Warner Bros. releases R.E.M.‘s tenth album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, featuring the singles “Bittersweet Me” and “E‐Bow the Letter”. 
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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.
The first episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. The series will later be adapted into a novel by Gaiman.
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The second episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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After multiple delays, including the entire launch stack having to be rolled back into the safety of the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from two back-to-back hurricanes, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the fourth mission to dock with the Russian Mir space station. Supplies are transferred to Mir, and numerous completed science experiments from Mir are loaded into the shuttle. Atlantis is flown by Commander William Readdy, Pilot Terrence Wilcutt, and mission specialists Thomas Akers, John Blaha, Jay Apt and Carl Walz. Blaha remains on Mir, taking the place of American astronaut Shannon Lucid, who has just set a new American space endurance record of 188 days in orbit; Lucid returns to Earth with the Atlantis crew.
UPN airs the 44th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Robert Pine (the father of future big-screen Captain Kirk, Chris Pine) guest stars.
The second episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) guest stars.
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Fox airs the 23rd 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 third season premiere.
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The 66th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star in the fourth season premiere.
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The third episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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Alan Parsons releases a solo album, On Air, themed around the history of flight.
UPN airs the 45th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The third episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) and Stratford Johns guest star.
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Fox airs the 24th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks.
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The 67th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 62nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Erica Gimpel (Fame, ER) guest stars.
Launched in 1978 as a joint venture between NASA and ESA, the unmanned International Ultraviolet Explorer is commanded to exhaust its remaining fuel and cease all contact with Earth. Though its detectors and other instruments are still functioning well after 18 years in orbit, its stabilization gyros have failed one by one until the satellite is unable to be aimed at deep space targets with any accuracy. IUE remains powered down, adrift in a geosynchronous orbit.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 25th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, opening the show’s second season.
The fourth episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 97th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the beginning of the series’ fifth season. Robert O’Reilly guest stars; J.G. Hertzler makes his first appearance as General Martok.
UPN airs the 46th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Dan Shor (Tron) guest stars in an episode that picks up an obscure plotline left dangling from a 1989 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Virgin Publishing releases the hardcover non-fiction book Doctor Who: The Eighties by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, and Stephen James Walker, a coffee table book covering the final decade of the 20th century series.
The fourth episode of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry’s modern-day fantasy series Neverwhere airs on BBC2, starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, and Paterson Joseph. Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It, Doctor Who) guest stars.
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Fox airs the 25th episode of Tracy Torme’s alternate-universe science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, John Rhys Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, and Cleavant Derricks. Corey Feldman (The Goonies, The Lost Boys) guest stars, reuniting with former Stand By Me co-star Connell.
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The 74th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Peter Donat (Time Trax) and Roy Thinnes (The Invaders) guest star in the fourth season premiere.
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The 68th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Charles Fleisher, Beverly Garland, Harve Presnell, and Delta Burke guest star in a long-awaited, heavily-promoted episode in which Lois and Clark get married.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 63rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Robert Englund (V, A Nightmare On Elm Street) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 26th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess.
The fifth episode of the science fiction series The Cape premieres in syndication in North America, starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and Adam Baldwin, and focusing on a fictionalized version of NASA’s shuttle program.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 98th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This is heavily promoted as the series’ 100th episode (again following Paramount’s policy of counting two-hour episodes as two separate episodes).