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A disturbing thought about Time Trax.

The only thing more disturbing than thinking about Time Trax is thinking about Pointman, the most obscure of the 4 PTEN shows. :cardie:

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).
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It debuted the same month as DS9, so it wasn't inspired by that. Quantum Leap (1989) was probably more of a direct inspiration, with TNG being indirectly responsible (showing the strength of syndication for a sci-fi show).
 
Time for an extremely minor question about this show:

Lambert's PPT had three options: shoot someone with a red beam (to send them to the future), plus green and blue beams, both of which stunned the target. What's the difference between green and blue? They both appeared to do the same thing.
 
I remember watching this as a kid and thinking that the future world presented in the pilot was kind of cool. Which means I was a bit disappointed when Lambert travelled back in time and the show was set in the rather mundane 20th century from there on. :p

Today I understand that it was just a low-budget show and they couldn't afford to have it set in the 22nd century all the time. ;)
But then again, Total Recall 2070 provided me with what I wanted a few years later: a cop show set in a farther future than just "a few years from now".
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Time for an extremely minor question about this show:

Lambert's PPT had three options: shoot someone with a red beam (to send them to the future), plus green and blue beams, both of which stunned the target. What's the difference between green and blue? They both appeared to do the same thing.
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One was for a few minutes, the other knocked the subject out for an hour or two.

I finished all 44 episodes the other day.

I was amazed that the last episode wasn't a last episode.

They didn't try to cliffhang or resolve.

Screaming at the TV I was.

Selma was adorable.

It's amusing to see Jeri Ryan on anything other than Star Trek because you can't see her boobs, ipso facto the lady seems like a real person rather than a stunt.

Seriously? An episode to hunt down an endangered Kaola who's blood has the antibodies needed to stop a pandemic outbreak in the future...

Awful.

By the way, Lambert was a whore.

He Kissed ALL the female guest stars, claiming to have REAL feelings for them and then with the rare exception they were never to be seen again.
 
RandyS said:
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.
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Maybe if we are lucky SyFy will do what it used to do and air old Sci-Fi TV shows during the day or weekend and run Time Trax and some of the other shows from the 1990's. I used to spend many a Saturday watching these shows or recording them on the device known as a VCR. I might even have some old tapes of Time Trax in a box somewhere along with Good vs. Evil and Cleopatra 2525.
 
timelord1010 said:
RandyS said:
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.
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Maybe if we are lucky SyFy will do what it used to do and air old Sci-Fi TV shows during the day or weekend and run Time Trax and some of the other shows from the 1990's. I used to spend many a Saturday watching these shows or recording them on the device known as a VCR. I might even have some old tapes of Time Trax in a box somewhere along with Good vs. Evil and Cleopatra 2525.
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Well, why don't you just take your Time Trax tapes and transfer them to DVD-R?

That's what I did, and was what I was referring to when I said the show is available on DVD.
 
What i watched were dubiously acquired VHS rips. The VHS degradation was quite obvious at some points, and the advertising during the ending credits telling me to sit down and stay tuned for Kung Fu the legend continues (EVERYTIME!) was awful... But I smiled when they described Babylon 5 as "the Block Buster movie returns to tv."

Whosoever recorded these episodes lived in Detroit 20 years ago. :)
 
dangit, all this talk of Time Trax made me want to watch a episode or two...you know its bad when Netflix doesn't have it even to save..
 
What i watched were dubiously acquired VHS rips. The VHS degradation was quite obvious at some points, and the advertising during the ending credits telling me to sit down and stay tuned for Kung Fu the legend continues (EVERYTIME!) was awful... But I smiled when they described Babylon 5 as "the Block Buster movie returns to tv."
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Dubiously acquired VHS tapes? Aha! I see... they were brought into the future with time travel via a relay system involving a Borax 20 mule train thru a time tunnel, evading the timecops of course because this kind of thing isn't too legal, with each mule taking a quantum leap.



And yeah, the 4th show was Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. Marker was a 1st season UPN show.
 
Exactly, I couldn't have meant anything else.

I'm expecting a shipment of Bosom Buddies next week.

You'd think that Darrien would have been on all sorts of missions to recover historical this or that, or endangered that or this... But he just sat back drinking beer watching sporting events.

I laughed when he claimed that Aussie Rules Football was infinitely superior to US Football.
 
Hadn't thought about this show for years. I think only S1 ever aired on these shores, unless S2 was buried away in a graveyard slot at some point.
 
Time Trax was quite fun; I'm pretty confident it was aired on Saturday early evening, in a summer slot. At least, I have fairly clear memories of setting up the barbecue and watching Time Trax while waiting for the charcoal to heat up.

I'd happily watch a few eps for nostalgia's sake.
 
And then your brain would punch you for the pleasure.

I wouldn't recommend it.

I am a canary in a coal mine who just died.

On the original aspect I was complaining about, a later episode, in direct opposition to an earlier episode which claimed natural evolution, had Draal(II) from Babylon 5 claiming that the advanced, and at that "uniform" advanced state of man in the future is from genetic modification, as in they managed to "perfect" the species without one of gene Roddenberry's ridiculous Eugenics Wars.

I wonder how the Amish resisted the urge to not be so much less than the English?

Christian Science is all about denying faith being superior to medicine, I wonder if they missed the boat to? or was the sect abandoned or did it adapt to accept genetically modified human beings as par?
 
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