2008 (production)

For information about 2008 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 2008.

Events[]

January[]

• 5 January – Remastered version of TOS: "Day of the Dove" airs.
• 12 January – Remastered version of TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?" airs.
• 14 January –
  • "Valued Intelligence", issue #1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation - Intelligence Gathering, is released by IDW Publishing.
  • Pocket TNG eBook miniseries Slings and Arrows Book 4, That Sleep of Death by Terri Osborne, is released.
  • Viola Stimpson dies.
• 18 January –
  • The first teaser trailer for Star Trek is released in front of J.J. Abrams' movie Cloverfield.
  • Star Trek The Tour opens at the Queen Mary Dome, Long Beach, California.
• 19 January – Remastered version of TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" airs.
• 20 January – Armando Contreras dies.
• 23 January –
  • "Alien Spotlight: Borg" is released by IDW.
  • "Year Four, Issue 6" is released by IDW.
• 26 January – Remastered version of TOS: "The Enemy Within" airs.
• 29 January – A Burning House by Keith R.A. DeCandido, first book in the Star Trek: Klingon Empire series (an expansion of the IKS Gorkon series), is released.
• 30 January – Herb Kenwith dies.

February[]

• 2 February – Remastered version of TOS: "The Changeling" airs.
• 4 February – Maggie Ostroff dies.
• 5 February – Pocket "reference" book Captain Kirk's Guide to Women by John "Bones" Rodriguez is released.
• 6 February – John Alvin dies.
• 9 February –
  • Remastered version of TOS: "The Ultimate Computer" airs.
  • Robert DoQui dies.
• 10 February – Steve Gerber dies.
• 13 February –
  • "A Matter of Dates" issue #2 of Intelligence Gathering, is released by IDW.
  • Lou DeGrado dies.
• 14 February – Perry Lopez dies.
• 23 February – Remastered version of TOS: "Operation -- Annihilate!" airs.
• 26 February – Pocket releases the mass-market paperback reprint of Vulcan's Soul Book 3: Epiphany by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz.
• 27 February – "Alien Spotlight: Romulans" is released by IDW.
• 29 February – Janet Kagan and Gayne Rescher die.

March[]

• 1 March –
  • Remastered version of TOS: "The Apple" airs.
  • Beyond the Clouds is released.
• 4 March – Leonard Rosenman dies.
• 5 March – Star Trek: Year Four, a trade paperback collection of the IDW series, is released.
• 6 March – Pocket eBook miniseries Slings and Arrows book 5, A Weary Life by Robert Greenberger, is released.
• 8 March – Remastered version of TOS: "By Any Other Name" airs.
• 11 March – Pocket eBook miniseries Slings and Arrows book 6, Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment by Keith R.A. DeCandido, is released.
• 15 March – Remastered version of TOS: "That Which Survives" airs.
• 19 March – Michael Van Dyke dies.
• 22 March – Remastered version of TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" airs.
• 24 March – Foster Hood dies.
• 25 March – The first book in the Star Trek: Terok Nor mini-series, Day of the Vipers by James Swallow is released.
• 27 March – Principal photography on Star Trek wraps and post-production officially begins.
• 29 March – Remastered version of TOS: "Elaan of Troyius" airs.

April[]

• 5 April – Remastered version of TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" airs.
• 8 April – Stanley Kamel dies.
• 12 April – Remastered version of TOS: "Obsession" airs.
• 17 April – Second unit photography and VFX plate shooting on Star Trek is wrapped.
• 19 April – The Star Trek - Convention Special is given away at the New York Comic Con. A Singular Destiny, Over a Torrent Sea, and Full Circle are announced at the event.
• 24 April – Bill Heath dies.
• 26 April – Remastered version of TOS: "Mudd's Women" airs.
• 29 April – Night of the Wolves, the second book in the Star Trek: Terok Nor mini-series, by S.D. Perry and Britta Dennison, is released.

May[]

• 3 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Assignment: Earth" airs.
• 7 May – Jack White dies.
• 10 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Court Martial" airs.
• 12 May – Ava Cheung is born.
• 14 May – Alien Spotlight - Volume 1, trade paperback collection of the IDW series.
• 15 May – Alexander Courage dies.
• 17 May – Remastered version of TOS: "A Private Little War" airs.
• 18 May – Joseph Pevney dies.
• 20 May – Dawn of the Eagles, the final part of the Star Trek: Terok Nor mini-series by S.D. Perry and Britta Dennison, is released.
• 24 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy" airs.
• 28 May – Robert H. Justman dies.
• 31 May – Remastered version of TOS: "The Mark of Gideon" airs.

