From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Time Trax
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:25:00 GMT

Hmmm... we seem to have The Six Million Dollar Man meets Quantum Leap (he 
even has a hologram companion, although Al from QL can stay in focus a lot 
better than Selma can.)

Actually, I sort of enjoyed this show, but how much of the future will we get 
to see in upcoming episodes?  If it sticks to 1993, it's going to be pretty 
much just another cop show.  Will Annie be returning?  You can probably bet 
on it.  I give it a C+.

But, several questions came to mind as I watched this show:

1 - Why did they insist on calling it the Smithsonian Institute?  It's the 
Smithsonian *Institution*.

2 - It's the Museum of American History, not the Museum of History. (or else 
the Museum of Natural History, but that's not really a history museum.)

3 - How did the door of the bathroom stall that Damien (sp?) materialized 
into get locked from the inside?

4 - That red brick building they kept showing as the "Museum of History" is 
an administrative building, not a place that has displays (well, I think 
there are some small displays, but the "History Museum" is on the other side 
of the Mall.)

5 - If whites are a despised minority, why are all of the cops white?  And 
they're all male, also.  (Well, there was that one brief appearance of a 
black female cop showing Elissa (sp?) into Damien's office, but she seemed 
more like an usher than a cop.)

6 - 200 years from now, they still use *paper* mail?!

7 - They still have books?  The dust jackets and everything else about them 
looked just like modern books do.  Nothing will change in the publishing 
industry in 200 years?

8 - Why didn't the National Archives have those old newspapers on microfiche, 
microdot, or some form of computer storage (CD-ROM)?  Would they really allow 
just anybody to walk in off the street and ask to play around with the 
originals of 200-year-old newspapers?  And what are newspapers doing in the 
National Archives anyway?  They should have gone to the Library of Congress, 
or even to the Washington Post itself, if it still exists in 2193.

9 - How come Doctor S (never could figure out his name - Sahmbi?) needed the 
machine to go into the past, but Sepp the Nazi didn't?  Sepp just licked the 
envelope, and he was gone.

10 - Has Michael Warren *really* gone bald since Hill Street Blues?  And 
haven't they found a cure yet in 200 years?  I always ask the same question 
about Jean-Luc Picard.

11 - Why did they badmouth Aaron Burr?  He wasn't a traitor!

12 - The chronology of Damien's popping into the Smithsonian went all askew.  
Selma said he arrived sometime after 9:00 PM, then Annie says something about 
how they've grilled him for several hours, then they go out to dinner 
(breakfast, maybe, but not dinner!), and the waiter says, "I go home at 
eleven, sir."  Get the time straight!

13 - The Secret Service guy just took a stranger's word for it that he was 
CIA, just because he flashed a badge?  And then goes on into detail about the 
President's schedule?  What's the CIA doing there, anyway?  It is illegal for 
the CIA to be involved in domestic situations.

14 - What was that about Sepp getting three doses of that drug?  He had one 
when he popped into 1993, and one when he popped out.  Where did the third 
one come from?

15 - Why, if Damien was born in 2160, does the photo of his "mother" show her 
dressed in 19th century clothes?  You can bet that this little time jaunt had 
something to do with Damien showing up as a foundling at the orphanage.

16 - I wonder, if there is a 200-year limit on the use of that drug, couldn't 
they just set up their operation in 1993 and send other people back to 1793?

And there were too many commercials!  And the narration at the beginning was 
annoying.

Well, we'll see about the next episode.  If it turns into just another cop 
show, I'll stop watching.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil

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