1981 (production)

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For information dealing with this year in the timeline of the fictional Star Trek universe, see 1981.

Events

January

• 6 January - Jenna Z. Wilson is born.
• Marvel TOS #10: "Domain of the Dragon God!" is published.
• Kit Conners is born.

February

• 20 February - Early draft of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is completed under the working title of Star Trek: The Omega System.
• 22 February - Justin Rodgers Hall is born.
• Marvel TOS #11: "... Like a Woman Scorned!" is published.

March

• 4 March - Torin Thatcher dies.
• Marvel TOS #12: "Eclipse of Reason" is published.

April

• 10 April - Working draft of Star Trek II is completed under the now-working title of Star Trek: The Genesis Project.
• 13 April - Kevin Derr is born.
• Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky is published by Bantam Books.
• Marvel TOS #13: "All the Infinite Ways" is published.

May

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture is released on VHS in the UK.

June

• Pocket TOS #2: The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre is published.
• Marvel TOS #14: "We are Dying, Egypt, Dying!" is published.

July

• 12 July - Dan Crawley is born.
• 18 July - Working draft of Star Trek II is completed under the now-working title of Star Trek: The Worlds That Never Were.

August

• 17 August - Barry Trivers dies.
• 24 August - K.L. Smith dies.
• 24 August - Early draft of Star Trek II is completed under the now working title of The New Star Trek.
• Marvel TOS #15: "The Quality of Mercy" is published.

September

• 4 September - Drafting begins on Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, the working title of the film that is eventually renamed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Work on this draft is not completed until 14 April 1982.

October

• 27 October - John Warburton dies.
• Pocket TOS #3: The Klingon Gambit by Robert E. Vardeman is published.
• Marvel TOS #16: "There's No Space Like Gnomes'!" is published.

November

• 11 November - Filming begins on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
• 29 November - Kimberly Cullum is born.

December

• 3 December - Brian Bonsall is born.
• 7 December - Cory L. McNeill is born.
• Pocket TOS #4: The Covenant of the Crown by Howard Weinstein is published.
• Marvel TOS #17: "The Long Night's Dawn!" is published.

Unknown

• Cinema International Corporation is reorganized to become United International Pictures. CIC Video becomes a joint venture of Paramount Home Video and MCA/Universal Home Video.

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