Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Blood Oath

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 38th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Guest starring are three actors who played Captain Kirk’s Klingon adversaries in various episodes of the original Star Trek: John Colicos (Battlestar Galactica) as Kor, Michael Ansara as Kang, and William Campbell as Koloth. Read more

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Maquis – Part I

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 39th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bernie Casey guest stars in an episode which introduces some of the background elements of the upcoming spinoff series Star Trek: Voyager. Read more

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Maquis – Part II

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 40th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Bernie Casey guest stars in an episode which introduces some of the background elements of the upcoming spinoff series Star Trek: Voyager. Read more

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Crossover

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 42nd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Andrew Robinson guest stars in the first DS9 episode to revisit the alternate universe of the original Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror. Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation: All Good Things…

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 176th and final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Guest stars for the two-hour sendoff include John de Lancie, Denise Crosby and Andreas Katsulas (Babylon 5). The heavily-hyped episode goes on to win a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Read more

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Jem’Hadar

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode ends the second season, and introduces the threat of the Dominion and their Jem’Hadar soldiers for the first time. (The Vorta, the Dominion’s strategists, are also seen for the first time.) Read more

Voyager begins filming: captain overboard!

Genevieve BujoldFilming for the two-hour pilot of the new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager, begins on the Paramount Studios lot. On the second day of filming, actress Genevieve Bujold plays her first scenes as Captain Nicole Janeway, but filming does not go well. Bujold abruptly quits the series, sending the producers scrambling to cast a new Captain Janeway. Shooting is rescheduled so scenes without the captain can be filmed in her absence, but days later, production shuts down until one of the runners-up for the role, Kate Mulgrew, is cast in the role of Janeway. The delays put Voyager weeks behind schedule and badly over-budget, with a premiere date – also the first night of Paramount’s network – that can’t be moved.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Search – Part I

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 46th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode marks the beginning of Deep Space Nine’s third season and introduces the U.S.S. Defiant, a small starship designed to give the show’s characters the ability to leave the station. Salome Jens makes her first appearance as the female shapeshifter who leads the Dominion. Read more