2001 (production)

For information about 2001 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 2001.

January[]

• 1 January – Ray Walston dies.
• 5 January – Nancy Parsons and Clark E. Spangler die.
• 6 January – Scott Marlowe dies.
• 17 January –
  • VOY: "Shattered" airs.
  • Gordon Belljohns Love dies.
• 22 January – UK VHS release: VOY Volume 6.13 (end season 6).
• 23 January – Arthur Bernard dies.
• 24 January – VOY: "Lineage" airs.
• 31 January – VOY: "Repentance" airs.
• Pocket Books releases Dark Passions, Book One and Dark Passions, Book Two.
• WildStorm Comics releases "Star Trek: Special", The Killing Shadows #3: "The Trap", and The Gorn Crisis hardback graphic novel.
• Cover date of Fabbri Publishing's Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 21.

February[]

• 5 February – UK VHS release: Star Trek: Voyager - Movies volume 3.
• 6 February – US VHS release: Voyager volumes 26-30.
• 7 February –
  • VOY: "Prophecy" airs.
  • Carl Byrd dies.
• 9 February – Decipher acquires FANtastic Media and takes over publishing of Star Trek: Communicator.
• 13 February –
  • First day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
  • US DVD release: TOS volumes 19 and 20.
• 14 February –
  • Second day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
  • VOY: "The Void" airs.
• 15 February –
  • Third day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
  • Roy Sickner dies.
• 16 February –
  • Fourth day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
  • James L. Conway receives a call from Rick Berman, offering him director of Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow". He considers it over the following two days before accepting.
  • Titan Magazines releases Star Trek Monthly issue 76.
• 20 February –
  • Fifth day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
  • Harry Boykoff dies.
• 21 February –
  • Sixth day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
  • VOY: "Workforce" airs.
• 22 February – Seventh day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
• 23 February – Eighth and final day of filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
• 28 February – VOY: "Workforce, Part II" airs.
• Pocket Books releases Pocket TNG novels Tooth and Claw and Diplomatic Implausibility.
• WildStorm Comics releases The Killing Shadows #4: "The Secret".
• Cover date of Fabbri Publishing's Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 22.

March[]

• 7 March – VOY: "Human Error" airs.
• 13 March – John A. Alonzo dies.
• 19 March – UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.1, VOY volume 7.1.

April[]

• 2 April – Second unit filming on VOY: "Natural Law".
• 3 April – Pocket Books' The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book Volume II published.
• 7 April – David Graf dies.
• 9 April – Star Trek: Voyager wraps shooting. The USS Voyager sets, many of which dated back to 1977's aborted Star Trek: Phase II and were also used for Star Trek: The Next Generation and most of the motion pictures, are dismantled soon after.
• 10 April – Anjini Taneja Azhar is born.
• 11 April – VOY: "Q2" airs.
• 14 April – Sophia Adler is born.
• 18 April – VOY: "Author, Author" airs.
• 19 April – George F. Slavin dies.
• 20 April – Ian Alexander is born.
• 25 April – VOY: "Friendship One" airs.
• 27 April – Jack Murdock dies.

May[]

• 2 May – VOY: "Natural Law" airs.
• 7 May – UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.2, VOY volume 7.2.
• 9 May – VOY: "Homestead" airs.
• 10 May – Paramount Pictures officially announces that the next Star Trek series will be called Enterprise and will be set approximately one hundred years before the original series. Creators and executive producers are Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.
• 11 May – Final draft script for Enterprise pilot "Broken Bow" is submitted.
• 14 May – Filming on "Broken Bow" begins.
• 16 May – VOY: "Renaissance Man" airs.
• 23 May –
  • The two-hour series finale of Star Trek: Voyager, "Endgame", airs on UPN. Promos for Enterprise are featured during commercial breaks.
  • Harry Townes dies.
• 26 May – Anne Haney dies.
• 28 May – Bill Pratt dies.

June[]

• 1 June – Several scenes for the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow" were filmed on Paramount Stage 18 including the "sun porch" flashback scenes, bridge scenes, and the scenes in the cramped crawlspace.
• 2 June – Pilar Seurat dies.
• 3 June – Jamake Highwater dies.
• 4 June – UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.3, VOY volume 7.3.
• 12 June – Several scenes for the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow" were filmed on location in Bakersfield, California which stood in as Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
• 13 June – Several scenes for the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow" were filmed on location in Bakersfield, California which stood in as Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
• 18 June – Thamela Mpumlwana is born.
• 19 June – Four scenes for the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow" were filmed on location in Malibu.
• 21 June – Wayne King, Sr. dies.
• 27 June – Revised final draft script of ENT: "Fight or Flight".

July[]

• 1 July –
  • Pocket DS9 Section 31 novel Abyss is published.
  • Pocket TOS Section 31 novel Cloak is published.
  • Pocket VOY novel Endgame is published.
  • Larry Abbott dies.
• 2 July – UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.4, VOY volume 7.4.
• 4 July – Bruce Alan Solow dies.
• 6 July – Final draft script of ENT: "Strange New World".
• 16 July – UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.5, VOY volume 7.5.
• 18 July – James Hatfield and Serena Sande die.
• 21 July – Keene Sin is born.
• 26 July – Final draft script of ENT: "Unexpected".
• 31 July –
  • Fred Carson dies.
  • First draft script of ENT: "Terra Nova" is submitted.

