On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Discovery (2022)

Star Trek: Picard (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Sins of the Father.

Released March 17, 1990.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, W. Reed Moran, Drew Deighan.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Charles Cooper, Tony Todd, Patrick Massett, Thelma Lee, J. Teddy Davis, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Michael Braveheart, BJ Davis, Bud Davis, Christopher Doyle, Eben Ham, Mark Lentry, James McElroy, Joseph Michael Roth, Mark Wilson, Natalie Wood.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Coming Home.

Released March 17, 2022.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, Tig Notaro, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Stacey Abrams, Shawn Doyle, Chelah Horsdal, Tara Rosling, Annabelle Wallis, Hiro Kanagawa, Phumzile Sitole, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Sara Mitich, Orville Cummings, Raven Dauda, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Seamus Patterson, Adrian Walters, Michael Chan, Emmanuel John, Jean-Paul Najm, Fabio Tassone, Robinne Fanfair.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Assimilation.

Released March 17, 2022.

Directed by Lea Thompson.

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

Written by Kiley Rossetter, Christopher Monfette, Matt Okumura, Chris Derrick, Juliana James.

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

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Annie Wersching, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, John de Lancie, Jon Jon Briones, Chloé Wepper, Sol Rodriguez, Richard Chiu, Gattlin Griffith, Steve Gutierrez, Matt Kaminsky, Peter Lindstedt, Maggie Pacleb, Marcelo Tubert, Kay Bess, Chris Bores, Floyd Anthony Johns Jr.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Discovery (2022)

Star Trek: Picard (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: The Offspring.

Released March 10, 1990.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Written by René Echevarria, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Hallie Todd, Whoopi Goldberg, Judyann Elder, Diane Moser, Hayne Bayle, Maria Leone, James G. Becker, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Michael Braveheart, Carrie Crain, Leonard Crofoot, Kristina Kell, Mark Lentry, Tim McCormack, Keith Rayve, Andy Wiley.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Species Ten-C.

Released March 10, 2022.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kyle Jarrow, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, Tig Notaro, David Ajala, Shawn Doyle, Chelah Horsdal, Tara Rosling, Annabelle Wallis, Hiro Kanagawa, Phumzile Sitole, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Sara Mitich, Orville Cummings, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Jahkeil Goldson, Fabio Tassone, Robinne Fanfair, Shelley Owens.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Penance.

Released March 10, 2022.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

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

Written by Akiva Goldsman, Terry Matalas, Christopher Monfette, Michael Chabon, Matt Okumura, Chris Derrick, Juliana James, Kiley Rossetter.

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

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Annie Wersching, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, John de Lancie, Jon Jon Briones, Patton Oswalt, Toni Belafonte, Alex Diehl, Paula Andrea Placido, Hanna-Lee Sakakibara, Kay Bess, Katelyn Brooke, Bryant Burnett, Jimmy Chhiu, Stephen Dunlevy, Guy Fernandez Jr., Floyd Anthony Johns Jr., Brent Spiner, Amy Sturdivant.

Recommended reading – The Owl: Justice Never Sleeps & The Owl: Scarlet Serenade:

The Owl: Justice Never Sleeps

By Bob Forward.

First published in 1984.

Republished in 2014.

Published by Brash Books.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1941298052

ISBN-13: 978-1941298053

Description:

Justic never sleeps.

Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey… he is The Owl.

The most daring and original hero in crime fiction… in a debut novel that’s a relentless, pure-adrenaline rush.

It’s the mid-1980s. Crime in Los Angeles is running rampant. When the law can’t help you, there is one man who can: Alexander L’Hiboux, whose ability to sleep was destroyed in the ghastly tragedy that cost him his family. Now he’s justice-for-hire, prowling the streets and solving crimes with deadly finality. A desperate, grief-stricken shipping magnate hires The Owl to find the scum who brutalized his daughter…a quest that uncovers a shocking conspiracy that will rock the city.

“Mike Hammer is a wimp compared to The Owl,” – Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco and the bestselling Sheriff Dan Rhoades mysteries.

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The Owl: Scarlet Serenade

By Bob Forward.

First published in 1990.

Republished in 2014.

