2007 (production)

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

For information about 2007 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 2007.

Table of Contents: January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December • Media

Events[]

January[]

6 January – Remastered version of TOS: "Friday's Child" airs.
7 January – Frank Corsentino dies.
8 January – Sci-Fi Channel and HDNet begin to air Star Trek: Enterprise.
9 January – Don Whipple dies.
13 January – Remastered version of TOS: "Wink of an Eye" airs.
15 January –
- G4 begins to air Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 2.0 interactive format.
- Chris McBee dies.
17 January – IDW releases the first comic in the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Space Between mini-series, titled "History Lesson".
20 January – Remastered version of TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" airs.
23 January – David M. Ronne dies.
27 January –
- Remastered version of TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" airs.
- Tige Andrews and Claude Binyon, Jr. die.
30 January – Pocket TOS novel Demands of Honor, book 2 of the Errand of Fury trilogy, is published.
31 January – Lee Bergere dies.

February[]

1 February – Pocket TOS novel The Star to Every Wandering, book 3 of the Crucible trilogy, is released.
3 February – Remastered version of TOS: "Journey to Babel" airs.
10 February – Remastered version of TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" airs.
11 February – Carol Lundberg dies.
15 February – Walker Edmiston dies.
17 February – Remastered version of TOS: "Amok Time" airs.
19 February – IDW releases the second comic in the The Space Between mini-series, titled "Captain's Pleasure".
20 February– Pocket Books novel Glass Empires, the first book of the Mirror Universe series, is published.
24 February – Remastered version of TOS: "The Paradise Syndrome" airs.
27 February – Paramount Pictures sends out their first press release on Star Trek.

March[]

1 March – Harold Michelson dies.
3 March – Phil Chong dies.
7 March – Benjie Bancroft dies.
10 March – Remastered version of TOS: "Wolf in the Fold" airs.
20 March – Pocket Books novel anthology Obsidian Alliances, the second book in the Mirror Universe series, is released.
30 March – Shelly Leferman dies.
31 March – Remastered version of TOS: "The Tholian Web" airs.
early March – Pocket ENT novel The Good That Men Do is released.

April[]

7 April – Remastered version of TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" airs.
10 April – Robert Whitney dies.
12 April – Bob Miles dies.
14 April – Remastered version of TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead" airs.
21 April – Remastered version of TOS: "All Our Yesterdays" airs.
24 April – Roy Jenson dies.
28 April – Remastered version of TOS: "A Piece of the Action" airs.
30 April –
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine slimpack DVD sets are released in Region 2 areas.
- Pocket DS9 omnibus Twist of Faith is released, collecting Avatar, Books One and Two by S.D. Perry, Abyss by David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang, and Demons of Air and Darkness and "Horn and Ivory", both by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
early April – Its Hour Come Round by Margaret Wander Bonanno, the final eBook of the Star Trek 40th anniversary miniseries Mere Anarchy, is released.

May[]

1 May – The Corps of Engineers eBook The Art of the Comeback by Glenn Greenberg is released. This is a sequel to Greenberg's 2004 eBook The Art of the Deal.
5 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday" airs.
7 May – Arch Whiting and Nicholas Worth die.
12 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Errand of Mercy" airs.
19 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Patterns of Force" airs.
22 May – Star Trek: Vanguard novel Reap the Whirlwind by David Mack is released.
26 May – Remastered version of TOS: "Shore Leave" airs.
30 May – Nick Ramus dies.
early-to-mid May – Pocket TOS novel Epiphany by Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz, Book 3 of the Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul trilogy, is released.

June[]

1 June – The Corps of Engineers eBook Signs from Heaven by Phaedra M. Weldon is released.
2 June – Remastered version of TOS: "Bread and Circuses" airs.
7 June – Zachary Quinto is offered the role of young Spock in Star Trek.
9 June – Remastered version of TOS: "Spock's Brain" airs.
16 June – Remastered version of TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" airs.
17 June – Ross Taylor dies.
30 June – Remastered version of TOS: "The Omega Glory" airs.

