On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 5. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Unification II.

Released November 9, 1991.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Michael Piller, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Leonard Nimoy, Stephen Root, Malachi Throne, Norman Large, Daniel Roebuck, William Bastiani, Susan Fallender, Denise Crosby, Vidal Peterson, Harriet C. Leider, Majel Barrett, Carla Beachcomber, Chuck Borden, Errol Bryand, Debbie David, Denise Deuschle, Nick Dimitri, Jeremy Doyle, Judi M. Durand, Carmen Emeterio, William Gocke, Aruni Devi Hansen, Linda Harcharic, Christi Haydon, Arvo Katajisto, Mark Lentry, Heather Long, Shauna O'Brien, Bill E. Rogers, Michael Scranton, Guy Vardaman, Jerry Zimmer.

On this day in movie history - I Died a Thousand Times (1955):

I Died a Thousand Times

directed by Stuart Heisler,

written by W. R. Burnett,

was released in the United States on November 9, 1955.
Music by David Buttolph.

Cast:

Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Lon Chaney Jr., Earl Holliman, Perry Lopez, Richard Davalos, Howard St. John, Nick Adams, Dennis Hopper, Ralph Moody, Olive Carey, Dub Taylor, Paul Brinegar, James Millican.

Born on this day – Carl Sagan:

Carl Sagan

Astronomer

Planetary scientist

Cosmologist

Astrophysicist

Astrobiologist

Writer

November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996

Credits:

Books:

Contact (1985); Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966); Planets (1966); The Cosmic Connection (1973); Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1974); Other Worlds (1975); Dragons of Eden (1977); Broca's Brain (1979); Cosmos (1980); Murmurs of Earth (1983); The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War (1984); Comet (1985); Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1992); Pale Blue Dot (1994); The Demon-Haunted World (1995); Billions & Billions (1997); The Varieties of Scientific Experience (2006); The New Solar System (1981); The Eloquent Essay (2000).

Movies and television:

Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020); Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan (2015); Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014); FanGirl Academy: 101 (2014); Pale Blue Dot (2009); Contact (1997); The Earth Day Special (1990); Cosmos (1980); Voyager Golden Record (1977).

Recommended reading:

3 books by Carl Sagan.

Cosmos

Published 1980.

ISBN-10: 9780345539434

ISBN-13: 978-0345539434

Description:

With a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together.

The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds.

Sagan retraces the fifteen billion years of cos-mic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the Cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds.

Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason.

Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

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Pale Blue Dot:

A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Published 1994.

ISBN-10: 0345376595

ISBN-13: 978-0345376596

Description:

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

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Contact

Published 1985.

A science-fiction novel.

ISBN-10: 0671004107

ISBN-13: 978-0671004101

Description:

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history.

Who – or what – is out there?

In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe.

In Contact, he predicts its future – and our own.

Born on this day – Dorothy Dandridge:

Dorothy Dandridge

Actress

Singer

November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965

Credits:

A Day at the Races (1937); A Jig in the Jungle (1941); A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat (1942); Atlantic City (1944); Bahama Passage (1941); Blackbird Fantasy (1942); Bright Road (1953); Cain's Hundred (1962); Carmen Jones (1954); Cavalcade of Stars (1952); Cow-Cow Boogie (1942); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Drums of the Congo (1942); Easy Street (1941); Easy to Take (1936); Film Fanfare (1956); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Four Shall Die (1940); Freedom Spectacular (1964); Going Places (1938); Happy Go Lucky (1943); Hit Parade of 1943 (1943); Irene (1940); Island in the Sun (1957); It Can't Last Forever (1937); Juke Box Jury (1964); Jungle Jig (1941); Lady from Louisiana (1941); Lazybones (1941); Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954); Lucky Jordan (1942); Malaga (1960); Moo Cow Boogie (1943); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1940); Night in New Orleans (1942); Open House (1964); Paper Doll (1942); Pillow to Post (1945); Pinky and Perky (1964); Porgy and Bess (1959); Pretty Dudes (2016); Private Life (2018); Reflets de Cannes (1955–1957); Remains to Be Seen (1953); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Since You Went Away (1944); Sing Your Song (2011); Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938); Songs for Sale (1952); Sun Valley Serenade (1941); Sundown (1941); Swing for Your Supper (1941); Tamango (1958); Tarzan's Peril (1951); Teacher's Beau (1935); That Regis Philbin Show (1965); The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955); The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951–1953); The Decks Ran Red (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1952–1961); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Harlem Globetrotters (1951); The Mike Douglas Show (1963); The Night Before the Divorce (1942); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1956); Yes, Indeed! (1941); You Don't Say (1964).

Born on this day – Gianni Puccini:

Gianni Puccini

Writer

Director

November 9, 1914 – December 3, 1968

Born on this day – Hedy Lamarr:

Hedy Lamarr

Actress

Inventor

November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000

Born on this day – Frank McDonald:

Frank McDonald

Director

Actor

November 9, 1899 – March 8, 1980