Origin

As a kid my parents and I used to watch Quantum Leap. A great SciFi show with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Well over time my parents lost interest and we stopped watching it. Later on while I was in high school I got into it. The TV show had ended and I was still watching it. Anyway. There are a few episodes to talk about before we can continue with our lesson.

--- Episode #44: Future Boy – October 6, 1957
Sam leaps Kenny Sharp, better known as "Future Boy", sidekick to Moe Stein, host of the kid's show, "Time Patrol," who also happens to be building a time machine in his basement. Unless Sam can prevent Moe's daughter from attempting to have her father committed, Moe is destined to be killed as he tries to hop a freight train. The point of the story is that at the end Moe Stein gets a letter from a boy that is wondering about time travel. Moe tells him that time travel is better explained using a piece of string. If you can crumple the time line into one big ball than you will be able to jump from point to point. This is the same explanation that Sam got from Al in the first episode. The reason for this is because the little boy who sent the letter is Sam Beckett as a young man. The show and this explanation is the whole basis for his work on Quantum Mechanics.

--- Episode #31: M.I.A. - April 1, 1969
Sam leaps into an police officer, Al explains that his mission is to convince a navy nurse that her MIA husband is still alive, and to prevent her from marrying a lawyer she meets on the day Sam leaps in. Sam later discovers that the nurse is Al's first wife and he is the MIA husband. But since that is not Sam's mission he can not do anything about it. So she ends up marrying the lawyer and Al looses her.

--- Episode #97: Mirror Image – August 8, 1953
Sam lands in a not-so-ordinary bar in a coal-mining town, where strange things are happening and familiar people don't know him. With the help of another Al, he realizes that he has to go back and change something. He goes back to April 1, 1969. There he tells Al's wife that he truely is coming home and that she should not remarry. So this changes everything. Al never joins the Quantum Leap project and thus Sam never comes back home.

This episode moved me very much and I really felt bad because of the ending I saw how important friendship is. I know it seems kind of stupid to take it out of a TV show but hey you should have seen the 'quantity' of friends I had in high school.

Where does Episode 44 come in you may ask. Well while sitting in the bar he sees a clip of a 1955 TV show called Captain Z-RO. The introduction was redone so the role of the captain was played by the same actor who played Moe Stein in Episode 44.

I thought this was cool. Later during my brief stint in college this girl I was hanging around with a lot was helping me make my hotmail account. She asked me what I wanted as my user name. I am not really sure what possessed me to use that. I think I had used it before while I was on AOL but I'm not sure why I used it then either. But all I know is that from that moment on I will be ZroMan . . .

P.S. the episode sysnopsis were ripped off http://www.tvtome.com and I feel bad about it. But there is no way in hell I'm going to remember all of that crap.

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