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Season 01 Star Trek The Next Generation

The Big Goodbye

Star Trek: The Next GenerationStardate 41997.7: During a holodeck holiday in the fictitious world of Dixon Hill, Captain Picard, Data, Doctor Crusher and ship’s historian Whalen become trapped in a murder mystery where their chances of being murdered are very real, while impatient aliens threaten the ship when its captain is unavailable for scheduled diplomatic negotiations…

Order the DVDswritten by Tracy Torme’
directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Lawrence Tierney (Cyrus Redblock), Harvey Jason (Leech), William Boyett (Bell), David Selburg (Whalen), Gary Armagnal (McNary), Mike Genovese (Desk Sergeant), Dick Miller (Vendor), Carolyn Allport (Jessica Bradley), Rhonda Aldrich (Madeline), Erik Cord (Thug)

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Deep Space Nine Season 01 Star Trek

A Man Alone

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 46421.5: During routine banter with Quark on the Promenade, Odo spots Ibundan, a Bajoran man he jailed months ago for murder, and the old enemies get into a fight almost immediately. Not long afterward, Ibundan is found dead in one of the Promenade’s holosuites, and evidence has been carefully placed to lead a trail to Odo, a suspicion which spreads among the station’s populace along with rumors of Odo being a Cardassian agent and a growing paranoia. Bashir and Dax begin putting together pieces of a puzzle which include DNA traces from Ibundan’s ship, but in the meantime, the station’s residents grow restless and demand that Odo be handed over to be punished for a crime they believe he committed. While Sisko and his crew are working full-time on finding the solution to the crime, the denizens of Deep Space 9 seem to have no intention of allowing Odo to survive long enough to stand trial.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Michael Piller
story by Gerald Sanford and Michael Piller
directed by Paul Lynch
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Edward Laurence Albert (Zayra), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Peter Vogt (Bajoran Man #1), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Steven James Carver (Ibundan), Tom Klunis (“Old Man” Ibundan), Scott Trost (Bajoran Officer), Patrick Cupo (Bajoran Man), Kahtryn Graf (Bajoran Woman), Hana Hatae (Molly O’Brien), Diana Cignoni (Dabo Girl), Judi Durand (Computer Voice)

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Season 4 Xena: Warrior Princess

Key To The Kingdom

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena’s look-a-like Meg, along with Joxer, ask Autolycus for help in locating the crown of Athena. But what she doesn’t tell the king of thieves is that she’s really after a baby.

Order the DVDswritten by Eric Morris
directed by Bruce Campbell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Lucy Lawless (Meg), Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Craig Parker (Cleades), Paul Willis (Ormestin), Martin Howells (Kryptos)

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Hyperdrive Season 1

A Gift From The Glish

HyperdriveIn the year 2151, the spaceship HMS Camden Lock is on a mission to represent British interests in deep space, and that mission is not going smoothly. Captain Henderson has been tasked with the difficult mission of promoting use of the Peterborough Enterprise Zone, but with alien visitors like the Glish, it’s an uphill climb – particularly when part of the ritual of greeting the Glish involves allowing them to lick the people who are greeting them. Offended at the reactions to their friendly greeting, the Glish leave a present for the Camden Lock’s crew – a creature capable of wreaking deadly havoc. Naturally, it’ll choose to do precisely that during the next visit by a foreign dignitary.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley
directed by John Henderson
music by Mark Thomas

HyperdriveCast: Nick Frost (Henderson), Kevin Eldon (York), Miranda Hart (Teal), Dan Antopolski (Jeffers), Stephen Evans (Vine), Petra Massey (Sandstrom), Paterson Joseph (Space Marshal), Richard Katz (Male Glish), Katherine Jakeways (Female Glish), Laurence Howarth (Fasmoff), Remi Wilson (Piretti), Joe Marshall (Wade), Waen Shepherd (Captain Helix), Stephanie Dooley (Beautiful Space Lady), Morwenna Banks (Announcer), Maggie Service (Computer voice), Ewan Bailey (Computer voice)

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Lost Season 2

The 23rd Psalm

  • By Dave
  • January 11, 2006

LostFlashback: In Nigeria, a gang demands that a young boy shoot an old man. The boy’s older brother, Eko, takes the gun and fires instead, sparing his brother Yemi from having to commit the sin. The gang takes Eko away, and years later he becomes a feared figure. He agrees to help smuggle heroin out of the country, but in order to do so he will have to find a way to get the drugs onto either a United Nations or Catholic charities plane. He tries to enlist the aid of his brother, who is now a priest; Yemi refuses. Eko’s colleagues threaten to burn down the church unless Yemi complies with their request, and he finally does. But as Eko prepares to leave on the plane, his brother drives up, with the military not far behind. Yemi begs Eko not to get on the plane while the smugglers and military shoot at each other. Yemi is caught in the crossfire. Eko is forced from the plane, and the military mistakes him for the priest that called them.

