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A disturbing thought about Time Trax.

Guy Gardener

Guy Gardener

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I'm a few episodes into the second season right now, plodding along, but I'm beginning to wonder what the implications of Captain Lambert removing all these futurist supermen from the 20th centuries gene pool?

They claim that there was some sort of spontaneous evolution which increased the human bodies potential marvellously. Posthuman Olympian plus bodies supporting computer like minds as well as magical abilities to manipulate the perception of time...

Methinks that it was all the supercriminals breeding with the regular people (I imagine that supersperm comes out faster and harder than regular sperm, therefore no condom could ever restrain them, and no poison would be able stop them or contraceptive agent would be able to confuse 22nd century sperm if the jizz could out wait the pill inside the female body for a month or longer.) and certainly prostitutes (who are regular people of course, it's just a question of accessability) would start the production of Homosuperior...

If Lambert keeps sending all those criminals back to the future, quite soon the 22nd century will never come about because man would not have had it's evolution forcefed by all them backsteppers knocking up the locals in the distant past with super babies.

Captain Lambert is going to destroy himself and everyone he knows back home.
 
Dennis said:
It's disturbing that anyone thinks about Time Trax.
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Yes, although it could be worse. This could be a thread about Leonard Nimoy's DEADLY GAMES, or whatever that UPN show was called that was about escaped video game characters and starred Christopher Lloyd.
 
Guy Gardener said:
Captain Lambert is going to destroy himself and everyone he knows back home.
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It's been years since I've seen Time Trax, but I think they never time travelled in that show, they travelled to a parallel universe that existed 200 years earlier than their own. That's why there was no danger to change the timeline and why they were never able to choose the length of the trip, it was always exactly 200 years.
 
Takeru said:
Guy Gardener said:
Captain Lambert is going to destroy himself and everyone he knows back home.
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It's been years since I've seen Time Trax, but I think they never time travelled in that show, they travelled to a parallel universe that existed 200 years earlier than their own. That's why there was no danger to change the timeline and why they were never able to choose the length of the trip, it was always exactly 200 years.
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Oh, they sometimes said that, but then other times he sent messages to the Future through the personal ads in the newspaper, which the Trax division back home would "find" in the Smithonian archives.

But it's not like they found every message he ever sent in the first 15 minutes after they sent him, or even before they sent him, but after they decided to send Lambert and how they would communicate.

Which means Darrian could have been receiving required assets, tools and items to save the day before he knew he needed them...

And yes the show is terrible, but I'm almost finished the second season, and ithe whole kaboodle started off with Mia Sara (Sloan from Ferris Beuller's Day off.) so I kept hoping that despite her IMDB listing she would walk back into an episode.

She's so dreamy.

"Walter Bishop" from Fringe was in an episode but he hadn't yet perfected his yank accent to any successful degree.
 
Now that's a show I hadn't thought of for years either. Is it on DVD? I remember seeing a few episodes here and there. I thought it was OK and the Mary Poppins-like computer gal was cute (hey, I thought the female Holly on Red Dwarf was sexy too, so sue me). I remember being disappointed that Mia Sara (one of my favorite actresses at the time) didn't appear in more episodes.

Probably the show's biggest problem was I remember it was dismissed as a Quantum Leap rip-off back in the day. Probably not fairly. As I recall it was one of a batch of made-for-syndicated dramas that flooded the market in the 1990s in the wake of the success of TNG and DS9, like Earth Final Conflict and the Xena/Hercules franchise, most of which were filmed on the cheap in places like Australia (which was the case for Time Trax, I know).

The sad part is most people probably couldn't get past the rather campy "A special kind of man..." opening credits, which I still remember giving me the giggle back then. But if it's out on DVD I might want to check it out.

Alex
 
The good old days of syndicated SF-Drama. Sadly, I think it better then whats in current production (Minus Dr. Who if you like that) But even as a teen I thought it was cheezy that the assassin in the first episode killed someone with Lincoln's assassination weapon, as it makes NO sense, as anyone can build a blackpowder weapon out of common materials. I remember watching thinking it wasn't THAT bad. But as a teen I liked bad SF TV. Still do...kinda..
 
It was on ITV in the UK, so dead from the get go. I remember I was in hospital when in premeired. Filmed in Australia wasn't it?
 
