On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: The Neutral Zone.

Released May 14, 1988.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Written by Maurice Hurley, Deborah McIntyre, Mona Clee, Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Tormé, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning.

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, Marc Alaimo, Anthony James, Leon Rippy, Gracie Harrison, Peter Mark Richman, Majel Barrett, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Shana Golden, Peter Lauritson, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Susan Sackett, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Preemptive Strike.

Released May 14, 1994.

Directed by Patrick Stewart.

Written by René Echevarria, Naren Shankar, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michelle Forbes, John Franklyn-Robbins, Natalija Nogulich, William Thomas Jr., Shannon Cochran, Richard Poe, Sam Alejan, Rick Avery, Renna Bartlett, Steve Blalock, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Holiday Freeman, Grace Harrell, Red Horton, Dawn Lovett, Buck McDancer, Christina Wegler Miles, Tom Morga, Rebecca Parker, Shawn Michael Perry, Keith Rayve, Robin Ritter, Joyce Robinson, Theresa St. Clair, Oliver Theess.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: Worst Case Scenario.

Released May 14, 1997.

Directed by Alexander Singer.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

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, Martha Hackett, Majel Barrett, Steve Blalock, John Copage, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Ransom Gates, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Zach LeBeau, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Raphael Sbarge, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: First Flight.

Released May 14, 2003.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Written by John Shiban, Chris Black, 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 Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Brigid Brannagh, Vaughn Armstrong, Keith Carradine, Michael Canavan, Victor Bevine, John Moody, Alexandrea Ortiz, Antony Acker, Amy Kate Connolly, Kevin Derr, Marnie Martin, Bobby Pappas, Lemuel Perry.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: Bounty.

Released May 14, 2003.

Directed by Roxann Dawson.

Written by Hans Tobeason, Michael/Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, 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, Jordan Lund, Robert O'Reilly, Ed O'Ross, Michael Garvey, Louis Ortiz, Alexandrea Ortiz, Edward Conna, Daphney Damaraux, Duncan K. Fraser, Scott Sterling Hill, Aric Rogokos, Ben Scott.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Conspiracy.

Released May 7, 1988.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Tracy Tormé, Robert Sabaroff, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, Hannah Louise Shearer.

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, Henry Darrow, Ward Costello, Robert Schenkkan, Ray Reinhardt, Jonathan Farwell, Michael Berryman, Ursaline Bryant, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt, Gary J. Wayton.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Emergence.

Released May 7, 1994.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Joe Menosky, 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, David Huddleston, Vinny Argiro, Thomas Kopache, Arlee Reed, Lena Banks, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Nick Dimitri, Elliot Durant III, Keith Gearhart, Christopher Gilman, Fumiko Hamada, Grace Harrell, Joyce Robinson, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess, Dennis Tracy, Steve Whittaker, Dianne Zankich.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Displaced.

Released May 7, 1997.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink.

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, Kenneth Tigar, Mark L. Taylor, James Noah, Nancy Youngblut, Deborah Levin, Majel Barrett, Steve Carnahan, Adriana del Pomar, Holiday Freeman, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Zach LeBeau, Susan Lewis, Traci Murray, Louis Ortiz, Keith Rayve, Aric Rogokos, Laurence Todd Rosenthal, Shepard Ross, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano, Scott Strozier, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Regeneration.

Released May 7, 2003.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, 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 Brian Tyler.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Vaughn Armstrong, Jim Fitzpatrick, John Short, Bonita Friedericy, Christopher/Chris Wynne, Adam Harrington, Mark Chadwick, Paul Anthony Scott, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Craig Baxley Jr., Amy Kate Connolly, Mark Correy, Nikki Flux, Peter Godoy, Glen Hambly, Peter Scott Harmyk, Mark Major, Eric Norris, Louis Ortiz, Bobby Pappas, Nicole Randall, Pablo Soriano, Warren Tabata.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: We’ll Always Have Paris.

Released April 30, 1988.

Directed by Robert Becker.

Written by Deborah Dean Davis, Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Tormé, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning.

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, Michelle Phillips, Rod Loomis, Isabel Lorca, Dan Kern, Jean-Paul Vignon, Kelly Ashmore, Lance Spellerberg, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Bloodlines.

Released April 30, 1994.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Nick/Nicholas Sagan, 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, Ken Olandt, Lee Arenberg, Peter Marx/Slutsker, Amy Pietz, Michelan Sisti, Majel Barrett, Lena Banks, Joe Baumann, Shawn Belschner, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Holiday Freeman, Bill Hagy, Fumiko Hamada, Grace Harrell, Kerry Hoyt, Lorine Mendell, Christina Wegler Miles, Keith Rayve, Dee Giffin Scott, Sissy Sessions, Oliver Theess.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Distant Origin.

