Star Trek: Prodigy: Time Amok
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the eighth episode of the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, created by Dan & Kevin Hageman. Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager) guest stars.
The Expanse: Hard Vacuum
Streaming service Amazon Prime releases the 54th episode of the science fiction series The Expanse, based on the series of novels by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham).
Mira Furlan, actress, dies
Yugoslavian-born actress Mira Furlan, best known to genre fans as Ambassador Delenn from Babylon 5 (one of the few characters to appear in both the 1993 pilot movie and the 1998 series finale), and for her recurring role as Rousseau in Lost, dies at the age of 65. With her husband, director Goran Gajić, she escaped the Serbo-Croatian war and emigrated to the United States early in the 1990s, just in time to land the role of Delenn. She also continued film and stage appearances, as well as releasing an album titled Songs From Movies That Have Never Been Made, with lyrics in both her native tongue and English.
Arrow: Blood Debts
The 79th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown) guest stars.
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Star Wars Rebels: A Princess On Lothal
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 25th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This episode introduces a teenage Princess Leia Organa to the Rebels storyline. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
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The Flash: Revenge Of The Rogues
The tenth episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin, airs on the CW. Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) guest stars.
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Battlestar Galactica: Epiphanies
Sci-Fi channel airs the 26th episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Colm Feore guest stars.
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On to New Horizons
In response to a NASA request for mission proposals a month earlier, Southwest Research Institute scientist Dr. Alan Stern and a group of other scientists and engineers who had been working on the now-cancelled Pluto-Kuiper Express mission submit a nearly-identical proposal to NASA for a Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission called New Horizons. Very much like Pluto-Kuiper Express, New Horizons calls for a single small spacecraft to launch early in the 21st century, and, after a gravity assist from a Jupiter flyby, a Pluto encounter 10-11 years after launch. Some of the program costs are streamlined in the new proposal to make this iteration of the long-delayed Pluto mission more appealing to NASA, although New Horizons would carry more scientific payload than any previously envisioned Pluto expedition. Another proposal, Pluto and Outer Solar System Explorer (POSSE), is also submitted to NASA.
UPN airs the Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Innocence
The 26th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. James Marsters, Juliet Landau, and Vincent Schiavelli (Ghost) guest star.
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Xena: Here She Comes…Miss Amphipolis
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 35th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Robert Trebor guest stars.
TekWar: The Gate
The 15th episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. Greg Evigan, William Shatner, and Maria del Mar star. (The series has already been cancelled at this point; Universal is burning off the remaining episodes into off-season time slots.)
NASA posthumously honors Star Trek creator
At a ceremony at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, NASA presents Majel Barrett Roddenberry with the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal honoring her late husband, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who died in 1991. Roddenberry is lauded by NASA administrator Dan Goldin for “presenting the exploration of space as an exciting frontier” in both Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Time Trax
The national syndication window opens for the two-hour premiere of Time Trax, co-created by Star Trek movie producer Harve Bennett, and starring Dale Midkiff. Mia Sara, Henry Darrow, and Peter Donat also star. The series, filmed entirely in Australia, is one of the premiere offerings of the Warner Bros./Chris-Craft Television joint venture PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network), an attempt to create an ad-hoc “fifth network” out of independent and Fox stations.
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Missing Cybermen Tomb unearthed
In what is hailed as the biggest missing episode find in the history of fans’ attempts to recover lost segments of Doctor Who, the complete four-part story The Tomb Of The Cybermen, completely missing from the BBC’s archives, is located in near-pristine condition in the archives of a Hong Kong broadcaster. Since the tapes’ audio is the original English soundtrack and the video requires little significant clean-up or restoration, the BBC’s home video department fast-tracks Tomb for a VHS release in May 1992. As of this find, only 110 half-hour episodes of black & white Doctor Who remain missing.
Star Trek: TNG spinoff announced
Paramount formally announces plans to launch another Star Trek spinoff, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in 1993, with filming to begin later in 1992. With casting yet to be finalized and the series concept still in flux, the public’s first glimpse is a year away; many trade publications still list Michelle Forbes’ TNG character, Ensign Ro, as one of DS9’s main characters. The series will be the first Star Trek entity not created by the late Gene Roddenberry; instead, TNG showrunners Rick Berman and Michael Piller have created the show’s concept, which is said to be “darker and grittier.”
Superboy: Yellow Peri’s Spell Of Doom
The 40th episode of the syndicated series Superboy, starring Gerard Christopher and Stacy Haiduk, airs.
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Beauty and the Beast: Labyrinths
CBS airs the 30th episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, and Roy Dotrice. Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Awakening, Part 2
The 608th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Polly James guest stars.
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The Greatest American Hero: Live At Eleven
ABC airs the 37th episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp. William Windom and Alan Fudge (Man From Atlantis) guest star.
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Journey: Frontiers
Columbia Records releases the Journey album Frontiers, featuring the singles “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”, “Send Her My Love” and “Faithfully”.
The Greatest American Hero: Now You See It
ABC airs the 18th episode of Stephen J. Cannell’s superhero comedy series The Greatest American Hero, starring William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp.
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Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Three, Part 5
ITV airs the 19th episode of P.J. Hammond’s science fiction series Sapphire & Steel, starring David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. David Collings (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7) guest stars.
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Salvage 1
The pilot movie of the series Salvage 1 airs on ABC, starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons), and Trish Stewart. Richard Jaeckel (Spenser For Hire) guest stars. More of a modern-day action series than a science fiction series, the show concerns a home-grown salvage operation, complete with a privately owned rocket, that can retrieve pieces of American space hardware from the moon.
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Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor, Part 1
The 500th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1, continuing the Key To Time storyline. John Woodvine (Knights Of God) and Lalla Ward guest star. Valentine Dyall makes his first appearance as the Black Guardian. This is the final six-part Doctor Who story to be broadcast.
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Progress 1
The first Soviet-made uncrewed Progress resupply vehicle lifts off en route to the manned Salyut 6 space station. Looking more or less like a Soyuz vehicle, Progress is an automated freighter whose systems lock onto Salyut’s docking transponder, guiding the unmanned craft toward a smooth and completely automated docking (though ground controllers stand by to take manual control by remote). Since Progress is not required to return a crew to Earth, its engines and their fuel can help to boost Salyut 6 into a higher orbit when necessary. It carries over 5,000 pounds of food, clothes and other supplies, and can automatically refill the station’s air and fuel supplies. Progress vehicles become an integral part of the space program, remaining in service long enough to resupply the International Space Station in the 21st century.
Wonder Woman: Screaming Javelins
The 27th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Henry Gibson, Rick Springfield, and Vaughn Armstrong guest star.
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The Changes: The Devil’s Children
The third episode of The Changes airs on BBC1, adapting the novels of Peter Dickinson into a ten-part television serial starring Vicky Williams and Marc Zuber. The series was filmed in 1973, but has been held for broadcast until 1975. 
The Evil Touch: Faulkner’s Choice
The 16th episode of the horror anthology series The Evil Touch airs on Australia’s Nine Network, hosted by Anthony Quayle (Strange Report). (The series will later appear in the U.S. and elsewhere in first-run syndication.) Noel Harrison (The Girl From UNCLE) guest stars.
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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors, Part 4
The 333rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the series’ first “multi-Doctor” celebratory story, featuring Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor, with appearances by William Hartnell as the first Doctor (though Hartnell’s participation in the story has been significantly reduced due to his failing health; he never appears on set with his successors, appearing only in pre-recorded film inserts). Stephen Thorne guest stars as Omega.
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