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For information about 2018 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 2018.

Table of Contents: January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December • Media

Events[]

January[]

1 January – Jon Steuer dies.
3 January –
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine celebrates the 25th anniversary of its premiere episode, "Emissary".
- Jack Hunsaker dies.
7 January – the tenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "Despite Yourself", and its After Trek aftershow premiere on CBS All Access.
8 January – "Despite Yourself" released internationally (except USA and Canada) on Netflix.
9 January –
- La-La Land Records releases Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection, Volume Two.
- Star Trek Magazine issue 192 is released.
14 January – the eleventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "The Wolf Inside", and its After Trek aftershow premiere on CBS All Access.
15 January – "The Wolf Inside" released internationally (except USA and Canada) on Netflix.
16 January – Star Trek: New Adventures, Volume 4 from IDW Publishing is released.
20 January – Richard Merrifield dies.
21 January – the twelfth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "Vaulting Ambition", and its After Trek aftershow premiere on CBS All Access.
22 January – "Vaulting Ambition" released internationally (except USA and Canada) on Netflix.
24 January – Issue 2 of the Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
28 January – the thirteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "What's Past Is Prologue", and its After Trek aftershow premiere on CBS All Access.
29 January –
- "What's Past Is Prologue" is released internationally (except USA and Canada) on Netflix.
- Exploring Picard's Galaxy, by Peter W. Lee, is released.
30 January – Star Trek: New Visions, Volume 6, by John Byrne, is released.
31 January – "Star Trek: Boldly Go, Issue 16", from IDW Publishing, is released.

February[]

2 February –
- Michael Fleisher dies.
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1, Chapter 1 soundtrack is released on CD.
4 February – the fourteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery, "The War Without, The War Within", and its After Trek aftershow premiere on CBS All Access.
5 February – "The War Without, The War Within" released internationally (except USA and Canada) on Netflix.
6 February – Gallery DIS novel, Drastic Measures, by Dayton Ward is released.
7 February –
Steven Baum dies.
- "Isolation", Star Trek: New Visions #20 from IDW Publishing, is released.
9 February – Reg E. Cathey dies.
11 February –
- The fifteenth episode, and first season finale, of Star Trek: Discovery, "Will You Take My Hand?", premieres on CBS All Access.
- The fourteenth episode, and series finale, of After Trek, "Will You Take My Hand?", is released on CBS All Access.
12 February – "Will You Take My Hand?" is released internationally (except USA and Canada) on Netflix.
13 February – Star Trek Magazine issue 193 is released.
13 February – Victor Milan dies.
18 February – Matt Tufo dies.
22 February – Leo Duranona dies.
28 February – To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek by Djoymi Baker, from I.B. Tauris.

March[]

3 March –
- David Ogden Stiers and Robert Scheerer die.
7 March – "Star Trek: Boldly Go, Issue 17", from IDW Publishing, is released.
8 March – Autographs of the Final Frontier, by Gerald Gurian, is released.
9 March – Don Eitner dies.
14 March –
- Stephen Hawking dies.
- Issue 3 of the Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
19 March – David Bischoff dies.
27 March –
- Pocket VOY novel, Architects of Infinity, by Kirsten Beyer, is released.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats, by Jenny Parks, is released.
- Omnibus edition of Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mirror Broken, from IDW Publishing, is released.

April[]

2 April – Morton Greenspoon dies.
3 April – Star Trek: Light-and-Sound Borg Cube (Miniature Editions) from Running Press is released.
4 April – Star Trek: Discovery Annual 2018, from IDW Publishing is released.
5 April – Tim O'Connor dies.
6 April –
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1, Chapter 2 soundtrack is released in digital format, by Lakeshore Records.
- Sandra Rowden dies.
9 April – Russell Bates and David Quashnick die.
15 April –
- Star Trek - A Psychoanalysis is released.
- Jim Novak dies.
16 April – Filming begins on the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.
17 April – Star Trek: New Adventures, Volume 5 from IDW Publishing is released.
18 April – "Star Trek: Boldly Go, Issue 18", from IDW Publishing, is released.
24 April – Star Trek: Light-and-Sound Tricorder (Miniature Editions) is released.
25 April –
- Issue 1 of the Star Trek: Discovery - Succession comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
- "The Enemy of My Enemy", Star Trek: New Visions #21, from IDW Publishing, is released.
29 April – Robert Mandan dies.

