Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Emissary

Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe week-long national syndication window opens for the two-hour first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Starring Avery Brooks and Nana Visitor, and guest starring Patrick Stewart, the pilot is heavily promoted, and in most cases (but not all) airs on the same stations already carrying the Star Trek: TNG syndication package. At the time of broadcast, it’s one of the most expensive pilots ever produced; David Carson’s direction wins him the director’s chair on the next Star Trek feature film, Generations. DS9 is the first Star Trek series not created by Gene Roddenberry. Read more

Space Rangers: The Replacements

Space RangersCBS airs the first episode of Pen Densham’s sci-fi series Space Rangers starring Jeff Kaake, Marjorie Monaghan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Linda Hunt. Tony Amendola (Stargate SG-1) guest stars in an episode written by Gregory Widen (Highlander, Backdraft). CBS has chosen to air the episodes out of order, so the Rangers’ “origin story” won’t be seen until the last week of the show’s brief run. Read more

Time Trax: A Stranger In Time

Time TraxThe national syndication window opens for the two-hour premiere of Time Trax, co-created by Star Trek movie producer Harve Bennett, and starring Dale Midkiff. Mia Sara, Henry Darrow, and Peter Donat also star. The series, filmed entirely in Australia, is one of the premiere offerings of the Warner Bros./Chris-Craft Television joint venture PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network), an attempt to create an ad-hoc “fifth network” out of independent and Fox stations. Read More Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ship In A Bottle

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 137th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team), Daniel Davis (The Nanny) and Stephanie Beacham (seaQuest DSV) guest star. Read more

Space Rangers: Fort Hope

Space RangersCBS airs the fourth and final episode of Pen Densham’s sci-fi series Space Rangers starring Jeff Kaake, Marjorie Monaghan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Linda Hunt. Pat Morita (The Karate Kid), Wings Hauser, and Sally Elise Richardson guest star in the show’s pilot episode, inexplicably aired last. The series is cancelled with two episodes left unaired. Read more

Highlander: See No Evil

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 12th episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.

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Highlander: Band Of Brothers

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 13th episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.

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Highlander: For Evil’s Sake

HighlanderThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 14th episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name.

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Babylon 5: The Gathering

Babylon 5The week-long national syndication window opens for the pilot movie of Babylon 5, The Gathering. The movie’s completely computer-generated effects – a first for television science fiction – win an Emmy Award. Despite favorable ratings from the movie’s initial broadcast, months pass before Warner Bros. orders the first full season, to premiere in 1994. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birthright Part I

Star Trek: The Next GenerationThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 141st episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This is the only major TNG crossover episode with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, guest starring Siddig El Fadil as Dr. Bashir. Read more