One of the best ways to get through the cold of winter:

Keep warm and read a good book.

Winter humor:

On this day in television history - Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2022):

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Season 1. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Clair de Lune.

Released January 16, 2022.

Developed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.

Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki.

Written by Brandon Auman, Margaret Dunlap, Eugene Son, Alex de Campi.

Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Opening theme: Feel You Now by Alessia Cara.

Music by Michael Hodges, Gerald Trottman.

Cast: Jessica Henwick, Will Yun Lee, Alessia Cara, Wes Bentley, Josh Duhamel, Barkhad Abdi, Gregg Henry, Peyton List, Zehra Fazal, Chris Jai Alex, Shinshû Fuji, Takayuki Kinba, Takehito Koyasu, Taiten Kusunoki, Tony Nakajima, Akio Nojima, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Arisa Shida, Masane Tsukayama.

On this day in movie history - Brooklyn’s Finest (2009):

Brooklyn’s Finest

directed by Antoine Fuqua,

written by Michael C. Martin,

was released in the United States on January 16, 2009.
Music by Marcelo Zarvos.

Cast:

Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Lili Taylor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Brían F. O'Byrne, Shannon Kane, Ellen Barkin, Robert John Burke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Wass Stevens, Armando Riesco, Wade Allain-Marcus, Logan Marshall-Green, Jesse Williams, Hassan Johnson, Jas Anderson, John D'Leo, Georgie DeNoto, Alison Cordaro, Frencesca Carchia, Raquel Castro, Stella Maeve, Reilly Brooke Stith, Joshua Thompson, Bruce MacVittie, Jerry Speziale, Sarah Thompson, Rodney 'Bear' Jackson, Cle Sloan, Michael Pemberton, Zaire Paige, Greg Young, Randy Eastman, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Alain Lauture, Joseph Adams, Alok Tewari, Matlok, Zachary Fuqua, Lela Rochon, Ed Moran, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Leonid Citer, Nicoye Banks, Tobias Truvillion, Tawny Cypress, Jeanine Ramirez, Rosalyn Coleman, Paul Diomede, Diana Bologna.

On this day in movie history - Garden State (2004):

Garden State

directed and written by Zach Braff,

was released in the United States on January 16, 2004.

Music by Chad Fischer.

Cast:

Zach Braff, Kenneth Graymez, George C. Wolfe, Austin Lysy, Gary Gilbert, Jill Flint, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Alex Burns, Jackie Hoffman, Michael Weston, Christopher Carley, Amy Ferguson, Trisha LaFache, Jim Parsons, Jean Smart, Yvette Mercedes, Jayne Houdyshell, Natalie Portman, Ron Leibman, Ann Dowd.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek Voyager: Caretaker / novel (1995)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Datalore.

Released January 16, 1988.

Directed by Rob Bowman.

Written by Robert Lewin, Gene Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Biff Yeager, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Lorine Mendell.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Caretaker.

Released January 16, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

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, Basil Langton, Gavan O'Herlihy, Angela Paton, Armin Shimerman, Alicia Coppola, Bruce French, Jennifer Parsons, David Selburg, Jeff McCarthy, Stan Ivar, Scott MacDonald, Josh Clark, Richard Poe, Keely Sims, Eric David Johnson, Majel Barrett, Derek Anthony, Scott Barry, Renna Bartlett, Jasmin Bischoff, Ryan Black, Margaret Blanchard, Cindy Bohling, Randall Bosley, Cullen G. Chambers, Terrell Clayton, Tracee Cocco, Mitchell R. Danton, Scott De Roy, Tarik Ergin, Gunnel Eriksson, Pablo Espinosa, Heather Ferguson, Ken Gruz, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Scott Jaeck, Julie Jiang, Jana Karson, Diane Lee, Ken Lesco, David B. Levinson, Dennis Madalone, Coleman McClary, Jordan Monheim, Mary Newport, Mike Nyman, Tami Peterson, Jerry L. Quinn, J. Suzanne Rampe, Irving Ross, Susan Sanders, Garret Sato, Daunette Saunders, Mark Allen Shepherd, Lou Slaughter, Simon Stotler, John Alex Tampoya, Ondar Tarlow, Dian Van Patten, Eric Whitmore, Peter Wick, Helen Wilson.

Star Trek Voyager: Caretaker

By L.A. Graf, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Mass Market Paperback.

Published 1995.

Published by Pocket Books.

ISBN-10: 067151914X

ISBN-13: 978-0671519148

Description:

More than any other television show, more than any other motion picture series, Star Trek has for nearly thirty years been the most popular space adventures of all time. Now Star Trek: Voyager joins Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the newest star in the ever-expanding Star Trek universe. Pocket Books is proud to present the novelization of "Caretaker", the premiere episode of Star Trek: Voyager. This is the story of Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the Starship USS Voyager. Transported by the alien technology to the other side of the galaxy, years away from the Federation and everything they call home, their voyage back will be a fantastic odyssey that will take them through uncharted space, into dangers as they travel where no one has gone before.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 1. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Silent Enemy.

Released January 16, 2002.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Written by Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, 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 Velton Ray Bunch.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jane Carr, Guy Siner, Paula Malcomson, John Rosenfeld, Robert Mammana, Jane Bordeaux, Solomon Burke Jr., Amy Kate Connolly, Evan English, Lindley Gardner, Peter Godoy, Jack Guzman, Bryan Heiberg, Amina Julianna, Bobby Pappas, Cynthia Uhrich, Mark Watson, Gary Weeks.

On this day in movie history - Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987):

Wanted: Dead or Alive

directed by Gary Sherman,

written by Michael Patrick Goodman, Brian Taggert and Gary Sherman,

was released in the United States on January 16, 1987.
Music by Joe Renzetti.

Cast:

Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ, Susan MacDonald, Jerry Hardin, Hugh Gillin, Robert Harper, Eli Danker, Joseph Nasser, Suzanne Wouk, Gerald Papasian, Nick Faltas, Hammam Shafie, Tyler Tyhurst, Ted White, Neil Summers, Dennis Burkley, DeeDee Rescher, Jesse Aragon, Shere Thu Thuy, Tu Ban Nguyen, Garry Scott, Tiiu Leek, Bill Smith, R.J. Miller, Charles Shapiro, David Boyle, Jeffrey Josephson, Patrick Puccinelli, James Edgcomb, Buddy Farmer, Gary Werntz, Rif Hutton, Richard Partlow, Rick Goldman, George Shannon, Ed Brodow, Patrick Gorman, Hubie Kerns Jr., Danny Costa, Greg Wayne Elam, John-Clay Scott, Jerry Gatlin, Sam Longoria.