Stardate: 43917.4
Captain’s Log: The
Enterprise is given the singular honor of escorting Ambassador Sarek to a conference with the Legarans, a first contact that Sarek has worked on for 93 years. His staff Ki Mendrossen, a human, and a Vulcan named Sakkath beam aboard first, warning the captain that the ambassador will require rest and that Picard should forego the usual ceremonial stuff that ships do when ambassadors come on board. Picard is disappointed, but agrees.
Sarek materializes and insists upon seeing the conference room despite the attempts by his wife a human woman named Perrin and his staff to get him to rest. La Forge and Wes are getting the room ready for the Legarans, who have very specific requirements.
Small Screens, Big Scares: 10 More Terrifying TV Movies
Now, Chad Collins compiles another list of terrifying made-for-TV movies! Did your favorite make the list? By Chad Collins
In June of last year, I highlighted my
favorite made-for-television horror movies. The response was somewhat divisive, in large part on account of the perceived snubs (sorry,
Salem’s Lot fans). It’s curious, though, because made-for-TV horror movies are, in a sense, a subgenre of their own. Shades of Aaron-Spelling’s heyday, even among those titles he did not produce, permeate almost every entry in the canon of televised scare fests. Despite the diversity– some muted and washed-out, some vibrant and lively, others adapted from seminal pieces of genre fiction– there’s something linking them all together.
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Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruled 7-2 that Scott, a slave, was not an American citizen and therefore could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
On this date:
In 1475, Italian artist and poet Michelangelo was born in Caprese in the Republic of Florence.
In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell as Mexican forces led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna stormed the fortress after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.