1978 (production)


Production

January 
18 January – Jandi Swanson is born.
28 January – Nathan A. Aronson is born.
 Unknown day –
 The New Voyages 2 edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath is published by Bantam Books.
 Star Trek Log 10 by Alan Dean Foster is published by Ballantine Books.
 Star Trek: Good News in Modern Images by Betsy Caprio is published by Sheed, Andrews and McMeel.
 Star Trek Fotonovel 4: A Taste of Armageddon is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #50: "The Planet of No Life" is published.

February 
9 February – Heidi Moneymaker is born.
 Unknown day – Star Trek Fotonovel 5: Metamorphosis is published by Bantam Books.

March 
 18 March – Rocky Faulkner is born.
 19 March – Arthur Singer dies.
 24 March – Morgan Nagler is born.
 25 March – Alina Andrei is born.
 28 March –  is announced to the public at a press conference.
 Unknown day –
Star Trek Fotonovel 6: All Our Yesterdays is published by Bantam Books.
 The Star Trek Reader IV by James Blish is published by Dutton.
 Gold Key TOS comic #51: "Destination Annihilation" is published.
 Star Trek Intragalactic Puzzles by James Razzi is published by Bantam Books.

April 
 10 April – Anthony Jochim dies.
 22 April – Manu Intiraymi is born.
 28 April –
 Ben Gage and Margaret Makau die.
 Dave Power is born.
 Unknown day – The Best of Trek : From the Magazine for Star Trek Fans by Walter Irwin and G.B. Love is published by Signet Books.

May 
 5 May – Santiago Cabrera is born.
 8 May – Brian Tyler is born.
 12 May – Amy Wheaton is born.
 18 May – Stephen D'Amato is born.
 24 May – Barry Atwater dies.
 28 May – Margot Farley is born.
 29 May – Anthony Bonaventura is born.
 Unknown day –
 Star Trek Fotonovel 7: The Galileo 7 is published by Bantam Books.
 Mudd's Angels by J.A. Lawrence is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #52: "And a Child Shall Lead Them" is published.

June 
 2 June – Nikki Cox is born.
 19 June – Zoë Saldana is born.
 21 June – Jack Guzman is born.
 25 June – Travis Walck is born.
 Unknown day –
 Star Trek Fotonovel 8: A Piece of the Actions is published by Bantam Books.
 The Star Trek Guide by J.E. Clauss is published by Amereon.

July 
 3 July – James Daly dies.
 9 July – Linda Park is born.
 19 July – R.J. Williams is born.
 Unknown day –
 Star Trek Fotonovel 9: The Devil in the Dark is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #53: "What Fools These Mortals Be" is published.

August 
 7 August – Cirroc Lofton is born.  begins principal photography.
 27 August – Bobbi Sue Luther is born.
 Unknown day –
 Star Trek Fotonovel 10: Day of the Dove is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #54: "Sport of Knaves" is published.

September 
 5 September – Joseph Glick dies.
 6 September – Michael McMaster dies.
 8 September – Michael Wickson is born.
 Unknown day –
 Star Trek Fotonovel 11: The Deadly Years is published by Bantam Books.
 Vulcan! by Kathleen Sky is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #55: "A World Against Itself" is published.

October 
 4 October – Phillip Glasser is born.
 9 October – Jamie Soricelli is born.
 16 October – Aaron C. Fitzgerald is born.
 26 October – Sunny Hawks is born.
 28 October – Wednesday Mourning is born.
 Unknown day –
 Star Trek Fotonovel 12: Amok Time is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #56: "" is published.

November 
 7 November – Robert L. Swanson dies.
 27 November – Joshua Harris is born.
 Unknown day –
 Official Star Trek Cooking Manual by Mary Ann Piccard is published by Bantam Books.
 Gold Key TOS comic #57: "Spore of the Devil" is published.
 The Starless World by Gordon Eklund is published by Bantam Books.

December 
 17 December – Douglas Tait is born.
 18 December – Reagan Sieg is born.
 20 December – Shaun Roberts is born.
 23 December – Sunny Ozell is born.
 Unknown day – Gold Key TOS comic #58: "Brain-Damaged Planet" is published.

Unknown month 
 Kenneth Lin is born.
 Sienna Spencer is born.
 Star Wars, Star Trek, and the 21st Century Christians by Winkie Pratney, from Bible Voice, is released.
 The 1978 Mighty TV Comic Annual is published, containing the story "The Gods Have Come!".

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