On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation (1989) and Discovery (2018, 2021)

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 2. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Loud As A Whisper.

Released January 7, 1989.

Directed by Larry Shaw.

Written by Jacqueline Zambrano, Leonard Mlodinow, Scott Rubenstein.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Diana Muldaur, Marnie Mosiman, Randy Oglesby, Leo Damian, Howie Seago, Colm Meaney, Richard Lavin, Chip Heller, John Robert Garrett, Michael Braveheart, Juliet Cesario, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Guy Vardaman.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 1. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Despite Yourself.

Released January 7, 2018.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Sean Cochran, Bo Yeon Kim, Erika Lippoldt, Kirsten Beyer.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Wilson Cruz, Mary Chieffo, Sam Vartholomeos, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Julianne Grossman, Sara Mitich, Ali Momen, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Chris Violette, Romaine Waite, Demi Oliver, Shelley Owens.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 3. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: That Hope Is You, Part 2.

Released January 7, 2021.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Sean Cochran, Anthony Maranville, Chris Silvestri, Brandon Schultz.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Oded Fehr, Ian Alexander, Blu del Barrio, David Cronenberg, Adil Hussain, Bill Irwin, Janet Kidder, Kenneth Mitchell, Tig Notaro, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Weber, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Julianne Grossman, Avaah Blackwell, Akotene Chanoine, Raven Dauda, Farhang Ghajar, Jinny Jacinto, Vanessa Jackson, Dorren Lee, Karen Robinson, Tara Rosling, Hannah Spear, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Roy Samuelson.

On this day in television history - Justified (2014)

Justified

Season 5. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: A Murder of Crowes.

Released January 7, 2014.

Directed by Michael Dinner.

Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, James Le Gros, Edi Gathegi, Sam Anderson, A.J. Buckley, Matt Craven, Dave Foley, Rick Gomez, Jason Gray-Stanford, Damon Herriman, John Kapelos, David Koechner, Jacob Lofland, Jesse Luken, Don McManus, Amaury Nolasco, Max Perlich, Stephen Root, Will Sasso, Alicia Witt, Karolina Wydra, Ron Yuan, Jeannetta Arnette, Justin Welborn, Natalie Zea, Arriane Alexander, Jack Elliott, Kaitlin Ferrell, Gichi Gamba, Billoah Greene, Jonathan Kowalsky, Aubrey Wood, Russell Bertolino, Lisa Pevc.

 

Lawrence Clark Powell, on writing, speaking and reading:

Write to be understood,
speak to be heard,
read to grow.
 
- Lawrence Clark Powell.

On this day in music history:

The Beautiful Voice by Renée Fleming (1998)

Mission (2013)

Tonight: Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway by Renée Fleming (2014)

Connections by Sherry Finzer (2022)

Clouds Below by 2002 (2023)

The Beautiful Voice

Album by Renée Fleming

with Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber Orchestra,

released January 7, 1998.

Track list:

Depuis le jour (Louise); Jewl song (Faust); Gavotte (Manon); Songs my mother taught me (Gypsy melodies); The last rose (Martha); Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine); Mariettas Lied (Die tote Stadt); In trutina (Carmina Burana); Morgen!; Vocalise; Csardas (Die Fledermaus); Vilja-Lied (Die lustige Witwe); Epilogo (Luna); Bailero (Chants d’Auvergne).

Mission

Directed by Olivier Simonnet.

Cast: Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Franck Delage.

Released January 7, 2013.

Tonight: Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway

Album by Renée Fleming,

with Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann and Klaus Florian Vogt,

released January 7, 2014.

Track list:

Lincke: Frau Luna: Berliner Luft (Live); Gershwin: Pardon My English: The Loreley (Live); Gershwin: Strike Up The Band: Overture (Live); Bernstein: West Side Story: Maria (Live); F. Loewe: My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced All Night (Live); Weill: One Touch Of Venus: Foolish Heart (Live); Bernstein: West Side Story: Tonight (Live); Tauber: Der singende Traum: Du bist die Welt für mich (Live); Gershwin: Lady Be Good: Fascinating Rhythm (Live); Berlin: Annie, Get Your Gun: Anything You Can Do (Live); Tonight - Welthits von Berlin bis Broadway (Live).

Connections

Album by Sherry Finzer,

released January 7, 2022.

