From: baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Time Trax
Reply-To: baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:22:42 GMT

In article <2B5ECE67@ssd0.laafb.af.mil>, KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:
>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.)
Yea. Al only fades when they're low on power or something.
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>But, several questions came to mind as I watched this show:
Some of your questions are pretty good, but the answers to a few seem
obvious to me.

>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.)
The best question of the lot! I was wondering about that myself.
My best guess: as in the modern day military*, the police force was
a bit better at implementing "equal opportunity" than society as a 
whole. Therefore there are a disproportionate number of minority
members. Do I compliment the society or insult the casting director
that the "blankos" were proportionately represented in the police
leadership positions (not like the present military)?

* I'm talking about the volunteer force, not the fact that poor
  folk couldn't legally dodge the draft in the Vietnam era. 
  
>
>6 - 200 years from now, they still use *paper* mail?!
They'd hardly allow a criminal computer access -- too much mischief
to get into. The letters might have been delivered as "parcels." 
I mean, there may not be a large enough demand for paper mail,
but there would still be package shipments.

>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.
Sepp needed Dr. S. to run the machine for him. Given that the Doctor
knew where Sepp was, he could project some sort of beam to the 
appropriate coordinates. But the Doctor had to run the machine himself
for his own escape.

>
>11 - Why did they badmouth Aaron Burr?  He wasn't a traitor!
      I think there's some historical disput, but it's not my
      area of study.
>
>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?
You don't have to travel when you take the drug. The machine has to be
powered up, also. There was probably some failed attempt before he
made it.

>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.
Either 1) Fashions come around again, 2) She was in costume, for some 
reason, in the picture, or 3) It'll be related in a subsequent episode,
which would be fascinating.
>
>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?
Why? 200 years is enough to get them away from the law, and the
lifestyle is cushier.