Monday, January 12, 2026

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1967 & 1968)
Star Trek: Voyager (2000)


Star Trek
Season 1. Episode 17.
Episode entitled: The Squire of Gothos.
Released January 12, 1967.
Directed by Don McDougall.
Written by Paul Schneider.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage.
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, William Campbell, Richard Carlyle, Michael Barrier, Venita Wolf, Barbara Babcock, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Carey Foster, Bart La Rue, Eddie Paskey.

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 17.
Episode entitled: A Piece of the Action.
Released January 12, 1968.
Directed by James Komack.
Written by David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage.
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Anthony Caruso, Vic Tayback, Lee Delano, John Harmon, Sheldon Collins, Dyanne Thorne, Sharyn Hillyer, Buddy Garion, Steven Marlo, Benjie Bancroft, Bill Blackburn, John Blower, Nick Borgani, Marlys Burdette, Frank da Vinci, Tony Dante, Roger Holloway, Jay D. Jones, Jeannie Malone, Jim Michael, Eddie Paskey, Clark Ross.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 6. Episode 11.
Episode entitled: Fair Haven.
Released January 12, 2000.
Directed by Allan Kroeker.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Robin Bernheim/Burger, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.
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, Richard Riehle, Fintan McKeown, Jan Claire, Henriette Ivanans, Duffie McIntire, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Marvin De Baca, Tarik Ergin, Peter Scott Harmyk, Tina Kotrich, Nichole McAuley, Jack Nolan, Linnea Soohoo.

On this day in movie history - Crime Wave (1953):


Crime Wave

aka The City Is Dark,
directed by Andre DeToth,
was released in the United States on January 12, 1954.
Based on the short story Criminal's Mark,
by John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins,
originally published in The Saturday Evening Post (1950).
Music by David Buttolph.


Cast:

Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson, Jay Novello, Ned Young, James Bell, Dub Taylor, Gayle Kellogg, Mack Chandler, Timothy Carey, Sandy Sanders, Richard Benjamin, James Hayward, Lyle Latell.

Born on this day – Naya Rivera:


Naya Rivera


Actress

Singer

January 12, 1987 – July 8, 2020

Credits:

17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011); 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2012); 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2013); 2011 ALMA Awards (2011); 2012 ALMA Awards (2012); 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (2013); 2013 New Now Next Awards (2013); 2020 MTV Video Music Awards (2020); 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 29th Annual Trumpet awards (2020); 78th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2009); 8 Simple Rules (2004); A Year in the Life (2023); Access Daily (2016); Access Hollywood (2020); American Dad! (2016); American Music Awards 2013 (2013); And the Winner Isn't (2017); At the Devil's Door (2014); Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021); Baywatch (1996); BET Awards 2013 (2013); Bones / Stand Up to Cancer (2010); Can't Hurry Love (1995); Celebrity Page (2018); Chelsea Lately (2014); CMT Insider (2011); Countdown to the 64th Primetime Emmys (2012); CSI: Miami (2008); Devious Maids (2015); Entertainment Tonight (2010–2021); Even Stevens (2002); Family Matters (1992–1993); Fashion Police (2013); Frankenhood (2009); Girlfriends (2008); Glee (2009–2015); Glee Encore (2011); Glee: Director's Cut Pilot Episode (2009); Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011); Guesting on Glee (2011); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Today Live (2016); Home & Family (2016); House Blend (2002); Jaffa Moore: You and I (2023); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2013 / 2020); Katy Perry: Sweet Dreams (2021); Lip Sync Battle (2018); Lip Sync Battle Preshow (2018); Live Shot (1995); Mad Families (2017); Martha & Snoop's Potluck Party Challenge (2016); MTV EMA 2020 (2020); Nuthin' But a Glee Thang (2011); One Hit Wonderland (2013); Pop Wrapped TV (2010–2011); Queens of Pop (2011); RuPaul's Drag Race (2017); Smart Guy (1997–1999); Soul Food (2003); Speak of the Devil (2014); Step Up: High Water (2018–2022); Stevie Nicks Goes Glee (2011); Sugar Rush (2020); T.D. Jakes Show (2016); Teen Choice Awards 2010 (2010); Teen Choice Awards 2013 (2013); Teen Choice Awards 2017 (2017); The 40th Annual People's Choice Awards (2014); The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards (2011); The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2010); The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2011); The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2012); The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2020); The Arsenio Hall Show (1991 / 2013); The Bernie Mac Show (2002–2006); The Dr. Oz Show (2016); The Eric Andre Show (2020); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993); The Glee Project (2012); The Insider (2014); The Jersey (1999); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2013); The Master of Disguise (2002); The Naughty List (2013); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2010); The Price of Glee (2023); The Queen Latifah Show (2013); The Real (2016); The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2014); The Royal Family (1991–1992); The Sinbad Show (1993); The Talk (2013); The View (2014–2015); The Wendy Williams Show (2011); The X Factor UK (2010); The Year: 2020 (2020); Tia Mowry at Home (2017); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2011); Visions of Us: LGBTQ+ Latine Representation in TV & Film (2021); Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2019); When I Was 17 (2010).

