On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1967 & 1968)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek: Picard (2023)

Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Space Seed.

Released February 16, 1967.

Directed by Marc Daniels.

Written by Gene L. Coon, Carey Wilber.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue, Makee K. Blaisdell, Mark Tobin, Kathy Ahart, John Winston, John Arndt, Bobby Bass, Bill Blackburn, Robert Buckingham, Dick Cangey, Frank da Vinci, Joan Johnson, Eddie Paskey, Jan Reddin, Frieda Rentie, Ron Veto, Joan Webster.

Star Trek

Season 2. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: Patterns of Force.

Released February 16, 1968.

Directed by Vincent McEveety.

Written by John Meredyth Lucas.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage, George Duning.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Richard Evans, Valora Noland, Skip Homeier, David Brian, Patrick Horgan, William Wintersole, Gilbert Green, Lev Mailer, Ed McCready, Peter Canon, Paul Baxley, Chuck Courtney, Bart La Rue, Benjie Bancroft, Bill Blackburn, John Blower, Frank da Vinci, Len Felber, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone, Sean Morgan, Eddie Paskey, Basil Poledouris, Robert Strong, Bob Whitney.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: First Contact.

Released February 16, 1991.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Dennis Bailey, David Bischoff, Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore, Michael Piller, Marc Scott Zicree, David Carren, J. Larry Carroll.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, George Coe, Carolyn Seymour, George Hearn, Michael Ensign, Steven Anderson, Sachi Parker, Bebe Neuwirth, Thomas J. Booth, Michael Braveheart, Gilbert B. Combs, Christopher Doyle, Elliot Durant III, Randy James, Bruce Koski, Tim McCormack.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Collective.

Released February 16, 2000.

Directed by Allison Liddi-Brown.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael Taylor, Andrew Shepard Price, Mark Gaberman, Bryan Fuller, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Ryan Spahn, Manu Intiraymi, Marley S. McClean, Kurt Wetherill, Cody Wetherill, Majel Barrett, Patrick Barnitt, Tarik Ergin, Tina Kotrich, Mark Major, Nichole McAuley, Tom Miller, Keith Rayve.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 3. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Next Generation.

Released February 16, 2023.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Terry Matalas, Matt Okumura, Chris Derrick, Kiley Rossetter.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Stephen Barton, Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Orla Brady, Todd Stashwick, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Anthony Azizi, Stephanie Czajkowski, Joseph Lee, Chad Lindberg, Jin Maley, Jani Wang, Christian Crandall, Amy Earhart, Grace Lee, Ric Sarabia, Michelle Blass, An Dang, Naymon Frank, Marie Kelli, Dominique Stango, Marco Vazzano.

On this day in movie history - La Jetée (1962 movie & book):

La Jetée

aka The Jetty / The Pier,

directed and written by Chris Marker,

the inspiration for 12 Monkeys (1995), directed by Terry Gilliam,

was released in France on February 16, 1962.
Narrated by Jean Négroni.
Music by Trevor Duncan.

Cast:

Hélène Châtelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu, Pierre Joffroy, Etienne Becker, Philbert von Lifchitz, Ligia Borowczyk, Janine Klein, William Klein, Germano Facetti.

Recommended reading:

La Jetée: Ciné-Roman

By Chris Marker.

Zone Books

Distributed by The MIT Press.

Published 1992.

ISBN-10: 0942299663

ISBN-13: 978-0942299663

The inspiration for the movie 12 Monkeys (1995), directed by Terry Gilliam.

Description:

In the aftermath of World War III, both the earth’s surface and all of history – everything ever dreamed or known – lies irretrievably buried in a heap of radioactive devastation. Space has become off-limits, and the war’s few remaining survivors, huddled underground in the dank galleries beneath Chaillot, seek desperately an alternative path to survival – one perhaps that passes through Time. At the expense of madness, death, and unspeakable cruelty, they begin a set of experiments whose purpose will be to launch emissaries, in search of food, medicine and energy, through a hole in Time. A man is chosen for his unique quality of having retained a single clear image from pre-war days; no more than an ambiguous memory fragment from childhood – a visit to the jetty at Orly airport, the troubling glance of an unknown woman, the crumbling body of a dying man. These elements become crucial hinge-points in the ensuing narrative, thickening and accumulating nuance with each successful expedition into the historical past. The image of a woman, increasingly suffused with the time – and eros – bestowing capacities of a deep and impossible love, provides both the kernel for the recovery of the dimension through which humankind and history will be saved, as well as the tragic abyss into which both the hero and the narrative inexorably fall.

Although Chris Marker’s legendary film is no more than 29 minutes long and contains but a single moving image, perhaps no other film has matched its combination of devastating emotional power, former brilliance and philosophical complexity. The story marker tells – a stunning parable of our modern fate – is about the death of the world, about loss, memory, hope, and the indomitable power of love.

“This strange and poetic film, a fusion of science fiction, psychological fable, and photomontage … creates its own conventions from scratch. It triumphantly succeeds where science fiction invariably fails.” – J.G. Ballard.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 22.
Episode entitled: Burglar’s Nightmare.
Released February 16, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Scott Flohr.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Robert Armstrong, John Goddard, Connie Hines, Jim Oberlin, Jerry O’Sullivan.

