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Published On: January 23, 2020

Streaming service CBS All Access debuts the first episode of Star Trek: Picard, starring Patrick Stewart as a retired Jean-Luc Picard encountering a mystery that forces him to come out of retirement, set over 20 years after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.

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Barrie Ingham, actor, dies

Published On: January 23, 2015

Barrie Ingham with Dorn, Stewart, Roddenberry Actor Barrie Ingham, one of the few actors to have played speaking parts in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek franchises, dies at the age of 82. Having appeared alongside William Hartnell in the 1965 Doctor Who story The Myth Makers, Mr. Ingham went on to play a more visible role as Alydon with Peter Cushing in the movie Dr. Who And The Daleks. He also appeared in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Up The Long Ladder as the leader of a throwback space colony.

Arrow: Trust But Verify

Published On: January 23, 2013

The 11th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Ben Browder (Farscape) and John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who) guest star.

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Torchwood: Sleeper

Published On: January 23, 2008

BBC2 premieres the 15th episode of Russell T. Davies’ science fiction series Torchwood, a more adult-themed spinoff of Doctor Who.

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Music for 2001: a space odyssey

Published On: January 23, 2007

Amazing Stories Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases the original recordings of Alex North’s lost music score for 2001: a space odyssey, conducted by North himself and recorded in 1968. (The previous release of the same music on another label is a re-recording.)

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Star Trek: Enterprise: Dear Doctor

Published On: January 23, 2002

The 12th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN.

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Hello, Himalia!

Published On: January 23, 2001

Himalia NASA releases a photo taken by the Cassini space probe as it passed by Jupiter and its complex system of satellites in December 2000, showing the first-ever view of the tiny moon Himalia, taken from a distance of 2.7 million miles. Non-spherical in shape, but estimated to be roughly 100 miles across its widest face, Himalia is believed to be an asteroid permanently captured into an inclined orbit of Jupiter. It was discovered in 1904 from Earth-based telescopes. The New Horizons space probe will also attempt to image Himalia in 2007. The sixth largest satellite of Jupiter, Himalia is the first of the planet’s outer satellites beyond the orbit of Callisto to be photographed by a passing spacecraft.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Checkpoint

Published On: January 23, 2001

The 90th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Clare Kramer guest stars.

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The X-Files: Signs & Wonders

Published On: January 23, 2000

The 148th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Randy Oglesby and Tracy Middendorf guest star.

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Stargate SG-1: Cor-Ai

Published On: January 23, 1998

Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 15th episode of Stargate SG-1.

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Voyager: Parallax

Published On: January 23, 1995

UPN airs the second episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

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TekWar

Published On: January 23, 1994

TekWar The TV movie TekWar, based on William Shatner’s cyberpunk novel series, premieres in syndication. The Canadian-made movie, intended to serve as the starting point for a potential series, stars Greg Evigan (My Two Dads), William Shatner (Star Trek), and Torri Higginson (Stargate Atlantis), and features Von Flores (Earth: Final Conflict), Barry Morse (Space: 1999), Sheena Easton, and Maurice Dean Wint (Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future). This movie is part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package (which will become better known for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess).

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Voyager 2 and the clouds of Neptune

Published On: January 23, 1989

Neptune For the first time, images transmitted to Earth by NASA’s unmanned Voyager 2 space probe reveal visible cloud features in the atmosphere of Neptune, from a distance of 185,000,000 miles. This is a welcome relief to mission scientists who felt let down by a lamentable lack of any atmospheric detail in the clouds of Uranus, a planet visited by Voyager 2 in 1986. In the months ahead, even more detail will be revealed in Neptune’s upper atmosphere.

Star Trek: TNG: The Schizoid Man

Published On: January 23, 1989

The week-long national syndication window opens for the 31st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. W. Morgan Sheppard and Suzie Plakson guest star.

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Blackadder II: Potato

Published On: January 23, 1986

Blackadder The ninth episode of Black Adder airs on the BBC, starring Rowan Atkinson. Tom Baker (Doctor Who) and Simon Jones (Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) guest star.

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Chocky: Episode 3

Published On: January 23, 1984

The Chocky The third episode of Chocky airs on Thames Television, adapting the novels of John Wyndham into a television serial starring Andrew Ellams and James Hazeldine. Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi) guest stars.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Episode 10

Published On: January 23, 1980

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy The tenth episode of Douglas Adams’ breakthrough radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is first broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing the second series of the now-hit cult science fiction phenomenon. At this point, the story diverges into material that will not be repeated in later iterations of Hitchhiker’s Guide; Rula Lenska and John Le Mesurier guest star.

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Blake’s 7: Weapon

Published On: January 23, 1979

Blake's 7 BBC1 premieres the 16th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. John Bennett and Scott Fredericks guest star; Brian Croucher takes over the role of Travis (though the obvious difference goes completely unnoticed by the other characters).

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Blake’s 7: Time Squad

Published On: January 23, 1978

Blake's 7 BBC1 premieres the fourth episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. This is the first episode filmed; Jan Chappell joins the regular cast as Cally.

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The Questor Tapes

Published On: January 23, 1974

ABC premieres the made-for-TV movie The Questor Tapes, starring Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon and Majel Barrett. Created and co-written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, The Questor Tapes is a promising series pilot, though no series based on it is ordered. (Years later, many observers will notice that Roddenberry transfers Questor’s personality and even some of his backstory to a new Star Trek character named Data.)

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Doctor Who: Terror Of The Autons, Part 4

Published On: January 23, 1971

The 282nd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Katy Manning makes her first appearance as the Doctor’s new companion, Jo Grant. Richard Franklin joins the cast as new UNIT regular Captain Mike Yates, and the Master makes his first appearance in the series, as played by Roger Delgado. Michael Wisher guest stars.

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TIROS-M / ITOS

Published On: January 23, 1970

ESSA NASA and ESSA launch the ITOS satellite, also known as TIROS-M, a next-generation weather satellite intended to take over from the constellation of short-lived ESSA weather satellites. With a configuration that is, for the first time, significantly different from the TIROS/ESSA satellites, the TIROS-M design’s shakedown cruise is a short and bumpy one: after system failures force a shutdown of the satellite’s attitude control system, it is shut down in mid-1971.

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Sky’s On Fire

Published On: January 23, 1966

The 50th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. David J. Stewart guest stars.

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Doctor Who: All Roads Lead To Rome

Published On: January 23, 1965

The 55th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the story now collectively known as The Romans.

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