The week-long national syndication window opens for the 167th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Louise Fletcher guest stars. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 167th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Louise Fletcher guest stars.
Having completed the final episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Best Brains closes up shop and vacates the building it occupied in Eden Prairie, Minnesota for much of the series’ run. A report on MST3K fan site The Satellite News mentions that smaller quarters will probably be set up elsewhere, primarily to store some of the show’s key props, though many of the props will be auctioned off by Best Brains over the summer; the show’s cast and crew are now officially unemployed.
UPN airs the 114th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 87th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Ted Raimi guest stars.
The 19th episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series. Miles Richardson (Mindgame, Mindgame Trilogy) guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 168th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Louise Fletcher guest stars.
UPN airs the 115th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 88th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Karl Urban and Jennifer Sky guest star.
The 20th episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series. Julian Wadham guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 169th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Louise Fletcher guest stars.
Weeks ahead of the movie’s premiere, stores across America open at midnight as the first merchandise from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace goes on sale, ranging from action figures to the movie’s soundtrack (whose track titles offer major spoilers for the film’s storyline). Heavily featured in advance promotion, any items with the face of Darth Maul sell faster than nearly anything else.
Sony Classical releases John Williams‘ soundtrack for the eagerly anticipated upcoming movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, complete with track titles that constitute major story spoilers.
UPN airs the 116th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Before Episode I‘s theatrical premiere, the pre-production phase of Star Wars Episode II has already begun, with principal photography to commence toward the end of 1999. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiamid, Ahmed Best, and Anthony Daniels are all slated to reprise their roles, though it will be necessary to recast Anakin Skywalker, since the second film will take place at least a decade after the events of The Phantom Menace.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 89th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Hudson Leick and Karl Urban guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 170th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Robert O’Reilly makes his final guest starring appearance as Klingon leader Gowron, wrapping up a running Klingon storyline initiated on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990.
UPN airs the 117th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The 21st episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 90th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. Ted Raimi and Kevin Smith guest star in the fourth season finale.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 171st episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode continues a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. William Sadler guest stars.
Christopher Franke’s soundtrack to the Babylon 5 TV movie The River Of Souls is released on Sonic Images Records.
Riding a wave of hype, expectation, and merchandising that no film could hope to live up to, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, and Ian McDiarmid.
UPN airs the 118th episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
The 22nd and final episode of Highlander: The Raven, starring Amanda Gracen and Paul Johannson, airs in syndication; the series is a spinoff from Highlander: The Series.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 172nd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode concludes a tightly-serialized eight-episode run-up to the series finale. Wallace Shawn, Cecily Adams and Vaughn Armstrong guest star.
UPN airs the 119th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, ending the show’s fifth season. Rick Worthy and John Savage (Dark Angel) guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 173rd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode concludes both the seventh season and the series as a whole, wrapping up most of the show’s major storylines and paying off developments in the previous eight episodes. Louise Fletcher and James Darren guest star.
TNT airs the first episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s short-lived Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade. Starring Gary Cole (Office Space) and Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), the series concerns an Earth ship scouring the galaxy for the cure to a biological weapon that has left Earth quarantined and the human race’s days numbered. Tim Thomerson guest stars.
Actor DeForest Kelley, loved around the world for his portrayal of cranky-but-sympathetic Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek, dies at the age of 79 from cancer. A mainstay of western movies and TV guest roles since the 1940s, Kelley had first crossed paths with Gene Roddenberry guest starring in an episode of Boots and Saddles written by Gene; Kelley later starred as the lead in an unsold Roddenberry legal drama pilot, 333 Montgomery. He made enough of an impression that Roddenberry lobbied for him to be cast in Star Trek, though Desilu didn’t hire the actor for either of the pilot episodes. Kelley’s most recent appearance in the role of Dr. McCoy had been in 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; he declined to take part in 1994’s Star Trek: Generations, though a role had been written for him. (He had already handed the baton off to The Next Generation in an unannounced cameo appearance in that series’ pilot.)
TNT airs the second episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s short-lived Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade. Edward Woodward (The Equalizer) guest stars as the mentor of Technomage Galen, played by Woodward’s real life son, series regular Peter Woodward.