2006

For other uses, see 2006.

2006 was, on Earth's calendar, the 7th year of the 21st century, and the seventh year of the 2000s decade. Although this was a time period before Human formulation of stardates, this era begins with stardate 2006.0.

Events

• Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet.
• By this year Renée Picard had taught herself to be an expert sailor.

Spaceflight Chronology continuity

• Thomas Morrison becomes the first Human to die on the moon.

People

Notable people

Saddam Hussein.

George H. W. Bush (left).

George W. Bush and Tony Blair.

Jimmy Carter.

Fidel Castro.

Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Shaun Geoffrey Christopher.

Harlan Ellison.

Stephen Hawking.

Nelson Mandela.

Shannon O'Donnel.

Norman Schwarzkopf.

Margaret Thatcher.

other notable people

Hank Aaron • Buzz Aldrin • Pamela Anderson • Ann-Margret • Neil Armstrong • Margaret Atwood • Ernie Banks • Drew Barrymore • Barry Bonds • Boutros Boutros-Ghali • Ben Bova • Ray Bradbury • Kenneth Branagh • Ralph Branca • Dave Brubeck • Naomi Campbell • Jimmy Carter • Charles, Prince of Wales • Jaques Chirac • Katie Christopher • Kevin Christopher • Arthur C. Clarke • Joan Collins • Max Allan Collins • Robert Crais • Walter Cronkite • Olivia de Havilland • Robert De Niro • Cameron Diaz • Athene Donald • Frank Drake • Bob Dylan • Freeman Dyson • Clint Eastwood • Elizabeth II • Shepard Fairey • Vigdís Finnbogadóttir • Heidi Fleiss • Alice Fontana • Tera Franklin • Bill Gates • John Glenn • Patty Hearst • Lena Horne • Hultquist • Steve Jobs • Davy Jones • Har Gobind Khorana • Lady Gaga • Sumi Lee • Alexey Leonov • Debbie Lauderdale • James Lovell • Shirin Ludden • Elle Macpherson • Madonna • John Major • Lee Majors • Junior Mance • Johnny Mandel • Charles Manson • Willie Mays • Jennifer McCarthy • Paul McCartney • Larry McMurtry • Walter Mondale • Demi Moore • Elon Musk • Leonard Nimoy • Jocelyn O'Herlihy • Marcus O'Herlihy • Roger Penrose • Plummer • Nancy Reagan • Helen Reddy • Derek Redmond • Sally Ride • Donald Rumsfeld • Emilia Sakamoto • Claudia Schiffer • William Shatner • Simone • Will Smith • Mickey Spillane • Patrick Stewart • Sharon Stone • Valentina Tereshkova • Bobby Thomson • Frank J. Tipler • Richard Widmark • Andrew Wiles • Chuck Yeager • Boris Yeltsin • Jase Zero

Appendices

Releases

Dates listed here reflect the official release date of publications; prose publications typically become available in the final weeks of the preceding month, but have no set release date; comics do have specific release days, which normally occur at intervals throughout their release month.

January

• SCE eBook #60: The Cleanup, by Robert T. Jeschonek
• TTN novel: Orion's Hounds, by Christopher L. Bennett

February

The Key Collection, Volume 5.

• ENT novel: Rosetta, by Dave Stern.
• NF novel: Missing in Action, by Peter David (hardcover).
• SCE eBook #61: What's Past, Book One: Progress, by Terri Osborne.
• TOS comic omnibus: The Key Collection, Volume 5.

March

• VOY novel: String Theory, Book Three: Evolution, by Heather Jarman
• SCE eBook #62: What's Past, Book Two: The Future Begins, by Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster
• TNG comic omnibus: The Battle Within, by Michael Jan Friedman and Pablo Marcos

April

• DS9 novel: Warpath, by David Mack
• SCE eBook #63: What's Past, Book Three: Echoes of Coventry, by Richard C. White
• VGD novel: Summon the Thunder, by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.

May

• ENT novel: Last Full Measure, by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin
• SCE eBook #64: What's Past, Book Four: Distant Early Warning, by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.

June

• TOS novel: Vulcan's Soul, Book Two: Exiles, by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz (Hardcover)
• SCE eBook #65: What's Past, Book Five: 10 is Better Than 01, by Heather Jarman
• TOS novel: To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh, by Greg Cox (Paperback Reprint).

July

• SCE eBook #66: What's Past, Book Six: Many Splendors, by Keith R.A. DeCandido.

August

• TOS novel: Burning Dreams, by Margaret Wander Bonanno
• TOS novel: Captain's Glory, by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Hardcover)
• TOS eBook: Mere Anarchy #1: Things Fall Apart, by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
• SNW anthology: Strange New Worlds 9, edited by Dean Wesley Smith, Elisa J. Kassin, and Paula M. Block
• TOS novel: Vulcan's Glory, by D.C. Fontana (Classic Reprint)
• TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky, by Margaret Wander Bonanno (Classic Reprint).

September

• TOS novel: Crucible, Book One: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows, by David R. George III
• TOS anthology: Constellations, edited by Marco Palmieri
• TOS manga anthology: Star Trek: The Manga - Shinsei Shinsei, by Chris Dows, Jim Alexander, Mike W. Barr, Joshua Ortega and Rob Tokar
• TOS eBook: Mere Anarchy #2: The Centre Cannot Hold, by Mike W. Barr
• TOS novel: The Entropy Effect, by Vonda N. McIntyre (Classic Reprint)
• TOS/TNG novel: Federation, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Classic Reprint)
• TOS comic omnibus: The Trial of James T. Kirk, by Peter David, James W. Fry & Gordon Purcell
• TAS novelization omnibus: Star Trek Logs One and Two, by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey reprint)
• TAS novelization omnibus: Star Trek Logs Three and Four, by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey reprint)
• TAS novelization omnibus: Star Trek Logs Five and Six, by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey reprint)
• TAS novelization omnibus: Star Trek Logs Seven and Eight, by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey reprint)
• TAS novelization omnibus: Star Trek Logs Nine and Ten, by Alan Dean Foster (Del Rey reprint)
• TOS reference: Star Trek: Starfleet Technical Manual, by Franz Joseph (Del Rey reprint)
• TNG comic omnibus: Maelstrom, by Michael Jan Friedman & Pablo Marcos.

October

• TOS novel: Rihannsu, Book Five: The Empty Chair, by Diane Duane (eBook advanced release).

November

• TOS eBook: Mere Anarchy #3: Shadows of the Indignant, by Dave Galanter
• CoE omnibus: Aftermath, by Christopher L. Bennett, Randall N. Bills, Loren L. Coleman, Robert Greenberger, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, & Aaron Rosenberg
• Reference: Ships of the Line, edited by Doug Drexler and Margaret Clark
• Reference: Voyages of Imagination, by Jeff Ayers.

December

• TOS novel: Crucible, Book Two: Spock: The Fire and the Rose, by David R. George III
• TOS novel: Rihannsu, Book Five: The Empty Chair, by Diane Duane
• CoE eBook #1: Turn the Page, by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
• TOS omnibus: Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages, by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood
• TOS comic omnibus: The Return of the Worthy, by Peter David, Bill Mumy, J. Michael Straczynski, Howard Weinstein, Gordon Purcell & Ken Hooper.

External links

• 2006 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 2006 (production) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.