Jack Kost

Saturday, November 22, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1968)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: First Contact / novel (1996)

The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2021)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Plato’s Stepchildren.

Released November 22, 1968.

Directed by David Alexander.

Written by Meyer Dolinsky, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Michael Dunn, Liam Sullivan, Barbara Babcock, Ted Scott, Derek Partridge, Bill Blackburn, Jeannie Malone, Frieda Rentie, John Zimeas.

Star Trek: First Contact

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Written by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore.

Released in the United States on November 22, 1996.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Jeff Coopwood, Dwight Schultz, Patti Yasutake, Michael Horton, Neal McDonough, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips.

Star Trek: First Contact

By J. M. Dillard.

Published by Pocket Books.

Published 1996.

ISBN-10: 0671015885

ISBN-13: 978-0671015886

Description:

From the deepest, darkest reaches of space came the evil Borg who destroyed 39 Federation starships and Starfleet. Only the courage of Captain Pickard and his crew stopped the Borg from conquering the world, but now they are back, and stronger and more dangerous than ever.

The Making of Star Trek: First Contact

By Lou Anders.

Published by Titan Books Ltd.

Published 1996.

ISBN-10: 1852867795

ISBN-13: 978-1852867799

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Nightingale.

Released November 22, 2000.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by André Bormanis, Robert Lederman, David R. Long, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty, Phyllis Strong, Mike/Michael Sussman.

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, Ron Glass, Manu Intiraymi, Beverly Leech, Paul F. O'Brien, Scott Thomas/Miles, Alan Brooks, Bob Rudd, Michael Bailous, Hubie Kerns Jr., Tom Miller, Stephen Pisani, Linnea Soohoo, Pablo Soriano, Andrei Sterling.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Both episodes released November 22, 2021.

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Trek Goes To The Movies.

Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss.

Visual Effects and animation by Jeremy Samples.

Cast: John Tenuto, Robert Sallin, Marc Cushman, Harold Livingston, Nicholas Meyer, Larry Nemecek, Robert Beltran, David Gerrold, Maria Jose Tenuto, Ken Ralston, Ike Eisenmann, Ronald D. Moore, Nichelle Nichols, Robin Curtis, Catherine Hicks, Jay Riddle, Wil Wheaton, Kirstie Alley, Harve Bennett, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Rob Klein, Gates McFadden, Ricardo Montalban, Leonard Nimoy, Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner.

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Whales, God and Pepto Bismol.

Cast: Brooke Breton, Robin Curtis, Catherine Hicks, Gates McFadden, Nicholas Meyer, Ronald D. Moore, Larry Nemecek, Ken Ralston, John Tenuto, Maria Jose Tenuto, Wil Wheaton, Herman F. Zimmerman.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1957):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 9.
Episode entitled: Killer in Town.
Released November 22, 1957.
Directed by Bernard Girard.
Written by Joel Murcott.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Russ Conway, Lee Farr, Paul Newlan, Gail Kobe, John Hiestand, Gil Frye, Roy Glenn, James Hyland.

Born on this day – Michael Kenneth Williams:

Michael Kenneth Williams

Actor

November 22, 1966 – September 6, 2021

Credits:

