1998

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years:	1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 (stardates from 1998.0)
decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1998 was, on Earth's calendar, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the ninth year of the 1990s decade. Although this was a time period before Human formulation of stardates, this era begins with stardate 1998.0.^[1]

Events[]

A tour group at the Las Vegas Hilton is brought forward in time to the 24th century by the USS Enterprise-D. They are later returned via shuttlecraft and a dogfight with a Klingon bird-of-prey ensues. Nellis Air Force Base dismisses the event as "weather balloons."^[2]

29 October

Discovery is launched from pad B of Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for mission STS-95. The mission is commanded by Curtis L. Brown, Jr, and is Discovery's sixth launch. The shuttle is piloted by Steven W. Lindsey, with other crewmembers consisting of mission specialists Pedro Duque, Scott E. Parazynski, and Stephen K. Robinson, and payload specialists John Glenn and Chiaki Mukai.^[3]

7 November

Mission STS-95 is completed. Discovery touches down on.^[3]

People[]

Births and deaths[]

Katie Christopher, the only daughter of Shaun Christopher and Debbie Lauderdale, is born.^[4]

31 October

Buck Bokai is born in Marina del Rey, California.^[5]

Notable people[]

other notable people: Hank Aaron • Joe Adcock • Buzz Aldrin • Pamela Anderson • Ann-Margret • Neil Armstrong • Margaret Atwood • Ernie Banks • Drew Barrymore • Tony Blair • Barry Bonds • Boutros Boutros-Ghali • Ben Bova • Ray Bradbury • Kenneth Branagh • Ralph Branca • Dave Brubeck • George H. W. Bush • George W. Bush • Naomi Campbell • Jimmy Carter • Fidel Castro • Charles, Prince of Wales • Jaques Chirac • Katie Christopher • Arthur C. Clarke • Hillary Rodham Clinton • William J. Clinton • Joan Collins • Max Allan Collins • Pete Conrad • Robert Crais • Walter Cronkite • Olivia de Havilland • Robert De Niro • Cameron Diaz • Joe DiMaggio • Athene Donald • James Doohan • Frank Drake • Bob Dylan • Freeman Dyson • Clint Eastwood • Elizabeth II • Harlan Ellison • Shepard Fairey • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir • Heidi Fleiss • Bill Gates • John Glenn • Raisa Gorbachova • George Harrison • Stephen Hawking • Patty Hearst • Thor Heyerdahl • Lena Horne • Kevin Howard • Saddam Hussein • Steve Jobs • Davy Jones • DeForest Kelley • Har Gobind Khorana • Lady Gaga • Debbie Lauderdale • Alexey Leonov • James Lovell • Elle Macpherson • Madonna • John Major • Lee Majors • Junior Mance • Johnny Mandel • Nelson Mandela • Charles Manson • Willie Mays • Jennifer McCarthy • Paul McCartney • Larry McMurtry • Yehudi Menuhin • Walter Mondale • Demi Moore • Elon Musk • Abu Nidal • Leonard Nimoy • Patrick O'Brian • Roger Penrose • Nancy Reagan • Ronald Reagan • Helen Reddy • Derek Redmond • Sally Ride • Donald Rumsfeld • Claudia Schiffer • Norman Schwarzkopf • William Shatner • Alan Shepard • Frank Sinatra • Will Smith • Mickey Spillane • Benjamin Spock • Eddie Stanky • Patrick Stewart • Sharon Stone • Valentina Tereshkova • Margaret Thatcher • Bobby Thomson • Frank J. Tipler • Richard Widmark • Andrew Wiles • Chuck Yeager • Boris Yeltsin • Todor Zhivkov

Appendices[]

References and notes[]

↑ TOS movie: Star Trek.
↑ Star Trek: The Experience - The Klingon Encounter
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Star Trek Magazine Issue 162: "Blast Off! Spaceflight Chronology"
↑ TOS short story: "Assignment: One".
↑ DS9 episode: "The Storyteller"

Stories[]

Title	Series	Date	Media	Notes	Image
Strange New Worlds II Research	Deep Space Nine	1998	short story
Second Contact	The Next Generation	1998	Comic

Releases[]

January[]

TOS novel #84: Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox.
- Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the USS Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster-ravaged planet, but Seven has an agenda of his own—and he's not above hijacking the starship Enterprise and sending it on a perilous journey deep into the heart of the Romulan Empire. Kirk must dare to trust Gary Seven once again, as he confronts the possibility that the enigmatic stranger may bring death and destruction to Kirk's own era.
VOY novel #15: Echoes by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
- The USS Voyager finds itself in a system where a planet might have existed, but doesn't. Where the planet should have been, millions and then billions of people are appearing from nowhere and dying in the vacuum of space. To solve the mystery and save billions of lives, Captain Janeway will have to face alternate versions of herself and the crew of Voyager—not just one almost-mirror-image, but many. Janeway will have to find a way to work with her alternate selves, with whom she shares much but each of whom has a different agenda. At stake is the survival of Voyager and the lives of billions of innocent people.
EV comic #12: "Futures, Part One" by Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton.
Unlimited comic #7: "An Infinite Jest" by Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton.
DS9 comic #13: Telepathy War, Part 3: "Day of Honor", by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels.
VOY comic: Telepathy War, Part 5: "Cloud Walkers" by Laurie Sutton.
SA comic #14: T'Priell Revealed, Part 1: "Betrayal" by Chris Cooper.