{"id":3971,"date":"2020-05-11T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:49:26","slug":"episode-148-planet-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-148-planet-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 148 &#8211; Planet X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/planetx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3972 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/planetx-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/planetx-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/planetx-136x220.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/planetx.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We like X-Men. Our guest <a href=\"https:\/\/lcarslibrarian.com\/\">Anna<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/lcarslibrarian\">@lcarslibrarian)<\/a> likes Star Trek. So we thought it would be fun to read the Star Trek: The Next Generation\/X-Men crossover novel <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YX4mOJ\"><em>Planet X<\/em> by Michael Jan Friedman<\/a>. But it turns out that this exhausting crossover novel spends most of its time focused on a new character who isn&#8217;t particularly connected to either franchise. Set your phasers for &#8220;none&#8221; and don&#8217;t read this book!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-148-planet-x\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-49-x-men-x-cutioners-song\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Episode 49 \u2013 <em>X-Men: X-Cutioner\u2019s Song<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-50-x-men-3-the-last-stand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Episode 50 \u2013<em> X-Men 3: The Last Stand<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Tsunkatse_(episode)\">Tsunkatse (Star Trek Voyager episode feat Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candy Pairing:\u00a0<\/strong> Anna says <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WGPqS4\">earl grey macarons<\/a>, Kait says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/food-news\/g3475\/the-most-ridiculous-popsicle-fails\/?slide=15\">X-Men ice cream<\/a>, Renata says <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SQwIGc\">mixed Jelly Bellies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YRXbqM\"><em>A Werewolf in Riverdale<\/em> by Caleb Roehrig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<em>Worst Bestsellers<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=1000&amp;site-redirect=&amp;tag=worstbests0e-20&amp;linkId=Z2A4ORUYFZJ4UA6Q\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5863\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3971-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/148PlanetX.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/148PlanetX.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/148PlanetX.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/148PlanetX.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=3971-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/148PlanetX.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"148PlanetX.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-148-planet-x\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1885,1884,6,1865,767],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-michael-jan-friedman","tag-planet-x","tag-podcast","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}