1988 (production)

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

1988

January

Week of 11 January

TNG: "The Big Goodbye" airs.

Week of 18 January

TNG: "Datalore" airs.

Week of 25 January

TNG: "Angel One" airs.

February

Week of 1 February

TNG: "11001001" airs.

Week of 8 February

TNG: "Too Short a Season" airs.

Week of 15 February

TNG: "When the Bough Breaks" airs.

Week of 22 February

TNG: "Home Soil" airs.

March

Week of 14 March

TNG: "Coming of Age" airs.

Week of 21 March

TNG: "Heart of Glory" airs.

April

Week of 11 April

TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom" airs.

Week of 18 April

TNG: "Symbiosis" airs.

Week of 25 April

TNG: "Skin of Evil" airs. Denise Crosby leaves the cast as Tasha Yar is killed off.

May

Week of 2 May

TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris" airs.

Week of 9 May

TNG: "Conspiracy" airs.

Week of 16 May

TNG: "The Neutral Zone" airs, concluding TNG Season 1.

Summer

• TNG Season 2 begins production, but is substantially delayed due to a Writer's Guild strike. Diana Muldaur joins the cast as Doctor Katherine Pulaski, replacing Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher.

September

• Pocket TOS: "Spock's World"
• Pocket TNG: "The Peacekeepers"
• DC TOS volume 1 #54: "Old Loyalties"

November

Week of 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.

Week of 28 November

TNG: "Where Silence Has Lease" airs.

December

Week of 5 December

TNG: "Loud as a Whisper" airs.

Week of 12 December

TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" airs.

December

TNG enters a winter hiatus, continuing into 1989.

Other events

21 January

Abraham Sofaer dies.

15 July

Hana Hatae born.

11 October

Morgan Farley dies.

28 November

Scarlett Pomers born.

6 December

Roy Orbison dies.

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