On this day in movie history - The Canary Murder Case (1929 movie & novel):

The Canary Murder Case

directed by Malcolm St. Clair,

written by S.S. Van Dine, Albert Shelby LeVino, Florence Ryerson and Herman J. Mankiewicz,

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

was released in France on February 16, 1929.
Music by Karl Hajos.

Cast:

William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Margaret Livingston, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, E. H. Calvert, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks, Louis John Bartels, Tim Adair, Oscar Smith.

Recommended reading:

The Canary Murder Case

By S.S. Van Dine.

First published 1927.

Library of Congress Crime Classics.

Paperback.

Edited by Leslie S. Klinger.

Description:

Philo Vance #2.

At the height if his popularity, S.S. Vane Dine pens a locked-room mystery with a lethal dose of sex and sin where infamous actress, "The Canary," is murdered in her cage after a passionate night with her lover.

Margaret Odell, the famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is found murdered in her ransacked apartment, her jewelry stolen. It appears to be a robbery gone wrong, but the police can find no physical evidence to pinpoint a culprit. No one witnessed anyone entering or leaving, and the only unwatched entrance to the apartment building was bolted from the inside.

Who could have killed the Canary in her locked cage? Margaret was seeing a number of men, ranging from high society gentleman to ruthless gangsters, and more than one man visited her apartment on the night she died.

Born on this day – R. D. Call:

R. D. Call

Actor

February 16, 1950 – February 27, 2020

Credits:

Not a Stranger (2018); Wildfires (2016); Rogues of LA (2014); Castle (2014); Silent Night in Muncie (2012); Perception (2012); Burn Notice (2012); Night Walkers (2012); Follow the Prophet (2009); Adventures in Appletown (2008); Into the Wild (2007); The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006); The Drop (2006); Babel (2006); Dark Heart (2006); The Work and the Glory II: American Zion (2005); Supernatural (2005); JAG (2002); Murder by Numbers (2002); I Am Sam (2001); The Weight of Water (2000); Family Law (2000); Malaika (1998); Logan's War: Bound by Honor (1998); Walker, Texas Ranger (1993–1998); Diagnosis Murder (1998); The Practice (1998); Waterworld (1997); EZ Streets (1996–1997); Last Man Standing (1996); Waterworld (1995); The X-Files (1994); Murder, She Wrote (1984); Jack Reed: Badge of Honor (1993); Cruel Doubt (1992); Other People's Money (1991); Golden Years (1991); State of Grace (1990); Young Guns II (1990); Paradise (1990); Born on the Fourth of July (1989); L.A. Takedown (1989); Knightwatch (1988–1989); Unconquered (1989); War Party (1988); Judgment in Berlin (1988); Colors (1988); No Man's Land (1987); Timestalkers (1987); The Children of Times Square (1986); At Close Range (1986); Brewster's Millions (1985); Trapper John, M.D. (1985); V (1985); 48 Hrs. (1982); General Hospital (1982); Little House on the Prairie (1982); Barnaby Jones (1979).

Born on this day – Ron Faber:

Ron Faber

Actor

February 16, 1933 – March 26, 2023

Credits:

Back to Me (2008); Hope & Faith (2004); Third Watch (2000); Calling Bobcat (2000); Law & Order (1991–1998); Romeo Is Bleeding (1993); Navy Seals (1990); The Edge of Night (1983); Running Out (1983); Soup for One (1982); Bill (1981); Hardhat and Legs (1980); On the Yard (1978); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); Kojak (1977); The American Parade (1976); L'arbre de Guernica (1975); The Exorcist (1973).

Born on this day – Sol Negrin:

Sol Negrin

Cinematographer

Producer

Actor

February 16, 1929 – March 20, 2017

Credits:

...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979); A Call to Arms (2008); Across 110th Street (1972); Amazing Grace (1974); Baker's Dozen (1982); Blue Shirts (2000); Car 54, Where Are You? (1961–1963); Clean and Sober (1988); Coming to America (1988); Crazy Joe (1974); Dear John (1988); Dempsey (1983); East Side/West Side (1963–1964); Eischied (1979); Fame (1984); Great Performances (1971); Happy Hell Night (1991); I, the Jury (1982); Jamboree! (1957); Jaws 2 (1978); Johnny Garage (1983); Kay O'Brien (1986); Kojak (1974–1977); Light Fantastic (1964); Lime Street (1985); McCloud (1974); More Than Friends (1978); Naked City (1958–1959); Parades (1972); Pink (2010); Proof of the Man (1977); Redd Foxx: Video in a Plain Brown Wrapper (1983); RoboCop (1987); Sacred Eyes (2009); Salsa (1976); Some Trouble of a SeRRious Nature (2002); St. Elsewhere (1982–1983); Superman (1978); The Bedroom (2012); The Concert for Bangladesh (1972); The Deer (2009); The Defenders (1961–1962); The Edge of Town (2012); The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure (1986); The Last Tenant (1978); The Line (1980); The Lucie Arnaz Show (1985); The Nothing Man (2010); The Patty Duke Show (1963–1964); The Rack (2002); The Scourge of the Vagabond Spectre (2009); The Story Lady (1991); The White Shadow (1980); Voodoo Blood Death (1965); Where's Poppa? (1970); Women at West Point (1979).