Jack Kost

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 3. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Booby Trap.

Released October 28, 1989.

Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont.

Written by Ron Roman, Michael Piller, Richard Danus, Michael Wagner.

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, Susan Gibney, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, Albert Hall, Julie Warner, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Casey Kono, Natalie Wood.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Extreme Risk.

Released October 28, 1998.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Hamilton Camp, Alexander Enberg, Daniel Betances, Majel Barrett, Walter Altman, Chuck Borden, Tarik Ergin, Tony Jones, Christina Rydell.

On this day in movie history - The Roaring Twenties (1939):

The Roaring Twenties

directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Robert Rossen, Earl Baldwin, Frank Donoghue and John Wexley,

based on the short story The World Moves On by Mark Hellinger,

was released in the United States on October 28, 1939.

Narrated by John Deering.
Music by Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, George Meeker, Paul Kelly, Elisabeth Risdon, Edward Keane, Joseph Sawyer, Abner Biberman, John Hamilton, Robert Elliott, Eddie Chandler, Vera Lewis, John Deering, Elliott Sullivan, Patrick H. O’Malley Jr., Bert Hanlon, Joseph Crehan, Murray Alper, Dick Wessel, George Humbert, Ben Welden, Clay Clement, Don Thaddeus Kerr, Ray Cook, Norman Willis, Arthur Loft, Al Hill, Raymond Bailey, Lew Harvey, Joe Devlin, Jeffrey Sayre, Paul Phillips, Bert Hanlon, Jack Norton, Alan Bridge, Fred Graham, James Blaine, Henry C. Bradley, Lottie Williams, John Harron, Lee Phelps, Nat Carr, Wade Boteler, Creighton Hale, Ann Codee, Eddie Acuff, Milton Kibbee, John Ridgely, Frank Mayo, Bess Flowers, Frank Wilcox, Oscar O’Shea, Robert Armstrong, James Flavin, Emory Parnell.

On this day in movie history - The Kennel Murder Case (movie & novel):

The Kennel Murder Case

directed by Michael Curtiz,

written by Robert Presnell, Robert N. Lee and Peter Milne,

based on the novel by S.S. Van Dine,

was released in the United States on October 28, 1933.

Music by Bernhard Kaun.

Cast:

William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, Paul Cavanagh, James Lee, Arthur Hohl, Helen Vinson, Jack La Rue, Harry Allen, Wade Boteler, George Chandler, Spencer Charters, Leo White.

Recommended reading:

The Kennel Murder Case

By S.S. Van Dine.

First published 1933.
Published by Scribner Paper Fiction
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0684182483
ISBN-13: 978-0684182483

Description:

Vance, an independently wealthy college educator, amateur detective, uses his deductive skills and psychological knowledge to help his friend New York County Attorney solve the murder of Archer Coe. At first, he thought of suicide when Coe's body was found in a room locked from the inside with all the windows closed. As usual, the action takes place in New York. Vance's methods are unconventional and run counter to the more stringent police investigation methods and legal requirements of a lawyer.

Given all the rich people getting bumped off in Philo Vance's Manhattan, it's amazing there are enough left to support the symphony. Latest up: Arthur Coe, found dead in his own locked bedroom. Suicide? The ever-perceptive Philo doesn't buy that theory for a second. The presence in Coe's house of a strange, prize-winning terrier only adds to the mystery, although Philo's fabulously in-depth knowledge of dogs does not in fact solve the crime; his fabulously in-depth knowledge of the murder of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1898 proves much more useful.

Praise for the Philo Vance series:

“With his highbrow manner and his parade of encyclopedic learning, Philo Vance is not only a detective; he is a god out of the machine.” – The New York Times.

“Well-crafted puzzlers that captivated readers . . . the works of S.S. Van Dine serve to transport the reader back to a long-gone era of society and style of writing.” – Mystery Scene.

“Outrageous cleverness . . . among the finest fruits of the Golden Age.” – Bloody Murder.

“A classic mystery featuring dogged detective Philo Vance. An intricate puzzle . . . [Vance] has an uncanny insight into the subtler aspects of crime.” – The New York Times.