Track list:

Peace at Home; Through the Veil; Red Hawk Hill; A New Day; Connections; Bella’s Moon; Highland Waterfall; Wind Spirit; Ever Same; Greatest Blessings; The Crossing Place; Journey With Spirit.

Clouds Below

Album by 2002,

released January 7, 2023.

Track list: 

Soulmate; Glimmering Hope; Landing; City Blue; First Light of Dawn; The Flight Home; Clouds Below; Air and Light; Riding the Current; Everyday Miracles.

Sylvia Plath, on inspiration and writing:

 

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

- Sylvia Plath.

Recommended reading - The Stop-motion Filmography

The Stop-motion Filmography
A Critical Guide to 297 Features Using Puppet Animation

by Neil Pettigrew.
 
2-Volume Set.
Published by McFarland & Company.
Published 2007.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786431075
ISBN-13: 978-0786431076
 
Description:
 

This is a major McFarland reference work providing in-depth analyses of all puppet animation sequences in every film that has featured the process, including King Kong and Jason and the Argonauts. The focus is on how effective the sequence was and how it was executed. In addition to the analysis, each entry provides title, year of release, cast and production credits including producer, director, screenplay, director of photography, art director or production designer, music, stop-motion animators, armature builders, puppet makers, stop-motion cameramen, sequence supervisors, and more. Ratings of the film and of the effectiveness of its stop-motion sequences are also given.

 

“Gargantuan...an insightful and affectionate tribute to [puppet animation] films. Brilliant color photographs shine out alongside numerous black and white photos...recommended.” – Choice.
 
“Well-researched, well-written and a solid addition.” – Video Watchdog.
 
“Detailed…a ‘must have’.” – Famous Monsters of Filmland.
 
“Amazing...thousands of details...an important work.” – Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA) / The International Animated Film Association.
 
“A mightily impressive tome...exhaustive...an essential book for stop motion fans.” – SFX Magazine.
 
“Staggeringly comprehensive study...provides shot-by-shot analysis of every stop-motion sequence in every known feature film that uses the process...Pettigrew’s thoroughness and accuracy border on the astounding...a work of impeccable scholarship.” – Scarlet Street.
 
“A treasure-trove of information.” – Ani-Mato.
 
“Superbly researched and informative text and illustrations...provides in-depth analyses of all puppet animation sequences...a valuable source of information...immaculately researched and written in a lucid and very readable manner” – Talking Pictures Magazine.

Born on this day – Florence Turner:

Florence Turner

Actress

January 6, 1885 – August 28, 1946

Credits:

Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Thousands Cheer (1943); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Hollywood on Parade (1934); He Couldn't Take It (1933); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Sign of the Cross (1932); Sinners in the Sun (1932); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); Taxi (1931); The Ridin' Fool (1931); King of Jazz (1930); The Rampant Age (1930); The Iron Mask (1929); The Kid's Clever (1929); The Pace That Kills (1928); Jazzland (1928); Walking Back (1928); The Road to Ruin (1928); Marry the Girl (1928); The Law and the Man (1928); Sally in Our Alley (1927); The Cancelled Debt (1927); The Chinese Parrot (1927); Stranded (1927); College (1927); The Broken Gate (1927); The Overland Stage (1927); Padlocked (1926); Flame of the Argentine (1926); The Last Alarm (1926); The Gilded Highway (1926); The Dark Angel (1925); The Price of Success (1925); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925); The Mad Marriage (1925); Janice Meredith (1924); Women and Diamonds (1924); The Boatswain's Mate (1924); Sally Bishop (1923); Hornet's Nest (1923); Was She Justified? (1922); The Street Tumblers (1922); The Lights o' London (1922); The Little Mother (1922); The Old Wives' Tale (1921); All Dolled Up (1921); Passion Fruit (1921); Three Men in a Boat (1920); Blackmail (1920); The Ugly Duckling (1920); Thirty Minutes in Havana (1920); Old Dials for New (1920); The Brand of Lopez (1920); Oh, It's E.Z. (1919); Fool's Gold (1919); East Is East (1916); Grim Justice (1916); Doorsteps (1916); A Welsh Singer (1915); Far from the Madding Crowd (1915); Lost and Won (1915); My Old Dutch (1915); Alone in London (1915); As Ye Repent (1915); Snobs (1914); Shopgirls: or, The Great Question (1914); One Thing After Another (1914); Polly's Progress (1914); Through the Valley of Shadows (1914); The Shepherd Lassie of Argyle (1914); For Her People (1914); Flotilla the Flirt (1914); Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914); The Murdoch Trial (1914); Creatures of Habit (1914); The Harper Mystery (1913); The Lucky Stone (1913); The Younger Sister (1913); Pumps (1913); Rose of Surrey (1913); Jean's Evidence (1913); Up and Down the Ladder (1913); Counsellor Bobby (1913); The Deerslayer (1913); A Window on Washington Park (1913); Let 'Em Quarrel (1913); Checkmated (1913); The House in Suburbia (1913); Sisters All (1913); The One Good Turn (1913); Under the Make-Up (1913); Stenographer Troubles (1913); The Skull (1913); Cutey and the Twins (1913); Everybody's Doing It (1913); What a Change of Clothes Did (1913); The Wings of a Moth (1913); While She Powdered Her Nose (1912); The Signal of Distress (1912); Susie to Susanne (1912); The Servant Problem; or, How Mr. Bullington Ran the House (1912); Una of the Sierras (1912); The Face or the Voice (1912); When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet (1912); She Cried (1912); The Irony of Fate (1912); A Vitagraph Romance (1912); The Loyalty of Sylvia (1912); Two Cinders (1912); Flirt or Heroine (1912); Wanted... a Grandmother (1912); Aunty's Romance (1912); Her Diary (1912); Mrs. Carter's Necklace (1912); Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912); Jean Intervenes (1912); The Path of True Love (1912); A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli (1912); One Touch of Nature (1911); Hypnotizing the Hypnotist (1911); Auld Lang Syne (1911); Wig Wag (1911); The Answer of the Roses (1911); Forgotten; or, an Answered Prayer (1911); Cherry Blossoms (1911); Florence Turner in Jealousy (1911); The Thumb Print (1911); The Wrong Patient (1911); Birds of a Feather (1911); Intrepid Davy (1911); The Stumbling Block (1911); Proving His Love; or, the Ruse of a Beautiful Woman (1911); The Sacrifice (1911); The Show Girl (1911); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); The Spirit of the Light; or, Love Watches on Through the Years (1911); For His Sake; or, the Winning of the Stepchildren (1911); Captain Barnacle's Courtship (1911); A Tale of Two Cities (1911); The New Stenographer (1911); Jean Rescues (1911); Where the Winds Blow (1910); Dixie Mother (1910); The Winning of Miss Langdon (1910); A Tin-Type Romance (1910); Love, Luck and Gasoline (1910); Francesca da Rimini (1910); Jean Goes Fishing (1910); In the Mountains of Kentucky (1910); Auld Robin Gray (1910); Brother Man (1910); Renunciation (1910); Jean the Match-Maker (1910); Rose Leaves (1910); The Men Haters' Club (1910); Back to Nature; or, the Best Man Wins (1910); Her Mother's Wedding Gown (1910); Peg Woffington (1910); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910); Davy Jones and Captain Bragg (1910); Wilson's Wife's Countenance (1910); Over the Garden Wall (1910); Sisters (1910); St. Elmo (1910); For Her Sister's Sake (1910); Ranson's Folly (1910); Twelfth Night (1910); Caught in His Own Trap (1910); A Pair of Schemers; or, My Wife and My Uncle (1910); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909); A Gift from Santa Claus (1909); The Heart of a Clown (1909); Launcelot and Elaine (1909); Florence Turner in His Masterpiece (1909); The Three Kisses (1909); Fuss and Feathers (1909); King Lear (1909); Kenilworth (1909); A Daughter of the Sun (1909); An Unexpected Santa Claus (1908); The Merchant of Venice (1908); Miss Sherlock Holmes (1908); The New Stenographer (1908); Saved by Love (1908); Ex-Convict No. 900 (1908); Richard III (1908); Romance of a War Nurse (1908); Love Will Find a Way (1908); Romeo and Juliet (1908); Macbeth (1908); Tale the Autumn Leaves Told (1908); Francesca di Rimini; or, the Two Brothers (1908); The Last Cartridge, an Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India (1908); The Gipsy's Warning (1907); Cast Up by the Sea (1907); Bargain Fiend; or, Shopping à la Mode (1907); Athletic American Girls (1907); How to Cure a Cold (1907).