July[]

7 July – Remastered version of TOS: "Return to Tomorrow" airs.
8 July – Jack B. Sowards dies.
10 July – Fan-submitted story anthology Strange New Worlds 10, edited by Dean Wesley Smith with Paula M. Block, is released.
13 July – Corps of Engineers eBook Ghost by Ilsa J. Bick is released.
14 July – Remastered version of TOS: "Charlie X" airs.
20 July – John Graffeo dies.
21 July – Remastered version of TOS: "The Squire of Gothos" airs.
23 July – David Clover dies.
24 July – Star Trek: Fan Collective - Captain's Log DVD is released in Region 1.
26 July – J.J. Abrams announced that Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto will portray Spock in Star Trek.
28 July – Remastered version of TOS: "This Side of Paradise" airs.
early July – The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett, part of The Lost Era range, is released.
early-to-mid July – Corps of Engineers print omnibus Grand Designs, collecting #29-36 of the eBook series, is released.

August[]

11 August – Richard Compton dies.
12 August – Paula Moody dies.
23 August – Robert Symonds dies.
24 August – Bill Catching and Denny Martin Flinn die.
28 August –
- Dayton Anderson dies.
- The Pocket TNG novel Resistance by J.M. Dillard is released.
31 August – Jerry Bono dies.

September[]

TNG 20th Anniversary — TNG celebrates twenty years

6 September – Percy Rodriguez dies.
11 September – Tokyopop's second volume of TOS-based manga stories, Kakan ni Shinkou, is released.
13 September –
- Michael Hungerford dies.
- The Corps of Engineers eBook Remembrance of Things Past, Book 1 by Terri Osborne is released. This is a two-part crossover with Star Trek: The Next Generation, as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of TNG.
15 September – Remastered version of TOS: "The Galileo Seven" airs.
19 September – Robert Sabaroff dies.
21 September – George Ede dies.
22 September – Remastered version of TOS: "The Conscience of the King" airs.
24 September – Slimline versions of the Star Trek: Voyager DVD sets are released in Region 2, alongside that region's edition of Fan Collective – Captain's Log.
25 September –
- Pocket TNG novel Q&A by Keith R.A. DeCandido is released.
- Pocket TOS novel Captain's Glory published in paperback.
28 September – Star Trek: The Next Generation celebrates its 20th anniversary.
29 September – Remastered version of TOS: "The Man Trap" airs.

October[]

1 October – Pocket TNG eBook Slings and Arrows miniseries debuts with Book 1, A Sea of Troubles by J. Steven York & Christina F. York. This miniseries chronicles the first year of the USS Enterprise-E, leading up to Star Trek: First Contact.
6 October – Remastered version of TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" airs.
9 October – Final draft script of Star Trek is submitted.
13 October – Remastered version of TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" airs.
16 October –
- Pocket TNG short story collection The Sky's the Limit is released.
- Pocket TOS novel Academy: Collision Course, by William Shatner with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, is released.
20 October – Remastered version of TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion" airs.
26 October – Tom O'Loughlin dies.
30 October – Pocket TNG novel Before Dishonor by Peter David is released.

November[]

1 November – The Corps of Engineers eBook Remembrance of Things Past, Book 2 by Terri Osborne is released. Part 2 of the TNG anniversary crossover.
3 November – Remastered version of TOS: "Metamorphosis" airs.
4 November – George A. Rutter dies.
7 November –
- Principal photography on Star Trek begins.
- Pocket TNG eBook Slings and Arrows miniseries Book 2, The Oppressor's Wrong by Phaedra M. Weldon, is released.
10 November – Remastered version of TOS: "The Deadly Years" airs.
12 November – Alberto De Mello dies.
13 November –
- A theatrical presentation of the remastered edition of TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II" takes place at three hundred movie theaters in the US and Canada. Theaters in the UK, Australia, and across Europe show the presentation over the next two weeks.
- Monty Westmore dies.
20 November –
- Original Series remastered season 1 is released on HD DVD/DVD combo discs.
- Star Trek: Conquest video game for the Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation 2 is released.
27 November – Star Trek: Titan novel Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne is released.