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- For information dealing with this year in the timeline of the fictional Star Trek universe, see 1976.
Events
January
- 6 January - Jill Sayre is born.
February
- 12 February - Christopher Pettiet is born.
- Star Trek Log 6 by Alan Dean Foster is published by Ballantine Books.
March
- 2 March - Timothy Jeffrey Domis is born.
- 26 March - Ian Chriss is born.
- Star Trek: The New Voyages edited by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath is published by Bantam Books.
- Gold Key TOS comic #36: "A Bomb in Time" is published.
April
- 6 April - Scott Miles is born.
- 23 April - Gabriel Damon is born.
May
- Gold Key TOS comic #37 (reprint of Issue #5): "The Ghost Planet" is published.
June
- 5 June - Marc Worden and Duncan K. Fraser are born.
- 7 June - Paul Lacovara is born.
- 18 June - Adam Grimes is born.
- Star Trek Log 7 by Alan Dean Foster is published by Ballantine Books.
July
- 5 July - Frank Bellamy dies.
- 19 July - Benedict Cumberbatch is born.
- Star Trek Log 8 by Alan Dean Foster is published by Ballantine Books.
- Gold Key TOS comic #38: "One of Our Captains Is Missing!" is published.
August
- 18 August - Jeremy Wheaton is born.
- 22 August - Ryan Honey is born.
- 29 August - Eric Ritter is born.
- Gold Key TOS comic #39: "Prophet of Peace" is published.
- "The Enterprise Logs 1" is published by Golden Press.
September
- 22 September - Sala Baker is born.
- Spock, Messiah! by Theodore R. Cogswell & Charles A. Spano Jr. is published by Bantam Books.
- The Star Trek Reader by James Blish is published by Dutton.
- Gold Key TOS comic #40: "Furlough to Fury" is published.
October
- 1 October - Edwin Garcia is born.
- Star Trek Concordance by Bjo Trimble is published by Ballantine Books.
- Star Trek Action Toy Book by James Razzi is published by Random House.
- 27 October - Erik Zimmermann is born.
November
- 6 November - Jared Patrick Cox is born.
- 14 November - Chris Demetral is born.
- Gold Key TOS comic #41: "The Evictors" is published.
December
- 3 December - Baron Jay is born.
- 30 December - Nelson Grande is born.
- The short story "Tin Woodsman", by Dennis Putman Bailey and David Bischoff is first published in Amazing Stories. The story would later be adapted for the 1990 episode "Tin Man".
Unknown
- Star Trek: The Planet of Titans written by Chris Bryan and Allan Scott in an attempt to revive the Star Trek franchise.
- Inside Star Trek, featuring Gene Roddenberry, is released by Columbia Records.
- Star Trek Puzzle Manual (1st edition) by James Razzi is published by Bantam Books.
- A Mirror for Futility/"The Time Stealer" (#BR-513) by Alan Dean Foster is published by Power Records. (Book & Record Set)
- Autumn - "The Enterprise Logs 2" is published by Golden Press.
- James Drake dies.
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