1988 (production)

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For information dealing with this year in the timeline of the fictional Star Trek universe, see 1988.

Production

January

• 11 January - TNG: "The Big Goodbye" airs.
• 18 January - TNG: "Datalore" airs.
• 21 January - Abraham Sofaer dies.
• 25 January - TNG: "Angel One" airs.
• Pocket TOS Final Frontier by Diane Carey is published by Pocket Books.

February

• 1 February - TNG: "11001001" airs.
• 5 February - Bennie E. Dobbins dies.
• 8 February - TNG: "Too Short a Season" airs.
• 15 February - TNG: "When The Bough Breaks" airs.
• 19 February - Larry Forrester dies.
• 22 February - TNG: "Home Soil" airs.
• Pocket TOS #38: The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah is published by Pocket Books.

March

• 12 March - Karen Steele dies.
• 14 March - TNG: "Coming of Age" airs.
• 15 March - Rik Vollaerts dies.
• 18 March - Alan Gibbs dies.
• 21 March - TNG: "Heart of Glory" airs.

April

• 11 April - TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom" airs.
• 18 April - TNG: "Symbiosis" airs.
• 23 April - Erica Mer is born.
• 25 April - TNG: "Skin of Evil" airs. Denise Crosby leaves the cast.
• Pocket TOS #39: Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin is published by Pocket Books.

May

• 2 May - TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris" airs.
• 4 May - Ed Bakey dies.
• 9 May - TNG: "Conspiracy" airs.
• 16 May - TNG: "The Neutral Zone" airs, concluding TNG Season 1.

June

• TNG Season 2 begins production, but is substantially delayed due to a Writer's Guild strike. Diana Muldaur joins the cast as Doctor Pulaski, replacing Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher.
• Pocket TOS #40: Timetrap by David Dvorkin is published by Pocket Books.

July

• 1 July - Tony Leader dies.
• 15 July - Hana Hatae born.
• Pocket TNG #1: Ghost Ship by Diane Carey is published by Pocket Books.

August

• Pocket TOS #41: The Three-Minute Universe by Barbara Paul is published by Pocket Books.

September

• 13 September - The plans for Paramount Stage 9 are revised.
• DC TOS volume 1 #54: "Old Loyalties" is published.
• Pocket TOS Spock's World by Diane Duane is published by Pocket Books.
• Pocket TNG #2: The Peacekeepers by Gene DeWeese is published by Pocket Books.

October

• 11 October - Morgan Farley dies.
• Pocket TOS #42: Memory Prime by Garfield & Judith Reeves-Stevens is published by Pocket Books.

November

• 21 November - The second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres with "The Child". The episode's late airdate is due to the Writer's Guild strike, and the script is recycled from an old Star Trek: Phase II story. Whoopi Goldberg makes the first of several recurring appearances as Guinan.
• 28 November - TNG: "Where Silence Has Lease" airs.

- Scarlett Pomers born.

• Pocket TNG #3: The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter is published by Pocket Books.

December

• 5 December - TNG: "Loud As A Whisper" airs.
• 6 December - Roy Orbison dies.
• 12 December - TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" airs.
• Pocket TOS #43: The Final Nexus by Gene DeWeese is published by Pocket Books.

Unknown

• CIC Video begins its release of Star Trek series on VHS in the UK with TOS Season 1.

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