Oh boy.

[ShoeUnited]

Quantum Leap Spoilers. I think if you really cared about it you'd have watched it by now. Warning all the same. I'm sure someone (multiple people) has thought of this already and explained it better than I have. My apologies if it's redundant.

So, I've been thinking about Quantum Leap recently. I don't know how well you remember (if you do, I realize this was 30 years ago now), but there was that episode where he leapt into someone's dream. The Halloween episode where he met a young Stephen King and there was demons and stuff. There was the two-parter where Lee Harvey Oswald escaped... somehow... In Sam's body... And there was the ending in the diner where he met God. This last part is especially important. He made the choice of either going home or leaping forever helping people and he chose to help people. Without Dean Stockwell slapping a hunk of plastic. Because apparently we can send souls through time and space and interact with it via hologram, but the wifi sucks.

So, he's sent on his own. No backup. He can control his leaps and isn't limited to his timeline. I'm sure you see where we're going but here it is: What if Enterprise was the continuation of Quantum Leap? He has no help, there's no reason to believe he is stuck in his timeline, and there's nothing preventing him from leaping multiple times to the same person at different times. As I recall, Dr. Samuel Beckett got his butt kicked quite a few times. He was a Mary Sue genius, but he didn't live in an age of star ships. He was born in the 50s.

What if Enterprise is just a third person Quantum Leap where we see Archer only when Sam is in control? Dr. Sam Beckett was time traveling after all. Look at what The Prophets did in DS9. Look at Q. The Temporal Cold War? Is this really that far out of line?

Something I thought was humorous anyway.

[Darth Wedgius]

I've seen fan fiction with Sam Beckett leaping into Archer. Some of it decent as fan fiction goes.

[PapaPalpatine]

Captain Archer stepped into the turbo lift... and vanished.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Captain Archer stepped into the turbo lift... and vanished.

Isn't kinda fucked that Scotty actually did that to Porthos?

[PerrySimm]

Quantum Leap was amazing, and somehow ... oddly prescient of future details, right down to the teams in the Super Bowl one year!

Most of the fandom seemed to slink off somewhere when it went off reruns on Syfy... though it was such a unique show, I'm not sure where those fans would have gone to next.

Trying to watch on hulu 10 years ago was painful without any of the original music. The Mill Creek release is much improved.