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1988 was, on Earth's calendar, the 89th year of the 20th century, and the ninth year of the 1980s decade. Although this was a time period before Human formulation of stardates, this era begins with stardate 1988.0^[1].

Events

17 August

According to rumors and reports, Khan Noonien Singh arranges the airplane crash that kills General Zia-ul-Haq.^[2][3]

Births and deaths

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• Richard Phillips Feynman dies.^[3][4]

Appendices

References and notes

Releases

• TOS FASA RPG adventure: The White Flame Starship Combat Scenario Pack
• TNG FASA RPG supplement: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual
• TOS comic: "Retrospect" (Star Trek Annual #3) by Peter David.
  • Scotty's true love.

January

• TOS novel: Final Frontier (Giant Novel #3) by Diane Carey.
  • This is the story of a hero—and a moment forever lost to history. It is a tale of Starfleet's early days, of a time before the Star Trek we know. The story of a secret mission gone horribly wrong—and an instant in time where the galaxy stood poised on the brink of one final, destructive war. It is the story of a ship since passed on into legend, and a man we know only as the father of Starfleet's greatest captain. His name is Kirk. Commander George Samuel Kirk. He is a warrior, born and bred to battle. Now destiny has placed the fate of a hundred innocent worlds on his shoulders. And put the power of the greatest weapon the galaxy has ever seen in his hands…
• TOS comic #46: "Getaway" by Michael Carlin.
  • Shore leave!

week of 11 January

• TNG episode: "The Big Goodbye" is first aired.

week of 18 January

• TNG episode: "Datalore" is first aired.

week of 25 January

• TNG episode: "Angel One" is first aired.

February

• TOS novel #38: The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah.
  • I.D.I.C.–Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination. More than just a simple credo, for those of the planet Vulcan it is the cornerstone of their philosophy. Now, on the Vulcan Science Colony Nisus, that credo of tolerance is being put to the sternest test. For here, on a planet where Vulcan, Human, Klingon and countless other races live and work side by side, a deadly plague has sprung up. A plague whose origins are somehow rooted in the concept of I.D.I.C. itself. A plague that threatens to tear down that centuries-old maxim and replace it with an even older concept… Interstellar war.
• TNG comic #1: "... Where No One Has Gone Before!" by Michael Carlin.
  • Six issue mini-series based on the hot new TV show.
• TOS comic #47: "Idol Threats" by Michael Carlin.

week of 1 February

• TNG episode: "11001001" is first aired.

week of 8 February

• TNG episode: "Too Short a Season" is first aired.

week of 15 February

• TNG episode: "When the Bough Breaks" is first aired.

week of 22 February

• TNG episode: "Home Soil" is first aired.

March

• TOS comic #48: "The Stars in Secret Influence" by Peter David.
  • Bachelor party!
• TNG comic #2: "Spirit in the Sky!" by Michael Carlin.
  • Six issue mini-series based on the hot new TV show.

week of 14 March

• TNG episode: "Coming of Age" is first aired.

week of 21 March

• TNG episode: "Heart of Glory" is first aired.

April

• TOS novel #39: Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin.
  • Time in the galaxy has stopped running in its normal course. That can mean only one thing—the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet Command reunites three of its most legendary figures—Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock of Vulcan, and Dr. Leonard McCoy—and sends them on a desperate mission to contact the Guardian, a journey that ultimately takes them 5,000 years into the past. They must find Spock's son Zar once again, and bring him back to their time to telepathically communicate with the Guardian. But Zar is enmeshed in troubles of his own, and soon Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find themselves in a desperate struggle to save both his and their world.
• TOS comic #49: "Aspiring to be Angels" by Peter David.
• TNG comic #3: "Q Factor" by Michael Carlin.
  • Six issue mini-series based on the hot new TV show.

week of 11 April

• TNG episode: "The Arsenal of Freedom" is first aired.

week of 18 April

• TNG episode: "Symbiosis" is first aired.

week of 25 April

• TNG episode: "Skin of Evil" is first aired.

May

• TOS comic #50: "Marriage of Inconvenience" by Peter David.
  • 50th issue anniversary.
• TNG comic #4: "Q's Day" by Michael Carlin.
  • Six issue mini-series based on the hot new TV show.

week of 2 May

• TNG episode: "We'll Always Have Paris" is first aired.

week of 9 May

• TNG episode: "Conspiracy" is first aired.

week of 16 May

• TNG episode: "The Neutral Zone", the final episode of TNG's first season, is first aired.

June

• TOS novel #40: Timetrap by David Dvorkin.
  • In a remote area of Federation space, the Enterprise picks up an urgent distress signal—from a Klingon vessel! Tracing the S.O.S., the crew finds the Klingon cruiser Mauler, trapped in a dimensional storm of unprecedented power. Yet paradoxically, the ship refuses both the Enterprise's call and offers of help. Determined to discover what the Klingons are doing in Federation space, Kirk beams aboard their ship with a security team, just as the storm flares to its highest intensity. As the bridge crew watches in horror, Mauler vanishes from the Enterprise's viewscreen. And James T. Kirk awakens, one hundred years in the future!
• TOS comic #51: "Haunted Honeymoon" by Peter David.
  • Hell in a handbasket!
• TNG comic #5: "Q Affects!" by Michael Carlin.
  • Six issue mini-series based on the hot new TV show. Q effects!

