Year: 1998

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Season 02 SG-1 Stargate

Touchstone

Stargate SG-1SG-1 returns from a visit to a planet where a device regarded as a mystical object called the Touchstone has given its inhabitants precise control over their climate. Carter is eager to return and study the device, which could be the team’s most valuable alien technology find yet. But when they go back, SG-1 is accused of stealing the Touchstone. O’Neill asks General Hammond point-blank is another SGC team was ordered to take the device, but Hammond says he hasn’t given any such orders. SG-1 pays a visit to Nellis Air Force Base at Area 51, where O’Neill accuses SG-1’s adversary, Colonel Maybourne, of stealing the device – especially now that freak weather conditions are affecting life on Earth. Maybourne dodges every question and accusation, and for some reason General Hammond can’t get through to the President. With disastrous weather wreaking havoc on two worlds, SG-1 discovers that the Antarctic gate has been moved and used by an unknown agency, possibly one acting under civilian authority. Even when they find a way to track the other stargate, General Hammond and SG-1 are keenly aware that any steps they take to retrieve the rogue gate (and its hijackers) puts the entire program, and their lives, in jeopardy.

Order the DVDswritten by Sam Egan
directed by Brad Turner
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Tom McBeath (Colonel Harry Maybourne), Matthew Walker (Roham), Jerry Stargate SG-1Wasserman (Whitlow), Tiffany Knight (La Moor), Eric Breker (Major Reynolds), Conan Graham (NID Man)

Notes: Major Carter refers to “N.O.A.A. satellites,” referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…but anyone, military or civilian, routinely referring to that agency would pronounce it “Noah” rather than spelling out the acronym.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Treachery, Faith, And The Great River

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Having received a coded message from a Cardassian informant, Odo goes to meet him, but instead meets Weyoun, who makes the astonishing statement that he has decided to defect to the Federation. On the way back to DS9 with the Vorta, Odo learns that this is actually the successor clone to the Weyoun he has known – and that another Weyoun has been activated and is demanding that his predecessor commit suicide. Meanwhile, O’Brien gets a lesson in the art of scrounging parts and navigating the “Great Material Continuum,” from Nog.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
story by Philip Kim
directed by Steve Posey
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun 6 and 7), Casey Biggs (Damar), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Salome Jens (Female Changeling)

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover

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Season 4 Xena: Warrior Princess

A Tale of Two Muses

Xena: Warrior PrincessWhile traveling through a desert, Xena and Gabrielle stop in a village. They see that a girl is about to be whipped, and when they intervene, they’re surprised to see it’s Tara. The magistrate says that her crime is that she danced. So Xena and Gabrielle, with a little help from Autolycus and Tara, work to bring about changes in the village.

Order the DVDswritten by Gillian Horvath
directed by Michael Hurst
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Bruce Campbell (Autolycus/Philipon the Reformer), Shiri Appleby (Tara), John Givins (Istafan), Hemi Rudolph (Telamon), Michael Kupenga (Andros), Campbell Cooley (Licinus), Dennis Hally (Bootmaker), Vicky Halighton (Old Lady), and Argo

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 5

The Wheel of Fire

Babylon 5G’Kar returns to Babylon 5 to a more enthusiastic welcome than he’d prefer. Garibaldi can no longer hide his drinking problem; Sheridan and Lochley take different paths in reaching out to help him. Lise arrives on the station, offering to share Michael’s struggles with him and asking him to share control of Edgars Industries with her. Zack and Lochley learn that Lyta has been supporting terrorist activity against Psi Corps, creating a dilemma – how does one arrest someone who may be a living Vorlon doomsday weapon? But while station security sees problems, Garibaldi sees an opportunity to take back control of his life…and perhaps settle a score.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Janet Greek
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Monique Edwards (Officer), Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton-Edgars)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

In The Flesh

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A surprising discovery is made in a most unexpected place – a spaceborne artificial environment which perfectly recreates the grounds and facilities of Starfleet Academy, complete with such beloved faces as Boothby the groundskeeper. When Chakotay and Tuvok bring one of the Stafleet officers from the “Academy” back to Voyager, however, they discover that this isolated outpost of humans is, in fact, a staging and training area for Species 8472’s eventual invasion of the planet Earth.