May[]

2 May – Issue 1 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Through the Mirror comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
4 May – Jimmy Nickerson dies.
6 May – Daniel Cohen dies.
8 May –
- Star Trek Magazine issue 194 is released.
- Marta Dubois dies.
9 May – Issue 2 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Through the Mirror comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
16 May –
- Issue 3 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Through the Mirror comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
- Joseph Campanella dies.
18 May – Robin Ritter dies.
19 May – Vincent McEveety dies.
23 May –
- Issue 2 of the Star Trek: Discovery – Succession comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
- Issue 4 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Through the Mirror comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
24 May – Jerry Maren dies.
25 May –
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1, Chapter 2 soundtrack is released in CD format by Lakeshore Records.
- George Jensen dies.
29 May –
- Titan Books' English translation of Star Trek: Prometheus #2, The Root of All Rage, by Christian Humberg and Bernd Perplies.
- Star Trek: Boldly Go, Volume 3 from IDW Publishing is released.
30 May –
- Issue 4 of the Star Trek: Discovery – The Light of Kahless comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
- Issue 5 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Through the Mirror comic series from IDW Publishing is released.

June[]

4 June – Georgann Johnson dies.
5 June – Gallery DIS novel, Fear Itself, by James Swallow, is released.
12 June –
- Star Trek: The Official Poster Collection, from Insight Editions, is released.
- IncrediBuilds: Star Trek: The Next Generation - USS Enterprise Deluxe Book and Model Set by Dayton Ward is released.
- IncrediBuilds: Star Trek - USS Enterprise 3D Wood Model and Book is released.
- IncrediBuilds: Star Trek - USS Enterprise Deluxe Book and Model Set is released.
23 June – Les Kaluza dies.
27 June – "An Unexpected Yesterday", Star Trek: New Visions #22, is released from IDW Publishing.
28 June – Harlan Ellison dies.

July[]

4 July –
- Big Finish Productions releases audiobooks of Star Trek: Prometheus novels Fire with Fire and The Root of All Rage.
- Issue 3 of the Star Trek: Discovery – Succession comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
12 July – David Berlatsky and Roger Perry die.
17 July – The 2019 edition of The Star Trek Calendar, from Universe Publishing, is released.
18 July – Ann Chatterton dies.
19 July – Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism, by George A. Gonzalez, is released.
21 July –
- Set Phasers to Teach!, by Stefan Rabitsch and Martin Gabriel, is released.
- Terry Windell dies.
24 July –
- Paperback edition of The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard, by David A. Goodman, is released.
- Douglas H. Grindstaff dies.
25 July – Issue 1 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Terra Incognita comic series is released from IDW Publishing.
28 July – Donald R. Pike dies.
31 July – The 2019 edition of the Star Trek Daily Calendars, is released from Universe Publishing.

August[]

1 August – Issue 4 of the Star Trek: Discovery – Succession comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
2 August –
- Star Trek Fluxx, Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx, and Star Trek Fluxx Bridge Expansion are released from Looney Labs and Gale Force Nine.
- Ted LeGarde dies.
5 August – David Landsberg dies.
6 August – John Eskobar dies.
7 August –
- The 2019 edition of Star Trek: Ships of the Line, from Universe Publishing, is released.
- The 2019 edition of the Star Trek Poster Calendars, from Universe Publishing, is released.
- Richard H. Kline dies.
8 August –
- Omnibus edition of Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless, is released by IDW Publishing.
- Brioni Farrell dies.
17 August –
- Star Trek: Discovery - Season 1, Chapters 1 & 2 soundtrack selections are released in vinyl format.
- Mark Bussan dies.
21 August
- Star Trek: Lost Scenes, by Curt McAloney and David Tilotta, from Titan Books, is released.
- Star Trek: New Visions, Volume 7 from IDW Publishing is released.
- The 2019 edition of the Star Trek Engagement Calendars, from Universe Publishing, is released.
- The 2019 edition of the Star Trek: Discovery calendars, from Universe Publishing, is released.
22 August – Issue 2 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Terra Incognita comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
23 August – Russ Heath dies.
27 August – Audrey Gelfand dies.
30 August – Marie Severin dies.

