Episode 148 – Planet X

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We like X-Men. Our guest Anna (@lcarslibrarian) likes Star Trek. So we thought it would be fun to read the Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men crossover novel Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman. But it turns out that this exhausting crossover novel spends most of its time focused on a new character who isn't particularly connected to either franchise. Set your phasers for "none" and don't read this book!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about mutants in space so you don't have to.
0:18.2	I'm Kate.
0:19.0	And I'm Renata.
0:20.2	And for this episode, we read Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman.
0:25.4	Joining us to discuss this Star Trek-Trek X-Men professional crossover fan fiction is Excitable Trekkie and librarian Anna Cheddar.
0:33.5	Hi, Anna.
0:35.3	Hey!
0:37.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:40.4	Happy to talk about Star Trek anytime.
0:43.8	Most importantly, Anna is my coworker, and she and I share an office.
0:49.4	And pre-COVID-19, we sat like two feet away from each other for hours every day.
0:55.3	So it's great to be talking with her again in this time of pandemic.
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.8	I would just say we definitely would not be able to work in the office together in these trying times.
1:09.0	I don't think there's anywhere you could sit in her office and be six feet away from each other.
1:13.1	No.
1:15.2	Maybe if one of us sat high up, like toward the ceiling.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:21.1	No, because it's for 100% a one-person office that they put two people into.
1:27.1	Well, because teen librarians are really only like half of a professional person.
1:34.0	So it checks out.
1:36.5	Yeah.
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