August[]

• 1 August – Lola McNalley dies.
• 3 August – Revised first draft script of ENT: "Terra Nova" is submitted.
• 6 August –
  • Final draft script of ENT: "Terra Nova" is submitted.
  • UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.6, VOY volume 7.6.
• 8 August – First day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
• 9 August – Second day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
• 10 August – Third day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
• 11 August – Les Pine dies.
• 13 August – Fourth day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
• 14 August –
  • Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
  • Early draft script of ENT: "The Andorian Incident" is submitted.
• 15 August – Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
• 16 August –
  • Seventh day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
  • Final draft script of ENT: "The Andorian Incident" is submitted.
• 17 August –
  • Eighth and final day of filming on ENT: "Terra Nova".
  • Revised final draft script of ENT: "The Andorian Incident" is submitted.
• 20 August –
  • Revised final draft script of ENT: "The Andorian Incident" is submitted.
  • First day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident"
• 21 August – Second day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 22 August – Third day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 23 August – Fourth day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 24 August – Fifth day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 25 August – John Chambers dies.
• 27 August – Sixth day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 28 August –
  • David P. Harmon dies.
  • Seventh day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 29 August –
  • Final draft script of ENT: "Breaking the Ice" is submitted.
  • Eighth day of filming on ENT: "The Andorian Incident".
• 30 August – First day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
• 31 August – Second day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".

September[]

• 3 September – UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.7, VOY volume 7.7.
• 4 September – Third day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
• 5 September –
  • Robert H. Raff dies.
  • Fourth day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
• 6 September – Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
• 7 September –
  • Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
  • Final draft script of ENT: "Civilization" is submitted.
• 10 September –
  • Seventh day of filming on ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
  • First day of recording on the score for ENT: "Broken Bow" at Paramount Stage M, conducted by Dennis McCarthy.
• 11 September –
  • Despite the events of the day, Dennis McCarthy and the orchestra elect to continue recording on the score for "Broken Bow" at Paramount Stage M, rather than postpone the session. McCarthy would later describe this as "the hardest recording session of my entire career".
  • First day of filming on ENT: "Civilization" and re-shoot of scene 3 for ENT: "Terra Nova". Production was shut down following the events on this day.
• 12 September –
  • First day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
  • Re-shoot of scene 3 for ENT: "Terra Nova".
• 13 September – Second day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
• 14 September – Third day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
• 16 September – The BBC shows their second Star Trek Night.
• 17 September – Fourth day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
• 18 September – Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
• 19 September – Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
• 20 September – Seventh day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
• 21 September –
  • Eight and final first unit day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
  • Final draft script of ENT: "Fortunate Son" is submitted.
• 23 September – Robert Abel dies.
• 24 September –
  • Second unit and final day of filming on ENT: "Civilization".
  • First day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
• 25 September –
  • Second day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
  • Insert re-shoot of scene 15 on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
• 26 September –
  • Enterprise premieres on UPN with the two-hour episode "Broken Bow".
  • Third day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
  • Re-shoot of scene 10 for ENT: "Breaking the Ice".
• 27 September – Fourth day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
• 28 September – Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
• 29 September – Bennie Goldberg dies.

October[]

• 1 October –
  • Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
  • The National Network (TNN) gains exclusive US syndication rights to Star Trek: The Next Generation. The network runs a five-day marathon, Next Gen on TNN: A 5-Day Mission, featuring 77 episodes spanning all seven years of the series, hosted by Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, and Wil Wheaton.
  • Final draft script of "Cold Front" is submitted.
  • UK VHS release: TNG volume 4.8 (end season 4), VOY volume 7.8.
• 2 October –
  • Seventh and final day of filming on ENT: "Fortunate Son".
  • Entertainment Weekly photo shoot with the main cast of Star Trek: Enterprise on Paramount Stage 18.
• 3 October – ENT: "Fight or Flight" airs.
• 10 October – ENT: "Strange New World" airs.
• 12 October – Final draft script of ENT: "Silent Enemy".
• 17 October – ENT: "Unexpected" airs.
• 22 October – Final draft script of ENT: "Dear Doctor".
• 24 October – ENT: "Terra Nova" airs.
• 31 October – ENT: "The Andorian Incident" airs.

November[]

• 5 November – UK VHS release: VOY volume 7.9.
• 6 November –
  • Gray Morrow dies.
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition is released on DVD in Region 1.
• 7 November –
  • Bobby Bass dies.
  • ENT: "Breaking the Ice" airs.
• 12 November – Final draft script of ENT: "Sleeping Dogs".
• 14 November – ENT: "Civilization" airs.
• 15 November – Final draft script of ENT: "Shuttlepod One".
• 21 November – ENT: "Fortunate Son" airs.
• 28 November – Star Trek Nemesis starts filming.
• 28 November – ENT: "Cold Front" airs.

December[]

• 3 December – UK VHS release: VOY volume 7.10.
• 14 December –
  • Final draft script of ENT: "Rogue Planet".
  • Pocket SCE eBook Ambush, by Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur, is published.
• 16 December – Roy Brocksmith dies.
• 19 December – Jefrey Alan Chandler dies.
• 24 December – UK VHS release: VOY volume 7.11.

Unknown month[]

• Wayne King, Sr. dies.

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