Carl Sagan, on imagination:

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.

But without it, we go nowhere.

- Carl Sagan.

On this day in movie history - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015):

Mad Max: Fury Road

directed by George Miller,

written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris,

was released in the United States on May 7, 2015.
Music by Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL.

Cast:

Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton, John Howard, Richard Carter, Iota, Angus Sampson, Jennifer Hagan, Megan Gale, Melissa Jaffer, Melita Jurisic, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers, Antoinette Kellermann, Christina Koch, Jon Iles, Quentin Kenihan, Coco Jack Gillies, Chris Patton, Stephen Dunlevy, Richard Norton, John Walton, Ben Smith-Petersen, Russ McCarroll, Judd Wild, Elizabeth Cunico, Greg van Borssum, Robert Jones, Sebastian Dickins, Darren Andrew Mitchell, Crusoe Kurddal, Shyan Tonga, Cass Cumerford, Albert Lee, Riley Paton, Ripley Voeten, Macyn Van Borssum, Hunter Stratton Boland, Nathan Jenkins, Fletcher Gill, Whiley Toll, Ferdinand Hengombe, Gadaffi Davsab, Noddy Alfred, Jackson Hengombe, Christian Fane, Callum Gallagher, Abel Hofflin, Lee Perry, Debra Ades, Toby Ayers, Rhavin Banda, Karl Heinz Barr, Alison Benstead, Craig Bourke, Nerida Bronwen, Will C., Hélène Cardona, Jeremy Costello, Sandi Finlay, Gareth Hamilton-Foster, Dawn Hogan, Georgia Jarrett, Hiroshi Kasuga, Jack Kelly, Ryan Madden, Robert Alexander Maxwell McCann, Shuhei Ogawa, Benjamin W Sullivan, Vanessa Summerfield, Yassica Switakowski, Leanne Michelle Watson.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1994)

Star Trek: Voyager (1997)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Conspiracy.

Released May 7, 1988.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Tracy Tormé, Robert Sabaroff, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, Hannah Louise Shearer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Henry Darrow, Ward Costello, Robert Schenkkan, Ray Reinhardt, Jonathan Farwell, Michael Berryman, Ursaline Bryant, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt, Gary J. Wayton.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Emergence.

Released May 7, 1994.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, David Huddleston, Vinny Argiro, Thomas Kopache, Arlee Reed, Lena Banks, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Nick Dimitri, Elliot Durant III, Keith Gearhart, Christopher Gilman, Fumiko Hamada, Grace Harrell, Joyce Robinson, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess, Dennis Tracy, Steve Whittaker, Dianne Zankich.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: Displaced.

Released May 7, 1997.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink.

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, Kenneth Tigar, Mark L. Taylor, James Noah, Nancy Youngblut, Deborah Levin, Majel Barrett, Steve Carnahan, Adriana del Pomar, Holiday Freeman, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Zach LeBeau, Susan Lewis, Traci Murray, Louis Ortiz, Keith Rayve, Aric Rogokos, Laurence Todd Rosenthal, Shepard Ross, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano, Scott Strozier, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Regeneration.

Released May 7, 2003.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, 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 Brian Tyler.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Vaughn Armstrong, Jim Fitzpatrick, John Short, Bonita Friedericy, Christopher/Chris Wynne, Adam Harrington, Mark Chadwick, Paul Anthony Scott, Alexandrea Ortiz, Jef Ayres, Craig Baxley Jr., Amy Kate Connolly, Mark Correy, Nikki Flux, Peter Godoy, Glen Hambly, Peter Scott Harmyk, Mark Major, Eric Norris, Louis Ortiz, Bobby Pappas, Nicole Randall, Pablo Soriano, Warren Tabata.

On this day in movie history – Devil's Paradise (1987 movie & novel):

Devil's Paradise

directed by Vadim Glowna,

written by Vadim Glowna, Joe Hembus, Leonard Tuck,

based on the novel Victory by Joseph Conrad,

released in West Germany on May 7, 1987.

Music by Jürgen Knieper.

Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Waterston, Suzanna Hamilton, Mario Adorf, Dominique Pinon, Ingrid Caven, Tony Doyle, Chun-Man Wong, Atoharapan Paiboonsuwan, Vararat Thepsotorn, Vadim Glowna, Ayuddhaya Tanu Malakul Na, Abbie Conant, Beatrice/Bea Reszat, Jane Knieper, Colette Darville, Jola Goltz, Evelyn Kuerschner, Nipol Satchawoot, Suvit Liengsima.

Recommended reading:

Victory

By Joseph Conrad.

Filmed as:

Victory (1919), directed by Maurice Tourneur.

Dangerous Paradise (1930), directed by William A. Wellman.

Devil's Paradise (1987), directed by Vadim Glowna.

Victory (1996), directed by Mark Peploe.

Published by Penguin Classics.

First published 1915.

ISBN 13: 9780140189780

ISBN 10: 0140189785

ASIN: 0140189785

Description:

I am glad that I am alive, if, for no other reason, because of the joy of reading this book. – Jack London.

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails, he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from the detachment and isolation that have inhibited and influenced his life.

Marked by a violent and tragic conclusion, Victory is both a tale of rescue and adventure and a perceptive study of a complex relationship and of the power of love.

On this day in movie history - The Blue Lightning (1986):

The Blue Lightning

directed by Lee Philips,

written by William Kelley,

was released in the United States on May 7, 1986.
Music by Frank Strangio.

Cast:

Sam Elliott, Rebecca Gilling, John Meillon, Robert Coleby, Max Phipps, Robert Culp, Ralph Cotterill, Jack Davis, Ray Meagher, Michael Carman, Norman Erskine, Gary Waddell, Jeff Truman, Garry Who, Bob Barrett, Chris Pang, Peter Ford, Ernie Dingo, Leo Martin, Kenneth Radley, Dennis Hunt, Glenn Boswell, Bob Hicks, Zev Eleftheriou, Roy Edmunds.

On this day in music history:

Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1824)

Soul of the Beloved by Uma Sibley (2002)

Symphony No. 9

By Ludwig van Beethoven,

first performed in Vienna on May 7, 1824.

Choral symphony in four movements.

Opus 125, in D minor.

Composed: 1822–1824.

Ode to Joy is based on the 1785 text by Friedrich Schiller.

Soul of the Beloved

Album by Uma Sibley,

released May 7, 2002.

Track list: Emergence; Awakening; Peaceful Heart; Ocean Of Love; Soul Dance; Poignant Love; Tears Of Joy; Garden Of Love; Grace; Soliloquy For Harp; Joy.

Born on this day – Anne Baxter:

Anne Baxter

Actress

May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985

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