On this day in the Star Trek universe - Voyager, The Official Guide to our Universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1999 & 2000)

Star Trek: The Official Guide to Our Universe / book (2016)

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 5. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Juggernaut.

Released April 26, 1999.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Ron Canada, Lee Arenberg, Scott Klace, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Alexander Enberg, Tarik Ergin, Keith Rayve, Christina Rydell, Pablo Soriano.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 6. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Muse.

Released April 26, 2000.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Joe Menosky, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Joseph Will, Kellie Waymire, Tony Amendola, Jack Axelrod, Michael Houston King, Kathleen Garrett, Stoney Westmoreland, John Schuck, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Patrick Barnitt, Alexander Fors, Carissa Hernandez, Dieter Horneman, Nichole McAuley, Robin Morselli, Stephen Pisani.

 

Star Trek: The Official Guide to Our Universe
The True Science Behind the Starship Voyages

by Andrew Fazekas.

Foreword by William Shatner.

Published by National Geographic.

Illustrated edition.

Published 2016.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1426216521

ISBN-13: 978-1426216527

Description:

This book reveals the science behind Star Trek’s beloved fictions about the universe, inviting readers to gaze up at the night sky and observe where the Starfleet has gone. Many of the galactic destinations featured in Star Trek over the years – multiple star systems, alien worlds, supernova explosions, emission nebulae, voracious black holes – are scientifically valid, so much so that one can step out and view them in the night sky. In this book astronomy educator Andrew Fazekas, “The Night Sky Guy,” takes you on that journey, starting with specific Star Trek voyages, explaining the science behind them, and guiding you in observing and learning more about the real-universe corollaries of planets and places in the Star Trek universe.

With a foreword from William Shatner and stunningly illustrated with hundreds of full-color images – some artists’ interpretations and some real images generated by the most recent NASA missions – plus stills of favorite Star Trek scenes and characters, Star Trek The Official Guide to Our Universe uses Star Trek to teach astronomy, taking every reader on a voyage of discovery. From Altair to Vega, from red giants to white dwarfs, from our solar system to exoplanets we are only beginning to imagine, the book visits dozens of celestial objects, spotlighting some 20 in careful scientific detail and offering easy-to-follow star-gazing instructions to find them in the night sky.

No warp-driven starship, not even a telescope is required to go on these voyages: Most destinations are bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. For Star Trek fans and budding stargazers who are ready to launch their own space mission, this inventive book blends science and fiction, making learning fun and making Star Trek’s 50th all the more worthy of celebration.

On this day in music history:

American Recordings by Johnny Cash (1994)

Be Here by Rachel Platten (2011)

Storyteller by Secret Garden (2019)

Tattoo Me by Lee Aaron (2024)

 

American Recordings

Album by Johnny Cash,

released April 26, 1994.

Track list: Delia's Gone; Let the Train Blow the Whistle; The Beast in Me; Drive On; Why Me Lord; Thirteen; Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer); Bird on a Wire; Tennessee Stud; Down There by the Train; Redemption; Like a Soldier; The Man Who Couldn't Cry.

 

Be Here

Album by Rachel Platten,

released April 26, 2011.

Track list: Nothing Ever Happens; Overwhelmed; Don't Care What Time It Is; 53 Steps; Little Light; 1000 Ships; Take These Things Away; You Don't Have To Go; All I Seem To Do; Remark.

Storyteller

Album by Secret Garden,

released April 26, 2019.

Track list: The Pilot; Beyond The Blue; Beautiful [feat. Brian Kennedy]; Flow; Song To A Child; Nostalgia; Open Doors; Sunshine [feat. Cathrine Iversen]; One More Chance; Fantasia; The Voyage; Strength [feat. Espen Grjotheim]; End Of A Journey.

 

Tattoo Me

Album by Lee Aaron,

released April 26, 2024.

Track list: Tattoo; Are You Gonna Be My Girl; Even It Up; What Is and What Should Never Be; Is It My Body; Go Your Own Way; The Pusher; Malibu; Someone Saved My Life Tonight; Connection; Teenage Kicks.

Iris Chang, on writing:

 

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself.

And you have no duty towards anyone else.
- Iris Chang.
 

Recommended reading - The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume 1

The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume 1

by Ross Macdonald.

Published by Allison & Busby.
Published 1993.
Paperback.

ISBN 13: 9780749001094
ISBN 10: 0749001097
ASIN: 0749001097
 
Description:
This first volume of Lew Archer novels presents "The Drowning Pool", "The Chill" and "The Goodbye Look".

