Batwoman: Prior Criminal History
The CW airs the 22nd episode of Batwoman starring Javicia Leslie, Rachel Skarsten, and Meagan Tandy.
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Star Trek: Discovery: New Eden
Streaming service CBS All Access releases the 17th episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Sheila McCarthy (Little Mosque On The Prairie) and Andrew Moodie (Dark Matter) guest star.
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The Orville: All The World Is Birthday Cake
Fox airs the 17th episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Ted Denson (Cheers, Becker) guest stars in an episode that welcomes new series regular Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl) to the cast.
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The X-Files: The Lost Art Of Forehead Sweat
The 211th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Mitch Pileggi guest stars.
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The Flash: Borrowing Problems From The Future
The CW airs the 56th episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Greg Grunberg (Heroes) guest stars.
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Legends Of Tomorrow: Raiders Of The Lost Art
The CW airs the 25th episode of Legends Of Tomorrow, starring Arthur Darvill, Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz and Victor Garber. John Barrowman (Torchwood) and NEal McDonough guest star.
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The X-Files: My Struggle
The 202nd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, reviving the fabled series for its tenth season. Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis guest star.
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Abrams to direct Star Wars Episode VII
Word breaks across Hollywood that Disney has secured the services of J.J. Abrams, co-creator of Lost and director of the 2009 and 2013 movies set in a re-imagined Star Trek universe, to direct the much-anticipated Star Wars Episode VII, the first new movie in the series since Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm at the end of 2012. With a locked-in release date in 2015, Abrams is expected to start work on Episode VII as soon as post-production and promotion for Star Trek Into Darkness are complete for that movie’s May 2013 release.
UPN, WB to cease broadcasting
Wanna-be fifth networks UPN and the WB both announce that they will go off the air in late 2006, after 11 years of struggling to make a dent against the “big four” networks. (Both networks signed on in January 1995, the WB premiering its programming one week before UPN went on the air with the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager; WB later found its own genre niche with the series adaptation of Joss Whedon’s Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and its popular spinoff, Angel, along with the “young Superman” prequel Smallville.) However, some of their programming may survive to be seen on a new joint venture between Warner Bros. and UPN’s parent network, CBS. This new network, The CW, will have programming and personnel held over from both defunct networks. The announcements do not mention how the merger will work out in broadcast markets where affiliate stations exist for both networks.
Opportunity lands on Mars
The Opportunity rover, identical to Spirit, lands on schedule and on target in Mars’ Meridiani Planum region, but initial readings from the surface of Mars indicate that the landing pod containing Opportunity has come to rest on its side. Telemetry signals from Opportunity announce that the the rover has arrived safely and intact, ready to begin its mission, and the opening of the landing vehicle returns Opportunity to its intended upright position. As with Spirit, Opportunity will remain on its landing platform for several days undergoing a series of diagnostic tests before rolling off to the Martian surface for independent exploration, and engineers are keeping a close eye out for signs of a computer problem that has plagued Spirit for several days.
UPN airs the E:FC: Keep Your Enemies Closer
The 56th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, airs in syndication, starring Robert Leeshock, Jayne Heitmeyer, Von Flores, and Richard Chevolleau.
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The X-Files: Tithonus
The 127th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Geoffrey Lewis guest stars.
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Red Dwarf: Stoke Me A Clipper
The 38th episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on BBC 2. This marks Chris Barrie’s exit as a series regular, though he appears again later in the season and rejoins the show for its eighth season.
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The Outer Limits: Re-Generation
Showtime airs the 46th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of the 1960s science fiction anthology series. Kim Cattrall (Star Trek VI: The Unduscovered Country) and Teryl Rothery (Stargate SG-1) guest star.
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M.A.N.T.I.S.
Fox premieres the pilot movie of M.A.N.T.I.S., an urban superhero series created by Sam Hamm (screenwriter of Tim Burton’s Batman) and future Hercules/Xena creators Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi. Carl Lumbly, Gina Torres (Cleopatra 2525, Firefly), Bobby Hosea, and Obba Babatunde star in the feature-length premiere. A weekly series will follow in the fall, though only Lumbly – the series lead – will continue in his role.
