Riding a wave of hype, expectation, and merchandising that no film could hope to live up to, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, and Ian McDiarmid. 
Riding a wave of hype, expectation, and merchandising that no film could hope to live up to, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, and Ian McDiarmid.
UPN airs the 118th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Showtime airs the 100th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Marcia Cross (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives) and Michael Ironside (V, seaQuest 2032) guest star.
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The 22nd and final episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 172nd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode concludes a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Wallace Shawn, Cecily Adams and Vaughn Armstrong guest star.
Canadian broadcaster CHCH-TV airs the 20th episode of Art Monterastelli’s sci-fi series Total Recall 2070, starring Michael Easton and Cynthia Preston, very loosely based on the 1990 film Total Recall. Titus Welliver (Lost) guest stars.
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UPN airs the 119th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, ending the show’s fifth season. Rick Worthy and John Savage (Dark Angel) guest star.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on the first of only three 1999 shuttle flights, a ten-day mission to continue preparing the International Space Station for full-time duty. 80 hours are spent inside the station, transferring supplies into the existing modules for future crews, and spacewalks are conducted to perform necessary tasks outside the station. Aboard Discovery for her 26th flight are Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Rick Husband, and mission specialists Ellen Ochoa, Tammy Jernigan, Daniel Barry, Julie Payette and Valery Tokarev.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 173rd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode concludes both the seventh season and the series as a whole, wrapping up most of the show’s major storylines and paying off developments in the previous eight episodes. Louise Fletcher and James Darren guest star.