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Earth: Final Conflict Season 1

Through The Looking Glass

Earth: Final ConflictBoone and Sandoval launch an investigation when a young boy vanishes during one of the inaugural voyages of a commercial interdimensional transit system opened by the Companions. While trying to calm the child’s mother – or, in Sandoval’s case, trying to silence her before her panic scares further customers away from using the interdimensional transport system – Boone also discovers that his sister has mysteriously become pregnant, at the same time that the child re-emerges from the transport. Boone’s darkest suspicion seems to be confirmed – the Taelons have begun picking experiment subjects from the public at large through their transit system.

written by Malcolm MacRury
directed by Milan Cheylov
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Anita La Selva (Zo’or), Damon D’Oliveira (Sahjit Jinnah), Diana Reis (Anna Sims), William Greenblatt (Jamie Sims), Wendy Lyon (Sarah Boone), Michael Burgess (Dr. Walkin), Kate Trotter (Dr. Park)

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Deep Space Nine Season 06 Star Trek

The Reckoning

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: A tablet is found under the ruins of B’Hala, and Sisko brings it to the station for translation. This brings him into conflict once again with Kai Winn, who demands that the tablet be returned. The sudden instability of the wormhole is a sign to the Kai that the Prophets are angry. Sisko agrees to return the tablet, but later he smashes it, releasing two energy discharges. They are a Prophet and a pagh wraith, who will battle it out in “the Reckoning” to determine Bajor’s future.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
story by Harry M. Werksman & Gabrielle Stanton
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: James Greene (Koral), Louise Fletcher (Kai Winn), Judi Durand (Station Computer Voice)

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Season 3 Xena: Warrior Princess

Vanishing Act

Xena: Warrior PrincessGabrielle attends an annual celebration honoring Pax, the personification of peace, while Xena takes care of some business elsewhere. The next morning when she arrives, the 20 foot statue of Pax is missing. Her first suspect is Autolycus, but the king of thieves insists that he didn’t take it. He wants to conduct the investigation his way to regain his title. Xena reluctantly agrees. The trio soon discover the thief’s identity and head for his fortress on a nearby island.

Order the DVDswritten by Terry Winter
directed by Andrew Merrifield
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), John Brazier (Tarses), John O’Leary (Adair), Ian Harrow (Wharfmaster), Adrean Keeling (Scylosian General), Bray Taylor (Thea), Campbell Cooley (1st Guard), Greg Morman (Drunk Villager), Thomas Leary (Assistant), and Argo

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Season 04 Star Trek Voyager

Living Witness

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The Doctor is activated several centuries after Voyager became involved in a war between two planets. Though Voyager and her crew are long gone, the Doctor’s recollections are sought by one historian – and condemned by others. The Doctor has become just one part of a museum which serves as a testament to one world’s holocaust and another world’s conquest, and not everyone wants to hear the hologram’s version of the story – a story which, in the museum exhibit, portrays Captain Janeway and her crew as bloodthirsty warmongers who took sides in the conflict.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Brannon Braga
directed by Tim Russ
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Henry Woronicz (Quarren), Rod Arrants (Ambassador Dailith), Craig Richard Nelson (Tedran), Marie Chambers (Kyrian Commissioner), Brian Fitzpatrick (Vaskan Commissioner), Morgan H. Margolis (Vaskan Museum Visitor), Mary Anne McGarry (Tabris), Timothy Davis-Reed (Kyrian Spectator)

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From The Earth To The Moon

For Miles And Miles

From The Earth To The MoonThe career of Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space, is cut short when he suffers a severe bout of what turns out to be Meniere’s Disease, an inner ear condition which robs him of his sense of balance. Shepard is quickly pulled from the flight rotation for the new two-man Gemini flights, and fellow grounded Mercury veteran Deke Slayton convinces him to take a position in the Astronaut Office, selecting and managing flight crews. Shepard doesn’t take to his new duties well, and the junior astronauts fear his often foul moods. But when the opportunity to undergo an unconventional and extremely risky operation to correct his ailment arises, Shepard braves the dangers and emerges a cured man. Now his real challenge begins – can he convince anyone that he is fit for a trip to the moon aboard Apollo 14?

