1981 (production)


Events

January 
 6 January – Jenna Z. Wilson is born.
 19 January – Jenny Frison is born.
 26 January – Akihiro Haga is born.
 Unknown day –
 Kit Conners is born.
 Marvel TOS #10: "Domain of the Dragon God!" is published.

February 
 1 February – Lauren Kim is born.
 5 February – Jack F. Lilly dies.
 11 February – Kermit Murdock dies.
 20 February – Early draft of  is completed under the working title of Star Trek: The Omega System.
 22 February – Justin Rodgers Hall is born.
 Unknown day – Marvel TOS #11: "... Like a Woman Scorned!" is published.

March 
 2 March – Willow Geer is born.
 4 March – Torin Thatcher dies.
 12 March – Lisa Auguste is born.
 25 March – Jennifer Chaiet is born.
 29 March – Alain Moussi is born.
 Unknown day – 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.
 16 April – Anne Marley is born.
 19 April – Lisa Michelle Cornelius is born.
 23 April – Isis J. Jones is born.
 27 April – Bonnie Morgan is born.
 Unknown day –
 Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky is published by Bantam Books.
 Marvel TOS #13: "All the Infinite Ways" is published.

May 
 7 May – Eddie Davenport is born.
 16 May – Etan Muskat is born.
 18 May – Richard Hale dies.
 23 May – Tim Robinson is born.
 29 May – Chris Violette is born.
 Unknown day –  is released on VHS in the UK.

June 
 13 June – Andreas Maaninka is born.
 17 June – Phillip Boutte, Jr. is born.
 23 June – Joe Taslim is born.
 28 June – Ross Carter is born.
 Unknown day –
 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.
 28 July – Neil Casey is born.
 29 July – Scottie Hulin is born.

August 
 17 August – Barry Trivers dies.
 24 August –
 K.L. Smith dies.
 Early draft of Star Trek II is completed under the now working title of The New Star Trek.
 Unknown day –
 Cyrus Zoghi is born.
 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 .
 Star Trek: The Motion Picture premieres in Iceland.
 21 September – Walt Davis dies.
 22 September – Dan Jeannotte is born.
 29 September – Shay Astar is born.

October 
 23 October – Matt and Mike Perfetuo are born.
 26 October –  premieres in Turkey.
 27 October – John Warburton dies.
 Unknown day –
 Pocket TOS #3: The Klingon Gambit by Robert E. Vardeman is published.
 Marvel TOS #16: "There's No Space Like Gnomes'!" is published.

November 
 2 November – Paul K. Daniel is born.
 4 November – Alex R. White is born.
 6 November – Daniel D. Lee is born.
 11 November – Filming begins on .
 23 November – Jake Michaels is born.
 29 November – Kimberly Cullum is born.

December 
 3 December – Brian Bonsall is born.
 6 December – Bart Conrad dies.
 7 December – Cory McNeill is born.
 14 December – Byron Abalos is born.
 16 December – Ante Dekovic is born.
 20 December – Melanie Scrofano is born.
 21 December – Nicole Malgarini is born.
 Unknown day –
 Pocket TOS #4: The Covenant of the Crown by Howard Weinstein is published.
 Marvel TOS #17: "The Long Night's Dawn!" is published.

Unknown month 
  is born.
 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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