Released April 30, 1997.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Henry Woronicz, Christopher Liam Moore, Marshall R. Teague, Concetta Tomei, Nina Minton, Majel Barrett, Steve Carnahan, Tracee Cocco, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Dennis Madalone, Louis Ortiz, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Cogenitor.

Released April 30, 2003.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, 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 Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Andreas Katsulas, F.J. Rio, Becky Wahlstrom, Laura Interval, Larissa Laskin, Stacie Lynn Renna, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Sylva Cox, Nikki Flux, Hilde Garcia, Glen Hambly, Scott Sterling Hill, Aldric A. Horton, Yoshi Jenkins, Roy Joaquin, John Jurgens, Aouri Makhlouf, Marnie Martin, Michael McAdam, Bobby Pappas.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Skin Of Evil.

Released April 23, 1988.

Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan.

Written by Joseph Stefano, Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Tormé, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning.

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, Mart McChesney, Ron Gans, Walker Boone, Brad Zerbst, Raymond Forchion, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Juliet Cesario, Dexter Clay, Tim McCormack, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Firstborn.

Released April 23, 1994.

Directed by Jonathan West.

Written by René Echevarria, Mark Kalbfeld, 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, James Sloyan, Brian Bonsall, Gwynyth Walsh, Barbara March, Joel Swetow, Colin Mitchell, Armin Shimerman, Michael Danek, John K. Shull, Rickey D'Shon Collins, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Steve Blalock, Chuck Borden, Cullen G. Chambers, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Gunnel Eriksson, Jasmine Gagnier, Keith Gearhart, Thomas Griep, Dennis Madalone, Lorine Mendell, Tom Morga, Pauline Olsen, Suzie Plakson, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson, John Saint John, Anne Verrier Scatolini, Dee Giffin Scott, Oliver Theess, Mikki Val.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Real Life.

Released April 23, 1997.

Directed by Anson Williams.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Jeri Taylor, Harry 'Doc' Kloor, Lisa Klink.

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, Wendy Schaal, Glenn Walker Harris Jr., Lindsey Haun, Stephen Anthony Ralston, Chad Haywood, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Richard Sarstedt.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Breach.

Released April 23, 2003.

Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.

Written by Chris Black, John Shiban, Daniel McCarthy, 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, Henry Stram, Mark Chaet, Laura Putney, D.C. Douglas, Jamison Yang, Alexandrea Ortiz, Solomon Burke Jr., Daphney Damaraux, Evan English, Scott Sterling Hill, Aldric A. Horton, Aouri Makhlouf, Alexander D. Slanger.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Symbiosis.

Released April 16, 1988.

Directed by Win Phelps.

Written by Robert Lewin, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Hannah Louise Shearer, 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, Judson Scott, Merritt Butrick, Richard Lineback, Kimberley Farr, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Susan Duchow, Shana Golden, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Kenneth Tigar.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Horizon.

Released April 16, 2003.

Directed by James Contner.

Written by 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 Mark McKenzie.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Joan Pringle, Corey Mendell Parker, Nicole Forester, Adam Paul, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Ken Feinberg, Alexandrea Ortiz, Colin Clive, Mark Correy, Evan English, Nikki Flux, Dwight Frye, Glen Hambly, Scott Sterling Hill, Aldric A. Horton, Roy Joaquin, Amina Julianna, John Jurgens, Boris Karloff, Aouri Makhlouf, Marnie Martin, Michael McAdam, Bobby Pappas, Lidia Sabljic, Monika Spruch, Warren Tabata, Scott L. Treger.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: The Arsenal of Freedom.

Released April 9, 1988.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Maurice Hurley, Robert Lewin, Hannah Louise Shearer, 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, Vincent Schiavelli, Marco Rodríguez, Vyto Ruginis, Julia Nickson, George De La Pena, James G. Becker, Richard Sarstedt.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Before and After.

Released April 9, 1997.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

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, Tim Russ, Jessica Collins, Michael Maguire, Christopher Aguilar, Janna Michaels, Rachael Harris, Majel Barrett, Steve Carnahan, John Copage, Damaris Cordelia, Debbie David, Tarik Ergin, Jennifer Gundy, Grace Harrell, Susan Henley, Nichole McAuley, Louis Ortiz, Richard Sarstedt, Hallie Singleton, Scott Strozier, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Judgment.