Order the DVDswritten by Erik Bork
directed by Gary Fleder
music by Mark Isham & Jeff Beal

Cast: Dylan Baker (Bruce McCoy), Adam Baldwin (Fred Haise), David Clyde Carr (Jerry Griffin), Gary Cole (Ed Mitchell), Tim Daly (Jim Lovell), Joanna Garcia (Julie Shepard), Henderson Gilleland (Bud), Jerry Hardin (Ben Taylor), Mike Harding (Ben Taylor), Steve Hofvendahl (Tom Stafford), Chris Hogan (Don Kyles), Gwen Hollander (Laura Shepard), Daniel Hugh Kelly (Gene Cernan), David Kelsey (GUIDO), J. LaRose (Anesthesiologist), Ted Levine (Alan Shepard), Andrew Massett (Dr. House), George Newbern (Stu Roosa), Robin O’Dell (Gaye Alford), Kim Ostrenko (Louise Shepard), Jeff Pillars (Charlie), Caroline Ross (Scrub nurse), Andrew Rubin (Jules Bergman), Nick Searcy (Deke Slayton), Tom L. Stearns (Dick), Marty Stonerock (Circulating nurse), Lesa Thurman (Joan Roosa), Robert Treveiler (L. Gordon Cooper), Rick Warner (Julian Bowman), Ashley Ann Wood (Alice Shepard)

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From The Earth To The Moon

Galileo Was Right

From The Earth To The MoonWith three successful manned lunar landings under its belt, NASA faces two major public relations hurdles – trying to convince the public that moon shots are anything but routine, and handling a firestorm of criticism from the scientific community, which believes that little actual research is being conducted in the Apollo missions. With the number of future missions dropping due to budget cutbacks, NASA administrators realize that little time remains in which to prove that the Apollo program is about science, not political point-scoring. But there’s only one obstacle to this otherwise admirable plan…finding a geology instructor who won’t bore the astronauts to sleep, someone who can transform jaded test pilots into effective geologists.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeffrey Fiskin and Remi Aubuchon
directed by David Carson
music by Mason Daring

Cast: Tom Amandes (Jack Schmitt), John Aylward (Dr. Ray Pemberton), Barry Dell (Rocco Petrone), David Clyde Carr (Gerry Griffin), David Clennon (Lee Silver), Brett Cullen (Dave Scott), Keith Flippen (Jason), Joe Inscoe (Chester Lee), Marc Macauley (Karl Heinze), Doug McKeon (Joe Allen), Tim Parati (Blaisdell), Michael Raynor (Al Worden), Arland Russell (Geology professor), Nick Searcy (Deke Slayton), Isa Totah (Farouk El-Baz), Tom Verica (Dick Gordon), Gareth Williams (Jim Irwin)

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Earth: Final Conflict Season 1

Destruction

Earth: Final ConflictAugur is startled when a holographic image of Rayna, a dead researcher for the resistance, appears and warns him that the alien probe’s secrets – including all that it learned about the resistance – are about to be accessed by the Taelons. Fellow rebel Sahjit, who was going to marry Rayna before the probe killed her, insists on leading the fight to retrieve the probe before the Taelons crack its security systems, perhaps with the misguided hope that he can save Rayna. But the objective of the resistance mission is to destroy the probe if necessary – and at any cost.

written by Alan Templeton
directed by Ross Clyde
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Brooke Johnson (Quo’on), Anita La Selva (Zo’or), Stavroula Logothettis (Kee’sha), Paul Johansson (Sloane), Damon D’Oliveira (Sahjit Jinnah), Sonia Dhillon (Rayna), William de Vry (Joshua Doors), Vint Cerf (Cy Vincent)

Notes: Guest star Vint Cerf also served as the science advisor during the first season of Earth: Final Conflict. He was also one of the originators of the TCP/IP protocol that makes the entire internet possible, so in a way, he’s also responsible for the site hosting this episode listing. This episode mentions the plague unleashed in the preceeding episode produced, Infection… but Infection didn’t air on schedule, and was held back to air in July 1998, two months after this episode.

