1973

Events

• Nearly half a dozen of the top Soviet biochemists and geneticists, including Pavlinko, Lozinak, and Malinowycz go missing.

• Roberta Lincoln and Gary Seven visit the islands of the Firth of Clyde.

• The Warner Brothers film The Exorcist is released.

• 15 April : At United States Military Forces Headquarters, Colonel Robert Argon composes a letter to Franz Joseph, explaining that a large amount of stored data in the Omaha Military Forces Base was found to be a hoax download of a future technical document, complete with illustrations and other official-looking printout data.

• The United States of America place the first space station in orbit, Skylab, its purpose is to further the research the effect of weightlessness.

• November - Sarina Kaur gets pregnant.

Releases

January

• TOS comic: "The Youth Trap" is released in French.
• TOS comic: "The Enterprise Mutiny" is released in Portuguese.

6 January

• The fourth installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.
• TOS comic: "The Peril of Planet Quick Change" is released in Spanish.

13 January

• The fifth installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.

20 January

• The sixth installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.

27 January

• The seventh installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.

February

"The Cosmic Cavemen".

• TOS comic #17: "The Cosmic Cavemen" by Len Wein.
• TOS comic: "The Legacy of Lazarus" is released in French.

3 February

• The eighth installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.
• TOS comic: "The Ghost Planet" is released in Spanish.

10 February

• The ninth installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.

17 February

• The tenth installment of "The Void of Storms" is released.

24 February

• The first installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

March

Sektrak of Thark.

3 March

• The second installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

10 March

• The third installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

17 March

• The fourth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

24 March

• The fifth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

31 March

• The sixth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.
• TOS comic: "When Planets Collide" is released in Spanish.

April

A Klingon colonel.

• TOS comic: "Sceptre of the Sun" is released in French and Italian.

7 April

• The seventh installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

14 April

• The eighth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

21 April

• The ninth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

28 April

• The tenth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

May

"The Hijacked Planet".

• TOS reference: The Trouble with Tribbles, by David Gerrold is released.
• Gold Key TOS comic #18: The Hijacked Planet is released.

5 May

• ST reference: The World of Star Trek, by David Gerrold is released.
• TOS comic: "The Brain Shockers" is released in French and Italian.
• The eleventh installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

12 May

• The twelfth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

19 May

• The thirteenth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.

26 May

• The fourteenth installment of "Spheres of War" is released.
• TOS comic: "The Voodoo Planet" is released in Spanish.

July

• TOS comic #19: The Haunted Asteroid

August

Star Trek 9.

• TOS novelization anthology: Star Trek 9 by James Blish.
  • Explore the outer reaches with the Enterprise and her crew as they exchange bodies with an alien intelligence; engage in deadly war games; pursue a vaporous creature to a desolate planet; and probe a fearsome zone of darkness that threatens to destroy them all.

4 August

• The seventh installment of "Shell Game" is released.
• TOS comic: "The Youth Trap" is released in Spanish.

11 August

• The eighth installment of "Shell Game" is released.

18 August

• The ninth installment of "Shell Game" is released.

25 August

• The tenth installment of "Shell Game" is released.

September

• 8th: "Beyond the Farthest Star" is the first episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series to be aired.
• 15th: "Yesteryear" is first aired.
• 22nd: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" is first aired.
• 29th: "The Lorelei Signal" is first aired.
• TOS comic #20: A World Gone Mad

October

• 6th: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" is first aired.
• 13th: "The Survivor" is first aired.
• 20th: "The Infinite Vulcan" is first aired.
• 27th: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" is first aired.

November

• 3rd: "Once Upon a Planet" is first aired.
• 10th: "Mudd's Passion" is first aired.
• 17th: "The Terratin Incident" is first aired.
• 24th: "The Time Trap" is first aired.
• TOS comic #21: The Mummies of Heitius VII

December

• 1st: "The Ambergris Element" is first aired.
• 15th: "The Slaver Weapon" is first aired.

External links

• 1973 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1973 (production) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1973 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.