Released April 9, 2003.

Directed by James L. Conway.

Written by David A. Goodman, Taylor Elmore, 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 Velton Ray Bunch.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, J.G. Hertzler, John Vickery, Granville Van Dusen, Daniel Riordan, Victor Talmadge, Helen Cates, D.J. Lockhart-Johnson, Danny Kolker, Alexandrea Ortiz, Joseph Billingiere, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Evan English, Dieter Horneman, Lidia Sabljic.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Heart of Glory.

Released March 19, 1988.

Directed by Rob Bowman.

Written by Maurice Hurley, Herbert Wright, D.C. Fontana, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Tormé.

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, Vaughn Armstrong, Charles Hyman, David Froman, Robert Bauer, Brad Zerbst, Dennis Madalone, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, John Escobar, Shana Golden, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Genesis.

Released March 19, 1994.

Directed by Gates McFadden.

Written by 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, Patti Yasutake, Dwight Schultz, Carlos Ferro, Majel Barrett, Shawn Belschner, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Gary Hunter, Rick Ryan Kiesau, Lorine Mendell, Rad Milo, Keith Rayve, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Favorite Son.

Released March 19, 1997.

Directed by Marvin Rush.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink.

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, Cari Shayne, Deborah May, Patrick Fabian, Kelli Kirkland, Kristanna Loken, Christopher Carroll, Irene Tsu, Elle Alexander, Reba Shaw Alexander, Steve Carnahan, Debbie David, Cheryl Eckelberg, Jennifer Ferdinand, Noelle Hannibal, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Linda Li, Louis Ortiz, Richard Sarstedt, Rainelle Saunders, Patricia Tallman, John Alex Tampoya, Kenny Yee.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1.

Released March 19, 2020.

Directed by Akiva Goldsman.

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

Written by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Akiva Goldsman, 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, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Brent Spiner, Tamlyn Tomita, Brian DeRozan, Matt Perfetuo, Mike Perfetuo, Jade Ramsey, Nikita Ramsey, Zachary James Rukavina, Apolla Asteria, Kay Bess, Antoine Holmes Sr., Spencer Holmes, Natalie Kailey, Maya McClean, Nandy McClean, Marina Miller, Julia Nolan, Liz Nolan.

D.O.A. (1988) – a dead man searching:

D.O.A.

You’re never more alive than when you’re on the edge of death.

– Dennis Quaid, as Dexter Cornell.

 
What would you do if you were told you had maybe twenty-four hours to live … no more than forty-eight?
How would you react if you were then told you’d been deliberately poisoned?
You’re still alive, the poison ingested into your system, working through you.
Your life slowly and painfully ebbs away, and you are fully aware of every moment of it.
In your last hours, you know you’ve been murdered.
What would you do?
How would you spend that remaining time?
Counting every second … minute … hour …

This is the intriguing premise of D.O.A. (1988), directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, their debut movie, released in the United States on March 18, 1988.

A remake that becomes a reimagining of the 1949 original.
 
In a nostalgic homage to classic noir thrillers, this neo-noir update opens with a night scene, shot in grainy black and white.
 
Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid) walks through a torrential rainstorm.

His jacket is torn.

He looks beaten.

The title acronym: D.O.A. is short for Dead On Arrival.

That’s what Dexter is on the verge of being, as he stumbles into a police station, and knocks over a Christmas tree when he approaches the Desk Sergeant (William Johnson).

Dexter is visibly in pain, as he tells the cop he’s there to report a murder.
“Who was murdered?” the Desk Sergeant asks.
Dexter raises his head, looks him in the eye, and declares cryptically: “I was!”

In an interview room, Dexter relays his story to Detectives Ulmer (Brion James), and Brockton (Jack Kehoe), who record his statement onto video tape.

The rest of the story is then told in retrospect and in color.

A neat switch on some movies where flashback sequences are shown in black and white, or a hazy color filter.
The movie switches to color, as Dexter, now teaching his college class, writes the word COLOR on the chalkboard.
Dexter asks his class for references to the color green.

Star student and aspiring novelist, Nicholas Lang (Robert Knepper), offers the most intelligent answer with a quote from Othello, by William Shakespeare:

O, beware my lord of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
 
Jealousy is a driving theme of the movie.
Jealousy triggered by an extra-marital affair.
Jealousy of other people’s achievements.
Jealousy of status.
 
It’s the Christmas season, but there’s no good cheer going around.

Passions and tempers are as hot as the unseasonal sweltering heat.

Dexter Cornell is not happy with his life.

