For information about Star Trek-related events in 1953, see Early production history.

Events

• The film Shane is released on Earth, featuring actors Alan Ladd, Jack Palance and Brandon De Wilde. (DS9: "It's Only a Paper Moon")

• Gaunt Gary hustles Willie Mosconi in the Ames Pool Hall in New York City. (VOY: "The Cloud")

• The Human Soviet leader Josef Stalin dies on Earth. That September, Douglas Pabst, the editor of Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder, comments snidely that Herbert Rossoff has been angry ever since, implying that he is a Communist. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")