Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film, the
seventh in the Star Trek film series. Malcolm McDowell (pictured) joined
cast members from the 1960s television show Star Trek and the 1987 spin-
off The Next Generation, including William Shatner and Patrick Stewart.
In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D joins with
Captain James T. Kirk to stop the villain Tolian Soran from destroying a
planetary system. David Carson directed with photography by franchise
newcomer John A. Alonzo. The distributor, Paramount, marketed the film
with merchandising tie-ins, including toys, books, games, and the first
website to ever promote a major motion picture. The film opened at the
top of the United States box office its first week of release and
grossed a total of $118 million worldwide. Critical reception was
lukewarm, with critics divided on the film's characters and
comprehensibility to a casual viewer.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1883:
The last known quagga (example pictured), a subspecies of the
plains zebra, died at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga>
1944:
World War II: In Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, the Waffen-SS
and the Brigate Nere murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees and
burned their bodies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Anna_di_Stazzema_massacre>
1985:
Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed into the ridge of Mount
Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board in
the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123>
1990:
Near Faith, South Dakota, American paleontologist Sue
Hendrickson found one of the most complete discovered Tyrannosaurus rex
skeletons, nicknamed Sue.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_%28dinosaur%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sericulture:
(agriculture) The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sericulture>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor
whither I go nor who I am. This is my situation as yours, every single
one of you. The fact that everyone always was in this same situation,
and always will be, tells me nothing. Our burning question as to the
whence and whither — all we can ourselves observe about it is the
present environment. That is why we are eager to find out about it as
much as we can. That is science, learning, knowledge; it is the true
source of every spiritual endeavour of man.
--Erwin Schrödinger
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger>
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