1972 (production)

== Events ==
=== January ===
* 1 January – The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #14 with the third of six installments.
* 7 January –
** Dick Wood dies.
** Alissa and Heidi Kramer are born.
* 8 January – The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #15 with the fourth of six installments.
* 10 January – is born.
* 11 January – Janet Kidder is born.
* 12 January – Michelle Paradise is born.
* 13 January – Una McCormack is born.
* 15 January – The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #16 with the fifth of six installments.
* 19 January – Malachy Fergus Godfrey is born.
* 21 January –
** The first Star Trek convention is held at the Statler Hilton, New York during the weekend of 21-23.
** Keno Deary is born.
* 22 January – The Twenty-Seventh UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #17 with the sixth of six installments.
* 27 January – Alan Gratz is born.
* 28 January – Gillian Vigman is born.
* 29 January – The Twenty-Eighth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #18 with the first of five installments.
* 31 January – Al Goto is born.
=== February ===
* 1 February – Yoshi DeHerrera is born.
* 5 February – The Twenty-Eighth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #19 with the second of five installments.
* 8 February – Paul "Big Show" Wight is born.
* 9 February –
** Lee Erwin dies.
** Crispin Freeman is born.
* 11 February – Bart Noggle is born.
* 12 February – The Twenty-Eighth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #20 with the third of five installments.
* 19 February – The Twenty-Eighth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #21 with the fourth of five installments.
* 22 February – Henri Lubatti is born.
* 25 February – Gold Key TOS comic #14: "The Enterprise Mutiny" is published.
* 26 February – The Twenty-Eighth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #22 with the fifth of five installments.
* Star Trek 5 by James Blish is published by Bantam Books.
=== March ===
* 2 March – Michelle C. Bonilla is born.
* 4 March – The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #23 with the first of eleven installments.
* 8 March – Scott Topper is born.
* 11 March –
** The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #24 with the second of eleven installments.
** Fredric Brown dies.
* 13 March – Leigh Allyn Baker is born.
* 18 March – The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #25 with the third of eleven installments.
* 25 March – The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #26 with the fourth of eleven installments.
* 26 March – John Marasigan and Henry Alonso Myers are born.
=== April ===
* 1 April –
** The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #27 with the fifth of eleven installments.
** Scott Rader is born.
* 5 April – Alexander Enberg is born.
* 8 April –
** The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #28 with the sixth of eleven installments.
** Leif Gantvoort is born.
* 12 April – Matt E. Levin is born.
* 15 April – The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #29 with the seventh of eleven installments.
* 22 April – The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #30 with the eighth of eleven installments.
* 29 April –
** The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #31 with the ninth of eleven installments.
** Derek Mears is born.
*Unknown day – Star Trek 6 by James Blish is published by Bantam Books.
=== May ===
* 2 May – Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is born.
* 3 May – Joe Pingue is born.
* 6 May –
** The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #32 with the tenth of eleven installments.
** Azalea Davila is born
* 12 May – Steve Ihnat dies.
* 13 May – The Twenty-Ninth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #33 with the eleventh of eleven installments.
* 20 May – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #34 with the first of nine installments.
* 21 May – Alexander Slanger is born.
* 25 May – Gold Key TOS comic #15: "Museum at the End of Time" is published.
* 27 May – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #35 with the second of nine installments.
=== June ===
* 3 June – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #36 with the third of nine installments.
* 4 June – Gary Weeks is born.
* 7 June – Karl Urban is born.
* 9 June – Alison Elbl is born.
* 10 June –
** The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #37 with the fourth of nine installments.
** Bobby Pappas is born.
* 13 June – Matt Banning is born.
* 16 June – John Cho is born.
* 17 June – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #38 with the fifth of nine installments.
* 21 June – Kelly Cooper is born.
* 22 June – One of the very first mentions of a Star Trek motion picture by D.C. Fontana, who writes about it in a fanzine Star-Borne about the possibility of such a production.
* 24 June – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #39 with the sixth of nine installments.
* 27 June – Tim Divar and Nathan Effron are born.
* 28 June – Christine Clark is born.
* 30 June – Leonard O'Grady is born.
=== July ===
* 1 July – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #40 with the seventh of nine installments.
* 3 July – Edwin Rodriguez is born.
* 7 July – Chad Patterson is born.
* 8 July –
** The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #41 with the eighth of nine installments.
** Glenn Hetrick is born.
* 12 July – Warren Flanagan and Matthew MacFadzean are born.
* 15 July – The Thirtieth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #42 with the ninth of nine installments.
* 18 July – Slim Khezri is born.
* 22 July –
** The Thirty-First UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #43 with the first of five installments.
** Louise Bale is born.
* 28 July – Colby French and Eric Lemler are born.
