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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 27th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. 
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Dark Horse Comics publishes the second trade paperback collection of its Star Wars: Clone Wars comics, Victories and Sacrifices. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 28th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Sci-Fi channel airs the first part of the miniseries re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. A reboot rather than a sequel to the late ’70s series, this more hard-edged version of the story plays fast and loose with many of the character outlines and is influenced heavily by the post-9/11-attacks western mindset. Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell star, with the script written by Ronald D. Moore (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Hotly anticipated due to over a year’s worth of speculation about the far-reaching changes to the show’s story outline, the miniseries is an instant hit. (more…)
Sci-Fi channel airs the second part of the miniseries re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell star, with the script written by Ronald D. Moore (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). The miniseries wins instant critical acclaim for its writers and cast, and many critics hail the new Galactica as the best Sci-Fi Channel original series to date. However, it takes some time for a full series order to happen, and will eventually involve an infusion of money from British satellite channel Sky One to be approved at all; this results in the first season airing first in the UK, and not until 2005 in North America. (more…)
The video game-inspired album The Mario & Zelda Big Band Live CD is released in Japan, featuring live big band renditions of many of the themes from the Super Mario Bros. and Legend Of Zelda game series. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 29th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 52nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. (more…)
Oscar-winning sculptor, artist and model maker Wah Ming Chang was probably best known in SF circles for creating elaborate creatures for Star Trek (including the Horta, the alien face of Balok, and the tricorder props) and The Outer Limits. Chang also won the Oscar for special effects for George Pal’s film adaptation of The Time Machine. He also created costumes on such non-SF movies as The King And I and Cleopatra, for which he sculpted Elizabeth Taylor’s headdress. He was 86 years old.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 30th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 31st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the one-off audio drama Doctor Who: Shada, which premiered on the BBCi website as an audio series with limited Flash animation. Paul McGann, Lalla Ward, John Leeson, and Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) star. (more…)
Smithsonian Books publishes General Thomas Stafford’s non-fictional memoir of his time in NASA, “We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race“, co-written with Michael Cassutt. The book details Stafford’s involvement in several NASA missions, from the Gemini program through the high-profile flights of Apollo 10 to the moon and the international Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. (more…)
The first of two new American Mars rovers lands successfully on the red planet. The Mars rover Spirit enters the Martian atmosphere (and cleaves a path right through a dust storm), deploying thick layers of airbags that allow it to bounce safely until landing upright. This is the same landing system employed by the Pathfinder mission in 1997, but the unmanned robot probe in this case is much more sophisticated. Among the primary scientific objectives of Spirit’s mission is to determine if water existed on the surface of Mars for a significant length of time. The Spirit rover will undergo a series of diagnostics and won’t begin its mobile mission for several days. Its identical twin, a rover named Opportunity, will land in three weeks.
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 32nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
The 143nd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 33rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 53rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann, India Fisher, and Conrad Westmaas. (more…)
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The BBC announces that a private collector has returned part two of the mostly-missing twelve-part Doctor Who story, The Daleks’ Master Plan, to its archives. Last seen in late 1965, the episode has been in the possession of the former chief engineer of the competing Yorkshire Television network ever since the early ’70s – when he snatched it from the BBC archives (where he was a trainee at the time) rather than destroying it as ordered. The 25-minute episode, subtitled Day Of Armageddon, is handed over to the Doctor Who Restoration Team, which oversees the preservation and restoration of past episodes for DVD release.
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: New Voyages (later Phase II) releases its first full-length episode, Come What May. Shot with homemade sets, costumes and props in upstate New York, the attention-getting project is greeted with enthusiasm by fans and with consternation by CBS/Paramount, which still has a Star Trek series (Enterprise) on television. The New Voyages group, led by James Cawley, is permitted to continue as long as no profit is made from its use of the Star Trek name, setting a precedent for future fan productions. As the group’s productions improve, it eventually disowns this pilot episode as one of its “official” adventures. (more…)
The 144th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Tree Wave, a duo using vintage computer hardwar, releases the debut EP Cabana+. (Tree Wave member Paul Slocum is also the programmer of the Atari 2600 Synthcart, a homebrew application that turns the 2600 into a musical instrument.) (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 34th and final episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
JPL engineers begin experiencing severe difficulty communicating with the Spirit Mars rover, which had successfully rolled off of its landing platform the previous week. Just as the rover is ready to begin its travels on the surface of Mars, it stops communicating with Earth, or with any orbiting spacecraft overhead. A command is transmitted to force Spirit to report its condition, and the resulting telemetry indicates that the rover has been continuously rebooting its internal computer system. By the weekend, after worries and warnings that Spirit would probably never regain 100% functionality, JPL’s engineers re-establish communications and received enough diagnostic information to narrow the problem down to Spirit’s flash memory and handling software. Engineers soon resolve the problem, transmitting instructions to work around the potentially corrupted memory, and restoring Spirit so it can continue its exploration.
The 64th episode of the prequel spinoff Star Trek: Enterprise airs on UPN. Jeffrey Combs guest stars. (more…)
The 145th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge. Corin Nemec makes his final Stargate appearance in an episode he co-wrote.
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The Opportunity rover, identical to Spirit, lands on schedule and on target in Mars’ Meridiani Planum region, but initial readings from the surface of Mars indicate that the landing pod containing Opportunity has come to rest on its side. Telemetry signals from Opportunity announce that the the rover has arrived safely and intact, ready to begin its mission, and the opening of the landing vehicle returns Opportunity to its intended upright position. As with Spirit, Opportunity will remain on its landing platform for several days undergoing a series of diagnostic tests before rolling off to the Martian surface for independent exploration, and engineers are keeping a close eye out for signs of a computer problem that has plagued Spirit for several days.
The 146th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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The The 147th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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Big Finish Productions releases the 54th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann, India Fisher, and Conrad Westmaas. (more…)
The 148th episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge.
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