Order the DVDswritten by Nick Sagan
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Kate Vernon (Archer), Ray Walston (Boothby), Zach Galligan (Ensign Gantry), Tucker Smallwood (Admiral Bullock)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Once More Unto The Breach

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Worf is approached by Kor, who, despite his status as a Dahar Master, is now without family or influence in the Empire, but wants a command so he can spend his last days as a warrior. However, Martok, who hates Kor, only grudgingly allows him to serve as third officer on Martok’s ship in a five-ship raid into Dominion/Cardassian territory. During the raid, Kor relives an old battle and is ridiculed by the crew, including Martok. Will he get one last chance to redeem himself?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: John Colicos (Kor), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Neil Vipond (Darok), Nancy Youngblut (Kolana), Blake Lindsley (Synon)

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Season 4 Xena: Warrior Princess

Locked Up and Tied Down

Xena: Warrior PrincessWhile taking a break from their journey, Xena and Gabrielle are attacked by bounty hunters. They have a warrant to arrest Xena for the murder of a young woman that was committed some years before. The warrior agrees to go with them, and gives Gabrielle her chakram. During the trial, Gabrielle defends her friend, but the warrior says nothing for herself. The judge sentences Xena to life in prison on Shark Island. After Xena has been taken away, Gabrielle begins to plan a way to rescue her friend.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Hilary Bader
story by Robert Tapert and Josh Becker
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Katrina Browne (Thelassa), William Kircher (#1 Bad Guard/Prison overseer), Tanea Heke (Ursena), Natalie Dennis (Clysetone), Julie Taylor (Hanged woman), Gilbert Goldie (Town elder), Huntly Eliott (Judge), Margaret Blay (Woman in court), Patrick Smith (Healer), Chris Sherwood (Drexel), Laurie Dee (Tavern keeper)

Original title: Shark Island Prison

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 5

Objects In Motion

Babylon 5Sheridan plans a grand farewell for G’Kar and Garibaldi, not just to express his gratitude, but to smoke out an assassin trying to keep Garibaldi and Lise from learning too much about Edgars Industries’ less benevolent projects. Number One rekindles her acquaintance with Franklin and once again asks for help in dealing with Earth. Earthforce may have stopped shooting at the rebels, but Mars’ provisional government is learning that red tape can be just as effective a weapon as a PPG. An eager Narn who comes to learn from G’Kar teaches him a lesson instead: an icon disappoints his followers at his own peril.

Order now!Download this episodeteleplay by J. Michael Straczynski
story by J. Michael Straczynski and Harlan Ellison
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton-Edgars), James Hornbeck (Casey), Marjorie Monaghan (Number One), Jeffrey James Castillo (Guard), Walter Williamson (Paretti), Neil Bradley (Tru’nill)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Once Upon A Time

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: On an expedition, the Delta Flyer shuttle is unable to avoid a violent ion storm, and crashes into a planetoid. Paris, Tuvok and Ensign Wildman are trapped when the Delta Flyer’s landing buries it several kilometers beneath the surface. As the shuttle’s crew prepares for the worst, Neelix is left with a dilemma of his own. Ensign Wildman’s young daughter Naomi has been left in his care, and even though Naomi is aware that her mother has been out of contact for a longer than usual period of time, Neelix insists on diverting her from the truth. When Naomi grows impatience with Neelix and goes to the bridge for herself, she discovers a grim rescue effort is in progress to find her mother’s shuttle. Now, despair could be the greatest enemy for both mother and daughter.

Order the DVDswritten by Michael Taylor
directed by John Kretchmer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Justin Louis (Trevis), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Wallace Langham (Flotter), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Blackadder Specials

HRH Prince Charles’ 50th Birthday Gala

BlackadderMay 1680. Lord Edmund Blackadder, Privy Counselor, has been asked to organize a gala to celebrate the 50th birthday of King Charles I. He is disinclined to accept the offer until the King makes it clear it would be dangerous to choose not to accept…

Order the DVDswritten by Ben Elton
director not credited
music by Howard Goodall

Cast: Rowan Atkinson (Lord Edmund Blackadder), Stephen Fry (King Charles I)

Notes: This is the second documented event in the life of this particular Blackadder.  He was previously see in The Cavalier Years towards the end of Charles’ life.

