1986

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This page contains information regarding Star Trek: Picard, and thus may contain spoilers.

For information about Star Trek releases and related events in 1986, please see 1986 (production).

Events

Challenger is destroyed on launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard. (PIC: "Two of One")
Tommy Raymond is born in Indianapolis, Indiana. (TNG-R: "The Neutral Zone", okudagram)
December – Admiral Kirk and his command crew travel back to this year to retrieve a pair of humpback whales in order to answer the call of a mysterious probe assaulting Earth in 2286. They take George and Gracie, along with a cetacean biologist, Dr. Gillian Taylor, back with them. During the acquisition of the whales, Montgomery Scott and Leonard McCoy provide Dr. Nichols with the formula for transparent aluminum on his Macintosh computer. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

The date on the San Francisco Register was Thursday, December 18, 1986. This date is correct for that year. [1] However, a prop for the pawn shop ticket for Kirk's glasses was on display at Star Trek: The Experience (but not seen on screen) was dated 19 August 1986.