Published by Brash Books.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1941298214

ISBN-13: 978-1941298213

Description:

Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey. He is…

THE OWL

Haunted. Lethal. Unstoppable. Justice incarnate.

The most daring and original hero in crime fiction in a scorching, action-packed adventure.

SCARLET SERENADE

It’s the mean-streets of L.A. in the mid-1980s. When The Owl rescues a young punk-rock starlet from being kidnapped, he considered it just a minor good deed with a few dead bodies left scattered around. But he soon discovers that she’s the target of a gangland conspiracy that has half of the city’s underworld after her. Now the only thing between her and certain death is The Owl.

“Exhilarating! A pure action high unlike anything I’ve ever read before. The Owl is a cross between Batman and The Terminator…but he’s even more deadly and relentless,” –  Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Chase.

“It starts off over the top and builds from there. There’s action aplenty. The Owl absorbs more punishment than any two or three or four people in other novels,” – Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco.

On this day in movie history - Nikita (1990):

Nikita

French title: La Femme Nikita,

directed and written by Luc Besson,

was released in France on February 21, 1990.

Music by Éric Serra.

Cast:

Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière, Laura Chéron, Jacques Boudet, Helene Aligier, Pierre-Alain de Garrigues, Patrick Pérez, Bruno Randon, Roland Blanche, Joseph Teruel, Jacques Disses, Stéphane Fey, Philippe Dehesdin, Michel Brunot, Rodolph Freytt, Pavel Slabý, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Luc Caron, Renos Mandis, Jean-Marc Merchet, Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Leroy, Patrick Serrière, Iska Khan, Heike Fisher, Patrick Buiquangda, Eddie Gaydu, Jose Steinmann, Philippe Hernando, Gerard Touratier, Jean Bedin, Edith Perret, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean-Pierre Pauty, Michel Campa, Murray Gronwall, Pierrick Charpentier, Rafael Sultan, Hubert Gillet, Fausto Costantino, Roberto Talanno, Pétronille Moss, Eric Prat, Mia Frye, Olivier Hémon, Philippe du Janerand, Christian Gazio, Jérôme Chalou, Jean Reno, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Jean Bouise, Patrick Chauveau, Maurice Antoni, Mathieu Archer, Alexis Dupuy, Michèle Amiel, Guy Van Riet, Xavier Bonastre.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Spectre / novel (1998)

Star Trek: Voyager (1999)

Star Trek: Discovery (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Yesterday’s Enterprise.

Released February 17, 1990.

Directed by David Carson.

Written by Ira Steven Behr, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Ronald D. Moore, Trent Christopher Ganino, Eric A. Stillwell, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Christopher McDonald, Tricia O'Neil, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Joe Baumann, James G. Becker, Michael Braveheart, Kelly Burris, Carrie Crain, Debbie David, BJ Davis, Jeremy Doyle, Eben Ham, Casey Kono, Mark Lentry, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Keith Rayve, Richard Sarstedt.

Star Trek: Spectre

By William Shatner.

With Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

Published by Pocket Books.

Published 1998.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0671008781

ISBN-13: 978-0671008789

Description:

Retired and happily married, Kirk believes his adventuring days are over. But as he returns to Earth for the first time since his apparent "death" upon the Enterprise-B, events elsewhere in the galaxy set in motion a mystery that may provide Kirk with his greatest challenge yet.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: Dark Frontier.

Released February 17, 1999.

Directed by Cliff Bole, Terry Windell.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Susanna Thompson, Kirk Baily, Laura Interval/Stepp, Scarlett Pomers, Katelin Petersen, Eric Cadora, Majel Barrett, Patrick Barnitt, Trish Baylord, Carl D'Amico, Debbie David, Neo Edmund, Tarik Ergin, Chiara Harris, Kerry Hoyt, Guy Korte, Mark Major, Tom Morga, Sam Mountain, Louis Ortiz, Dominic Rambaran, Keith Rayve, Craig Reed, Lynn Speier, Jean Vera-Montes, Catherine Yurkovich.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Rubicon.

Released February 17, 2022.

