For information dealing with this year in the timeline of the fictional Star Trek universe, see 1977.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown

Events Edit

January Edit

• 23 January - Sonita Henry is born.
• 28 January - Jace Jeanes is born.
• Star Trek Log 9 by Alan Dean Foster is published by Ballantine Books.
• Gold Key TOS comic #42: "World Against Time" is published.
• Meaning in Star Trek by Karin Blair is published by Anima Books.
• Giant in the Universe by Kay Wood is published by Random House.
• Trillions of Trilligs is published by Random House.
• The Truth Machine by Sharon Lerner, Christopher Cerf and Jane Clark is published by Random House.
• Letters to Star Trek by Susan Sackett is published by Ballantine Books.

February Edit

• 7 February - Cory Danziger is born.
• Gold Key TOS comic #43: "World Beneath the Waves" is published.

March Edit

• Trek or Treat by Terry Flanagan and Eleanor Ehrhardt is published by Ballantine Books.
• 28 March - Annie Wersching is born.

April Edit

• 15 April - Scott Trimble is born.
• 26 April - McKenzie Westmore is born.
• 27 April - Stanley Adams dies.
• Star Trek: Planet of the Titans rejected by Paramount Pictures.
• Pre-production on Star Trek: Phase II begins.
• The Star Trek Reader II by James Blish is published by Dutton.

May Edit

• 22 May - Noa Tishby is born.
• Gold Key TOS comic #44: "Prince Traitor" is published.

June Edit

• 2 June - Zachary Quinto is born.
• 16 June - Ricky Luna is born.

July Edit

• 25 July - Christine Boylan is born.
• The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath is published by Bantam Books.
• Gold Key TOS comic #45 (reprint of Issue #7): "The Voodoo Planet" is published.

August Edit

• 7 August - Kasia Kowalczyk is born.
• 9 August - Lin Oeding is born.
• 18 August - Jim Sheppard dies.
• 31 August - Joseph Mell dies.
• Plans for Star Trek: Phase II are abandoned in favor of a Star Trek feature film.
• Planet of Judgment by Joe Haldeman is published by Bantam Books.
• The Star Trek Reader III by James Blish is published by Dutton.
• Gold Key TOS comic #46: "Mr. Oracle" is published.

September Edit

• 15 September - Tom Hardy is born.
• Gold Key TOS comic #47: "This Tree Bears Bitter Fruit" is published.

October Edit

• 20 October - Sam Witwer is born.
• Gold Key TOS comic #48: "Sweet Smell of Evil" is published.
• The Prisoner of Vega by Sharon Lerner, Christopher Cerf and Robert Swanson is published by Random House.
• Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual by Eileen Palestine is published by Ballantine Books.

November Edit

• 15 November - Jason Vaughn is born.
• 29 November - Christina Weathersby is born.
• Star Trek 12 by James Blish and J.A. Lawrence is published by Bantam Books.
• Gold Key TOS comic #49: "A Warp in Space" is published.
• The Making of Trek Conventions by Joan Winston is published by Doubleday.
• Star Trek Fotonovel 1: City on the Edge of Forever is published by Bantam Books.
• Star Trek Fotonovel 2: Where No Man Has Gone Before is published by Bantam Books.

December Edit

• 23 December - Joanna Fuller is born.
• 25 December - Frank P. Keller dies.
• Star Trek Fotonovel 3: The Trouble With Tribbles is published by Bantam Books.

Unknown Edit

• David Tristan Birkin is born.
• "The Enterprise Logs 3" is published by Golden Press.
• Winter - "The Enterprise Logs 4" is published by Golden Press.
• Star Trek Puzzle Manual (2nd edition) by James Razzi is published by Bantam Books.
• Star Trek Intragalactic Puzzles by James Razzi is published by Bantam Books.
• Star Trek Quiz Book by Bart Andrews and Brad Dunning is published by Signet Books.
• Star Trek Postcard Book is published by Prime Press.
• The short story "Tin Woodsman", by Dennis Putman Bailey and David Bischoff and first published in Amazing Stories in their December 1976 issue, is nominated for a Nebula Award. The story was later adapted for the 1990 episode "Tin Man".

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