On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Home Soil.

Released February 20, 1988.

Directed by Corey Allen.

Written by Robert Sabaroff, Karl Geurs, Ralph Sanchez, Tracy Tormé.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Walter Gotell, Elizabeth Lindsey, Gerard Prendergast, Mario Roccuzzo, Carolyne Barry, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Susan Raborn.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Birthright, Part I.

Released February 20, 1993.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Written by Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Alexander Siddig, James Cromwell, Cristine Rose, Jennifer Gatti, Richard Herd, Lena Banks, Michael Braveheart, Debbie David, Brian Demonbreun, Steve Diamond, Inez Edwards, Kevin Grevioux, Gary Hunter, Arvo Katajisto, David B. Levinson, Lorine Mendell, Rad Milo, Robin Morselli, Mary Newport, Irving Ross, Dee Giffin Scott, Mark Allen Shepherd, John Alex Tampoya, Natalie Wood.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 1. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Eye of the Needle.

Released February 20, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Bill Dial, Jeri Taylor, Hilary J. Bader, Kenneth Biller.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Tom Virtue, Derek Anthony, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Stan Ivar, Coleman McClary, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Simon Stotler.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Stardust City Rag.

Released February 20, 2020.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kirsten Beyer, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Dominic Burgess, Necar Zadegan, John Ales, Mason Gooding, Landry Allbright, Kay Bess, Ayushi Chhabra, Casey Childs, Casey King, Sam Marra, Jessie Graff, Linda Kessler, Destiney Richardson.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Voyage(r) to the Delta Quadrant.

Released February 20, 2022.

Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss.

Visual Effects and animation by Jeremy Samples.

Cast: Mark A. Altman, Robert Beltran, Rick Berman, André Bormanis, Brannon Braga, Roxann Dawson, Merri D. Howard, Lisa Klink, Gates McFadden, Kate Mulgrew, Larry Nemecek, Wendy Neuss, Denise Okuda, Michael Okuda, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Lucie Salhany, Maria Jose Tenuto, Wesley G. Willison.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: When The Bough Breaks.

Released February 13, 1988.

Directed by Kim Manners.

Written by Hannah Louise Shearer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jerry Hardin, Brenda Strong, Jandi Swanson, Paul Lambert, Ivy Bethune, Dierk Torsek, Michele Marsh, Dan Mason, Philip Waller, Concetta D'Agnese, Jessica Bova, Vanessa Bova, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt, Guy Vardaman, McKenzie Westmore, Amy Wheaton, Jeremy Wheaton.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Tapestry.

Released February 13, 1993.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Ned Vaughn, J.C. Brandy, Clint Carmichael, Rende Rae Norman, John de Lancie, Clive Church, Marcus Nash, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, Nick Dimitri, Inez Edwards, Holiday Freeman, Goldie Gareza, Melanie Hathorn, Christi Haydon, Rad Milo, Tom Morga, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: The Cloud.

Released February 13, 1995.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Tom Szollosi, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga, Kenneth Biller.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Angela Dohrmann, Judy Geeson, Larry Hankin, Luigi Amodeo, Johnetta Anderson, Derek Anthony, Jasmin Bischoff, Kenneth David Ebling, Tarik Ergin, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Susan Henley, Julie Jiang, Dennis Madalone, Bob Mascagno, Coleman McClary, Jaehne Moebius, Jordan Monheim, Karole Nellis, Louis Ortiz, Chad Patterson, Jerry L. Quinn, Richard Sarstedt, Marshal Silverman, Simon Stotler.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 1. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Shuttlepod One.

Released February 13, 2002.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jane Bordeaux, Cynthia Uhrich.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Absolute Candor.

Released February 13, 2020.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michael Chabon, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Peyton List, Amirah Vann, Rebecca Wisocky, Ian Nunney, Evan Parke, Erik Armando Alvarez, Jaime Barcelon, Kay Bess, Donny Boaz, David Chattam, Willow Geer, Djamel Hamdad, Ken Lyle, Linda Nile, Ciro Suarez, Heather Wynters, Michele Echols, Daniel Edlund, Penelope Grimaldi, Ife Moore, Michael Eshaun York.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Dancing with Syndication in the Pale Moonlight.

