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In which the X-Men cross over with two generations of Star Trek; your grandma invented slash fiction; Gladiator punches a starship; we designate a universe; Leonard McCoy gets bowdlerized; “Gary” is a silly name for a god; Elizabeth Dehner deserves better; a lot of things happen in space; Worf and Wolverine enjoy a brief but intense romance; the X-Men should have more to say about the ethics of “curing” mutation; and we successfully delay Onslaught by another week.

X-PLAINED:

• Cross-franchise creative footprints
• Collecting Star Trek in the ‘90s
• Secret origins of Tina and Jay’s friendship
• Star Trex
• Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact
• Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Planet X
• Delta Vega
• “Where No Man Has Gone Before”
• The Shi’ar (again)
• The relationship of Star Trek to the Marvel Universe
• Earth-1701, which may or may not also be Earth-200500
• Proteus (again)
• A dubious date
• First Contact
• The Borg
• Several temporal anomalies
• The Traveler
• Michael Jan Friedman
• Xhaldia
• Time Hooks and/or Chrono-compasses
• Prune juice
• Your new ship
• The Drakkon
• A simulated Charles Xavier
• A Highland sex ghost, apparently?

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