Born on this day – Helen Reilly:

Helen Reilly

Writer

April 25, 1891 – January 11, 1962

Credits:

All Concerned Notified (1940); And Let the Coffin Pass (1942); Beyond the Dark (1944); Certain Sleep (1961); Compartment K: Murder Rides a Canadian Transcontinental Express (1955); Dead for a Ducat (1939); Dead Man Control (1936); Death Demands an Audience (1940); Ding, Dong, Bell (1958); File on Rufus Ray (1937); Follow Me (1960); Lament for the Bride (1951); Man with the Painted Head (1931); McKee of Centre Street (1934); Mourned on Sunday (1941); Mr. Smith's Hat: A Case for Inspector McKee (1936); Murder at Arroways (1950); Murder in Shinbone Alley (1940); Murder in the Mews (1931); Murder on Angler's Island (1945); Name Your Poison (1942); Not Me, Inspector (1959); Run with the Hare (1941); Staircase 4 (1949); Tell Her It's Murder (1954); The Canvas Dagger (1956); The Day She Died (1962); The Dead Can Tell (1940); The Diamond Feather (1930); The Doll's Trunk Murder (1932); The Double Man (1952); The Farmhouse (1947); The Line-Up (1934); The Opening Door (1944); The Silver Leopard (1946); The Thirty-first Bullfinch (1930); The Velvet Hand (1953); Three Women in Black (1941).

Born on this day – George W. Hill:

George W. Hill

Director

Cinematographer

April 25, 1895 – August 10, 1934

Credits:

Big House (1931); Buckshot John (1915); Burning Daylight: The Adventures of ‘Burning Daylight’ in Civilization (1914); Buttons (1927); Buttons (1927); Clear All Wires! (1933); Fields of Honor (1918); Get Your Man (1921); Held Up for the Makin’s (1920); Hell Divers (1931); His Picture in the Papers (1916); Hypocrites (1915); Intolerance (1916); Less Than the Dust (1916); Macbeth (1916); Martin Eden (1914); Mary Ellen Comes to Town (1920); Min and Bill (1930); Our Little Wife (1918); Polly of the Circus (1917); Pretty Mrs. Smith (1915); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Sunshine Alley (1917); Tell It to the Marines (1926); The Barrier (1926); The Beloved Traitor (1918); The Big House (1930); The Big Parade (1925); The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); The Caprices of Kitty (1915); The Cinderella Man (1917); The Cossacks (1928); The Flying Fleet (1929); The Flying Torpedo (1916); The Foolish Virgin (1924); The Good Earth (1937); The Hill Billy (1924); The Limited Mail (1925); The Midnight Express (1924); The Painted Veil (1934); The Pursuit of the Phantom (1914); The Sea Wolf (1913); The Secret 6 (1931); The Waiting Soul (1917); Through the Dark (1924); Turning the Tables (1919); While the Devil Laughs (1921); Zander the Great (1925).

Born on this day – Mary Miles Minter:

Mary Miles Minter

Actress

April 25, 1902 – August 4, 1984

Credits:

A Bachelor's Wife (1919); A Bit of Jade (1918); A Cumberland Romance (1920); A Dream or Two Ago (1916); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); All Souls' Eve (1921); Always in the Way (1915); Anne of Green Gables (1919); Annie-for-Spite (1917); Barbara Frietchie (1915); Beauty and the Rogue (1918); Charity Castle (1917); City Confidential (2007); Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016); Dimples (1916); Don't Call Me Little Girl (1921); Drums of Fate (1923); Dulcie's Adventure (1916); Emmy of Stork's Nest (1915); Environment (1917); Eyes of the Heart (1920); Faith (1916); Her Country's Call (1917); Her Winning Way (1921); Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988); Jenny Be Good (1920); Judy of Rogues' Harbor (1920); Lovely Mary (1916); Melissa of the Hills (1917); Moonlight and Honeysuckle (1921); Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter (1992); Nurse Marjorie (1920); Onze filmsterren (1919); Peggy Leads the Way (1917); Periwinkle (1917); Powers That Prey (1918); Reel Life #23 (1916); Rose of the Alley (1916); Rosemary Climbs the Heights (1918); Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 22 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 16 (1922); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 24 (1923); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Social Briars (1918); Somewhere in America (1917); South of Suva (1922); Stars of Yesterday (1931); Sweet Lavender (1920); The Amazing Impostor (1919); The Cowboy and the Lady (1922); The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918); The Fairy and the Waif (1915); The Gentle Intruder (1917); The Ghost of Rosy Taylor (1918); The Heart Specialist (1922); The Innocence of Lizette (1916); The Intrusion of Isabel (1919); The Little Clown (1921); The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917); The Nurse (1912); The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1923); Tillie (1922); Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007); Wives and Other Wives (1918); Youth's Endearing Charm (1916); Yvonne from Paris (1919).