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For information about 1966 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 1966.

Events

January

Star Trek: The Original Series

February

2 February - D.C. Douglas is born.
13 February - Neal McDonough is born.
mid-February - The second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is delivered to NBC. NBC orders 16 episodes, with the first to air in September. (The Making of Star Trek)
22 February - The New York Times lists Star Trek as a part of NBC's fall 1966 schedule, airing Friday nights from 10PM to 11PM.
24 February - Katja Rieckermann is born.

March

1 March - J.D. Cullum is born.
3 March - Heidi Swedberg is born.
6 March - Both Star Trek and Mission Impossible are assigned soundstage place on the Desilu Studios lot.
7 March - Jonathan Del Arco is born.
9 March - Oscar Katz is formally released from Desilu, and thus the Star Trek productions. Herb Solow is appointed in his place.
24 March - Steve Pugh is born.
30 March - Stephen Gevedon is born.
Unknown - Rick Pasqualone is born.

April

1 April - David Zabel is born.
14 April - First story outline submitted by Paul Schneider for TOS: "Balance of Terror" with a revised version following on 26 April.
15 April - Darin Cooper is born.
18 April - First story outline for TOS: "Charlie X" is submitted, with a second outline following on 23 April.
21 April - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" first draft script is submitted with a final draft coming 3 May and further revisions dated 20 May.
The details on the USS Enterprise filming model are further modified. This is nearly its final form, with only a few small details added at some alter unspecified date. This model is the most widely seen in TOS effects shots. [1]
22 April - Jeffrey Dean Morgan is born.
27 April - First story treatment for TOS: "Charlie X" is submitted, with a second draft following 9 May. Shawn Michael Perry is born.

May

2 May - Dennis Blakey is born.
3 May - Final draft script for TOS: "The Enemy Within" is submitted, with a first draft teleplay on 6 Junea final draft coming two days later.
5 May - Story outline for TOS: "Shore Leave" is submitted, with a revised outline coming 13 May.
10 May - Jason Brooks is born.
11 May - Nancy Hower is born.
13 May - Story outline for TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" is submitted.
17 May - Joey Sakata is born.
20 May - Gina Ravarra is born.
23 May - First draft script for TOS: "Mudd's Women" is submitted, with a final draft coming 26 May, and further revised on 31 May.
24 May - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" begins filming; it is the first regular episode of TOS produced after the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
29 May - Diana Lee Inosanto is born.

June

2 June - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver".
3 June - Filming begins on TOS: "Mudd's Women".
6 June - Bryan Hitch is born.
13 June - First draft script for TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" is submitted.
- Filming is completed on TOS: "Mudd's Women".
14 June - Filming begins on TOS: "The Enemy Within".
22 June - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Enemy Within", and filming begins on TOS: "The Man Trap".
23 June - First script draft for TOS: "The Naked Time" is submitted. Further revisions were submitted 28 June, and 1 and 5 July.
26 June - First draft script for TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is submitted, with a final draft coming 27 July.
27 June - Second script draft for TOS: "Charlie X" is submitted, with a final draft coming 5 July. J.J. Abrams is born.
30 June - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Man Trap", and filming begins on TOS: "The Naked Time". Steve Firchow is born.

July

4 July - Marnie McPhail is born.
6 July - First draft script for TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" is submitted, with further drafts coming 30 July, 5, 6, and 8 August.
9 July - Pamela Segall is born.
11 July - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Naked Time", and filming begins on TOS: "Charlie X".
15 July - Amanda Foreman is born.
19 July - Filming is completed on TOS: "Charlie X".
20 July - Filming begins on TOS: "Balance of Terror".
26 July - Amy Jo Traicoff is born.
27 July - Filming is completed on TOS: "Balance of Terror".
28 July - Filming begins on TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".
30 July - Chris Sprouse is born.
unknown date - treatment for TOS: "This Side of Paradise" is submitted.

August

1 August - The deal between Desilu Studios and model kit company Aluminum Metal Toys (AMT), brokered by Stephen Edward Poe, is successfully finalized. The deal entailed free support by AMT for the production of the Original Series in return for the exclusive rights to market model kits based on the series. The details of the deal were negotiated by Ed Pearlstein of Desilu Studios and Don Beebe of AMT. It was the start of a decades long association of the model kit company with the Star Trek franchise.
6 August - Hal Olofsson is born.
8 August - Filming is completed on TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".
9 August - Filming begins on TOS: "Dagger of the Mind".
11 August - First draft script for TOS: "Miri" is submitted, with a final draft coming the next day.
17 August - Filming is completed on TOS: "Dagger of the Mind".
22 August - Filming begins on TOS: "Miri".
23 August - First draft script for TOS: "The Conscience of the King" is submitted with a final draft coming 14 September.
27 August - Tim Wilcox is born.
30 August - Filming is completed on TOS: "Miri".
Steven W. Carabatsos joins production crew as Story Consultant.

