Russia launches the Soyuz TM-27 spacecraft on a mission to the Mir space station. Aboard are cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin; French spationaut Léopold Eyharts joins them for a 20-day before he returns to Earth with Mir’s previous crew. Musabayev and Budarin remain in orbit on Mir for 207 days, returning to Earth in August 1998 with cosmonaut Yuri Baturin. During their stay, further repairs were conducted to Mir’s solar power panels, which were damaged in a 1997 collision with a Progress unmanned cargo vehicle.
Jake Kasdan’s debut film Zero EFfect is released, starring Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller. 
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Showtime airs the 63rd episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Doug Savant (Melrose Place, Desperate Housewives) guest stars.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 16th episode of Stargate SG-1. Tom McBeath guest stars as Colonel Maybourne. (more…)
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 58th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, which sheds the series’ usual format and is written and performed as an elaborate stage musical, complete with dance numbers and undubbed vocals by some of the series regulars. Kevin Smith, Hudson Leick, Ted Raimi, and Karl Urban guest star. 
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The national syndication window opens for the 13th episode of the posthumous Gene Roddenberry science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict. Chris Wiggins (Friday The 13th: The Series) and Kari Matchett (Invasion) guest star. (more…)
The 15th episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler. David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, The Invisible Man, NCIS) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 134th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (more…)
Cable channel TNT premieres the 91st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. (more…)
Showtime airs the 64th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 17th episode of Stargate SG-1. (more…)
The 107th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Susannah Hoffmann guest stars.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 59th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. (more…)
The national syndication window opens for the 14th episode of the posthumous Gene Roddenberry science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict. Nigel Bennett (Lexx, Forever Knight), Maurice Dean Wint (TekWar, Cube) and Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Star Trek) guest star. (more…)
The 16th episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 135th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (more…)
Merge Records releases 
BMG Music releases Who’s Serious: The Symphonic Music of the Who, an album of orchestral covers of the Who’s greatest hits. (more…)
The 28th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. James Marsters and Juliet Landau guest star.
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Cable channel TNT premieres the 92nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. The episode breaks the record-setting string of consecutive episodes of American television written by a single writer, with series creator J. Michael Straczynski having written the previous 52 episodes (53 if the series finale, filmed at the end of the fourth season, is included). Straczynski writes this one as well, but shares a story credit with Harlan Ellison. (more…)
UPN airs the 
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 18th episode of Stargate SG-1. (more…)
The 108th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Kristin Lehman guest stars.
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Showtime airs the 65th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series.
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The week-long national syndication window opens for the 60th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor. (more…)
The national syndication window opens for the 15th episode of the posthumous Gene Roddenberry science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict. Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Star Trek) guest stars. (more…)
The 17th episode of the sequel series Team Knight Rider airs in syndication, starring Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, and Nick Wechsler.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 136th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (more…)
Unmanned space prove Voyager 1, launched in 1977, surpasses its forerunner Pioneer 10 as the furthest man-made object in space. Due to a sharp increase in its speed imparted by a very close pass by Saturn’s large moon Titan in 1980, Voyager 1 has outrun Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972. Both vehicles are still returning science data, and Voyager 1 is now 6.5 billion miles from the sun, 70 times further out from the sun than Earth. Voyager’s on-board nuclear power source is expected to keep it active through 2020.
Pony Canyon releases the album Namco Classic Collection, new remixes and compositions based on music from Namco’s classic arcade games. (more…)
Cable channel TNT premieres the 93rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. (more…)
UPN airs the 83rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Tony Todd guest stars. (more…)
Showtime airs the 66th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) guest stars.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 19th episode of Stargate SG-1, There But For The Grace Of God. (more…)
Del Rey publishes the first volume of Jane Killick’s behind-the-scenes chronicle of the sci-fi TV series, Babylon 5: Signs And Portents, with a foreword by series star Michael O’Hare. (more…)