1973 (production)

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

For information about 1973 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 1973.

Events

January

• 1 January – Anthony Winn is born.
• 6 January – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #67 with the fourth of ten installments.
• 8 January – Donnell Turner is born.
• 13 January – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #68 with the fifth of ten installments.
• 14 January – Randall Koerv is born.
• 20 January –
  • Aaron Harberts is born.
  • The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #69 with the sixth of ten installments.
• 23 January – Lanei Chapman is born.
• 27 January –
  • Miho Suzuki is born.
  • The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #70 with the seventh of ten installments.

February

• 3 February – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #71 with the eighth of ten installments.
• 5 February – A.Y. Dexter Delara is born.
• 6 February – Rick Remender is born.
• 10 February – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #72 with the ninth of ten installments.
• 12 February – Tara Strong is born.
• 15 February – Gold Key TOS comic #18: "The Hijacked Planet" is published.
• 17 February – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #73 with the tenth of ten installments.
• 24 February – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #74 with the first of seventeen installments.
• 25 February – Anson Mount is born.

March

• 2 March – Tom Hand and Paul Popowich are born.
• 3 March – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #75 with the second of seventeen installments.
• 7 March – Jennifer Hammon is born.
• 10 March – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #76 with the third of seventeen installments.
• 12 March – Dorenda Moore is born.
• 17 March – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #77 with the fourth of seventeen installments.
• 20 March – Sean Tourangeau is born.
• 21 March – Vanessa Branch is born.
• 24 March – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #78 with the fifth of seventeen installments.
• 26 March – Bettina Kurkoski is born.
• 30 March – Fraser Aitcheson is born.
• 31 March – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #79 with the sixth of seventeen installments.

April

• 2 April – Chadwick Struck is born.
• 3 April – Adam Scott is born.
• 7 April – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #80 with the seventh of seventeen installments.
• 8 April – Shay Brown is born.
• 13 April – Julia Rose is born.
• 14 April – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #81 with the eighth of seventeen installments.
• 21 April – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #82 with the ninth of seventeen installments.
• 22 April – Chase Penny is born.
• 24 April – Damon Lindelof is born.
• 26 April – Britta Dennison is born.
• 28 April – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #83 with the tenth of seventeen installments.
• 29 April – Joanna McMeikan is born.
• 30 April – Troy Mepyans is born.
• Unknown day – The Trouble with Tribbles by David Gerrold is published by Ballantine Books.

May

• 3 May – Jennifer Tung is born.
• 5 May – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #84 with the eleventh of seventeen installments.
• 6 May – Andrei Sterling is born.
• 12 May – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #85 with the twelfth of seventeen installments.
• 13 May – Bridgett Riley is born.
• 17 May – Gold Key TOS comic #19: "The Haunted Asteroid" is published.
• 19 May – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #86 with the thirteenth of seventeen installments.
• 24 May – Mollie Stallman is born
• 26 May –
  • Steve Race is born.
  • The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #87 with the fourteenth of seventeen installments.
• 27 May – Jack McBrayer is born.
• Unknown day – The World of Star Trek by David Gerrold is published by Ballantine Books.

June

• 2 June – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #88 with the fifteenth of seventeen installments.
• 7 June – Bill Borzage dies.
• 19 June –
  • Chelah Horsdal is born.
  • The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #89 with the sixteenth of seventeen installments.
• 16 June – The Thirty-Fifth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #90 with the seventeenth of seventeen installments.
• 23 June – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #91 with the first of sixteen installments.
• 25 June – Todd Vaziri is born.
• 26 June – Eleanore Vogel dies.
• 30 June –
  • Eric Hance is born.
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #92 with the second of sixteen installments.

July

• 7 July – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #93 with the third of sixteen installments.
• 8 July –
  • Alfredo Narciso is born.
  • Gene L. Coon dies.
• 9 July – Enrique Murciano is born.
• 13 July – Donald B. Woodruff is born.
• 14 July –
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #94 with the fourth of sixteen installments.
  • Ryan Wilcox is born.
• 18 July – Joe Corroney is born.
• 19 July –
  • Gold Key TOS comic #20: "A World Gone Mad" is published.
  • Ben Jensen is born.
• 20 July – Roberto Orci is born.
• 21 July –
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #95 with the fifth of sixteen installments.
  • Raven Dauda is born.
• 26 July – Susse Budde is born.
• 28 July – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #96 with the sixth of sixteen installments.

August

• 2 August – Petra Sprecher is born.
• 4 August – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #97 with the seventh of sixteen installments.
• 8 August – Tony Donno is born.
• 11 August –
  • Roxana Ortega is born.
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #98 with the eighth of sixteen installments.
• 17 August – Wilfried Elmenreich is born.
• 18 August – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #99 with the ninth of sixteen installments.
• 24 August – Grey Griffin is born.
• 25 August – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #100 with the tenth of sixteen installments.
• 26 August – The first draft of TAS: "The Time Trap" is written by Joyce Perry.
• 27 August – Peter Pachoumis is born.
• 30 August –
  • Chris Mowry and Justin Sundquist are born.
  • Michael Dunn dies.

• Star Trek 9 by James Blish is published by Bantam Books.