He’s a chain-smoking, alcohol-guzzling, depressive.

His marriage has failed and, despite his attempts at reconciliation, his estranged wife, Gail (Jane Kaczmarek), has long since given up.

Whenever they talk, she pesters him to sign the divorce papers.

His success as a novelist secured him the respected position of college English Professor.

Afraid of failure, he simply stopped writing and settled into teaching.

Dexter gave up on what was truly important to him.

His lack of passion then affected all aspects of his life.
Dennis Quaid is convincing in the role.

A cynical everyman.

Weighed down by life.

Looking ever more disheveled, shaky, and sweaty.

The first body on the pile is Nicholas Lang.

His on-campus death, at first thought to be suicide, is later discovered to be murder.

The script is intelligent.

The caustic dialogue is wry and humorous, particularly in the scene when the cops question Dexter in his ex-wife’s home.

Gail has been murdered, and it is revealed that Dexter has been deliberately poisoned.

Brockton:
 
Careful, Cornell. You’re upset.
 
Dexter:
 
You’re damn right I’m upset. I find out I’m a murder victim and a suspect all in one goddam day.

Dexter evades arrest for the murders of Gail and Lang.

The cops refuse to believe he’s not the culprit.

Dexter then sets out to solve the mystery himself.
 
The plot has effective twists, turns, and red herrings along the way, as Dexter has dealings with Sydney Fuller (Meg Ryan), an admiring student Dexter gets literally stuck on.
Mrs. Fitzwaring (Charlotte Rampling), a shadowy Black Widow, and Lang’s benefactor.
Bernard (Christopher Neame), Fitzwaring’s Chauffeur and violent right-hand man.
Cookie (Robin Johnson), Fitzwaring’s daughter.
Hal Petersham (Daniel Stern), Dexter’s friend and colleague.
Graham Corey (Jay Patterson), Dexter’s disgruntled colleague.
 
Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton’s previous experience with directing music videos is evident in the nightclub scene, where Dexter and Sydney get drunk at the bar, downing endless Martinis, and the on-stage Rock band, Timbuk 3 (1983-1995), sing: Too Much Sex, Not Enough Affection.

Their other directing credits include Super Mario Bros (1993), and the Max Headroom TV show (1985).
 
This neo-noir mystery thriller successfully has all the elements and atmosphere of a classic noir:
Rain-soaked streets.
Light cutting through Venetian blinds.
Suspicion and mistakes along wrong trails and dead-end leads.
Hard-nosed cops, hardboiled dialogue, and sardonic wit.
Unscrupulous characters chasing their own selfish motives.
A killer lurking in the shadows, his motive as-yet unknown.
An ordinary man, who doesn’t consider himself extraordinary, thrown into extraordinary circumstances.

The production company, Touchstone Pictures, set the tone for an old-style thriller.

Their logo and name appear on screen in monochrome black and white, with a thunder crack and lightning flash, before the movie even starts.

Two suspenseful cliff-hanger set-pieces involve the off-camera killer indulging in some nail gun fun, while Dexter and Sydney get unstuck in an ascending elevator car, and a violent confrontation with two characters ending up dead in a tar pit.
 
The cinematography and editing are also effective, particularly in the scenes where Dexter looks out of a high-rise dormitory window, the poison in his system taking hold, inducing in him a reaction of acrophobia.

Dexter sees himself plummeting to the sidewalk.

A sense of what Lang might have glimpsed in his last moments, as he plunged from the college rooftop.

 

Dexter’s panicked and aimless run through the crowded streets, after he has escaped the cops, and wonders where to go and what the hell to do next.

The final wrap-up is well handled.

The reveal is a sudden, but logical twist, with an insightful statement on the real value and reward of what it is to be a writer.

In the climactic fight scene, as Dexter’s energy and life ebbs, so the color also drains back to black and white.

Dexter, transitioned from college English Professor to Private Detective in his own murder case, then comes full circle, as he finishes relaying his findings to the two detectives.

It’s no surprise that Dexter accepts his fate.

He has no other choice.

We know from the first scene that he’s a dead man walking, searching for the motive and culprit behind his own murder.

His story and quest are told with gallows humor and energetic pacing.

The color green is always there, hanging over them, dooming them all.

The green-eyed monster of jealousy, poisoning minds, like the luminous green poison slowly killing Dexter.

Dexter’s departure to the afterlife, is shown as a final walk down a dimly lit corridor, towards an open, light-filled door.

The light intensifies and his silhouette vanishes.
As the end credits roll, it's a cinematic fade to black for Dexter and the audience.