The week-long national syndication window opens for the 95th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode is directed by series regular Avery Brooks. 
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 95th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode is directed by series regular Avery Brooks.
The feature-length 32nd episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on cable channel The Family Channel, starring Corey Carrier and Sean Patrick Flanery. Michael Gough (Batman, Doctor Who) guest stars. This is the final episode/TV movie of the series.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 38th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Mel Harris (thirtysomething) and Geraint Wyn Davies (Forever Knight) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 96th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Andrew Robinson, Salome Jens and Robert O’Reilly guest star in the final episode of the show’s fourth season.
Virgin Publishing releases the 51st book in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures range, GodEngine by Craig Hinton.
Virgin Publishing releases the 23rd Doctor Who: The Missing Adventures novel, Killing Ground by Steve Lyons, featuring the TARDIS team of the sixth Doctor and Grant Markham.
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on the 78th shuttle mission, a Spacelab flight lasting nearly 17 days and devoted to the effects of microgravity on various forms of life. The crew also tests maneuvers under consideration for a future Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which could safely boost Hubble’s orbit without damaging it. Aboard Columbia for her 20th flight are Commander Terence Henricks, Pilot Kevin Kregel, flight engineer Susan Helms, mission specialists Richard Linnehan and Charles Brady, and payload specialists Jean-Jacques Favier and Robert Thirsk.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 39th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, The X-Files) and Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest star.
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Fox airs the 21st episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. This episode marks the first appearance of the Kromaggs, a recurring enemy that will persist for the remainder of the series.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 24th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, bringing the show’s successful first season to a close.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 40th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Sheena Easton and John Pyper-Ferguson (Caprica) guest star.
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Having announced the band’s breakup, Crowded House releases Recurring Dream, a final album – priamrily a greatest hits collection – with the band’s original lineup. Despite having left the band months before, drummer Paul Hester rejoins Neil Finn and Nick Seymour to record three new songs for the album.
Fox airs the 22nd episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. This is the second season finale.
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Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 41st episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Peri Gilpin (Frasier), Victor Garber (Alias, The Orville), and William B. Davis (The X-Files) guest star.
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RealWorld Records releases the debut Afro-Celt Sound System album, Volume 1 – Sound Magic.
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 42nd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Jon Cryer (Sueprgirl, Two And A Half Men) guest stars.
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IREM, under its I’MAX imprint, releases the arcade compilation IREM Arcade Classics for the Sony Playstation in Japan only, containing the ’80s coin-op arcade games Motorace USA, Spartan-X, and the football game 10-Yard Fight.
Former Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner releases his first solo album, Jason Falkner presents Author Unknown.
Namco releases the arcade compilation Namco Museum Volume 1 for the Sony Playstation, including the ’80s arcade hits Pac-Man, Galaga, Pole Position, and Bosconian. (The same title was released to the Japanese market in 1995.)
Premium cable channel Showtime airs the 43rd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) guest stars in the second season finale.
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Warner Bros. Records releases Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ soundtrack from the movie She’s The One, featuring the single “Walls”.
Atlantic Records releases Mark Mancina’s soundtrack from the movie Twister (a separate CD contains the songs from the movie; this release is the score only).
With NASA/JPL’s Pluto Fast Flyby mission cancelled, a new mission is proposed by several scientists and engineers, including veterans of the Voyager program, to send a small spacecraft to Pluto. Originally named Pluto Express, and later Pluto-Kuiper Express, the unmanned spacecraft would be armed with a handful of scientific instruments (as opposed to Pluto Fast Flyby’s camera-only proposal). Plans call for launch via a Delta Heavy rocket or from the cargo bay of a Space Shuttle in 2004, a Jupiter gravity assist flyby in 2006, and a Pluto flyby in 2012. Though there are early talks with the Russian space program about including landers or penetrators, that element of the mission is dropped soon afterward.
Soyuz TM-24 is launched from Russia, on a mission to dock with the Mir space station. Aboard are cosmonauts Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri, who stay aboard Mir for 196 days, and visiting French spationaut Claudie André-Deshays, the first French woman in space, who stays aboard Mir for 16 days before returning to Earth with the station’s previous crew aboard Soyuz TM-23. Korzun and Kaleri will return to Earth in March 1997.
The MST3K Info Club releases Clowns In The Sky: The Musical History of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a collection of original songs written and performed by the show’s cast, all from the Comedy Central era MST3K.
Broadcasting & Cable Weekly Magazine reveals that Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Tribune Entertainment have sealed a deal to produce a series first outlined by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s, Battleground Earth. Budgeted at $1,000,000 per episode, the series will be based on a series pitch that nearly resulted in a pilot for 20th Century Fox in 1977, until Roddenberry’s attention was refocused on the impending TV revival of Star Trek for the never-launched Paramount Television Service, which then became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Then in the 1980s, Kenneth Johnson’s V, following a very similar story outline, became a hit, leaving Battleground Earth unusable for a time. This series will premiere in syndication in late 1997 under the title Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict.
UPN airs the 42nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Brad Dourif guest stars; this is the beginning of Voyager’s third season.
The first episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin. With cooperation from NASA, frequent location filming at Cape Canaveral, and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin as a technical consultant, and banking on the recent box office success of Apollo 13, the series focuses on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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Warner Bros. releases R.E.M.‘s tenth album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, featuring the singles “Bittersweet Me” and “E‐Bow the Letter”.
UPN airs the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. This episode airs three days after the 30th anniversary of the original Star Trek’s premiere, and guest stars original series cast members George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney in a storyline paying homage to the Kirk era (specifically, to the opening scene of the movie Star Trek VI). Michael Ansara appears as Kang.