September

Star Trek: The Animated Series

• 1 September – The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #101 with the eleventh of sixteen installments.
• 2 September – Paulo Caillile is born.
• 7 September – Alex Kurtzman is born.
• 8 September –
  • Star Trek: The Animated Series premieres on NBC with TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star".
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #102 with the twelfth of sixteen installments.
• 12 September – Joe Evans dies.
• 15 September –
  • TAS: "Yesteryear" airs.
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #103 with the thirteenth of sixteen installments.
  • Star Trek: The Original Series premieres in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, with the episode "De eindeloze ruimte" ("Where No Man Has Gone Before"). The episode was broadcast on channel BRT 1, in the prime time slot 18:05-18:55. Unlike the French and German speaking parts of the country, the Flanders episodes were not dubbed, but subtitled and over the course of nearly one year, about half of the series was broadcast.
• 18 September – Scott Harrison is born.
• 20 September – Gold Key TOS comic #21: "The Mummies of Heitius VII" is published.
• 22 September –
  • TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" airs.
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #104 with the fourteenth of sixteen installments.
• 27 September – Alyma Dorsey is born.
• 29 September –
  • TAS: "The Lorelei Signal" airs.
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #105 with the fifteenth of sixteen installments.
  • The second Original Series episode "Noodsignalen" ("Balance of Terror") is broadcast in Flanders on channel BRT 1, in the prime timeslot 17:55-18:45.
• 30 September – After the false start in 1971, Star Trek: The Original Series premieres in The Netherlands with the episode "Waar geen mens ooit eerder was" ("Where No Man Has Gone Before"). The episode was broadcast by the public broadcast company NOS on the state owned channel Nederland 1, in the timeslot 15:35-16:25 (though the timeslot could shift up, and downwards by as much as 10 minutes later on in the series run) on Sunday on a weekly basis. As usual in The Netherlands, the episodes were not dubbed, but subtitled and over the course of nearly one year, about half of the series was broadcast. However, as with Flanders, the episode titles were translated into Dutch in their TV guides. Neither Dutch nor Flanders TV followed the American broadcast or production order, but broadcast episodes from all three seasons in a rather haphazard order. Unlike the 1971 false start, the NOS follows through with the series, broadcasting approximately half of the original 79 episodes in one continuous run. At the time state-owned both nation's channels did not use the commercial break format.
• Unknown day – Allyn Gibson is born.

October

• 4 October – Iris Bahr is born.
• 6 October –
  • TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" airs.
  • The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #106 with the sixteenth of sixteen installments.
• 13 October –
  • TAS: "The Survivor" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #107 with the first of twelve installments.
• 19 October – Brian Avery is born.
• 20 October –
  • TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #108 with the second of twelve installments.
• 26 October –
  • Aaron Haye is born.
  • Seth MacFarlane is born.
• 27 October –
  • Marnie Martin is born.
  • TAS: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #109 with the third of twelve installments.
• 30 October – Kemp Powers is born.

November

• 3 November –
  • Stephanie Czajkowski is born.
  • TAS: "Once Upon a Planet" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #110 with the fourth of twelve installments.
• 7 November – Walter Bacon dies.
• 10 November –
  • TAS: "Mudd's Passion" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #111 with the fifth of twelve installments.
• 11 November – Luke Freeborn is born.
• 14 November – Dana Snyder is born.
• 15 November – Gold Key TOS comic #22: "Siege in Superspace" is published.
• 16 November – Thom Williams is born.
• 17 November –
  • TAS: "The Terratin Incident" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #112 with the sixth of twelve installments.
• 21 November – Macarena Bianchi is born.
• 24 November –
  • TAS: "The Time Trap" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #113 with the seventh of twelve installments.
• 30 November – Brian Hite is born.

December

• 1 December –
  • TAS: "The Ambergris Element" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #114 with the eighth of twelve installments.
• 2 December – Michael Boisvert is born.
• 6 December – Quint Strack is born.
• 9 December – Stacey Abrams is born.
• 14 December – Kevin Quattro is born.
• 15 December –
  • TAS: "The Slaver Weapon" airs.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #115 with the ninth of twelve installments.
• 18 December –
  • Valerie Weiss is born.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #116 with the tenth of twelve installments.
• 19 December – Blake Lindsley is born.
• 22 December –
  • Original airdate (in Los Angeles only) for TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star", as it was preempted there due to George Takei's run for District Councilman and "equal time" issues.
  • The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #117 with the eleventh of twelve installments.
• 24 December – Joseph Andolino is born.
• 25 December – Clint Schultz is born.
• 27 December – Wilson Cruz is born.
• 29 December – The Thirty-Seventh UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #118 with the twelfth of twelve installments. This is the final story arc of exclusive UK content, concluding a four year run in three different comic book magazines.
• 30 December – Maureen Flannigan is born.

Unknown month

• The 1973 TV21 Annual is published, featuring two Star Trek comic stories: "Planet of the Dead", and "What is This Thing Called Spock?".
• CIC Video is formed as the home video division of Cinema International Corporation.

Media gallery

"The Hijacked Planet"

The Trouble with Tribbles

"The Haunted Asteroid"

The World of Star Trek

"A World Gone Mad"

Star Trek 9

"Beyond the Farthest Star"

"Yesteryear"

"The Mummies of Heitius VII"

"One of Our Planets Is Missing"

"The Lorelei Signal"

"More Tribbles, More Troubles"

"The Survivor"

"The Infinite Vulcan"

"The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

"Once Upon a Planet"

"Mudd's Passion"

"Siege in Superspace"

"The Terratin Incident"

"The Time Trap"

"The Ambergris Element"

"The Slaver Weapon"

1972

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1974