23skidoo said:
Now that's a show I hadn't thought of for years either. Is it on DVD? I remember seeing a few episodes here and there. I thought it was OK and the Mary Poppins-like computer gal was cute (hey, I thought the female Holly on Red Dwarf was sexy too, so sue me). I remember being disappointed that Mia Sara (one of my favorite actresses at the time) didn't appear in more episodes.

Probably the show's biggest problem was I remember it was dismissed as a Quantum Leap rip-off back in the day. Probably not fairly. As I recall it was one of a batch of made-for-syndicated dramas that flooded the market in the 1990s in the wake of the success of TNG and DS9, like Earth Final Conflict and the Xena/Hercules franchise, most of which were filmed on the cheap in places like Australia (which was the case for Time Trax, I know).

The sad part is most people probably couldn't get past the rather campy "A special kind of man..." opening credits, which I still remember giving me the giggle back then. But if it's out on DVD I might want to check it out.

Alex
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Is it out on DVD? Yes. Is it out on OFFCIAL DVD? No.
 
I remember watching this show too, but it was probably just because I was hungry for anything scifi back then, and there weren't a whole lot of other options to choose from.

I can only imagine how incredibly cheesy it must look now. lol
 
Geez, I like this one back in the day... Looking it up on YouTube now, I wonder how ANY of us survived early 90s syndicated TV that wasn't Star Trek.

And yeah, they established really early that the 1993 everyone had gone back to was a parallel earth that moved at a very slightly different time scale, meaning that they're not REALLY travelling back in time, but sideways to an Earth that happened to be 200 years before they were.

Then came the whole "hey, I can leave an ad in the papers to send messages home" thing, and in an early episode the bad guy had been dumping toxic waste somewhere that DID alter the timeline and was causing environmental damage back home. Or did he? Maybe Guy can fill this inl it was an early episode.

Mark
 
If I recall correctly (Remember, have not seen the show since the 1990s) you could time travel TWICE, (or teleport inside the same timeline) but the drug was toxic after that. If you wanted to time travel you could go back once, and forward once. And the guy in question was forwarding toxic waste 200 years in the future, and then the people in the future had to deal with it. (it was the main bad guy, the guy who invented the technology, and then when it was a failure commercially, he sold it to fugitives to escape the law....)
 
Twice? It hought it was THREE times, i.e. they built in a back door such that people COULD return to the future but then anything else would be a one-way ticket. Not that they ever used it, I'm sure.

This show was never too hot on scientific accuracy, but then the plots got stale quickly - there's something about the 90s that made this type of genre show old and quickly (basically superhuman guy from another place finds someone to help or capture every week and deals with him inside of 45 mintues). This show, The Pretender, Brimstone, and more successfully Quantum Leap and Highlander were all cut from the same sort of "wandering cowboy" archetype from early TV.

Anyway, I lost interest in the second season when Lambert was adopting personas (and accents!) for no really apparent reason, and then it suddenly seemed that ANYONE could get their hands on the TXP drug - even the janitor of the building that housed the Trax time machine!

Mark
 
Mark_Nguyen said:
Twice? It hought it was THREE times, i.e. they built in a back door such that people COULD return to the future but then anything else would be a one-way ticket. Not that they ever used it, I'm sure.
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I could be wrong, but didn't the assassin from the pilot/first episode lick a envelope with the drug, teleporting to the facility, then again to zap him back in time, and then he was worried if he was sent back it would be his third dose which could be fatal?

I could be WAY wrong, been over a decade since I seen the show. :rofl:
 
I vaguely recall an episode where John Schuck had a jet pack.

But anyway...hell yeah! No better way to spend a Saturday afternoon back in the day than with an episode of Time Trax followed by Kung Fu: The Legend Continues!
 
The normal limit was two trips. The neo-Nazi criminal Sepp Dietrich was exposed to the process three times, and came out badly disfigured.

As for the parallel thing: That seems to have been abandoned early on. We can mainly conclude, then, that all of those criminals were predestined to travel back in time, as was Lambert himself.
 
The Time Trax officials were replacing all the money Darrien stole from the US banking system while adjusting for interest, that 10 grand in 1993 equalled 1 million dollars in 2193.

"Unofficial" loans.

However they outright laughed at a guy that was trying to premurder the man who manslaughtered his girlfriend by removing all his possible ancestors since the genealogical records were a little sketchy that he wasn't as surgical as he would have liked.

these stories were both in the back end of season two.

No one was keeping track of the fake science.

(I've almost finished, 30 something episodes in a few days and my brain hasn't melted yet.)
 
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