June[]

• 2 June – Bill Dial dies.
• 7 June – Remastered version of TOS: "The Lights of Zetar" airs.
• 14 June – Remastered version of TOS: "The Way to Eden" airs.
• 17 June – These Haunted Seas, a Pocket DS9 omnibus collecting Twilight and This Gray Spirit, is released.
• 19 June – Michael Rougas dies.
• 20 June – Chris River is born.
• 21 June – Remastered version of TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah" airs.
• 24 June – Pocket DS9 relaunch novel Fearful Symmetry by Olivia Woods is released.
• 26 June – Lilyan Chauvin dies.
• 28 June – Remastered version of TOS: "The Savage Curtain" airs.

July[]

• 1 July – The 2009 Ships of the Line calendar and The Star Trek 2009 Calendar are released.
• 12 July – Remastered version of TOS: "The Cloud Minders" airs.
• 15 July – Uchu, the third Star Trek manga from Tokyopop, is released.
• 17 July – Paul Sorensen dies.
• 19 July – Remastered version of TOS: "Spectre of the Gun" airs.
• 22 July – Infinity's Prism, volume one of the Star Trek: Myriad Universes series, with short novels by Christopher L. Bennett, William Leisner, and James Swallow, is released.
• 25 July – Randy Pausch dies.
• 26 July – Remastered version of TOS: "The Empath" airs.
• 28 July – Slimline editions of Enterprise DVDs released in Region 2.
• 29 July – Pocket TNG novel Greater than the Sum, by Christopher L. Bennett, released.

August[]

• 2 August – Remastered version of TOS: "Turnabout Intruder" airs.
• 5 August – TOS-R Season 2 DVD released in Region 1.
• 6 August – Jud Taylor dies.
• 12 August – Echoes and Refractions, volume two of the Myriad Universes series, with short novels by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Chris Roberson, and Geoff Trowbridge, is released.
• 17 August – Irene Sale dies.
• 26 August – Pocket ENT novel Kobayashi Maru by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin is released.

September[]

• 1 September –
  • Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD-ROM from Graphic Imaging Technologies is released.
  • Don LaFontaine dies.
• 5 September – Ilona Wilson dies.
• 6 September – Mel Harris dies.
• 16 September – Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities Region 1 release.
• 17 September – Jerry Sherman dies.
• 23 September – Pocket reference work Star Trek 101 by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann released.
• 24 September – Oliver Crawford dies.
• 25 September –
  • Star Trek Archives Volume 1, Best of Peter David, is released by IDW.
  • Dana Beddoe is born.
• 30 September – Gods of Night, part one of the Star Trek: Destiny crossover series by David Mack released.

October[]

• 13 October – Paul Schneider dies
• 21 October – Corps of Engineers trade paperback collection Wounds is released.
• 24 October – Reference work Star Trek - The Collectibles by Steve Kelley is released.
• 28 October –
  • Mere Mortals, the second part of the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy, is released.
  • The paperback reprint of Academy: Collision Course is released.
• 29 October –
  • Trade paperback collection of the IDW series Star Trek: New Frontier - Turnaround is released.
  • BFI TV Classics - Star Trek by Ina Rae Hark is released.
• 31 October – Yvette Blais (Ray Ellis) dies.

November[]

• 14 November – Star Trek theatrical trailer debuts in US theaters.
• 18 November – TOS-R Season 3 DVD is released in Region 1.
• 25 November –
  • Lost Souls, the final part of the Destiny trilogy, is released.
  • The trade paperback collection of the IDW series Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment is released.
  • Star Trek Archives Volume 2, Best of the Borg, is released by IDW.
  • Key Collection volume 6, from IDW, is released.

December[]

• 1 December – Ella McKenzie is born.
• 18 December – Majel Barrett dies.
• 20 December – Larry Corbett dies.
• 23 December –
  • Post-production on Star Trek is completed; the film is officially complete and locked.
  • Ernest Robinson dies.
• 29 December – Trade paperback collections of the IDW series Star Trek: Assignment: Earth and Star Trek: Mirror Images are released.
• 30 December – Sacrifices of War, the third book in the Errand of Fury trilogy by Kevin Ryan, is released.

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