To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Allyn Gibson 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

On Sunday, July 13, 2003 Joe wrote:

> TM - Quantum Leap works with just about anything, too, doesn't
> it?

> JM - I'd have to say no, considering it's limited to Beckett's
> lifetime.

Well, things got strange toward the end of the run, with Sam
"unfixed" in time.  (The series was supposed to end with Sam
leaping into the distant future, and instead we got the "Never
returned home" garbage.)

But, if you want to go with the earlier rules for leaping, then, yes, it's
within Sam Beckett's lifetime.  The one crossover that would be interesting
to me would be if Sam Beckett leaped into John Crichton, assuming that
Farscape is roughly contemporaneous with Quantum Leap.

> Doctor Who is really one of those series that's so British and
> idiosyncratic you can't get enough of it, enjoy it in infrequent
> doses, or hate it with the fury of a thousand suns.

Personal anecdote.  If I think of Star Trek as my first media SF love, I
think of Doctor Who as my true media SF love.  Strange and geeky, I know. 
You wouldn't know if you walked into my house that I was a Star Trek fan,
but you wouldn't be able to miss my Doctor Who fandom.

> Evidently I'm a typical American dullard: I enjoy Tom Baker most
> as the Doctor, and even he gets on my nerves after two or three
> episodes.

Tom Baker is, erm, interesting in the role.  His first stories are really
quite serious, then in his second and third seasons he becomes quite
sardonic, then outright comedic in his fifth and sixth, and positively dark
and tragic in his seventh.

> His flippancy is either hilarious or irritating, depending on
> your mood.  He'd work in a silly Trek crossover, but not a serious
> one, from where I sit.

I disagree.  The contrast of philosophies between a Trek starship captain
and the Doctor seems to be ripe fodder for explanation.  Both are
explorers, but of different stripes.  Kirk and the Doctor share roughly the
same mindset, but Picard and the Doctor don't.  Picard would find the
Doctor a dangerous rogue, while the Doctor would find Picard turgid and
inflexible.  The Prime Directive isn't a consideration for the Doctor. 
Rules and regulations have no meaning for him.  Starfleet would probably
view the Doctor as an anarchist, but the Doctor is really more of a social
liberal.

Allyn                                    http://www.allyngibson.net
AIM: mknzycalhn                                        ICQ: 4342396

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