Star Trek: DS9: Armageddon Game
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 32nd episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Soyuz TM-16: getting Mir ready for company
Cosmonauts Gennadi Manakov and Alexander Poleshchuk lift off aboard Soyuz TM-16, on a course for Russian space station Mir. In preparation for the upcoming joint international missions that will see American space shuttles docking with Mir, Soyuz TM-16 carries a new type of docking mechanism designed to test the docking port that will be used by visiting shuttles. Manakov and Poleshchuk remain aboard Mir for 179 days, returning to Earth in July 1993 with French spationaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré.
Beauty and the Beast: Invictus
CBS airs the 52nd episode of Ron Koslow’s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast, starring Ron Perlman, Jo Anderson, and Roy Dotrice.
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Voyager 2 at Uranus
Voyager 2 visits the third planet on its grand tour of the outer solar system, becoming the first and only man-made spacecraft to visit Uranus. Since the blue-green planet and its moon are tipped over, Voyager has fewer opportunities to gather images of the moons of Uranus, but a close pass by its innermost large satellite, Miranda, yields pictures of one of the stranger surfaces in the solar system: a moon that was ripped apart and melted back together in the distant past. The atmosphere of Uranus reveals almost no details to Voyager 2’s cameras in the scant visible light available this far from the sun, but ten new moons are discovered, and the planet’s elusive dark rings are captured in several images. With no other missions to Uranus in the pipeline, Voyager 2’s brief flyby remains the primary source of most of our knowledge of the seventh planet from the sun. It will now take Voyager 2 three years to reach Neptune, its final target.
Twilight Zone: Episode 15
CBS airs the 15th episode of a revival of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Ralph Bellamy and Adam Arkin star in an episode comprised of three short stories, including one inspired by a Theodore Sturgeon short story.
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STS-51C
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the shortest shuttle flight since the 1981 test flights, lasting only three days. A classified Defense Department payload is delivered to orbit, with the help of the first Inertial Upper Stage booster developed by the U.S. Air Force. This mission is the first time that shuttles had to be swapped out prior to flight – thermal tile issues on Challenger prevented that shuttle from being used for this mission – as well as the first instance of a shuttle launch scrubbed because of concerns over freezing weather and ice at the launch site. Discovery returns via the Kennedy Space Center runway, with Commander Ken Mattingly, Pilot Loren Shriver, mission specialists Ellison Onizuka and James Buchli, and payload specialist Gary Payton aboard.
Doctor Who: Warriors’ Gate, Part 4
The 545th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story brings the E-space trilogy to a close and is written by science fiction novelist Stephen Gallagher. Clifford Rose and Kenneth Cope guest star. This episode is the final appearance of Lalla Ward as Romana. K-9 also permanently leaves the series as of this episode, but due to the character’s popularity, steps are already being taken to create a spinoff for him.
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Buck Rogers: Ardala Returns
NBC airs the 15th episode of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Pamela Hensley and Michael Ansara guest star.
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Episode 11
The 11th episode of Douglas Adams’ breakthrough radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is first broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing the second series of the now-hit cult science fiction phenomenon. At this point, the story has diverged into material that will not be repeated in later iterations of Hitchhiker’s Guide; Rula Lenska guest stars.
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Children Of The Stones: Serpent In The Circle
UK regional broadcaster HTV premieres the third episode of children’s paranormal series Children Of The Stones, starring Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7) and Freddie Jones (Dune). The series is filmed on location near the real stone circle at Avebury. 
Doctor Who: The Brain Of Morbius, Part 4
The 421st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Philip Madoc guest stars as Solon.
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Salyut 3: first weapon fired in space
One day before deorbiting the vacant space station for reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, Soviet military space officials fire the anti-aircraft cannon mounted on the exterior of space station Salyut 3 – the first test of spacecraft-to-spacecraft weapons in history (though there is no target on which to test the ammunition rounds). Without a steerable mount, in practice, the entire Salyut 3 station would need to have been pointed at the gun’s target. The station is destroyed by friction upon atmospheric reentry a day later.
Kolchak: The Trevi Collection
ABC airs the 14th episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, based on the 1973 TV movie The Night Stalker and starring Darren McGavin. Bernie Koppell (The Love Boat) and Lara Parker (Dark Shadows) guest star.
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Search: The 24 Carat Hit
NBC airs the 14th episode of Leslie Steven’s “spy-fi” series Search, starring Tony Franciosa and Burgess Meredith. Annette O’Toole guest stars.