Talk:Time Trax

Parallel Universe

I'm pretty sure they said explicitly in the pilot and several other episodes that they were on a parallel earth. It seems like that would make putting articles in the newspaper to update his superiors useless, as they would have to travel to a parallel earth to read them, but it does avoid all the time paradoxes.

    They did? - I can't remember that...

Uhhhh, nope. Shador5529 17:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

(Just as one verifiable example:) This parallel universe is mentioned in the episode "Out For Blood". In the future a cop caused the dead of a criminal's beloved girlfriend during a persecution. The criminal went back in time to kill all ancestors of this cop in order to make him unborn and the accident unhappened. Darrien explains to him, that this does not change anything in the future because... -> parallel universe! So, as I have figured out some minutes before reading this discussion page, the newspaper articles should be useless. I could find more examples, if necessary. 217.85.90.195 (talk) 00:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

From the beginning of the pilot:

Darien: "Where are we?"

Selma: "We are in the basement of the Smithsonian Museum of History."
Darien: "What's the date?"
Selma: "June 15th 1993 9:38 PM"
Darien: "So there is a parallel universe?"

Selma: "You have chosen an odd time to accept the concept."

--MikeZ (talk) 21:22, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I am late to this party, but when the evil dude transported the truck full of nuclear waste to the future, it turned up in the same future, so the parallel time theory completely breaks down there unless they are also transported forward to their own universe again, which would explain why the time-astronaut returned to his own time and world... Of course, none of that explains the newspaper articles, so I am putting it down to magic! Lawrie (talk) 06:51, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi everyone. During these Covid times I went ahead and added a correction of "Parallel Universe" to the article. I added it because regardless of whatever scientific fact we know of in our sane reality outside of TV, this is a work of science fiction written with a lack of scientific knowledge from 1993 by people with barely an education. So, because within the first two minutes of the pilot this work of fiction dictates from the protagonist's point of view, which is never corrected, that their fictional world somehow operates in some weird way, that is what we must dictate within the article. The protagonist 'traveled two-hundred years into the past' to a 'parallel universe', which is clearly dictated within the television show in the first two minutes and not contested. Sure, it's highly off-the-mark in proper science, but regardless, the show dictates that this science fictional program's world operates as such and as curators we must mention this. By the way, not every tv show from the past is going to get science correct, even theoretical science at that, so whatever is mentioned within the actual show is just what we relate here without prejudice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.0.242.250 (talk) 18:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Wouldn't this be an example of the "many worlds" theory of time travel? Basically, that when you go back in time and change history, the world/future you came from remains unaltered, rather than being overwritten by the new history you've created. Instead, that new history branches off into its own timeline/universe, existing parallel to the one you came from.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, for instance, utilizes a version of this concept, as we're told in "Avengers: Endgame" that traveling to the past and removing the Infinity Stones from the timeline will cause new timelines to branch off; only returning the stones to their proper place in time once they're through will prevent this from happening. We further learn in the Disney Plus series "Loki" that an organization called the Time Variance Authority also exists in order to "police" the timeline and prevent new universes from branching off.

So - under this model - once Darien and all the fugitives were sent back in time, the version of 1993 they landed in would have branched off into its own separate universe; therefore nothing they do there - such as killing someone's ancestors - would alter the world they came from. This doesn't necessarily mean that fugitives sent back using Darien's pellet gun wouldn't return to the future of their own Earth, however (along with other objects teleported into the future, like the toxic waste). Maybe that's just how time travel works, or maybe there's something particular about the tech Darien and his nemesis are using that causes people and objects transported into the future to go back to Earth A rather than the future of Earth B (i.e., the one they're currently on).

Still not sure how the newspaper thing works, OR how they're able to send money back to be deposited in Darien's bank account on Earth B, for that matter! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6011:5303:604D:F833:7E3D:346A:CE76 (talk) 05:22, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

More X's

I seem to remember that the series started out with one 'x' and added one 'x' per season. Does anyone else remember this? Val42 03:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Aaaannd nope again. Shador5529 17:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Image

Image of Time Trax main cast is low quality, but in all net i don't see better.

Q Original 17:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

IQ?

Perhaps it is worth noting on the page that the Pilot did blunder with the "He grew up a normal child of his times: IQ 204" bit. By definition a normal child of any time will have an IQ of 100.

84.9.50.36 10:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

"a normal child of his times" It's saying that in the future all children will be smarter. You're statement: "a normal child of any time will have an IQ of 100." Is dead wrong, the average IQ of humans has been steadily increasing for many years beside which you are totally ignoring the possibility that in the future, genetic engineering and or new and wonderful teaching methods are ubiquitous. --Rpm2004 (talk) 01:30, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

While it is true that intelligence seems to be increasing (based on scores of old tests taken by present day population groups)the tests are adjusted every few years to maintain an average IQ of 100. The point of the tests is to gauge the intelligence of a person within their group, not to track intelligence increases over time. So the original comment was correct.91.125.3.19 (talk) 02:46, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Quantum Leap

Clearly Time Trax is related to if not a derivative of Quantum Leap. You might argue that it's not relevant on the TT entry, but there is no need cite a source for this, other then the Quantum Leap entry for its inception date.

Techsmith 17:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think that it is more like Doctor Who with the main character going around stopping the bad guys. But both of our "more like" speculations are original research, therefore we can't include either. Val42 05:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I think you're right about it being original research, but I didn't add it originally, and I think it's so obvious that it should stand as is, without a citation. If pressed, I'd rather remove it then be forced to leave it as {{Fact}}. Techsmith 03:38, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I've removed it then. Val42 04:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Joshua Hitchcock

I removed reference to actor "Joshua Hitchcock". The Age reports on March 29, 2010, that this inclusion is part of an alleged criminal fraud case. See the article here. This is a good example of why its important to state sources!! Wikipeterproject (talk) 14:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Updated Character information

Updated character information. Majinsnake (talk) 03:35, 16 November 2012 (UTC)majinsnake

Magical Healing Abilities

Early in the first season, Darien magically heals a lady-cop who was run over by a car. He fixes her broken neck and broken leg just by touching her. I suppose for completeness it's worth adding this to the main page sometime. Lawrie (talk) 07:16, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Similar shows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_(TV_series) - In a post-apocalyptic future, thousands of special operatives are tasked with preventing the collapse of society. These operatives, known as "travelers", have their consciousnesses sent back in time and transferred into the "host" body of present-day individuals who are about to die, minimizing unexpected impact on the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series) - The plot centres around the conflict between a group of terrorists from the year 2077 who time travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2012 and a police officer who unintentionally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the terrorist group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to everyone that she and the terrorists are from the future. 2001:56A:F3C7:C800:9893:68E0:C7DB:9DA9 (talk) 03:18, 16 January 2023 (UTC)