On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: The Big Goodbye.

Released January 9, 1988.

Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan.

Written by Tracy Tormé.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Lawrence Tierney, Harvey Jason, William Boyett, David Selburg, Gary Armagnac, Mike Genovese, Dick Miller, Carolyn Allport, Rhonda Aldrich, Erik Cord, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Susan Raborn, Richard Sarstedt.