On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Descent, Part II.

Released September 18, 1993.

Directed by Alexander Singer.

Written by 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, Jonathan Del Arco, Alex Datcher, James Horan, Brian Cousins, Benito Martinez, Michael Reilly Burke, David Keith Anderson, Majel Barrett, Pam Blackwell, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Gary Hunter, Rick Ryan Kiesau, Rad Milo, Ivonne Perez Montijo, Joe Murphy, Craig Reed, Joyce Robinson, Richard Sarstedt, Dee Giffin Scott, Adrian Tafoya, Oliver Thees, Rogan Wilde.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Elogium.

Released September 18, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Jimmy Diggs, Steve J. Kay.

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, Nancy Hower, Hudson (Gary) O'Brien, Terry Correll, Kimberly Auslander, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Susan Henley, Stan Ivar, Julie Jiang, Dennis Madalone, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Richard Sarstedt, Simon Stotler, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The Chute.

Released September 18, 1996.

Directed by Les Landau.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Clayvon C. Harris, 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, Don McManus, Robert Pine, James Parks, Ed Trotta, Beans Morocco, Rosemary Morgan, Derek Anthony, John Austin, Harry Boykoff, Terrell Clayton, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Kerry Hoyt, Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz, Julie Jiang, Jaehne Moebius, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Irving Ross, Adrian Tafoya, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Shockwave, Part II.

Released September 18, 2002.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

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, John Fleck, Matt Winston, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham, Keith Allan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Michael Kosik, Alexandrea Ortiz, Amy Kate Connolly, James Horan, Dieter Horneman, Bobby Pappas.

On this day in television history - Crime Story (1986 - 1988):

Crime Story

was released in the United States on September 18, 1986,

and ran for two seasons until May 10, 1988.

Cast:

Dennis Farina, Anthony Denison, John Santucci, Stephen Lang, Bill Smitrovich, Bill Campbell, Paul Butler, Steve Ryan, Ted Levine, Andrew Clay, Jon Polito, Joseph Wiseman, Darlanne Fluegel, Jay O. Sanders, David Caruso, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Deborah Harry, Paul Anka, Gary Sinise, Ving Rhames, William Russ, Christian Slater, Paul Guilfoyle, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Rooker, Lili Taylor, Pam Grier, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Stanley Tucci, Lee Ving, Anthony Heald, Bruce McGill, David Hyde Pierce, George Dzundza, Laura San Giacomo, Billy Zane, Michael J. Pollard, William Hickey, Elias Koteas, Dennis Haysbert, Eric Bogosian, Michael Madsen, Vincent Gallo, Armin Shimerman, Jim True-Frost, David Soul, James Remar, Michael Jeter, Steven Weber, Amy Morton, Fred Savage.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Ten Minutes to Doomsday.
Released September 18, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Stuart Jerome.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, James Bell, Ross Elliott, Ann Morrison, Francis De Sales, Jeanne Bates, Lois De Banzie.

Born on this day – James Gandolfini:

James Gandolfini

Actor

September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013

Credits:

11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2005); 12 Angry Men (1997); 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2014); 2 Years of Love (2017); 20/20 (2006); 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (2002); 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014); 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2000); 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2001); 8MM (1999); 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003); A Civil Action (1998); A Stranger Among Us (1992); A Whole New Day (1999); Al rojo vivo con María Celeste (2007); Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007); All the King's Men (2006); All works are good (2020); Angie (1994); Autopsy: The Last Hours of (2018); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2024); Celebrity Page (2018–2019); Charlie Rose (2009); Chroma (2017); Cinema Verite (2011); City of Winners (2010); Club Soda (2006); Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music (2001); Corazón de... (2005–2006); Crimson Tide (1995); De 'Los Serrano' a 'Cuenta atrás' (2007); Democracy Now! (2013); Días de cine (2013); Down the Shore (2011); El último golpe de Tony Soprano (2008); Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013); Enough Said (2013); Entertainment Tonight (2019–2024); Fallen (1998); Film '06 (2006); Get Shorty (1995); Gun (1997); Guys Choice (2007 / 2010); HBO First Look (2001–2004); HBO: The Making of 'The Sopranos: Road to Respect' (2006); Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012); Her (2013); Hollywood Insider (2021); In the Loop (2009); Inside the Actors Studio (2004); Italian Movie (1995); James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend (2013); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2008); Killing Them Softly (2012); King Cake: The New Orleans Mardi Gras Story (2024); Late Show with David Letterman (2004 / 2015); Lonely Hearts (2006); Making 'Cleaver' (2007); Making 'the Man Who Wasn't There' (2002); Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997); Mint Julep (2010); Money for Nothing (1993); Moving Image Salutes John Travolta (2004); Mr. Wonderful (1993); New World (1995); Nicky Deuce (2013); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); Not Fade Away (2012); Perdita Durango (1997); Rank (2002); Reinventando Hollywood (2008); Romance & Cigarettes (2005); Saturday Night Live (2004); Secret Life of... (2012); Sesame Street (2002); Sesame Street: Being Brave (2013); Sex and the City: A Farewell (2004); She's So Lovely (1997); Shock! Shock! Shock! (1987); Special Collector's Edition (2013–2014); Stories of Lost Souls / Segment: A Whole New Day (2005); Stories USA / Segment: Club Soda (2007); Surviving Christmas (2004); Surviving Christmas: Unwrapping the Comedy (2004); Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009); Terminal Velocity (1994); The 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards (2014); The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999); The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000); The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2001); The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2003); The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004); The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2000); The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 (2001); The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2006); The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002); The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2007); The 5th Annual GQ Men of the Year Awards (2000); The 63rd Annual Tony Awards (2009); The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (2013); The Big Breakfast (2000); The Cinema Snob (2013); The Cove: My Friend is... (2010); The Drop (2014); The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013); The Juror (1996); The Last Castle (2001); The Making of 'Killing Them Softly' (2013); The Making of 'Lonely Hearts' (2007); The Man Who Wasn't There (2001); The Mexican (2001); The Mighty (1998); The Night Of (2016); The Oscars (2014); The Real Sopranos (2006); The Sopranos (1999–2007); The Sopranos: A Sitdown (2007); The Sopranos: Family Business (2001); The Sopranos: Road to Respect (2006); The Sopranos: Season 6 Invitation to the Set (2005); The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009); The Tony Danza Show (2004); The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018); Today (2007); True Romance (1993); TV's Nastiest Villains (2014); Violet & Daisy (2011); Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010); Welcome to the Rileys (2010); Where the Wild Things Are (2009); Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos (2024); WTF with Marc Maron (2013); Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

Born on this day – Nicholas Clay:

Nicholas Clay

Actor

September 18, 1946 – May 25, 2000

Born on this day – Gailard Sartain:

Gailard Sartain

Actor

Writer

Producer

Painter

Illustrator

September 18, 1943 – June 17, 2025

Credits:

Ali (2001); All of Me (1984); Arli$$ (1997); Blaze (1989); Bulba (1981); Cher (1975); Chicago Hope (1995); Choose Me (1984); Clean Slate (1994); Cooperstown (1993); Death Falls (1991); E! True Hollywood Story (2001); Elizabethtown (2005); Endangered Species (1982); Equinox (1992); Ernest Goes to Camp (1987); Ernest Goes to Jail (1990); Ernest Saves Christmas (1988); Existo (1999); Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); Getting Even with Dad (1994); Guilty by Suspicion (1991); Hank Williams Jr.: All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight (1984); Hard Country (1981); Harry the Dirty Dog (1988); Hee Haw (1972–1992); Hee Haw Honeys (1978–1979); Hey, Vern, It's Ernest! (1988); Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997); Keep on Truckin' (1975); King of the Hill (1997); Klein Time (1977); Leader of the Band (1987); Love at Large (1990); Made in Heaven (1987); Mississippi Burning (1988); Murder in Mind (1997); Nashville (1975); Nine to Five (1987); Open Season (1995); Pickin' and Grinnin': Roy Clark, 'Hee Haw' & Country Humor (2011); Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999); Roadie (1980); RocketMan (1997); Sandman (1993); Sharkskin (1991); Shields and Yarnell (1977); Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws (1978); Songwriter (1984); Speechless (1994); Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992); That Championship Season (1999); The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in 'For Love or Mummy' (1999); The Angry Beavers (1999); The Angry Beavers / Segment: House Sisters (2000); The Banana Company (1977); The Big Easy (1986); The Buddy Holly Story (1978); The Chase (1991); The Dukes of Hazzard (1983); The Grifters (1990); The Hollywood Knights (1980); The Jerk (1979); The Moderns (1988); The Outsiders (1983); The Patriot (1998); The Pretender (1997); The Real McCoy (1993); The Replacements (2000); The Round and Round (2002); The Simpsons (1997); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1976–1977); The Spitfire Grill (1996); The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting (1970–1973); Trouble in Mind (1985); Uphill All the Way (1986); Wagons East (1994); Walker, Texas Ranger (1993); Wilder Napalm (1993); Wishman (1992).