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Deep Space Nine Season 06 Star Trek

The Valiant

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 51825.4: Just after leaving a starbase with a diplomatic message for the Grand Nagus, a runabout carrying Nog and Jake is attacked by Jem’Hadar fighters, but the two are rescued by the USS Valiant, a Defiant-class ship manned by a crew of Red Squad cadets who were out on a training cruise when the war broke out. Nog is made Chief Engineer by Captain Watters, who plans to complete the Valiant’s mission of obtaining technical data on a Dominion battleship. Once this is accomplished, however, Watters decides to destroy the battleship – which may be a fatal mistake.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Michael Vejar
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Paul Popowich (Watters), Courtney Peldon (Farris), David Drew Gallagher (Shepard), Ashley Brianne McDonogh (Dorian), Scott Hamm (Parton), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 3 Xena: Warrior Princess

Sacrifice – Part 1

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle find a childhood friend of the bard, Seraphin, as she is about to be sacrificed. Xena interrupts the “ceremony” and Gabrielle takes Seraphin to safety. Callisto appears and kills one of the priests, then disappears with his body. Ares also appears and tries to convince Xena to lead his army against Callisto, but she refuses. After he leaves, Xena and Gabrielle learn from Seraphin that Callisto isn’t the one they have to worry about. The warrior realizes that it is Hope who is building a following. Xena and Gabrielle know they must find a way to stop her.

Order the DVDswritten by Steven Sears
directed by David Warry Smith
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Hudson Leick (Callisto), Kevin Smith (Ares), Jodie Rimmer (Seraphin), Stephen Ure (Werfner), Elizabeth Pendergrass (Atropos), Micaela Daniel (Lachesis), Samantha Adriaanse (Clotho), Jermey Curry (Warlord), Bret Rudnick (First Klansman), Renee O’Connor (Hope)

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Season 04 Star Trek Voyager

Demon

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Depleted of resources, Voyager limps into the vicinity of a class Y planet, known informally as a “demon” class planet. Though standard Starfleet procedure calls for total avoidance of the hostile environment of these planets, Janeway and the crew are left with no choice but to try to improvise a way to adapt the planet’s natural resources to power Voyager. Tom and Harry are the first away team to visit the planet, and they fail to report back. But the rescue team commanded by Chakotay finds both of them in perfect health – and capable of breathing freely in the deadly atmosphere of the planet. However, transporting the two back to Voyager almost proves fatal, leading the Doctor to believe that anyone who has visited this class Y planet can never leave it again.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Andrè Bormanis
directed by Anson Williams
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Susan Lewis (Transporter Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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From The Earth To The Moon

The Original Wives’ Club

From The Earth To The MoonOn April 18, 1972, Apollo 16 is en route to the moon, and the wives of its three crew members hang on every transmission from the increasingly distant spacecraft. Other wives – most of them veterans of their own husbands’ journeys – gather to offer support and advice. Despite the fact that they don’t seem to discuss it openly, all of the astronauts’ wives know that some of them have handled the pressures better than others.

Order the DVDswritten by Karen Janszen, Tom Hanks and Erik Bork
directed by Sally Field
music by Marc Shaiman

Cast: Jo Anderson (Pat White), David Andrews (Frank Borman), Katie Austin (Susan Lovell), Robert Catrini (Reporter #48), Wendy Crewson (Faye Stafford), Ann Cusack (Jan Armstrong), Tim Daly (Jim Lovell), J. Downing (Charlie Duke), Sally Field (Trudy Cooper), Keith Harris (Carlie), Jim Helsinger (PAO), John Michael Higgins (Master of Ceremonies), Kristie Horton (Barbara Lovell), Key Howard (Reporter #1), Zeljko Ivanek (Ken Mattingly), Elliot Kachnycz (Jay Lovell), Delane Matthews (Pat McDivitt), Claudia Miller (Reporter #72), John Mountford (Christopher Conrad), Deidre O’Connell (Barbara Young), Elizabeth Perkins (Marilyn Lovell), John Posey (John Young), Debra Jo Rupp (Marilyn See), Cynthia Stevenson (Jane Conrad), Robert Treveiler (L. Gordon Cooper), JoBeth Williams (Marge Slayton), Rita Wilson (Susan Borman)

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From The Earth To The Moon

La Voyage Dans La Lune

From The Earth To The MoonStory: In 1902, French filmmaker George Melies begins working on a new movie in his Montreux studio – but instead of a documentary about famous locales in France, he decides to film a fantastic tale about men traveling to the moon, something which few of his actors consider more than a fanciful fiction. But some seventy years later, Apollo 17 – the last of the Apollo moon missions – has landed on the moon in December 1972, and astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt are performing the longest moonwalk in history. Melies’ spectacular movie about a trip to the moon was eventually procured and copied en masse by Thomas Edison, robbing the French director of even the slightest portion of his film’s financial rewards. And seven decades later, politics and safety concerns are about about to rob the world of another, even more precious, opportunity – the Apollo program of lunar exploration is about to end.