July

• TNG novel #1: Ghost Ship by Diane Carey.
  • In 1995, a Soviet aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Over three hundred years later, Counselor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the USS Enterprise-D itself, for if Picard can't discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.
• TOS comic #52: "Hell in a Hand Basket" by Peter David.
• TNG comic #6: "Here Today" by Michael Carlin.
  • Six issue mini-series based on the hot new TV show.

August

• TOS novel #41: The Three-Minute Universe by Barbara Paul.
  • The Sackers. In all of Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance causes most Federation members to become violently ill. Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutally matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device—murdering an entire race in the process—and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume—and utterly destroy—our own.
• TOS comic #53: "You're Dead, Jim" by Peter David.
  • You're Dead, Jim!

September

• TOS comic #54: "Old Loyalties" by Peter David.
  • The return of Finnegan!.
• TOS novel: Spock's World by Diane Duane.
  • "I am Spock… I hold the rank of commander in the Starfleet of the United Federation of Planets; I serve as first officer of the starship Enterprise. I am the son of two worlds. Of Earth, whose history is an open book… and of Vulcan, whose secrets have lain hidden beneath its burning sands… Until now..." It is the twenty-third century. On the planet Vulcan, a crisis of unprecedented proportions has caused the convocation of the planet's ruling council - and summoned the USS Enterprise from halfway across the galaxy, to bring Vulcan's most famous son home in its hour of need. As Commander Spock, his father Sarek, and Captain James T. Kirk struggle to preserve the very future of the Federation, the innermost secrets of the planet Vulcan are laid before us, from its beginnings millions of years ago to its savage prehistory, from merciless tribal warfare to medieval court intrigue, from the exploration of space to the development of c'thia - the ruling ethic of logic. And Spock - torn between his duty to Starfleet and the unbreakable ties that bind him to Vulcan - must find a way to reconcile both his own inner conflict and the external dilemma his planet faces...lest the Federation itself be ripped asunder.
• TNG novel #2: The Peacekeepers by Gene DeWeese.
  • Exploring a deserted alien spaceship, Lieutenant Commander Data and Lieutenant Geordi La Forge suddenly find themselves transported light-years away—into the middle of a deadly conflict! While Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise search feverishly for the missing crewmen, Data and La Forge discover they are in a station almost identical to the one they were exploring, high in orbit around an Earth-type world. Years before, the occupants of that planet accidentally stumbled onto the ship and its advanced technology—and since then have used its weapons to keep the nations on the planet below disarmed, and at peace. Now their own arrival has precipitated a crisis on the station. Somehow, Data and La Forge must find a way to restore trust between the planet below and the station's guardians up above—before a final, destructive war breaks out!

October

• TOS novel #42: Memory Prime by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.
  • Memory Prime: It's the central core of an immense computer library—an entire network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders—the only artificial intelligences legally permitted to serve the Federation—control and sift the overwhelming data flow from thousands and thousands of research vessels across the galaxy… Now the greatest scientists in the Federation have gathered here for the prestigious Nobel and Zee-Magnees Prize ceremonies—unaware that a deadly assassin is stalking one of them. And as Captain Kirk struggles to save his ship from sabotage and his first officer from accusations of murder, he discovers the hidden assassin is far from the deadliest secret lurking on Memory Prime…
• TOS comic #55: "Finnegan's Wake!" by Peter David.
• The first airing of TOS episode: "The Cage".

November

• TNG novel #3: The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter.
  • The Hamlin Massacre—every Starfleet officer knows the tale. The tiny Federation outpost of Hamlin was destroyed. Its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shields could be raised. Even worse, the colony's children disappeared without a trace, abducted by the aliens who attacked with a ferocity and speed that outmatched their Starfleet pursuers. Now, fifty years later, the Choraii ships have appeared again. But this time the Federation is ready; this time, the Choraii must pay for what they need. The precious metal can only be bought with the Hamlin children still living with their captors. This time, the Choraii must face Captain Jean-Luc Picard—and the crew of the starship Enterprise.
• TOS comic #56: "A Small Matter of Faith" by Martin Pasko.
  • From the first five-year mission

week of 21 November

• TNG episode: "The Child", the first episode of TNG's 2nd season, is first aired.

week of 28 November

• TNG episode: "Where Silence Has Lease" is first aired.

December

• TOS novel #43: The Final Nexus by Gene DeWeese.
  • Uncounted centuries ago, an unknown race from beyond our galaxy created a series of interstellar gates—shortcuts across our universe—and then disappeared, leaving behind no clues to their fate, or the operation of their system. Twice before, the Enterprise has used the system to traverse the galaxy, and returned each time no wiser to the gates' operation. Now it is imperative that they find out. For the gates are breaking down, taking the very stars in the sky with them. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of the Enterprise crew, and their ability to communicate not only with creatures from another world—but from another universe as well.

week of 5 December

• TNG episode: "Elementary, Dear Data" is first aired.

week of 12 December

• TNG episode: "The Outrageous Okona" is first aired.

External links

• 1988 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1988 (production) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1988 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.