Released February 13, 2022.

Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss.

Visual Effects and animation by Jeremy Samples.

Cast: Mark A. Altman, Rick Berman, André Bormanis, David Carson, Nicole de Boer, Penny Johnson Jerald, Cirroc Lofton, Gates McFadden, Ronald D. Moore, Larry Nemecek, Denise Okuda, Michael Okuda, Andrew Robinson, Nana Visitor.

On this day in movie history - Shoot to Kill aka Deadly Pursuit (1988):

Shoot to Kill

aka Deadly Pursuit,

directed by Roger Spottiswoode,

written by Harv Zimmel, Michael Burton and Daniel Petrie Jr.,

based on a story by Harv Zimmel,

was released in the United States on February 12, 1988.
Music by John Scott.

Cast:

Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur, Andrew Robinson, Kevin Scannell, Frederick Coffin, Michael MacRae, Robert Lesser, Milton Selzer, Les Lannom, Walter Marsh, Frank C. Turner, Sam Hiona, Michael Chapman, Janet Rotblatt, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Howard Storey, Fred Henderson, Robyn Gildemeester, Jerry Wasserman, Gloria Lee, Freda Perry, Kevin McNulty, William S. Taylor, Ric Reid, Claire Vardiel, Blu Mankuma, Gary Hetherington, Allan Lysell, Michele Goodger, Beatrice Boepple, Darcelle Chan, Marynna Danguy, Craig Saunders, Carole Henshall, Andrew Rhodes, Bill Croft, Noah Beggs, John Douglas, John Molnar, John Ryan, Jim van Dijk.

On this day in movie history - Moonstruck (1988):

Moonstruck

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by John Patrick Shanley,

was released in the United States on January 15, 1988.

Music by Dick Hyman.

Cast:

Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, John Mahoney, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Anita Gillette, Leonardo Cimino, Paula Trueman, Nada Despotovich, Joe Grifasi, Gina DeAngeles, Robin Bartlett, Helen Hanft, David S. Howard, Robert Weil.

On this day in movie history - Talk Radio (1988 movie & books):

Talk Radio

directed by Oliver Stone,

written by Eric Bogosian and Oliver Stone,

based on the play: Talk Radio, by Eric Bogosian and Ted Savinar,

and the book: Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg by Stephen Singular,

was released in New York City, on December 23, 1988.
Music by Stewart Copeland.

Cast:

Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott, Zach Grenier, Anna Levine, Robert Trebor, Linda Atkinson, Allan Corduner, Bruno Rubeo, Bill Johnson, Rockets Redglare.

Recommended reading:

Talk Radio (1987) & Talked to Death (1987)

Both books filmed as Talk Radio (1988), directed by Oliver Stone.

Talk Radio

By Eric Bogosian.

Published 1987.

Published by Concord Theatricals.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0573651248

ISBN-13: 978-0573651243

Description:

Characters: 7 male, 2 female, plus offstage voices.

Scenery: Interior.

Newly revised! Barry Champlain Cleveland's controversial radio host is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound off. Tomorrow Barry's show is going into national syndication and his producer is afraid that Barry will say something that will offend the sponsors. This of course makes Barry even more outrageous. Funny and moving off beat outrage.

Talked to Death:

The Life and Murder of Alan Berg

By Stephen Singular.

Published 1987.

Mass Market Paperback.

Published by Berkley.

ISBN 13: 9780425113295

ISBN 10: 0425113299

ASIN: 0425113299

Description:

The book that inspired Oliver Stone’s controversial film Talk Radio.

On June 18, 1984, one of the nation’s most controversial talk-show hosts was gunned down.

The murder triggered an extensive FBI manhunt that ended in a shocking discovery.

THE VICTIM: Alan Berg was the talk-show host all of Denver loved to hate. Aggravating. Irrepressible. Charismatic. Nobody escaped his withering attacks on hypocrisy, bigotry, and injustice.

