The week-long national syndication window opens for the 96th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode introduces the Trill, a race frequently featured in future Star Trek spinoff Deep Space Nine. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 96th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This episode introduces the Trill, a race frequently featured in future Star Trek spinoff Deep Space Nine.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 97th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 98th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michelle Scarabelli (Alien Nation) guest stars; Patrick “Picard” Stewart directs this episode.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 99th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg and Tony Todd guest star. This episode ends the fourth season.
GNP Crescendo Records releases the second CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation soundtrack music, containing Ron Jones’ music from the fan favorite two-part story The Best Of Both Worlds.
GNP Crescendo releases a CD of music from the original Star Trek television series, presenting selections from the episodes The Doomsday Machine by Sol Kaplan and Amok Time by Gerald Fried.
With no new series in sight on TV, Virgin Publishing begins its long-awaited line of original print fiction with the first Doctor Who New Adventures novel, “Timewyrm: Genesys” by John Peel. The first book in a four-book cycle of linked stories, the novel picks up where the television series left off, featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace. Three further books are already in the works in the Timewyrm series, with other authors lining up for a chance to write later books in 1992 and beyond.
Virgin Publishing releases the second novel in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Exodus” by early ’70s Doctor Who script editor Terrance Dicks. This book continues the four-part Timewyrm cycle and revisits the War Lord last seen in the 1969 TV story The War Games, and long before the TV episode Let’s Kill Hitler, places the Doctor in the company of Hitler. This is Dicks’ first Doctor Who prose which is not a direct adaptation of a television story.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 100th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Todd and Denise Crosby guest star. This episode is the beginning of the show’s fifth season.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 101st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Paul Winfield (Star Trek II) and Ashley Judd guest star. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 102nd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michelle Forbes guest stars as Ensign Ro. This episode introduces the Bajorans, continuing the setup for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 103rd episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 104th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Having been hospitalized for several weeks, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry dies in a Los Angeles hospital; his health had been declining in recent years and he had become confined to a wheelchair, leaving much of the day-to-day production duties of Star Trek: The Next Generation executive producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller. Roddenberry is survived by his son and by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who still occasionally guest stars on Star Trek: TNG as Lwaxana Troi, and fans the world over mourn his passing. Rick Berman is expected to continue assuming full responsibility for the Star Trek franchise’s production and creative decisions, a role he had already been fulfilling during Roddenberry’s recent years of ill health. TNG is currently in its fifth season.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 105th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Wil Wheaton guest stars as Wesley Crusher.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 106th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Mark Lenard guest stars as Sarek and Leonard Nimoy appears briefly as Spock. The events of this episode tie in with the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 107th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Leonard Nimoy guest stars as Spock in the highest-rated episode in the series’ history. The events of this episode tie in with the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 108th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) guest stars.
After two years of running the numbers and making alliances with foreign investors, Warner Brothers announces that it will launch its own television network, the Prime Time Entertainment Network, as a joint venture with Chris-Craft Industries’ group of television stations. Modeled after the recently premiered Fox Network, PTEN will begin with one night a week of programming, gradually increasing to two or more. With Fox still only broadcasting two nights a week, ironically, most TV stations that sign up as early adopters of PTEN are Fox affiliates. The network is expected to sign on in late 1992 or early 1993, and will become the home to the science fiction series Babylon 5.
Writer and series creator J. Michael Straczynski takes to the GEnie online message service to announce that his science fiction series, Babylon 5, has gotten the go-ahead from Warner Brothers and will be the cornerstone of a new television network. He promises that the series will begin with one or two two-hour movies to set up the premise, with a series to follow in 1993, as well as revealing that the show’s visual effects will be accomplished with computer generated graphics rather than miniature models.
Virgin Publishing releases the fourth book in the Doctor Who New Adventures series, “Timewyrm: Revelation” by Paul Cornell. This is Cornell’s first professionally-published fiction, and is published over the objections of former Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner (acting as an advisor to the editors), who cites concerns over the book’s abstract attempts to establish an epic mythology involving Gallifreyan gods. The book also concludes the four-book Timewyrm cycle, which has proven to be enough of a sales success that Virgin opts to continue publishing original Doctor Who fiction.
The first Star Trek film since 1982’s Star Trek II to be directed by Nicholas Meyer, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country premieres in theaters, with Paramount billing it as the final appearance of the original crew. Depicting the earliest hints of a political alliance between the Federation and the Klingons, Star Trek VI is intended to hint at the future already playing out on TV on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and is preceded by a special two-part episode of that show featuring Leonard Nimoy. While some of the cast reprise their roles in later movies, TV episodes and even fan-made productions, this does mark the final appearance of DeForest Kelley in character as Dr. McCoy.
MCA Records releases an album of music from Cliff Eidelman‘s soundtrack from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Toho releases the 18th Godzilla movie, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 109th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Paramount formally announces plans to launch another Star Trek spinoff, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in 1993, with filming to begin later in 1992. With casting yet to be finalized and the series concept still in flux, the public’s first glimpse is a year away; many trade publications still list Michelle Forbes’ TNG character, Ensign Ro, as one of DS9’s main characters. The series will be the first Star Trek entity not created by the late Gene Roddenberry; instead, TNG showrunners Rick Berman and Michael Piller have created the show’s concept, which is said to be “darker and grittier.”
In what is hailed as the biggest missing episode find in the history of fans’ attempts to recover lost segments of Doctor Who, the complete four-part story The Tomb Of The Cybermen, completely missing from the BBC’s archives, is located in near-pristine condition in the archives of a Hong Kong broadcaster. Since the tapes’ audio is the original English soundtrack and the video requires little significant clean-up or restoration, the BBC’s home video department fast-tracks Tomb for a VHS release in May 1992. As of this find, only 110 half-hour episodes of black & white Doctor Who remain missing.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 110th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 111th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 112th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.