September

1 September - First script draft for TOS: "The Galileo Seven" is submitted, with a final draft submitted on 15 September.
6 September - The original Star Trek premieres on Canadian television.
8 September - The original Star Trek premieres on NBC. The first episode aired is "The Man Trap", which was actually the fifth TOS Season 1 segment filmed.
13 September - Laura Interval is born.
15 September - TOS: "Charlie X" airs; it is reviewed the following day by Jack Gould in The New York Times. "The accent," Gould writes, "was less on the super-duper gadgetry usually associated with travel in the heavens than on astronautical soap opera that suffers from interminable flight drag. It was TV's first psychodrama in orbit."
16 September - Scott Workman is born.
21 September - First draft script for TOS: "Court Martial" is submitted titled "Court-martial on Starbase Eleven" with the final draft and revised final draft turned in on 26 and 29 September, respectively.
22 September - TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" airs.
- Filming is completed on TOS: "The Conscience of the King".
23 September - Filming begins on TOS: "The Galileo Seven".
28 September - Cassandra McCormick is born.
29 September - TOS: "The Naked Time" airs.
30 September - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Galileo Seven".
AMT acquires license for Star Trek models.

October

3 October - Filming begins on TOS: "Court Martial". First draft script for TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II" is submitted, with a final draft coming on 7 October. First draft script for TOS: "Shore Leave" is also submitted, with revisions coming 14, 18, 19, and 21 October.
6 October - TOS: "The Enemy Within" airs.
10 October - Filming is completed on TOS: "Court Martial".
11 October - Filming begins on TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" and TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II".
13 October - TOS: "Mudd's Women" airs.
14 October - Brock Burnett and Henry Farnam are born.
16 October - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is born.
18 October - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" and TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II". First draft script for TOS: "The Squire of Gothos" is submitted, with a final draft coming 26 October. The first draft script for TOS: "Arena" was also submitted this date, with a final draft coming 28 October and further revisions on 3 November.
19 October - Roger Cross is born. Filming begins on TOS: "Shore Leave".
20 October - TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" airs.
23 October - Michael Westmore, Jr. is born.
27 October - TOS: "Miri" airs. Filming is completed on TOS: "Shore Leave".
28 October - Scott Schneider is born.
31 October - Filming begins on TOS: "The Squire of Gothos".

November

1 November - First draft script for TOS: "The Return of the Archons" is submitted, with a final draft coming 10 November.
3 November - TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" airs.
7 November - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Squire of Gothos". First draft script for TOS: "The Alternative Factor" is submitted, with a final draft following on 11 November.
8 November - Filming begins on TOS: "Arena".
9 November - Lori Lively is born.
10 November - TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver" airs.
14 November - First draft script for TOS: "Assignment: Earth" is submitted, but not for a Star Trek series.
15 November - Filming is completed on TOS: "Arena".
16 November - Filming begins on TOS: "The Alternative Factor".
17 November - TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" airs.
21 November - Final draft script for TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" is submitted and revised the next day.
23 November - First draft script of TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon" is submitted, with final drafts coming 28 November and 12 December.
24 November - TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II" airs. Russell Watson is born.
25 November - Filming is completed on TOS: "The Alternative Factor".
28 November - Filming begins on TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday".

December

1 December - Second revised final draft script for TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" is submitted.
2 December - Andy Mangels is born.
5 December - Filming is completed on TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday".
6 December - Filming begins on TOS: "The Return of the Archons".
7 December - Curtis Fairchild is born.
8 December - TOS: "The Conscience of the King" airs.
13 December - Second revised final draft script for TOS: "Space Seed" is submitted.
14 December - Joseph Michael Roth is born.
15 December - TOS: "Balance of Terror" airs. Final draft script for TOS: "This Side of Paradise" is submitted, with further revisions 28 December.
19 December - First draft script for TOS: "The Devil in the Dark" is submitted, with a final draft coming three days later.
21 December - Leslie McCasky is born.
22 December - TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is repeated.
24 December - Diedrich Bader is born.
29 December - TOS: "Shore Leave" airs.
early-December - Filming on TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" is completed.
early/mid-December - TOS: "The Return of the Archons" is filmed.
mid-December - TOS: "Space Seed" is filmed.
late-December - TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon" is filmed.

Unknown

Eric Sharp is born.
Morgan Margolis is born.
Dawn Stern is born.
The first Star Trek model kits are released by AMT.

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 * [[1 March]] - [[J.D. Cullum]] is born.
 * [[3 March]] - [[Heidi Swedberg]] is born.
+* [[6 March]] - Both ''Star Trek'' and ''Mission Impossible'' are assigned soundstage place on the [[Desilu Studios]] lot.
 * [[7 March]] - [[Jonathan Del Arco]] is born.
+* [[9 March]] - [[Oscar Katz]] is formally released from Desilu, and thus the ''Star Trek'' productions. [[Herb Solow]] is appointed in his place.
-* [[15 March]] - [[James G. Becker]] is born.
 * [[24 March]] - [[Steve Pugh]] is born.
 * [[30 March]] - [[Stephen Gevedon]] is born.