On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1969)
Star Trek: Voyager (2001)
Star Trek: Discovery (2019)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Cloud Minders.

Released February 28, 1969.

Directed by Jud Taylor.

Written by Margaret Armen, David Gerrold, Oliver Crawford, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Jeff Corey, Diana Ewing, Charlene Polite, Kirk Raymond, Jimmy Fields, Ed Long, Fred Williamson, Garth Pillsbury, Harv Selsby, Bill Blackburn, Louie Elias, Dick Geary, Jay D. Jones, Bob Miles, Marvin Walters.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Workforce, Part II.

Released February 28, 2001.

Directed by Roxann Dawson.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor, Bryan Fuller, Robert Doherty, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, James Read, Don Most, John Aniston, Tom Virtue, Robert Joy, Jay Harrington, Michael Behrens, Joseph Will, Matthew/Matt J. Williamson, Damara Reilly, Majel Barrett, Carlo Antonazzo, John Austin, Mario Carter, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Joyce Lasley, Dennis Madalone, Mark Major, Robert Mammana, Iona Morris, James Pearson, Stephen Pisani, Akemi Royer, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano, John Alex Tampoya, Lisa Vanasco.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 2. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Light and Shadows.

Released February 28, 2019.

Directed by Marta Cunningham.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Ted Sullivan, Vaun Wilmott, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Shazad Latif, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh, James Frain, Mia Kirshner, Ethan Peck, Alan Van Sprang, Hannah Cheesman, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Julianne Grossman, Arista Arhin, Liam Hughes.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1969)

Star Trek: Voyager (2001)

Star Trek: Discovery (2019)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: The Way to Eden.

Released February 21, 1969.

Directed by David Alexander.

Written by Arthur Heinemann, D.C. Fontana / Michael Richards, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Skip Homeier, Charles Napier, Mary Linda Rapelye, Victor Brandt, Elizabeth Rogers, Deborah Downey, Phyllis Douglas, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, James Drake, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone, Frieda Rentie, Gary Wright.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Workforce.

Released February 21, 2001.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, James Read, Don Most, John Aniston, Iona Morris, Tom Virtue, Michael Behrens, Matthew/Matt J. Williamson, Akemi Royer, Robert Mammana, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, John Austin, Michael Bailous, Amy Kate Connolly, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Dieter Horneman, Joyce Lasley, Mark Major, Robin Morselli, James Pearson, Stephen Pisani, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano, Robert Stachowiak, John Alex Tampoya, Lisa Vanasco.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 2. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: The Sound of Thunder.

Released February 21, 2019.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Bo Yeon Kim, Erika Lippoldt, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Shazad Latif, Wilson Cruz, Anson Mount, Javier Botet, Hannah Cheesman, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Hannah Spear, Julianne Grossman, Mark Pellington, Raven Dauda, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Michael Ayres, Avaah Blackwell, Clayton Scott, Michelle Yeoh.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1969)

Star Trek: Voyager (2001)

Star Trek: Discovery (2019)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Requiem for Methuselah.

Released February 14, 1969.

Directed by Murray Golden.

Written by Jerome Bixby, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, James Daly, Louise Sorel, Bill Blackburn, John Buonomo, Roger Holloway, Naomi Newman, Sally Yarnell.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: The Void.

Released February 14, 2001.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Raf Green, James Kahn, Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Robin Sachs, Paul Willson, Scott Lawrence, Jonathan Del Arco, Michael Shamus Wiles, Michael Bailous, Tarik Ergin, Louis Ortiz, Stephen Pisani, Michael Satterfield.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 2. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Saints of Imperfection.

Released February 14, 2019.

Directed by David Barrett.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Shazad Latif, Wilson Cruz, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh, Jayne Brook, Alan Van Sprang, Rachael Ancheril, Bahia Watson, Hannah Cheesman, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Julianne Grossman.

