1968 (production)

Real world article
(written from a Production point of view)

For information about 1968 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 1968.

Production

January

• 2 January – Filming begins on TOS: "Assignment: Earth".
• 5 January – TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion" airs.
• 10 January – Filming is completed on TOS: "Assignment: Earth", and the second season of Star Trek.
• 12 January –
  • TOS: "A Piece of the Action" airs.
  • Rachael Harris is born.
  • John Jackson Miller is born.
• 17 January –
  • Jeff Chase is born.
  • Brita Nowak is born.
• 19 January – TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" airs.
• 23 January – Marci Brickhouse and Adam Kane are born.

February

• 1 February – John Harrington Bland is born.
• 2 February – TOS: "A Private Little War" airs.
• 3 February – Joe Bennett is born.
• 8 February –
  • Mike Massa is born.
  • Nancy Anna Brown is born.
• 9 February – TOS: "Return to Tomorrow" airs.
• 12 February – Simon Northwood is born.
• 16 February – TOS: "Patterns of Force" airs.
• 22 February – Jeri Ryan is born.
• 23 February –
  • TOS: "By Any Other Name" airs.
  • Alexander Denk is born.
  • Craig Hurley is born.
• Star Trek 2 by James Blish is published by Bantam Books.
• Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds is published by Whitman Publishing and is the first original Star Trek novel.

March

• 1 March – TOS: "The Omega Glory" airs.
• 8 March –
  • The story outline for TOS: "That Which Survives" is submitted.
  • TOS: "The Ultimate Computer" airs.
• 10 March – Rico E. Anderson and Philip Anthony-Rodriguez are born.
• 14 March – James Frain is born.
• 15 March – TOS: "Bread and Circuses" airs.
• 21 March – Greg Ellis is born.
• 22 March – Story outlines for TOS: "Wink of an Eye", "And the Children Shall Lead" and "The Paradise Syndrome" (titled "The Paleface") are submitted.
• 25 March – Michael Reisz is born.
• 29 March –
  • The story outline for TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" is submitted.
  • TOS: "Assignment: Earth" airs as the final episode of the second season.
• Gold Key TOS comic #2: "The Devil's Isle of Space" is published.

April

• 5 April – TOS: "I, Mudd" is repeated.
• 12 April –
  • Alicia Coppola is born.
  • TOS: "Mirror, Mirror" is repeated.
• 19 April –
  • The revised outline for "The Enterprise Incident" is submitted.
  • Story outline for TOS: "Spectre of the Gun" (titled "The Last Gunfight") is submitted.
  • TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" is repeated.
  • Ashley Judd is born.
• 21 April – Leslie Silva is born.
• 22 April – Story outline for TOS: "Spock's Brain" is submitted.
• 24 April – Loren L. Coleman is born.
• 25 April – Richard Bennett is born.
• 26 April –
  • TOS: "Amok Time" is repeated.
  • The revised outline for "The Enterprise Incident" is approved by the network.
• Theodore Sturgeon submits a story outline for a sequel episode to TOS: "Shore Leave".

May

• 1 May – Story outline for TOS: "The Tholian Web" (titled "In Essence – Nothing") is submitted.
• 2 May – Story outline for TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" is submitted.
• 3 May – TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion" is repeated.
• 8 May – Story outline for TOS: "Turnabout Intruder" is submitted.
• 10 May – TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?" is repeated.
• 14 May – Revised final draft script for TOS: "Spectre of the Gun" is submitted.
• 16 May – First draft script for TOS: "Elaan of Troyius" is submitted.
• 17 May – TOS: "The Changeling" is repeated.
• 20 May – Timothy Olyphant is born.
• 23 May – Filming begins on TOS: "Spectre of the Gun", and the third season of Star Trek.
• 24 May –
  • Acts I & II for the first draft of "The Enterprise Incident" are delivered.
  • Story outline for TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" is submitted.
  • TOS: "Catspaw" is repeated.
• 27 May – Final revised script draft for TOS: "Elaan of Troyius" is submitted.
• 28 May – Acts III & IV for the first draft of "The Enterprise Incident" are delivered.
• 29 May – First draft script for TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome" is submitted.
• 31 May – TOS: "By Any Other Name" is repeated. Filming is completed on TOS: "Spectre of the Gun".