Order the DVDswritten by Tom Hanks
directed by Jonathan Mostow
music by Michael Kamen

Cast: Tom Amandes (Jack Schmitt), Bart Braverman (Older Sahjid), David Clyde Carr (Gerry Griffin), David Clennon (Lee Silver), Blythe Danner (Narrator), Chris Ellis (Bob Parker), Keith Flippen (Jason), Tom Hanks (Jean-Luc Despont), George Kapetan (Ed Fendel), Tcheky Saryo (George Melies), Daniel Hugh Kelly (Gene Cernan), Jason Khoury (Young Sahjid), Elizabeth Morehead (Tracy Cernan), Tim Parati (Blaisdell), J.C. Quinn (Special effects worker), Michael Roddy (Geologist), Stephen Root (Chris Kraft), Nick Searcy (Deke Slayton), Lane Smith (Emmett Seaborn)

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Deep Space Nine Season 06 Star Trek

Profit And Lace

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Zek returns to DS9, accompanied by Quark’s mother, Ishka. His amendment of the Ferengi Bill of Opportunities to give females the right to wear clothing has resulted in planetary chaos on Ferenginar and Zek’s removal from office. Brunt is now Acting Grand Nagus, a position which will become permanent in three days unless Zek can persuade the FCA to reinstate him. The plan is for the FCA commissioners to come to DS9 to meet Ishka, but only one, Nilva, agrees. However, Ishka has a heart attack during an argument with Quark, who is obliged to pose as Zek’s “other” female advisor.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by Alexander Siddig
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Henry Gibson (Nilva), Jeffrey Combs (Brunt), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Cecily Adams (Ishka), Chase Masterson (Leeta), Tiny Ron (Maihar’du), Sylvain Cecile (Uri’Lash), Wallace Shawn (Zek)

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Earth: Final Conflict Season 1

The Joining

Earth: Final ConflictThough they don’t realize it, the crew of a seagoing salvage ship have discovered more evidence of alien visitors that predate the recent arrival of the Taelons. When a member of the crew tries to steal the alien artifact for his own financial gain, the artifact is activated, kills him, and inhabits his body. Da’an is instantly aware of the alien presence and puts Boone and Sandoval on alert. The alien Ha’gel has come with a warning about what the Taelons do to those less developed races to whom they become Companions – but his own actions are proving lethal to the same race he has come to help.

written by Jonas McCord
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Anita Le Selva (Zo’or), Brooke Johnson (Quo’on), Raymond Accolas (Claude Bertrand), Graeme Millington (Randy / Ha’gel), Kari Matchett (Beckett), John Evans (Morovsky), Scott Gibson (Officer Reed)

Notes: This marks Kevin Kilner’s last appearance as a regular cast member on Earth: Final Conflict, as distributor Tribune Entertainment pressured the producers to replace Boone with a younger, more traditionally heroic character. He would return as a guest star during season 5.

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Season 3 Xena: Warrior Princess

Sacrifice – Part 2

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle are stunned when they see that the reborn Hope looks identical to her mother. The warrior tries again to kill the evil goddess, but Hope wages her own attack, even against Gabrielle. The two manage to escape the barrage of weapons that Hope is hurling at them. Outside the halls of war, Xena is angry that Gabreille stopped her from killing Hope before when she was still vulnerable, but the bard explains about Ares’ threat. Now that Hope has completed her rebirth, she and Ares start on their own plans. Callisto realizes that she won’t be a part of those plans. She appears to Xena and offers her help in killing Hope, providing that the warrior will end her life with the Hind’s blood dagger when they are finished.

Order the DVDswritten by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Paul Robert Coyle
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Renee O’Connor (Hope), Hudson Leick (Callisto), Kevin Smith (Ares), Jodie Rimmer (Seraphin), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Stephen Ure (Werfner), Elizabeth Pendergrass (Atropos), Micaela Daniel (Lachesis), Samantha Adriaanse (Clotho), Jeremy James Wood (Dahak Disciple #1), Russell Gowers (Dahak Disciple #2)

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