Recommended reading - The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard (1969):

The Big Bounce

By Elmore Leonard.

Published by Mariner Books.

First published 1969.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0062184288

ISBN-13: 978-0062184283

Description:

Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attentions to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match – and more – in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-crosses are the name of this game – and it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive . . . each other.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1969)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.

Released January 10, 1969.

Directed by Jud Taylor.

Written by Oliver Crawford, Gene L. Coon / Lee Cronin, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Frank Gorshin, Lou Antonio, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone, Frieda Rentie.

Born on this day – Matthew Perry:

Matthew Perry

Actor

Comedian

Producer

Writer

August 19, 1969 – October 28, 2023

On this day in music history - Space Oddity, by David Bowie (1969):

The song Space Oddity,

by David Bowie,

was released on July 11, 1969.

On this day in movie history - Love is Colder Than Death (1969):

Love is Colder Than Death

directed and written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on June 26, 1969.

Music by Holger Münzer and Peer Raben.

Cast:

Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Liz Söllner, Gisela Otto, Ursula Strätz, Monika Nüchtern, Hans Hirschmüller, Les Olvides, Peer Raben, Howard Gaines, Peter Moland, Kurt Raab, Peter Berling, Anastassios Karalas, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Yaak Karsunke, Hannes Gromball, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Gottfried Hüngsberg, Franz Maron.

On this day in movie history - The Wild Bunch (1969):

The Wild Bunch

directed by Sam Peckinpah,

written by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah,

based on a story by Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner,

was released in the United States on June 18, 1969.
Music by Jerry Fielding.

Cast:

William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, Ben Johnson, Emilio Fernández, Strother Martin, L. Q. Jones, Albert Dekker, Bo Hopkins, Jorge Russek, Alfonso Arau, Dub Taylor, Chano Urueta, Elsa Cárdenas, Fernando Wagner, Paul Harper, Bill Hart, Rayford Barnes, Stephen Ferry, Sonia Amelio, Aurora Clavel, Elizabeth Dupeyrón.

On this day in movie history - True Grit (1969 movie & novel):

True Grit

directed by Henry Hathaway,

written by Marguerite Roberts,

based on the novel by Charles Portis,

was released in the United States on June 11, 1969.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Alfred Ryder, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, Ron Soble, John Fiedler, James Westerfield, John Doucette, Donald Woods, Edith Atwater, Carlos Rivas, Isabel Boniface, H.W. Gim, John Pickard, Elizabeth Harrower, Ken Renard, Jay Ripley, Kenneth Becker, Leon Alton, Wilford Brimley, Forest Burns, Albert Cavens, Gene Coogan, Myron Healey, James McEachin, Dennis McMullen, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Robin Morse, Edna O'Dell, John Pedrini, General Sterling Price (Ginger Cat), Stuart Randall, Clark Ross, Connie Sawyer, Jeffrey Sayre, Jay Silverheels, Dean Smith, Max Wagner.

Recommended reading:

True Grit

By Charles Portis.

Filmed as True Grit (1969), directed by Henry Hathaway.

Published by The Overlook Press.

First published 1968.

ISBN-10: 159020459X

ISBN-13: 9781590204597

Description:

“Quite simply, an American masterpiece.” – Boston Globe.

“Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.” – Larry McMurtry.

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic praise from countless passionate fans for more than 50 years.

True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just 14 when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father’s blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available US Marshal, as her partner in pursuit, and they head off into Indian Territory after the killer.

True Grit is essential reading. Not just a classic Western, but an undeniable classic of American literature as eccentric, cool, funny, and unflinching as Mattie Ross herself. For fans of either the John Wayne classic or the Coen brothers’ movie, it’s a chance to relive the story of Mattie and Rooster and experience their story as it was originally told. For fans of taut, funny storytelling, it will be a joy to experience in its original form.

This edition includes an afterword by bestselling author Donna Tartt (The Secret History and The Goldfinch) and a reading group guide.