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 –
  • Evan Parke is born.
  • 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 and Brita Nowak are 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 and Nancy Anna Brown are 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.
• 28 March – Gold Key TOS comic #2: "The Devil's Isle of Space" is published.
• 29 March –
  • The story outline for TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" is submitted.
  • TOS: "Assignment: Earth" airs as the final episode of the second season.

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.
• 21 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. Filming is completed on TOS: "Spectre of the Gun".
• 31 May – TOS: "By Any Other Name" is repeated. Filming begins on TOS: "Elaan of Troyius".

June

• 3 June –
  • 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.
• 22 August – Filming is completed on TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". 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.
• 9 September – Filming begins on TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren".
• 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.
• 17 September – Filming is completed on TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren".
• 18 September – Filming begins on TOS: "Wink of an Eye".
• 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.
• 25 September – Filming is completed on TOS: "Wink of an Eye".
• 26 September –
  • Filming begins on TOS: "That Which Survives".
  • Gold Key TOS comic #3: "Invasion of the City Builders" is published.
• 27 September – TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" airs.
• 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.
• 3 October – Filming is completed on TOS: "That Which Survives".
• 4 October – Jennifer Gatti is born. TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome" airs. Filming begins on TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield".
• 11 October – TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead" airs.
• 14 October – Filming is completed on TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". Filming begins on TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy".
• 16 October – Todd Stashwick is born.
• 18 October – TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" airs.
• 22 October – David Chattam is born.
• 23 October – Gary Erskine is born. Filming is completed on TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy". Filming begins on TOS: "The Mark of Gideon".
• 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 – Rob DeBorde is born. Grant Woods dies. Filming is completed on TOS: "The Mark of Gideon".

November

• 1 November – TOS: "Day of the Dove" airs. 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. Filming is completed on TOS: "The Lights of Zetar".
• 12 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.
• 10 December – Marc D. Giller is born. Filming is completed on TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah".
• 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".

Unknown month

• 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.

Media gallery

"The Gamesters of Triskelion"

"A Piece of the Action"

"The Immunity Syndrome"

"A Private Little War"

"Return to Tomorrow"

"Patterns of Force"

"By Any Other Name"

Star Trek 2

Mission to Horatius

"The Omega Glory"

"The Ultimate Computer"

"Bread and Circuses"

"The Devil's Isle of Space"

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"Assignment: Earth"

"Spock's Brain"

"Invasion of the City Builders"

"The Enterprise Incident"

The Making of Star Trek

"The Paradise Syndrome"

"And the Children Shall Lead"

"Is There in Truth No Beauty?"

"Spectre of the Gun"

"Day of the Dove"

"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

"The Tholian Web"

"Plato's Stepchildren"

"Wink of an Eye"

"The Empath"

"Elaan of Troyius"

1967

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