1966 (production)

Template:Realworld:For information dealing with this year in the timeline of the fictional Star Trek universe, see 1966.

Events

January

• 19 January - David Youse is born.
• 23 January - Bobby Aldridge is born.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

February

• 2 February - D.C. Douglas is born.
• 13 February - Neal McDonough is born.
• mid-February - The second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is delivered to NBC. NBC orders 16 episodes, with the first to air in September. (The Making of Star Trek)
• 22 February - The New York Times lists Star Trek as a part of NBC's fall 1966 schedule, airing Friday nights from 10PM to 11PM.
• 24 February - Katja Rieckermann is born.

March

• 1 March - J.D. Cullum is born.
• 3 March - Heidi Swedberg is born.
• 7 March - Jonathan Del Arco is born.
• 30 March - Stephen Gevedon is born.
• Unknown - Rick Pasqualone is born.

April

• 14 April - First story outline submitted by Paul Schneider for TOS: "Balance of Terror" with a revised version following on 26 April.
• 15 April - Darin Cooper is born.
• 18 April - First story outline for TOS: "Charlie X" is submitted, with a second outline following on 23 April.
• 21 April - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" first draft script is submitted with a final draft coming 3 May and further revisions dated 20 May.
• The details on the USS Enterprise filming model are further modified. This is nearly its final form, with only a few small details added at some alter unspecified date. This model is the most widely seen in TOS effects shots. [1]
• 22 April - Jeffrey Dean Morgan is born.
• 27 April - First story treatment for TOS: "Charlie X" is submitted, with a second draft following 9 May.

May

• 3 May - Final draft script for TOS: "The Enemy Within" is submitted, with a first draft teleplay on 6 Junea final draft coming two days later.
• 5 May - Story outline for TOS: "Shore Leave" is submitted, with a revised outline coming 13 May.
• 10 May - Jason Brooks is born.
• 11 May - Nancy Hower is born.
• 13 May - Story outline for TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" is submitted.
• 17 May - Joey Sakata is born.
• 23 May - First draft script for TOS: "Mudd's Women" is submitted, with a final draft coming 26 May, and further revised on 31 May.
• 29 May - Diana Lee Inosanto is born.
• late May - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" begins filming; it is the first regular episode of TOS produced after the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

June

• 13 June - First draft script for TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" is submitted.
• 23 June - First script draft for TOS: "The Naked Time" is submitted. Further revisions were submitted 28 June, and 1 and 5 July.
• 26 June - First draft script for TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is submitted, with a final draft coming 27 July.
• 27 June - Second script draft for TOS: "Charlie X" is submitted, with a final draft coming 5 July.
• early June - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" filming completed.
• early to mid-June - TOS: "Mudd's Women" is filmed.
• mid-June - TOS: "The Enemy Within" is filmed.
• late June - TOS: "The Man Trap" is filmed.

July

• 4 July - Marnie McPhail is born.
• 6 July - First draft script for TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" is submitted, with further drafts coming 30 July, 5, 6, and 8 August.
• 9 July - Pamela Segall is born.
• 15 July - Amanda Foreman is born.
• early July - TOS: "The Naked Time" is filmed.
• mid-July - TOS: "Charlie X" is filmed.
• unknown date - treatment for TOS: "This Side of Paradise" is submitted.

August

• 6 August - Hal Olofsson is born.
• 11 August - First draft script for TOS: "Miri" is submitted, with a final draft coming the next day.
• 23 August - First draft script for TOS: "The Conscience of the King" is submitted with a final draft coming 14 September.
• early August - TOS: "Balance of Terror" and "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" filmed.
• mid-August - TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" filmed.
• late August - TOS: "Miri" filmed.
• Steven W. Carabatsos joins production crew as Story Consultant.

September

• 1 September - First script draft for TOS: "The Galileo Seven" is submitted, with a final draft submitted on 15 September.
• 6 September - The original Star Trek premieres on Canadian television.
• 8 September - The original Star Trek premieres on NBC. The first episode aired is "The Man Trap", which was actually the fifth TOS Season 1 segment filmed.
• 15 September - TOS: "Charlie X" airs; it is reviewed the following day by Jack Gould in The New York Times. "The accent," Gould writes, "was less on the super-duper gadgetry usually associated with travel in the heavens than on astronautical soap opera that suffers from interminable flight drag. It was TV's first psychodrama in orbit."
• 16 September - Scott Workman is born.
• 21 September - First draft script for TOS: "Court Martial" is submitted titled "Court-martial on Starbase Eleven" with the final draft and revised final draft turned in on 26 and 29 September, respectively.
• 22 September - TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (Pilot episode) airs.
• 29 September - TOS: "The Naked Time" airs.
• late September - TOS: "The Conscience of the King" is filmed, and TOS: "The Galileo Seven" begins filming.
• AMT acquires license for Star Trek models.

October

• 3 October - First draft script for TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II" is submitted, with a final draft coming on 7 October. First draft script for TOS: "Shore Leave" is also submitted, with revisions coming 14, 18, 19, and 21 October.
• 6 October - TOS: "The Enemy Within" airs.
• 13 October - TOS: "Mudd's Women" airs.
• 14 October - Brock Burnett is born.
• 16 October - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is born.
• 18 October - First draft script for TOS: "The Squire of Gothos" is submitted, with a final draft coming 26 October. The first draft script for TOS: "Arena" was also submitted this date, with a final draft coming 28 October and further revisions on 3 November.
• 19 October - Roger Cross is born.
• 20 October - TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" airs.
• 27 October - TOS: "Miri" airs.
• early October - TOS: "The Galileo Seven" completes filming and TOS: "Court Martial" filmed.
• mid-October - "The Menagerie, Part I" & "The Menagerie, Part II" filmed.
• late October - "Shore Leave" filmed.

November

• 1 November - First draft script for TOS: "The Return of the Archons" is submitted, with a final draft coming 10 November.
• 3 November - TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" airs.
• 7 November - First draft script for TOS: "The Alternative Factor" is submitted, with a final draft following on 11 November.
• 10 November - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" airs.
• 12 November - Max Grodénchik is born.
• 14 November - First draft script for TOS: "Assignment: Earth" is submitted, but not for a Star Trek series.
• 17 November - TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" airs.
• 21 November - Final draft script for TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" is submitted and revised the next day.
• 23 November - First draft script of TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon" is submitted, with final drafts coming 28 November and 12 December.
• 24 November - TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II" airs. Russell Watson is born.
• mid-November - "The Squire of Gothos" and "Arena" are filmed.
• late November - "The Alternative Factor" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" are filmed.

December

• 1 December - Second revised final draft script for TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" is submitted.
• 7 December - Curtis Fairchild is born.
• 8 December - TOS: "The Conscience of the King" airs.
• 13 December - Second revised final draft script for TOS: "Space Seed" is submitted.
• 14 December - Joseph Michael Roth is born.
• 15 December - TOS: "Balance of Terror" airs. Final draft script for TOS: "This Side of Paradise" is submitted, with further revisions 28 December.
• 19 December - First draft script for TOS: "The Devil in the Dark" is submitted, with a final draft coming three days later.
• 21 December - Leslie McCasky is born.
• 24 December - Diedrich Bader is born.
• 29 December - TOS: "Shore Leave" airs.
• early/mid-December - "The Return of the Archons" filmed.

Unknown

• Eric Sharp is born.
• Morgan Margolis is born.
• The first Star Trek model kits are released by AMT.

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