June

• 3 June –
  • Filming begins on TOS: "Elaan of Troyius".
  • Final draft script for TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome" is delivered.
  • The story outline for "Day of the Dove" is submitted.
  • The second draft of "The Enterprise Incident" is delivered.
• 5 June – Dave Lanphear is born.
• 7 June –
  • The mimeographed "first draft" script for "The Enterprise Incident" is submitted.
  • TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" is repeated.
• 10 June – Filming is completed on TOS: "Elaan of Troyius". A deleted scene is filmed today. Kristian Sorensen is born.
• 11 June – Filming begins on TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome".
• 13 June –
  • Fred Tatasciore is born.
  • Story outline for TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" (titled "The Sons of Socrates") is submitted.
  • The final draft of "The Enterprise Incident" is submitted.
• 18 June –
  • Filming is completed on TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome".
  • First draft script for TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead" is submitted.
• 19 June – Edward Conna is born. Filming begins on TOS: "The Enterprise Incident".
• 21 June – TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles" is repeated.
• 26 June – Filming is completed on TOS: "The Enterprise Incident".
• 27 June – Paul Rae is born. Filming begins on TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead".
• 28 June – TOS: "The Ultimate Computer" is repeated.

July

• 5 July –
  • Filming is completed on TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead".
  • First draft script for TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" is submitted as an unsolicited script.
  • TOS: "Journey to Babel" is repeated.
• 8 July – Filming begins on TOS: "Spock's Brain". Gregory A. Weimerskirch is born.
• 10 July – Cristina Patterson Ceret is born.
• 12 July – Story outline for TOS: "The Mark of Gideon" is submitted. TOS: "The Apple" is repeated.
• 15 July – Filming is completed on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
• 16 July – Filming begins on TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".
• 19 July – TOS: "Metamorphosis" is repeated.
• 23 July – Revised final draft script for TOS: "The Empath" is submitted.
• 24 July – Filming is completed on TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".
• 25 July – Filming begins on TOS: "The Empath".
• 26 July – Story outline for TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy" is submitted. TOS: "The Omega Glory" is repeated.
• 29 July – Noelle Hannibal is born.
• 30 July – Final draft script for TOS: "The Tholian Web" is submitted.

August

• 2 August – TOS: "Return to Tomorrow" is repeated. Filming is completed on TOS: "The Empath".
• 4 August – Daniel Dae Kim is born.
• 5 August – Filming begins on TOS: "The Tholian Web".
• 7 August – Final draft script for TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" is submitted, with a revision coming the next day.
• 8 August – Story outline for TOS: "That Which Survives" (titled "Survival") is submitted.
• 9 August – Eric Bana is born. First draft script for TOS: "Day of the Dove" is submitted with a revised final draft coming 19 August. TOS: "Assignment: Earth" is repeated.
• 12 August – Filming is completed on TOS: "The Tholian Web".
• 13 August – J.D. Walters is born. Filming begins on TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
• 14 August – Story outline for TOS: "The Cloud Minders" (titled "Castles in the Air") is submitted.
• 16 August – TOS: "The Deadly Years" is repeated.
• 17 August – Andrew Koenig is born.
• 20 August – Filming is completed on TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
• 22 August – Filming begins on TOS: "Day of the Dove".
• 23 August – TOS: "A Private Little War" is repeated.
• 27 August – Story outline for TOS: "The Way to Eden" is revised, with further revisions following on 5 September.
• 29 August – Filming is completed on TOS: "Day of the Dove".
• 30 August – TOS: "A Piece of the Action" is repeated.

