The eighth episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series. Michael Rhodes guest stars.
The eighth episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series. Michael Rhodes guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 76th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 156th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5) guest stars.
Receiving more fanfare than any movie preview in the history of cinema, the first teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace premieres nationwide, appearing before the Pixar computer-animated family film A Bug’s Life. So eager are Star Wars fans to catch their first glimpse of the new prequel that many reportedly pay full ticket price to simply watch the preview and leave before the movie with which it’s packaged. Lucasfilm’s official Star Wars web site posts the trailer on the web – though the size of the file and the still-mostly-dial-up shape of the internet at the time makes watching it online a challenge.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 109th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
UPN airs the 99th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. UPN promotes this heavily as the 100th episode, a count that can only be reached by considering the two-hour pilot movie to be two episodes. LeVar Burton (Star Trek: TNG) guest stars as Geordi La Forge.
The ninth episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 157th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 110th and final episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Claudia Christian returns as Ivanova in an episode filmed before the actress allowed her contract to lapse in 1997 (at a time when it appeared that Babylon 5 would end with its fourth season). Though further TV movies and direct-to-video movies are produced, as well as the spinoff series Crusade, this is the end of the main Babylon 5 storyline, and also marks the directorial debut of series creator J. Michael Straczynski. 
UPN airs the 100th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Scarlett Pomers (Reba) guest stars.
The tenth episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series. Polly Shannon guest stars.
Sonic Images announces the cancellation of its upcoming release of Ron Jones‘ soundtrack from the PC game Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Despite this announcement, copies of the CD have already been sent to both mainstream and fandom reviewers as advance copies for review. (This title is unrelated to the later TV series of the same name.)
UPN airs the 101st episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
GNP Crescendo releases a CD of Jerry Goldsmith’s music from the movie Star Trek: Insurrection.
UPN airs the 102nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Paramount debuts Star Trek: Insurrection in theaters, featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation directed by their own co-star, Jonathan Frakes. Written by former TNG executive producer Michael Piller, the writer responsible for the fan-favorite TV two-parter The Best Of Both Worlds, this movie’s development is somewhat troubled, and its increased reliance on humor earns mixed reviews.
UPN airs the 103rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The radio drama Blake’s 7: The Syndeton Experiment pemieres on BBC Radio 4, written by Barry Letts (Doctor Who) and starring original television cast members Paul Darrow, Jacqueline Pearce, Michael Keating, Steven Pacey, and Peter Tuddenham. As the story is set during the fourth season of the TV series, the roles of Dayna and Soolin have to be recast.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 158th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Unusually, this episode pushes frequent guest stars Aron Eisenberg and James Darren to the forefront, with the series regulars appearing in only small scenes.
Cable channel TNT premieres A Call To Arms, the fourth and final Babylon 5 TV movie produced for TNT. The movie features a mixture of familiar Babylon 5 characters as well as new characters who would later appear in the spinoff series Crusade; A Call To Arms is effectively a two-hour pilot for Crusade, which would premiere later in 1999.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 77th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 159th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 78th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi guest star.
Christopher Franke’s soundtrack to the Babylon 5 TV movie Thirdspace is released on Sonic Images Records.
Sony Records releases a 2-CD set featuring Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, now with a few additional tracks. The second disc is not part of the soundtrack, but instead provides the first-ever CD pressing of the 1976 spoken-word album Inside Star Trek, featuring recorded live appearances by Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner, Isaac Asimov and others. This set is billed as the “20th anniversary edition” of the soundtrack.
Part one of the classic William Hartnell-era Doctor Who four-parter The Crusade is recovered by the BBC, thanks to a fan who obtained it cheaply from a film collectors’ sale. The film is handed over to BBC’s unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team. There’s initially no word on any possible video release of this segment of The Crusade, since parts two and four are still missing.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 79th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor.
UPN airs the 104th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 36th episode of Stargate SG-1.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 80th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Ted Raimi guest stars.