THE CRIME: Berg was brutally murdered in front of his house. Unarmed. Unsuspecting. He was caught in a hail of machine-gun fire. His death shocked the country... and led the FBI on a nationwide manhunt for the killers.

THE SUSPECTS: The trail led investigators to the Order, a radical cult of neo-Nazi white supremacists. Armed and violent - their doctrine declared war on the United States and preached a philosophy of racial hatred and fear.

On this day in movie history - Last Rites (1988):

Last Rites

directed and written by Donald P. Bellisario,

was released in the United States on November 18, 1988.
Music by Bruce Broughton.

Cast:

Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera, Anne Twomey, Dane Clark, Paul Dooley, Vassili Lambrinos, Adrian Paul, Deborah Pratt, Tony DiBenedetto, Christine Poor, Al Rodrigo, Jack Hallett, Louis Gigante, Ibi Kaufman, Frank Patton III, Maurizio Benazzo, Roberto Corbo, Leslie Arnett, Ernesto González, Mary Diveny, Julie Kenyon, Lynda Jordan, Tony Lip, Damien Leake, Phil Neilson, Peter J. Blanck, Shawn Gold, Ricky Rojas, Frank Simpson, Anthony Bishop, Tony Montana, Chelsea Berenger, Lisa Berenger, Troian Bellisario, Michael Bellisario, Kristin Andersen, Fernando Ramírez Romero.

On this day in television history - Murphy’s Law (1988 - 1989):

Murphy’s Law

created by Lee David Zlotoff,

based on the Trace and Digger series of novels by Warren Murphy,

was released in the United States on November 2, 1988 and ran for one season until March 18, 1989.
Theme music by Steve Kipner.

Cast:

George Segal, Maggie Han, Josh Mostel, Sarah Sawatsky, Charles Rocket, Kim Lankford, Walter Marsh, Lynne Randall, Julia Sweeney, Elizabeth Savage, Robert Thurston, Valerie Mahaffey, Christine Belford, Carolyn Seymour, Patrick Macnee, Clyde Kusatsu, David Spielberg, Linda Darlow, Leslie Carlson, Gerard Christopher, Andi Matheny, Bill Morey, Robert Thurston, Alan Robertson, Steve Peterson, Joan Severance, Will Estes, Reni Santoni, Judy Landers, Jennifer Hetrick, Norman Fell, Garwin Sanford, John Standing, Jack Bannon, Bruce Gray, Richard Foronjy, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Jeffrey Byron, Ken Swofford, Joseph Cali, David Byrd, Marvin Kaplan, Tom O'Rourke, Diana Bellamy, Robin Mossley, Richard Roat, Jerry Potter, Sheelah Megill, Jano Frandsen, Nancy Isaak, Brian Knox McGugan, A.J. Freeman, Serge Houde, Frank Slaten.

On this day in movie history - John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988):

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

documentary directed by Frank Martin,

written by Frank Martin and Charles Degelman,

was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States on October 24, 1988.

Festival held from October 24, 1988 – November 6, 1988.

Music by Steve Goldstein.

Cast:

John Huston, Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Evelyn Keyes, Lesley Black, Arthur Miller, Marietta Tree, Michael Fitzgerald, Tom Shaw, Walter Huston, Anjelica Huston, Michael Caine, Oswald “Ossie” Morris, Danny Huston, Zoe Sallis, Jennifer Jones, Humphrey Bogart, Lady Hemphill, Lord Hemphill, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sue Lyon, Deborah Kerr, Assi Dayan, Marlon Brando, Robert Forster, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Burgess Meredith.

On this day in music history - Eponymous, by R.E.M. (1988):

Eponymous

Album by R.E.M.,

released October 17, 1988.

Track list:

Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single); Gardening At Night (Different Vocal Mix); Talk About The Passion; So. Central Rain; (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville; Can’t Get There From Here; Driver; Romance; Fall On Me; The One I Love; Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix); It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I...).