Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Muse

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 91st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Meg Foster, Michael Ansara and Majel Barrett Roddenberry guest star; this is the only episode of the entire Star Trek franchise to give Majel Barrett a story credit. Read more

Inside Star Trek: The Real Story

Inside Star Trek: The Real StoryPocket Books releases the non-fiction book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, by Herbert F. Solow (former Desilu production executive) and Robert H. Justman (former Star Trek co-producer), a memoir of both men’s roles in the making of the original series, and their dealings with the cast and with series creator Gene Roddenberry. Read more

Babylon 5: War Without End – Part 1

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 60th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Michael O’Hare guest stars as Jeffrey Sinclair, the original commander of Babylon 5, in a two-part story which clears up the mysteries left dangling at the end of the first season episode Babylon Squared. Read more

Doctor Who: The Movie

Doctor WhoAfter a seven-year gap since the BBC cancelled the original series, Fox premieres Doctor Who: The Movie as its Tuesday Night Movie (and, if ratings prove to be a success story, a backdoor pilot for a series). Depicting the seventh Doctor’s regeneration into the eighth (Paul McGann), this is effectively the 698th episode of Doctor Who, and guest stars Yee Jee Tso and Eric Roberts as the Master. US ratings ultimately prove to be a disappointment, and this remains the only televised adventure of the eighth Doctor (though this incarnation of the Time Lord is carried forward in novels, comics and audio stories). Doctor Who does not make a full return to TV until 2005. Read more

Babylon 5: War Without End – Part 2

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the 61st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Michael O’Hare guest stars as Jeffrey Sinclair, the original commander of Babylon 5, in a two-part story which clears up the mysteries left dangling at the end of the first season episode Babylon Squared. As in previous seasons, the final five episodes of the season are held back until the fall. Read more

Star Trek: Voyager: Flashback

Star Trek: VoyagerUPN 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. Read more