Stephen Fry returns to play Charles again, this time with a lot more Melchett blood in him.

This marks the first time Tony Robinson was not involved in a Blackadder appearance of any kind since the original pilot.

LogBook entry by Philip R. Frey

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

The Siege Of AR-558

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: The Defiant goes on a supply run to AR-558, a body in the Chin’toka system which is the site of a Dominion communications array that the Jem’Hadar are trying to regain control of. The war-weary troops there have lost two thirds of their original numbers, including their commanding officers, and Sisko decides to stay and take charge. Ezri and Kellin are able to reprogram the Jem’Hadar’s antipersonnel mines to use against the enemy, but when the attack comes, what price will be paid for victory?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Raymond Cruz (Vargas), Patrick Kilpatrick (Reese), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Annette Helde (Larkin), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Bill Mumy (Kellin), James Darren (Vic Fontaine)

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover

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Season 4 Xena: Warrior Princess

Crusader

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle encounter a warrior woman, Najara, who is on a quest similar to theirs, fighting for the greater good. The bard is intrigued by Najara’s talk of the way of the light. Xena thinks that her friend might be better off staying with Najara, and plans to leave her. But when she meets the warlord that Najara has been tracking, she learns what Najara is really all about. She goes to the village where Najara plans to set up a hospice to confront her.

Order the DVDswritten by R.J. Stewart
directed by Paul Lynch
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Kathryn Morris (Najara), David Te Rare (Marat), and Argo

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 5

Objects At Rest

Babylon 52262 nears its end, and the last of B5’s departing residents say their goodbyes. Franklin hands the keys to Medlab over to Dr. Hobbs. Ta’lon answers a summons from G’Kar, not knowing that he has been chosen to succeed the departed ambassador. Garibaldi takes charge of Edgars Industries. Lennier returns to the station to escort Sheridan and Delenn to the new Alliance headquarters, but his arrival sets the stage for a possibly fatal betrayal. And an unexpected reunion provides a few moments of joy for Londo…while once again advancing his associates’ sinister agenda.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by John Copeland
music by Christopher Franke

Guest Cast: Marshall Teague (Ta’lon), Jennifer Balgobin (Dr. Lillian Hobbs), Simon Billig (Ranger), Joshua Cox (Lt. Corwin), Marjorie Monaghan (Number One), Maggie Egan (ISN Reporter), Mike Manzoni (Employee)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Timeless

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52143.6: After creating a new slipstream drive for Voyager – thanks to Seven’s Borg technology – Janeway and the crew are ready to give the new drive its test flight. Tom and Harry are certain that they’ve spotted a potentially fatal flaw in the slipstream drive, but Harry proposes a quick fix that involves flying point ahead of Voyager in the Delta Flyer. The powerful new propulsion system brings Voyager within parsecs of the Alpha Quadrant in a matter of minutes – and then fails disastrously, slamming the ship into a class L planet and killing everyone except Harry and Chakotay, who are aboard the Delta Flyer. It is a tragic loss from which neither of them will ever recover.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Christine Harnos (Tessa Omond), LeVar Burton (Captain Geordi La Forge), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Covenant

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Kira is visited by her old friend and teacher, Vedek Fala, who gives her a red crystal. It is a homing transponder which is activated, causing her to be beamed by a Dominion transporter to Empok Nor, where a community of Bajoran pagh-wraith worshippers has settled, led by none other than Gul Dukat. Dukat tries to convince Kira to join his followers, but she wants nothing to do with them or the pagh wraiths. When the first child born to the community turns out to be half-Cardassian, Dukat claims it’s a miracle, then attempts to kill the mother. Rather than let his followers learn the truth, he decides to lead them to suicide.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Rene Echavarria
directed by John Kretchmer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Marc Alaimo (Dukat), Norman Parker (Vedek Fala), Jason Leland Adams (Benyan), Maureen Flannigan (Mika), Miriam Flynn (Midwife), Mark Piatelli (Brin)

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover