1971 (production)

== Events ==
=== January ===
* 2 January –
** Renee E. Goldsberry is born.
** The Eighteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #67 with the third of nine installments.
* 7 January – Kevin Rahm is born.
* 9 January – The Eighteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #68 with the fourth of nine installments.
* 12 January – Wagner Reis is born.
* 13 January – Brandi Sherwood is born.
* 16 January – The Eighteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #69 with the fifth of nine installments.
* 18 January – Darrell Craig Davis is born.
* 22 January – Stephen Wozniak is born.
* 23 January –
** Claire Rankin is born.
** The Eighteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #70 with the sixth of nine installments.
* 27 January – Trampas Thompson is born,
* 29 January – Boris Sobelman dies.
* 30 January – The Eighteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #71 with the seventh of nine installments.
* 31 January – Damon Kirsche is born.
=== February ===
* 6 February – The Eighteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #72 with the eighth of nine installments.
* 8 February – Gretchen J. Berg is born.
* 9 February – Jennifer Caputo and Lauren Moore are born.
* 12 February – Scott Menville is born.
* 13 February – The Eighteenth UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #73 with the ninth of nine installments.
* 18 February – Ken Niederbaumer is born.
* 20 February – The Nineteenth UK Story Arc begins in TV21 & Joe 90 #74 with the first of four installments.
* 27 February –
** The Nineteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #75 with the second of four installments.
** Carrick O'Quinn is born.
=== March ===
* 1 March – Gold Key TOS comic #10: "Sceptre of the Sun" is published.
* 6 March –
** The Nineteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #76 with the third of four installments.
** Grant Goleash is born.
* 13 March – The Nineteenth UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #77 with the fourth of four installments.
* 14 March – Lisa Hoyle is born.
* 16 March – Tamara Hambly is born.
* 20 March –
** The Twentieth UK Story Arc begins in TV21 & Joe 90 #78 with the first of four installments.
** Jonathan Goad is born.
* 24 March – Tig Notaro is born.
* 27 March – The Twentieth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #79 with the second of four installments.
=== April ===
* 1 April – Jessica Collins is born.
* 2 April – Joshua Feinman is born.
* 3 April – The Twentieth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #80 with the third of four installments.
* 6 April – Mona Grudt is born.
* 10 April –
** Byron Quiros are born.
** The Twentieth UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #81 with the fourth of four installments.
* 14 April – David Reddick and Faith C. Salie are born.
* 15 April – Brett Heneise is born.
* 16 April – Patricia Skeriotis is born.
* 17 April – The Twenty-First UK Story Arc begins in TV21 & Joe 90 #82 with the first of nine installments.
* 29 April – Chris Derrick is born.
* 20 April –
** Rahvaunia is born.
** The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #83 with the second of nine installments.
* 25 April – David M. Barrett is born.
* 28 April – Brendan Fleming and Ted Sullivan are born.
* 29 April – Mark Casimir Dyniewicz is born.
=== May ===
* 1 May –
** Diesel Pfingsten and Boni Yanagisawa are born.
** The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #84 with the third of nine installments.
* 6 May – Ondar Tarlow is born.
* 8 May – The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #85 with the fourth of nine installments.
* 13 May – Tim Harrison is born.
* 15 May –
** Jeff Wolfe is born.
* 16 May – Thom Zahler is born.
** The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #86 with the fifth of nine installments.
* 22 May – The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #87 with the sixth of nine installments.
* 28 May – Andrea Di Vito and David Dozoretz are born.
* 29 May – The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #88 with the seventh of nine installments.
* 31 May – Eli Golub is born.
=== June ===
* 1 June – Gold Key TOS comic #11: "The Brain Shockers" is published.
* 2 June – Anthony Montgomery and Caprice Crawford are born.
* 4 June – Kevin Blank and James Callis are born.
* 5 June – The Twenty-First UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #89 with the eighth of nine installments.
* 8 June – Matt Kaminsky is born.
* 9 June – Daniel Montlouis is born.
* 10 June – Leanza Cornett is born.
* 12 June – The Twenty-First UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #90 with the ninth of nine installments.
* 13 June – Shannon Fill is born.
* 16 June – Michael McKee is born.
* 19 June –
** Alan van Sprang is born.
** The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc begins in TV21 & Joe 90 #91 with the first of four installments.
* 26 June – The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #92 with the second of four installments.
* 28 June – Benito Martinez is born.
=== July ===
* 4 July – David Finch is born.
* 3 July – The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #93 with the third of four installments.
* 8 July – Amy O'Neill is born.
* 9 July – Scott Grimes is born.
* 10 July –
** Matthew Paul Cushman is born.
** The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #94 with the fourth of four installments.
* 15 July – Victor Martinez and S. John Ross are born.
* 16 July – Matt Huhn and Jill Lover are born.
* 17 July – The Twenty-Third UK Story Arc begins in TV21 & Joe 90 #95 with the first of six installments.
* 18 July – Ryan Church is born.
* 19 July – Dawn Drake and Andrew Kavovit are born.
* 23 July – Sean Freeland and Christina Rydell are born.
* 24 July – The Twenty-Third UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #96 with the second of six installments.
* 28 July – Chad Zimmerman is born.
* 31 July – The Twenty-Third UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #97 with the third of six installments.
* Unknown day – Star Trek 4, by James Blish, is published by Bantam Books.
=== August ===
# 3 August – Chris O'Hara and John Rosenfeld are born.
# 6 August – Merrin Dungey is born.
# 7 August – The Twenty-Third UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #98 with the fourth of six installments.
# 8 August – Dan Jolley is born.
# 11 August – Ken Lally is born.
# 13 August – Craig Cady is born.
# 14 August – The Twenty-Third UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #99 with the fifth of six installments.
# 17 August – Dominic Rambaran is born.
# 19 August –
#* Jonathan Cook is born.
#* Billy Vernon dies.
# 21 August – The Twenty-Third UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #100 with the sixth of six installments.
# 23 August – Oliver McGowan dies.
# 28 August –
#* Stephanie Belding and Laura Putney are born.
#* The Twenty-Fourth UK Story Arc begins in TV21 & Joe 90 #101 with the first of five installments.
=== September ===
* 1 September
** Maury Sterling is born.
** Gold Key TOS comic #12: "The Flight of the Buccaneer" is published.
* 3 September – Lance Parkin and Paul Zies are born.
* 4 September – The Twenty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #102 with the second of five installments.
* 11 September – The Twenty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #103 with the third of five installments.
* 13 September – Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski are born.
* 14 September – Pat Healy is born.
* 15 September – Laura DePuy is born.
* 16 September – Joel Heyman is born.
* 18 September – The Twenty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #104 with the fourth of five installments.
* 25 September – The Twenty-Fourth UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #105 with the fifth of five installments.
* Jason Martin is born.
=== October ===
* 2 October – The Twenty-Fifth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #1 with the first of two installments.
* 7 October – Arlo Hemphill is born.
* 8 October – Mike Dalager is born.
* 9 October – The Twenty-Fifth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #2 with the second of two installments.
* 11 October – Justin Lin is born.
* 16 October – The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #3 with the first of nine installments.
* 17 October – Blues Saraceno is born.
* 19 October – Lili Malkin is born.
* 23 October – The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #4 with the second of nine installments.
* 26 October – Anthony Rapp is born.
* 28 October – Bruce Sears is born.
* 29 October – Winona Ryder is born.
* 30 October – The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #5 with the third of nine installments.
* 31 October – Cricket Yee is born.
=== November ===
* 1 November – Paul Eliopoulos is born.
* 2 November – is born.
* 6 November – The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #6 with the fourth of nine installments.
* 10 November – Athena Massey is born.
* 11 November – Kathy Ahart dies.
* 12 November – Rebecca Wisocky is born.
* 13 November – The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #7 with the fifth of nine installments.
* 15 November – Jay Harrington and Scott Allen Rinker are born.
* 16 November – Valarie Ianniello is born.
* 20 November – Christopher Leps is born. The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #8 with the sixth of nine installments.
* 24 November –
** Brandon Molale is born.
** Gold Key TOS comic #13: "Dark Traveler" is published.
* 27 November –
** Kirk Acevedo is born.
** The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #9 with the seventh of nine installments.
* 29 November – Marc Bernardin is born.
=== December ===
* 1 December – Elena-Melanie Fabri is born.
* 3 December – Kelli Dawn Hancock and Erica Samuel are born.
* 4 December – The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #10 with the eighth of nine installments.
* 10 December – Ellen J. Hornstein is born.
* 11 December –
** The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #11 with the ninth of nine installments.
** Terryl Daluz is born.
* 18 December – The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #12 with the first of six installments.
* 20 December – Son of Lee is born.
* 23 December – Jon Donahue is born.
* 25 December – The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #13 with the second of six installments.
* 30 December – Chris Fisher is born.
=== Unknown month ===
* Two of the first text based Star Trek video games are published on university mainframes: Mike Mayfield's on and Don Daglow's on .
* The 1971 TV21 Annual is published, featuring two comic stories, "Captives in Space" and "Planet of Rejects", as well as one prose story, "Gateway to the Future".
* Randall N. Bills is born.
==Media gallery==
File:Sceptre of the Sun Comic.jpg|"Sceptre of the Sun"
File:Brain Shockers Comic.jpg|"The Brain Shockers"
File:Star Trek 4, Bantam.jpg|Star Trek 4
File:Flight of the Buccaneer Comic.jpg|"The Flight of the Buccaneer"
File:Dark Traveler Comic.jpg|"Dark Traveler"
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