Born on this day – Marie Dubois:


Marie Dubois


Actress

January 12, 1937 – October 15, 2014

Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1960

Credits:

The Good Son (2001); At Your Service (1999); The Swindle (1997); The Whims of a River (1996); Ispoved Neznakomtsu (1995); She has been here... (1993); Maigret (1993); Ash d'or (1992); Memory (1992); The Last Season (1991); Children of the wind (1991); False Brother (1991); Child's Play (1990); Maria Vandamme (1989); Big Guignol (1987); Descent Into Hell (1986); Posthumously (1986); Einstein (1985); No Need for Suitcases (1984); The Intruder (1984); If I were a thousand years old (1983); Waiter! (1983); A Friend of Vincent (1983); Bel ami (1983); A coat Chinchilla (1983); A Woman on the Run (1982); The Trojan War will not have place (1982); La derelitta (1983); Cinema 16 (1978–1982); The Heirs (1981); At theatre tonight (1980); The Little Mermaid (1980); My American Uncle (1980) I Speaks of Love (1979); Silver Anniversary (1979); I'll make you love life (1979); Kakemono Hotel (1978); Her Ladyship the Judge (1978); The Menace (1977); Golden Night (1977); François le Champi (1976); Adios (1976); The Innocent (1976); Du bout des lèvres (1976); Les mal partis (1976); A change in season (1975); Vincent, François, Paul and the Others (1974); L'escapade (1974); Antoine and Sébastien (1974); Sleeping Beauty (1973); My wife and The Child (1973); The Serpent (1973); The Surveyors (1972); The Egg (1972); Time dazzling (1971); My Wife (1971); Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy (1971); The House of the Bories (1970); Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969); The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968); Stuntman (1968); The Marriage Came Tumbling Down (1968); The Thief of Paris (1967); The Great Vadrouille (1966); The Sprinkler (1966); A boy, a girl. The Seventeenth Heaven (1966); La demoiselle de Saint-Florentin (1965); The Holidays galantes (1965); The Wise Guys (1965); Marie Curie - A Certain Young Girl (1965); The Bequest (1965); Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964); The Ungrateful Age (1964); Weekend at Dunkirk (1964); Circle of Love (1964); Male Hunt (1964); Jean Barois (1963); First love (1963); L'esprit et la lettre: Jacques le Fataliste et son maître (1963); At World's End (1963); L'anglaise (1962); Cross of the Living (1962); Sign of the Lion (1962); Jules and Jim (1962); The Black Monocle (1961); I will live A Great Love (1961); A Woman Is a Woman (1961); Happy Days (1961); The last five minutes (1959–1960); Shoot the Piano Player (1960); Bevel Kisses (1959); The Camera Explores Time (1959); Plaisir du théâtre (1959); Three Percent (1957).

