comic series started with the use of the original series of Star Trek at a time when the massively popular Star Trek: The Next Generation had just finished a few years earlier. They must have realized they missed an opportunity there and fixed it which lends a nice completeness to it all. It's nice knowing there's a little something for everybody.