5up 2down (2006); 12 Years a Slave (2013); 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014); A Day in the Life (2009); A Kiss of Chaos (2009); A$AP Rocky: Phoenix (2013); About The People (2019); Above the Noise (2017); Addicts (2009); Against the Wall (2016); Alias (2005); America in Primetime (2011); Anesthesia (2015); Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2012); Antwand Pearman Vs. The Interview (2016); Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2011); Arkansas (2020); Assassin's Creed (2016); Battlefield 2042 (2021); Battlefield 4 (2013); Bayou Black (2011); Beastie Boys Story (2020); Behind the Steve (2010); Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club (2008); Bessie (2015); BET Awards 2021 (2021); Black Market with Michael K. Williams (2016–2022); Black Market: Dispatches (2016); Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014); Body Brokers (2021); Boston Legal (2005); Breaking (2022); Bring That Year Back 2006: Laugh Now, Cry Later (2006); Bringing Out the Dead (1999); Bro (2014); Broke Even (2000); Bronx County (1998); Brooklyn's Finest (2009); Brooklyn's Finest: Three Cops and a Dealer (2010); Bullet (1996); Captive (2015); Catching Up (2020); CBS Saturday Morning (2019); Celebrity Page (2019 / 2021); Ciroc: Rat Pack - Art of Celebration (2011); Community (2011–2012); Crack in America (2015); Crispus Attucks: Today Was a Good Day (2012); Criterion: Closet Picks (2011); Critical Thinking (2020); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005–2010); CSI: NY (2008); Deadline (2001); Detroit 1-8-7 (2011); Doing Hard Time (2004); Drop the Mic (2018); Entertainment Tonight (2021–2024); F Is for Family (2017–2021); Fairfield County (2013); Father (2019); Finding Your Roots (2019); Freeway: What We Do (2003); FRO Thizzle Reviews (2022); Ghostbusters (2016); Ghostface Killah: Love Don't Live Here No More (2014); Gone Baby Gone (2007); Grace After Midnight Pain (2016); Guile (2005); Hap and Leonard (2016–2018); HBO Boxing (2013); HBO Go: Call to Action (2014); Here and Now (2020); High School USA! (2013); Hollywood Insider (2021); Huang's World (2017); Human Giant (2008); I Love the 2000s (2014); I Think I Love My Wife (2007); Inherent Vice (2014); Jim Norton: American Degenerate (2013); KeAnthony: A Hustlaz Story (2008); Kill the Messenger (2014); Kill the Messenger: The All-Star Cast (2015); Lackawanna Blues (2005); Larry King Now (2013); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2016–2018); Law & Order (1997–2009); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003–2006); Leute heute (2021); Life During Wartime (2009); Little Dixie (2023); Love and Hip Hop: New York (2017); Lovecraft Baby (2019); Lovecraft Country (2020); Lucas Bros Moving Co (2014); Luv (2012); Made in Hollywood (2019); Madonna: Secret (1994); Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 / Segment: Secret (1999); Marilyn Manson: The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles (2015); Mercenary for Justice (2006); MGMT: Cool Song No. 2 (2013); Miracle at St. Anna (2008); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); Movies That Changed My Life (2020); MugShot (1996); NBA 2K21 (2020); Nobody's Nobody's (2012); Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now (2019); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2014); Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film (2013); Plant Hunter (2013); Rachael Ray (2018); Red Table Talk (2022); RoboCop (2014); Rocco's Dinner Party (2011); SAG Foundation Conversations (2017); Shelter (2016); Six Degrees (2006–2007); Snitch (2013); Snow on tha Bluff (2011); Soul of a Nation (2021); Studio 5 (2023); SuperFly (2018); Surrounded (2023); Taking on Tyson (2011); Talk Stoop (2009); Tamron Hall (2021); Tavis Smiley (2004); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); Tell Tale (2009); The 1st Annual HCA TV Awards (2021); The 26th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (2021); The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2022); The 2nd Annual Vibe Awards (2004); The 41st International Emmy Awards (2013); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards (2017); The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2021); The Arsenio Hall Show (2014); The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2006); The Bondage (2006); The Brown Dog (2024); The Cookout 2 (2011); The Daily Show (2016–2017); The Devil Goes Down (2013); The Gambler (2014); The Game: Documentary / Segment: How We Do (2005); The Guest Book (2018); The Harder They Fall (2021); The Hour (2011); The Incredible Hulk (2008); The Kill Point (2007); The Land (2016); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2011); The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2016–2018); The Night Of (2016); The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (2016); The Oscars (2022); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); The Philanthropist (2009); The Public (2018); The Purge: Anarchy (2014); The Queen Latifah Show (2014); The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019); The Road (2009); The Rotten Tomatoes Show (2009–2010); The Sopranos (2001); The Spoils Before Dying (2015); The Undefeated (2021); The Wendy Williams Show (2012–2016); The Wire (2002–2008); The Wire Odyssey (2007); The Wire: It's All Connected (2006); The Wire: The Last Word (2007); The Wire: The Musical (2012); The Year: 2021 (2021); They Die by Dawn (2013); Third Watch (2002); Tiger Slam (2020); Time Out of Mind (2014); Today (2019 / 2021); Touré Show (2021); Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 (2005); Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 (2007); Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 23-33 (2012); Triple 9 (2016); Unsung (2019); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2009); Vice (2018); Vital Signs (2025); W8 (Weight) (2012); Walk This Way (2013); We See You, We Stand with You (2020); When the Bough Breaks (2016); When They See Us (2019); When They See Us: The Actors (2019); When They See Us: The Criminal System of Injustice (2019); When We Rise (2017); Wonderful World (2009); WTF with Marc Maron (2021); You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You (2012).

Born on this day – Michael Malone:

Michael Malone

Writer

Actor

Producer

November 22, 1942 – August 19, 2022

Credits:

Books:

Dingley Falls (1980); First Lady (2001); Foolscap (1991); Growing Up in the South (1991); Handling Sin (1986); Heroes of Eros (1979); Murder For Love (1996); Psychetypes: A New Way Of Exploring Personality (1977); Red Clay, Blue Cadillac (2002); Tar Heel Dead (2005); The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997); The Delectable Mountains, Or, Entertaining Strangers (1976); The Four Corners of the Sky (2009); The Killing Club (2005); The Last Noel (2002); Time's Witness (1989); Twenty-Seven Views of Hillsborough (2010); Uncivil Seasons (1983).

Movies and television:

13 Bourbon St. (1997); Another World (1997); Clearing Waters (2011); Daytime's Greatest Weddings (2004); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); Love Stories (1991-1992); One Life to Live (1968–2013).