Born on this day – Ron Harper:


Ron Harper


Actor

January 12, 1936 – March 21, 2024

Credits:

Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story (2015); Drink (2014); Whoa! (2013); Recorded Live (2011); American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James (2010); Uncorked (2009); Cold Case (2008); The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007); James Glickenhaus: Memories of the Soldier (2005); Touched (2005); Glass Trap (2005); Venomous (2001); Pearl Harbor (2001); The West Wing (2001); Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (2001); Malibu, CA (1999); Walker, Texas Ranger (1998); The Odd Couple II (1998); Freedom Strike (1998); Boy Meets World (1998); Night Stand (1995–1997); NightMan (1997); Below Utopia (1997); Melrose Place (1995); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993); FBI: The Untold Stories (1992); Generations (1990–1991); Dragnet (1990); Capitol (1985–1987); Remington Steele (1984); The New Mike Hammer (1984); Loving (1983–1995); The Soldier (1982); Another World (1980); Love of Life (1980); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Land of the Lost (1976); The Blue Knight (1975); Planet of the Apes (1974); Where the Heart Is (1971–1973); Love, American Style / Love and the Ski Lodge / Love and the Proposal (1970–1972); Cannon (1971); The Wild Season (1971); The Big Valley (1969); Celebrity Bowling Classic (1969); Garrison's Gorillas (1967–1968); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); Dream Girl of '67 (1967); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1967); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); The Jean Arthur Show (1966); Wendy and Me (1964–1965); Laramie (1960–1963); Here's Hollywood (1962); 87th Precinct (1961–1962); Shotgun Slade (1961); The Tall Man (1961); The Deputy (1961); Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade of the Stars (1960); Wagon Train (1960); Thriller (1960); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960); Kraft Theatre (1955).

Born on this day – Alan Sharp:


Alan Sharp


Writer

Producer

Director

January 12, 1934 – February 8, 2013

Books:

A Green Tree in Gedde (1985); Lord Dunsany / Dean Spanley: The Novel (2008); Night Moves (1975); The Hired Hand (1971); The Wind Shifts (1967).

Movies and television:

Avenger (2006); Ben Hur (2010); Betrayed by Love (1994); Billy Two Hats (1974); Coming Out of the Ice (1982); Damnation Alley (1977); D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe (1990); Dean Spanley (2008); Descending Angel (1990); Double Image (1966); First Night (1963); ITV Playhouse (1970); Lathe of Heaven (2002); Little Girl Fly Away (1998); Little Treasure (1985); Love and Lies (1990); Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991); Night Moves (1975); Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006); Our Ladies (2019); Play for Today (1970); Reversible Errors (2004); Rob Roy (1995); Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993); The Edge (1989); The Hired Hand (1971); The Last Hit (1993); The Last Run (1971); The Odd Man (1978); The Osterman Weekend (1983); The Snoop Sisters (1972); The South Bank Show (1979); The Wednesday Play (1965); The Year of Living Dangerously (1982); Ulzana's Raid (1972); Valentino's Ghost (2012); While I Was Gone (2004).

Born on this day – Edgar Lansbury:


Edgar Lansbury


Art director

Producer

January 12, 1930 – May 2, 2024

Credits:

A Stranger Waits (1987); Advice from a Caterpillar (1999); Biography (1998); Blue Sunshine (1977); Camera Three (1971); Climax! (1957); Coronet Blue (1967); Desperate Characters (1971); Godspell (1973); Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006); He Knows You're Alone (1980); Kim (1950); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Squirm (1976); Star Witness (1963); Stars of Jazz (1956); Studio One (1958); Summer Girl (1983); The Clairvoyant (1982); The Defenders (1963–1964); The Gene Kelly Show (1959); The Magic Show (1983); The Red Skelton Chevy Special (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1954–1961); The Subject Was Roses (1968); The Wild Party (1975); War Hunt (1962).