September

• 5 September – First draft script for TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy" is submitted.
• 12 September – Story outline for TOS: "The Lights of Zetar" is submitted.
• 15 September – Susan Patterson is born.
• 16 September – Final draft script for TOS: "That Which Survives" is submitted.
• 20 September – TOS: "Spock's Brain" airs on NBC as the first episode of the third season.
• 23 September – Story outline for TOS: "All Our Yesterdays" (titled "A Handful of Dust") is submitted.
• 27 September – TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" airs.
• early to mid-September – TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" is filmed.
• mid to late September – TOS: "Wink of an Eye" is filmed.
• late September – TOS: "That Which Survives" begins filming.
• The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry is published by Ballantine Books.

October

• 1 October – Jay Underwood is born.
• 2 October – Story outline for TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah" is submitted.
• 4 October – Jennifer Gatti is born. TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome" airs.
• 11 October – TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead" airs.
• 16 October – Todd Stashwick is born.
• 18 October – TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" airs.
• 23 October – Gary Erskine is born.
• 25 October – TOS: "Spectre of the Gun" airs.
• 26 October – Jeffrey Kalmus is born.
• 28 October – Final draft script for TOS: "The Lights of Zetar" is submitted.
• 31 October – Grant Woods dies.
• early October – Filming for TOS: "That Which Survives" is completed and TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" is filmed.
• mid-October – TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy" is filmed.
• late October – TOS: "The Mark of Gideon" is filmed.

November

• 1 November – TOS: "Day of the Dove" airs.
• 4 November – Filming is completed on TOS: "The Mark of Gideon".
• 5 November – Filming begins on TOS: "The Lights of Zetar".
• 6 November – Vidal Peterson is born.
• 8 November – TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" airs.
• 11 November – Ben Bray is born.
• 12 November – Filming is completed on TOS: "The Lights of Zetar".
• 13 November – Filming begins on TOS: "The Cloud Minders".
• 15 November – TOS: "The Tholian Web" airs.
• 16 November – James Parks is born.
• 19 November – First draft script for TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah" is submitted.
• 20 November – Filming is completed on TOS: "The Cloud Minders".
• 21 November – Filming begins on TOS: "The Way to Eden".
• 22 November – TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" airs.
• 28 November – Samara Hagopian is born.
• 29 November – TOS: "Wink of an Eye" airs. Filming is completed on TOS: "The Way to Eden".

December

• 1 December – First draft script for TOS: "Turnabout Intruder" is submitted with a final draft coming on 20 December, and revisions on 30 December.
• 2 December – Filming begins on TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah".
• 6 December – TOS: "The Empath" airs and final draft script for TOS: "The Savage Curtain" is submitted.
• 9 December – Filming is completed on TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah".
• 10 December – Marc D. Giller is born.
• 11 December – Filming begins on TOS: "The Savage Curtain".
• 12 December – Final draft script for TOS: "All Our Yesterdays" is submitted with revisions coming 17 December.
• 15 December – Garrett Wang is born.
• 16 December – Paul Scherrer is born.
• 19 December – Filming is completed on TOS: "The Savage Curtain".
• 20 December – TOS: "Elaan of Troyius" airs. Eva Loseth is born. Filming begins on TOS: "All Our Yesterdays".
• 22 December – Dina Meyer is born.
• 27 December – TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" is repeated.
• 30 December – Bryan Burk is born. Filming is completed on TOS: "All Our Yesterdays".
• 31 December – David A. McIntee is born. Filming begins on TOS: "Turnabout Intruder".
• Gold Key TOS comic #3: "Invasion of the City Builders" is published.

Unknown

• TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" wins the Hugo Award as "Best Dramatic Presentation" after TOS episodes sweep the nominations for the category.
• Gene Roddenberry wins a special Hugo Award for Star Trek.
• Benjamin Brown and Richard Isanove are born.

1967

Production timeline Births • Deaths

1969