* 29 July –
** The Thirty-First UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #44 with the second of five installments.
** Wil Wheaton is born.
* Unknown day – Star Trek 7, by James Blish, is published by Bantam Books.
=== August ===
* 3 August – Brigid Brannagh and Sumalee Montano are born.
* 4 August – Dan Payne is born.
* 5 August – The Thirty-First UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #45 with the third of five installments.
* 7 August – Heather Kadin is born.
* 9 August – Ryan Bollman and Liz Vassey are born.
* 10 August – Gold Key TOS comic #16: "Day of the Inquisitors" is published.
* 11 August – Marty Murray are David Senescu are born.
* 12 August – The Thirty-First UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #46 with the fourth of five installments.
* 15 August – Matthew Wood is born.
* 19 August –
** Greg Bryk and Kyra Bucich are born.
** The Thirty-First UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #47 with the fifth of five installments.
* 26 August – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #48 with the first of nine installments.
* 27 August – F.J. DeSanto and Greg Scott are born.
* 28 August – Tim Storms is born.
* 31 August – Dianna Faulkner and Kristin Hjellegferde are born.
=== September ===
* 2 September – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #49 with the second of nine installments.
* 6 September – Idris Elba is born.
* 8 September – Cari Shayne is born.
* 9 September – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #50 with the third of nine installments.
* 10 September – Ali Hassan and Kara Wooten are born.
* 12 September – Monica Parrett is born.
* 14 September – George H. Merhoff dies.
* 15 September – Brian Ching is born.
* 16 September – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #51 with the fourth of nine installments.
* 21 September – Robin Stapler is born.
* 23 September –
** The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #52 with the fifth of nine installments.
** Melissa Vinicor is born.
* 26 September – Anita Hart is born.
* 29 September – Massi Furlan is born.
* 30 September – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #53 with the sixth of nine installments.
=== October ===
* 1 October – Marcus Young is born.
* 5 October – Shawn Piller is born.
* 7 October – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #54 with the seventh of nine installments.
* 14 October – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #55 with the eighth of nine installments.
* 18 October – Tamara Lee Krinsky is born.
* 20 October – Eric Spencer Kagan is born.
* 21 October – The Thirty-Second UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #56 with the ninth of nine installments.
* 28 October –
** The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #57 with the first of seven installments.
** Pablo Raimondi and Stacey Smith? are born.
* 29 October – Obi Ndefo and Gabrielle Union are born.
* 31 October – Matthew Wolf is born.
=== November ===
* 1 November – Zander Cannon is born.
* 4 November –
** The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #58 with the second of seven installments.
** Tyson Wengler is born.
* 6 November – Thompson Knox, Rebecca Romijn and Ator Tamras are born.
* 8 November – Jason Matthew Smith is born.
* 11 November – The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #59 with the third of seven installments.
* 13 November – Margot Muraszkiewicz is born.
* 14 November – Amanda Winn Lee is born.
* 15 November – Armen V. Kevorkian is born.
* 16 November – Missi Pyle is born.
* 18 November – The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #60 with the fourth of seven installments.
* 19 November – Nicole Forester is born.
* 20 November – Sunny Gorg is born.
* 25 November – The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #61 with the fifth of seven installments.
* 27 November – Dayo Ade and Kendra Munger are born.
* 30 November – Gold Key TOS comic #17: "The Cosmic Cavemen" is published.
* Unknown day – Star Trek 8, by James Blish, is published by Bantam Books.
=== December ===
* 2 December –
** Eduardo Roman is born.
** The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #62 with the sixth of seven installments.
* 16 December – Kyle Isao is born.
* 9 December – The Thirty-Third UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #63 with the seventh of seven installments.
* 16 December – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc begins in Valiant & TV21 #64 with the first of ten installments.
* 17 December – Kiante Elam is born.
* 18 December – Jason Mantzoukas is born.
* 23 December – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #65 with the second of ten installments.
* 30 December – The Thirty-Fourth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #66 with the third of ten installments.
=== Unknown month ===
* Vincent Niebla is born.
* The Sixth UK Annual Story is published in the 1972 TV 21 Annual.
* The Seventh UK Annual Story is published in the 1972 Valiant Summer Special.
==Media gallery ==
File:Enterprise Mutiny Comic.jpg|"The Enterprise Mutiny"
File:Star Trek 5 cover.jpg|Star Trek 5
File:Star Trek 6, Bantam.jpg|Star Trek 6
File:Museum End of Time.jpg|"Museum at the End of Time"
File:Star Trek 7, Bantam.jpg|Star Trek 7
File:Day of the Inquisitors Comic.jpg|"Day of the Inquisitors"
File:Star Trek 8, Bantam.jpg|Star Trek 8
File:Cosmic Cavemen Comic.jpg|"The Cosmic Cavemen"
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