The Island: Michael tries to contact Walt again via the terminal and gets some firearms training from Locke. Walt lets his father know that he is all right, but he has to hide their contact from some others. Eko learns of the Mary statue from Claire; he breaks the statue, shows her the contents, and demands that Charlie take him to where he found it. Charlie tries to claim that he didn’t know what was in the statue, and that he simply found it in a field, but neither Claire nor Eko believe him. En route to the plane, the creature – a mass of black smoke – charges Eko and stops right in front of him, but does not attack him. When they find the plane, Eko offers his last respects to his brother, and a replacement statue to Charlie, leaving the addict with another decision to make.

Order the DVDswritten by Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
directed by Matt Earl Beesley
music by Michael Giacchino

Guest Cast: Adetokumboh McCormack (Yemi), Ronald Revels (Goldie), Pierre Olivier (Olu), Kolawolfe Obileye, Jr. (Young Eko), Cynthia Charles (Nigerian Woman), John Bryan (Thug Captain), Ellis St. Rose (Priest), Moumen El Hajji (Tough Moroccan), Lawrence Jones (Lead Soldier), Olekan Obileye (Young Yemi) and Achraf Marzouki (Moroccan No. 2.)

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Invasion

Us Or Them

InvasionWhen an angry husband tries to snatch his wife away from the support group of people who were found in an altered state after the hurricane, the other survivors gather around him and attack viciously, almost killing him. Mariel cuts the attack short and demands that someone call 911 – and finds no one willing to do so. Later, Russell and Dave confront Mariel with the human remains they’ve found – the remains of Sheriff Tom Underlay, with the remains of an unidentified creature wrapped around him. Mariel storms away, accusing Russell of trying to wrest custody of the children away from her. But the revelation unnerves her enough to demand answers from Tom – or at least who appears to be Tom. After convincing him to cut off his own new arm, Tom insists that Deputy Sirk should recuperate at the Underlay household, but he lies to Kira, telling her that Sirk is recovering from a gunshot wound. When Tom tries to explain Mariel’s situation to her, she threatens to leave him unless she gets the whole truth; she later meets Russell and admits to some very confused feelings, and Russell returns home equally confused. But when Russell learns that Larkin dropped his children off with Tom, he rushes to the Underlays’ house to find the children gone, Tom gone, Sirk gone, and Mariel in shock.

Order this DVDwritten by Shaun Cassidy
directed by J. Miller Tobin
music by Jon Ehrlich & Jason Derlatka

Guest Cast: Nathan Baesel (Sirk), Ivar Brogger (Father Scanlon), Tammy Trull (Alma Tredwell), Scott Michael Morgan (Randy Tredwell), James Carraway (Roger Weeks), Nicole Garz (Emily)

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Season 4 Stargate Stargate Atlantis

Spoils Of War

Stargate AtlantisIn the aftermath of the allied attack on the Replicators’ homeworld, a Wraith hive ship has gone missing, and the allied forces are convinced to mount a rescue effort. Sheppard and his team search for the missing ship, unaware that its commander had his own agenda during the attack – to retrieve the Zero Point Modules powering the Replicators’ central city complex before it collapsed. Two teams from Atlantis find the hive ship and board it, but only then do they learn that the hive’s Queen has reawakened with no intention of preserving the tenuous newfound peace between Wraith, humans and rogue Replicators. She intends to keep feeding. Teyla, with her unique mental link to the Wraith, intends to stop the Queen in her tracks – but to do so, she must put the life of her unborn child at risk.

Order the DVDswritten by Alan McCullough
directed by William Waring
music by Joel Goldsmith and Neil Acree

Guest Cast: Christopher Heyerdahl (Wraith), David Nykl (Dr. Zelenka), Kavan Smith (Major Lorne), Scott Heindl (Wraith), Brendan Penny (Wraith), Andee Frizzell (Wraith Queen), Chuck Campbell (Technician)

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