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NBC airs the 26th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Shari Headley guest stars.
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Reprise Records releases Depeche Mode‘s seventh album, Violator, featuring the singles “Personal Jesus” and “Enjoy The Silence”. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 64th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode begins the epic Klingon story arc that runs through several more episodes of TNG and even into spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Tony Todd guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 65th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
NBC airs the 27th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 66th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Jennifer Hetrick and Max Grodenchik (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
Narada Records releases the instrumental album Heart & Beat by German jazz guitar virtuoso Ralf Illenberger, his second solo album on the label.
NBC airs the 28th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Julie Brown guest stars in an episode she also co-wrote.
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Warner Bros. Records releases the Fleetwood Mac album Behind The Mask, featuring the singles “Save Me” and “Skies The Limit”. This is the first studio album for the band’s post-Lindsey-Buckingham lineup.
Fox Network airs the 20th episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
The 47th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Gilbert Gottfried guest stars.
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Fox Network airs the 21st episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Jonathan Brandis (seaQuest DSV) guest stars.
The 48th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 67th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michael Cavanaugh (Starman) guest stars.
Fox Network airs the 22nd and final episode of Kenneth Johnson’s sci-fi cop series Alien Nation, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. Despite the cliffhanger ending and a vocal fan base, the series is cancelled after its first season, but Fox will later revive it in a series of TV movies later in the decade.
In the planning stages since the 1970s, and delayed by the post-Challenger-disaster downtime for the shuttle program, the Hubble Space Telescope is finally lifted into orbit aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Hubble is just one of the scientific payloads for the five-day flight, with other experiments being conducted in the crew cabin and the cargo bay. Discovery’s crew for this flight is Commander Loren Shriver, Pilot Charles Bolden, and mission specialists Steven Hawley, Bruce McCandless and Kathryn Sullivan.
The 49th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 68th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) guest stars.
NBC airs the 29th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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The 50th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Gilbert Gottfried guest stars in the framing story for a clip show.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 69th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Saul Rubinek (Warehouse 13) guest stars.
NBC airs the 30th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Susan Diol guest stars in the second season finale.
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The 51st episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 70th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Mark Lenard (Planet Of The Apes) guest stars as Spock’s father Sarek, the first original series character to appear since the cameo appearance of Dr. McCoy in the series pilot.
The 52nd episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs. Skye Aubrey guest stars in the second season finale.
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The earliest test images from the Hubble Space Telescope alert ground-based astronomers to a serious problem: the telescope’s huge mirror has been ground to an incorrect shape, leaving the $2,000,000,000 telescope with a vision problem resulting in blurry pictures. Though they’re still an improvement over ground-based telescopes, the telescope’s main selling point – high-resolution images of distant objects – is moot. With the public considering the expensive satellite a failure (oblivious to the fact that it can be serviced via Space Shuttle), NASA begins an extensive investigation into the problem, arriving at a possible repair that can’t be applied until the first shuttle servicing mission to Hubble in 1993. In the meantime, attempts to correct the problem with Earthbound computer image processing yield some usable images.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 71st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Ethan Phillips (Star Trek: Voyager) guest star.
Capitol Records releases the Talk Talk compilation album Natural History: The Very Best Of Talk Talk, gathering highlights of the material previously released by that label. No one in the band has been consulted about the choice of material, and band founder Mark Hollis later criticizes the album in public.
The Soviet Union launches the Kristall module, whose pre-programmed systems bring it to the Mir space station for an automated docking. With facilities for material science experiments, additional gyroscopic stabilizers to keep Mir properly oriented, and other equipment, Kristall also features an extended docking port intended to allow the Soviet-made Buran shuttle to dock at Mir. In time, that docking port will allow a space shuttle to berth at Mir… but not the one its designers anticipate.
This is the last expansion made to Mir prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the last new module to arrive for five years.
Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack from the movie The Abyss is released on Varese Sarabande Records.