September[]

4 September
- Live Long and...: What I Might Have Learned Along the Way, by William Shatner with David Fisher.
- Titan Magazines Star Trek Magazine special edition Star Trek: Discovery Official Companion, with Titan Books hardback Star Trek: Discovery - The Official Companion.
10 September – Star Trek Magazine issue 195 is released.
12 September – Frank Serafine dies.
14 September – Star Trek Nemesis released on vinyl by Varèse Sarabande Records.
- William Bastiani dies.
15 September
- Star Trek: A Cultural History, by M. Keith Booker, is released.
- John M. Dwyer dies
18 September – Live Long and Evolve, by Mohamed Noor, is released.
21 September – Arell Blanton dies.
25 September – Star Trek: Shipyards - Starfleet Ships 2151-2293, by Ben Robinson and Marcus Riley, from Random House.
26 September –
- Issue 3 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Terra Incognita comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
- Issue 1 of the Star Trek vs. Transformers comic series from IDW Publishing is released.
27 September – Yvonne Suhor dies.

October[]

4 October – "Runaway", the first episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, premieres on CBS All Access.
7 October – Celeste Yarnall dies.
9 October –
- Star Trek: Locutus of Borg Collectible Mask, from Miniature Editions, is released.
- Second edition of Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library, by Larry Nemecek, is released.
- Omnibus edition of Star Trek: The Next Generation - Through the Mirror is released from IDW Publishing.
- Omnibus edition of Star Trek: Discovery - Succession is released from IDW Publishing.
10 October – Ken Lesco dies.
16 October –
- Updated version of Obsessed with Star Trek, by Chip Carter, is released.
- Star Trek: Designing Starships - The Enterprises and Beyond, a mass-market reprint of Star Trek: Designing Starships Volume One, by Ben Robinson and Marcus Riley, is released from Random House.
17 October – "Star Trek vs. Transformers, Issue 2" is released.
24 October – "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Terra Incognita, Issue 4" is released.
28 October – Frank Atienza dies.

November[]

5 November – Robert Phillips dies.
6 November – Stephen Markle dies.
8 November – "Calypso", the second episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, premieres on CBS All Access.
9 November – James Greene dies.
12 November – Stan Lee dies.
13 November –
- DIS Season 1 Blu-ray and DIS Season 1 DVD is released in Region A/1.
- Star Trek: Shipyards - Starfleet Ships 2294 to the Future, by Ben Robinson and Marcus Riley, from Random House, is released.
- Star Trek Magazine issue 196 is released.
15 November – Mike Noble dies.
19 November – DIS Season 1 Blu-ray and DIS Season 1 DVD is released in Region B/2.
21 November – Issue 3 of the Star Trek vs. Transformers comic series is released from IDW Publishing.
27 November –
- Titan Books' Star Trek: The Art of John Eaves, by Joe Nazzaro is released.
- Titan Books' English translation of Star Trek: Prometheus #3, In the Heart of Chaos, by Christian Humberg and Bernd Perplies is released.
- Star Trek: Epic Episodes, by Titan is released.
29 November –
- Star Trek: Fleet Command launches on iOS and Android devices.
- John D.F. Black dies.

December[]

4 December – Anthony Giger dies.
5 December – Issue 5 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – Terra Incognita comic series is released from IDW Publishing.
6 December – "The Brightest Star", the third episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, premieres on CBS All Access.
12 December – "Star Trek: Waypoint Special" from IDW Publishing.
21 December – Filming is completed on the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.
23 December – Star Trek and the British Age of Sail, by Stefan Rabitsch.
25 December – Abdul Salaam El Razzac dies.
26 December – Brad Blaisdell and Virginia Darcy both die.
Unknown day – Big Finish Productions' audiobook of Star Trek: Prometheus #3, In the Heart of Chaos.

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