Directed by Andi Armaganian.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Alan B. McElroy, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Rachael Ancheril, Shawn Doyle, Tara Rosling, Annabelle Wallis, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Orville Cummings, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Piotr Michael, Fabio Tassone, Robinne Fanfair, Avaah Blackwell.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Voyager (1999)

Star Trek: Discovery (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: A Matter of Perspectives.

Released February 10, 1990.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Ed Zuckerman, Ronald D. Moore.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Craig Richard Nelson, Gina Hecht, Mark Margolis, Colm Meaney, Juliana Donald, Majel Barrett, Michael Braveheart, Tim McCormack, Parker McPhinney, Keith Rayve, Dan Sachoff.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: Bliss.

Released February 10, 1999.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert J. Doherty, Bill Prady, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

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, Scarlett Pomers, W. Morgan Sheppard, Majel Barrett, Larry Fine, Sylvester Foster, Marva Hicks.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 4. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: All In.

Released February 10, 2022.

Directed by Christopher J. Byrne, Jen McGowan.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Sean Cochran, Glenise Mullins, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Shawn Doyle, Chelah Horsdal, Daniel Kash, Annabelle Wallis, Oyin Oladejo, Michael Chan, Daniel DeSanto, Jason Gosbee, Emmanuel John, Claudia Jurt, Jeff Kassel, Nabil Khatib, Warren Scherer, Oksana Sirju, Robinne Fanfair, JaNae Armogan, J. Adam Huggins, George Nickolas K., Lizz Porter, Jennifer Rebecca.

On this day in movie history - Two Evil Eyes (1990 movie & book):

Two Evil Eyes

Original Italian title: Due occhi diabolici,

directed by Dario Argento, George A. Romero,

written by George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini, Peter Koper,

based on The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar & The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe,

released in Italy on January 25, 1990.

Music by Pino Donaggio.

Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley, Jeff Howell, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, John Amos, Sally Kirkland, Kim Hunter, Holter Graham, Martin Balsam, Chuck Aber, Jonathan Adams, Tom Atkins, Mitchell Baseman, Julie Benz, Barbara Bryne, Mario Caputo, Lanene Charters, Bill Dalzell, Anthony Dileo Jr., Christine Forrest, J.R. Hall, Scott House, James MacDonald, Charles McPherson, Larry John Meyers, Jeff Monahan, Fred Moore, Christina Romero, Peggy McIntaggart, Ben Tatar, Lou Valenzi, Jeffrey Wild, Ted Worsley, Jonathan Sachar, Tom Savini.

Recommended reading:

The Complete Stories and Poems

By Edgar Allan Poe.

First published 1849.

This edition published 1966.

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Hardcover.

ISBN 13: 9780385074070

ISBN 10: 0385074077

ASIN: 0385074077

Description:

This single volume brings together all of Poe’s stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

On this day in movie history - Internal Affairs (1990):

Internal Affairs

directed by Mike Figgis,

written by Henry Bean,

was released in the United States on January 12, 1990.

Music by Brian Banks, Mike Figgis and Anthony Marinelli.

Cast:

Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, Richard Bradford, William Baldwin, Michael Beach, Katherine Borowitz, Faye Grant, John Kapelos, Xander Berkeley, John Capodice, Victoria Dillard, Pamella D'Pella, Susan Forristal, Allan Havey, Lew Hopson, Tyde Kierney, Dinah Lenney, Scott Lincoln, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Harry S. Murphy, Billie Neal, Heather Lauren Olson, Marco Rodríguez, Annabella Sciorra, Arlen Dean Snyder, Ron Vawter, Deryn Warren, Valerie Wildman, Elijah Wood, Domingo Adkins, Hamlet Arman, Camilla Bergstrom, Mitchell Claman, Mark A. Cuttin, Justin De Rosa, Mike Figgis, Geoffrey Grider, Andrew Herman, Brian Eric Johnson, Waldemar Kalinowski, Helen Lin, Frank Mancuso Jr., Christopher Raymond Mullane, Hank McGill, Jimmy Ortega, Grant Sawyer, Richard B. Whitaker, Keri-Anne Bilotta, Jeff Bornstein, David Fisher, John Forker, Bj Korros, Jim Rhine, David Schied.