On this day in movie history - The Number 23 (2007)

The Number 23

directed by Joel Schumacher,

written by Fernley Phillips,

was released in the United States on February 23, 2007.

Music by Harry Gregson-Williams.

Cast:

Jim Carrey, Paul Butcher, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston, Rhona Mitra, Bud Cort, Chris Lajoie, Mark Pellegrino, Lynn Collins, Michelle Arthur, Ed Lauter, Corey Stoll.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960)

M Squad
Season 3. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: Needle in a Haystack.

Released February 23, 1960.

Directed by Herman Hoffman.

Written by Rik Vollaerts.

Music by Benny Carter.

 
Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, H.M. Wynant, Joan Marshall, Else Neft, Kip King, Marc Cavell, Alfred Shelly, Johnny Silver.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek, Voyager, Picard

Star Trek (1967 & 1968)
Star Trek: Voyager (2000)
Star Trek: Picard (2023)
 

Star Trek
Season 1. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: A Taste of Armageddon.

Released February 23, 1967.

Directed by Joseph Pevney.

Written by Robert Hamner, Gene L. Coon.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons, Barbara Babcock, Miko Mayama, David L. Ross, Sean Kenney, Robert Sampson, David Armstrong, Buzz Barbee, Majel Barrett, Bobby Bass, Bill Blackburn, John Blower, John Burnside, Dick Cherney, Frank da Vinci, Jeannie Malone, Alan Marston, Troy Melton, Monty O'Grady, Eddie Paskey, Al Roberts, Ron Veto.

 

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: By Any Other Name.

Released February 23, 1968.

Directed by Marc Daniels.

Written by D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby.

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, Warren Stevens, Barbara Bouchet, Stewart Moss, Robert Fortier, Lezlie Dalton, Carl Byrd, Julie Cobb, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Roger Holloway, Eddie Paske.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 6. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Spirit Folk.

Released February 23, 2000.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Richard Riehle, Ian Abercrombie, Ian Patrick Williams, Henriette Ivanans, Duffie McIntire, Fintan McKeown, Bairbre Dowling, Majel Barrett, Amy Kate Connolly, Marvin De Baca, Tarik Ergin, Tina Kotrich, Mary D. Mascari, Nichole McAuley, Jack Nolan, Pablo Soriano.

 

Star Trek: Picard
Season 3. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: DIsengage.

Released February 23, 2023.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Christopher Monfette, Sean Tretta, Matt Okumura, Chris Derrick, Kiley 

Rossetter.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Stephen Barton, Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Todd Stashwick, Amanda Plummer, Aaron Stanford, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Randy J. Goodwin, Robert Morgan, Stephanie Czajkowski, Joseph Lee, Chad Lindberg, Jin Maley, Tiffany Shepis, Amy Earhart, Adam Hunter, Naymon Frank, Grace Lee, An Dang, Christopher B. Derrick, Marie Kelli, Jerry Marr, Frances Parsons, Dominique Stango, Chris Torres, Marco Vazzano.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011)

Justified
Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The I of the Storm.

Released February 23, 2011.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

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

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Jeremy Davies, Will Harris, Brad William Henke, Damon Herriman, Michael Mosley, Peter Murnik, Channon Roe, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Dave Alvin, Tyler Nimmons, Darrell Davis, Leonard Kelly-Young, John A. Lorenz, Jes Macallan, Abby Miller, Katie Locke O’Brien, Nathan Sutton, Paul Edney.

On this day in music history:

American VI: Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash (2010)

Intermundia by Olivia Belli (2024)

American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Album by Johnny Cash,

released February 23, 2010.

Track list: Ain't No Grave; Redemption Day; For the Good Times; I Corinthians 15:55; Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound; Satisfied Mind; I Don't Hurt Anymore; Cool Water; Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream; Aloha Oe.

Intermundia

Album by Olivia Belli,

released February 23, 2024.

Track list: Anima I; Bet Ha-Chaim; Respiro 1; Valadier; Diomedea; Respiro 2; Mirando; Anima II; Pian Perduto; Respiro 3; Amber Maze; Frater; Respiro 4; Sibyl.

Albert Einstein, on imagination:

 

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

- Albert Einstein.

Born on this day – Gertrude Simmons Bonnin:

 

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

a.k.a. Zitkala-Ša

Writer

Librettist

Musician: violin & flute

Teacher

Editor

Translator

Native American activist

February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938

Credits:
American Indian Stories (1921); Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians (1923); Old Indian Legends (1901); The Sun Dance Opera (1913).