Born on this day – Dorothy Bromiley:

Dorothy Bromiley

Actress

Writer

September 18, 1930 – May 3, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Florentine Canvaswork (1991); The Point of the Needle: Five Centuries of Samplers and Embroideries - An Exhibition of Needlework at the Dorset County Museum (date?); Traditional Bargello: Stitches, Techniques, and Dozens of Pattern and Project Ideas (1992).

Movies and television:

A Touch of the Sun (1956); Armchair Theatre (1957); Drama 61-67 (1961); Fathers and Families (1977); It’s Great to Be Young! (1956); ITV Play of the Week (1957–1965); ITV Television Playhouse (1956); Jemima + Johnny (1966); Jury Room (1965); No Hiding Place (1965–1966); Probation Officer (1960); Saturday Playhouse (1960); Small Hotel (1957); Television Playwright (1958); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957); The Concrete Jungle (1960); The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953); The Power Game (1966); The Pursuers (1961); The Servant (1963); Z Cars (1964); Zoo Baby (1957).

Born on this day – Naomi Chance:

Naomi Chance

Actress

September 18, 1927 – March 18, 2003

Born on this day – Phyllis Kirk:

Phyllis Kirk

Actress

September 18, 1927 – October 19, 2006

Born on this day – Magali Vendeuil:

Magali Vendeuil

Actress

September 18, 1926 – January 12, 2009

Born on this day – Felice Orlandi:

Felice Orlandi

Actor

September 18, 1925 – May 21, 2003

Born on this day – Grayson Hall:

Grayson Hall

Actress

September 18, 1922 – August 7, 1985

Born on this day – Jack Warden:

Jack Warden

Actor

September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006

Born on this day – Rossano Brazzi:

Rossano Brazzi

Actor

September 18, 1916 – December 24, 1994

Born on this day – Jack Cardiff:

Jack Cardiff

Cinematographer

Director

Photographer

September 18, 1914 – April 22, 2009

Born on this day – Greta Garbo:

Greta Garbo

Actress

September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990

Credits:

1 a Minute / In memory of: Battled Breast Cancer (2010); 100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 30 Years of Fun (1963); 72nd Annual Academy Awards Pre-Show (2000); A Man's Man (1929); A Woman of Affairs (1928); Absolutely Do Not Die! (2014); Adam & Yves (1974); Anita no perd el tren (2001); Anna Christie (1930); Anna Karenina (1935 / 2012); Annie (1982); Arena (1991–2012); As You Desire Me (1932); Avocado Toast the Series (2020); Azzedine Alaïa: Un couturier français (2022); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Biography (1998); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Camille (1936); Catalogue of Ships (2008); Century of Cinema (1995); Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004); Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995); Complicated Women (2003); Compression (2023); Conquest (1937); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Diary for My Children (1984); Die Filmstadt Hollywood (1928); Dos reinas (1993); Duels (2015); Ein Idol hat Geburtstag - Die Karriere der Greta Garbo (1957); En lyckoriddare (1921); Film Time (1955); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); First Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! (1931); From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014); From the Ends of the Earth (1939); Garabatos Greta Garbo (1944); Garbo (2005); Garbo Talks (1984); Gossip (2000); Grand Hotel (1932); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Greta (2019); Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1985); Grosse Fische, kleine Fische (1973); Haunted Hotels of Hollywood (2018); Hollywood Insider (2022); Hollywood Party (1934); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972); Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (1982); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998); How Andy invented a superstar: true uncut tales from Andy Warhol's Factory People (2018); How Not to Dress (1920); Inspiration (1931); Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005); Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996); Kärlekens ögon (1922); Konsumtionsföreningen Stockholm med omnejd (1921); Kvinnor, kvinnor, kvinnor (1997); Le petit prince, naissance d'une étoile (2023); Le vie della Recherche - Luchino Visconti (2006); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Leggende dietro la quinte: Greta Garbo (2020); Love (1927); Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War (2011); Luffar-Petter (1922); Marlowe (1969); Mata Hari (1931); MGM Parade (1955–1956); Minns Ni? (1993); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moviestar Cartoons (1983); Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (2021); Ninotchka (1939); O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (1991); Prejudice & Pride: Swedish Film Queer (2022); PUB i City (1957); Queen Christina (1933); Romance (1930); S1m0ne (2002); Satin and Silk (2003); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Screen Goddesses (2005); Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955); Second Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Sensationer (1992); Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Siskel & Ebert (1990); Sixty Years of Seduction (1981); Some of the Best (1944); Spécial cinéma (1985); Star Life (1990); Stiller, Garbo & Me (1988); Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931); That's Entertainment! III (1994); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991); The Big Parade of Comedy (1964); The Casting Couch (1995); The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1972); The Divine Garbo (1990); The Divine Woman (1928); The Dreamers (2003); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953); The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996); The Happy Ending (1969); The Joyless Street (1925); The Kiss (1929); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Miracle of Sound (1940); The Movies March On (1939); The Mysterious Lady (1928); The Painted Veil (1934); The Picture Theatre (1967); The Romance of Celluloid (1937); The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924); The Single Standard (1929); The South Bank Show (2001); The South Bank Show / Greta Garbo: A Lone Star (2001); The Story of Hollywood (1988); The Temptress (1926); The World's Most Photographed (2005); Third Test - Miss Garbo (1949); Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008); Torrent (1926); Two-Faced Woman (1941); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1979); Vi mötte stormen (1943); Vito (2011); Voices Across the Sea (1928); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wild Orchids (1929); Wonderful Times (1950).

Born on this day – Samuel Johnson:

Samuel Johnson

Writer

September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784

Credits:

Written work:

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755); A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775); A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735); Birmingham Journal (1732–33); Irene, a Tragedy (1749); Life of Browne (1756); Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744); Lives of the Poets (1779–81); London (1738); Messiah (1728); Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth (1745); Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language (1747); Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (1755); Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare (1765); Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane (1747); Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, the Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1756); Taxation no Tyranny (1775); The Adventurer (1753–54); The Beauties of Johnson (1781); The False Alarm (1770); The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia / novella (1759); The Idler (1758–60); The Literary Magazine, or Universal Review (1756); The Patriot (1774); The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765); The Rambler (1750–52); The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749); Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands (1771); Universal Visiter (1756).

Movie:

Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man (2006).

I need more books ...

It literally stresses me out how many good books are out there that I still haven't read.

Recommended reading - Connecting Detectives: The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds (2014):

Connecting Detectives:
The Influence of 19th Century Sleuth Fiction on the Early Hard-Boileds

By Lewis D. Moore.

Published by McFarland.

Published 2014.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786477717

ISBN-13: 978-0786477715

Description:

A literary examination of the influence of 19th century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the development of detective series by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Mickey Spillane, Thomas B. Dewey, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Richard S. Prather and William Campbell Gault. Authors from the transitional (1964-1977) and modern periods (1979 to the present) are also discussed to show the ongoing influence of the 19th century detective writers.

Shannon Hale, on reading:

Life is short, so live extra lives.

Read books.

- Shannon Hale.