Lakeshore Records digitally releases Jeff Russo’s soundtrack from the first season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, featuring the Rufus Wainwright cover of “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)” featured in the first episode. 
Lakeshore Records digitally releases Jeff Russo’s soundtrack from the first season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, featuring the Rufus Wainwright cover of “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)” featured in the first episode.
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the third episode of the Star Trek spinoff Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, created by Gaia Violo and set in the post-Discovery 31st century time frame. Holly Hunter stars.
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the fourth episode of the Star Trek spinoff Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, created by Gaia Violo and set in the post-Discovery 31st century time frame. Holly Hunter stars; Martin Roach (The Umbrella Academy, The Shape Of Water) guest stars.
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the fifth episode of the Star Trek spinoff Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, created by Gaia Violo and set in the post-Discovery 31st century time frame. Holly Hunter stars; Cirroc Lofton (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and Chiwitel Ejiofor (The Martian, The Life of Chuck) guest star.
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the sixth episode of the Star Trek spinoff Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, created by Gaia Violo and set in the post-Discovery 31st century time frame. Holly Hunter stars; Paul Giamatti guest stars.
Actor Michael Keating, best known for his four-year run on the BBC space opera Blake’s 7 from 1978 through 1981, dies at the age of 79. The only actor who appears in all 52 episodes of the series, Keating won the role on the recommendation of director Pennant Roberts, who had cast Keating in a major guest role in the 1977 Doctor Who story The Sun Makers. With his Blake’s 7 character’s wit echoing his own sense of humor, Keating became a favorite with both fans and fellow cast members, as stories persist of him visiting pubs near shooting locations with castmate Paul Darrow. Stage work and guest roles on television followed, including a lengthy stint on the primetime soap EastEnders, and a role in the 2009 docudrama Micro Men, charting the microcomputer industry in the UK. Keating reprised his Blake’s 7 character in audio form for Big Finish Productions until his retirement from acting.
Actor Walter Koenig, best known for portraying Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series, dies at the age of 90. Already a busy young actor at the time he debuted in the second season of Star Trek, Koenig had already crossed paths with that show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, in an episode of Roddenberry’s prior military series, The Lieutenant, in 1964. Following his work on Star Trek’s second and third seasons, Koenig continued acting, but also took up writing, penning an episode of the 1970s animated Star Trek (while being the only main/recurring cast member not to reprise their role). Alongside his return to the role of Chekov in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, he released a first-person chronicle of the movie’s production, Chekov’s Enterprise; his first novel, Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot, followed in 1988. In the 1990s, he took on a recurring villainous role in Babylon 5, that of Psi Cop Bester, who made numerous appearances throughout the show’s five seasons (and nearly returned in the spinoff series Crusade). He would appear as Chekov through Star Trek: Generations, though he later made a few appearances in fan productions and played a surprise voice role in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard, all while appearing at conventions and in documentaries covering the Star Trek phenomenon.