Team Quantum Leap
The 1990s series rarely dipped back into Sam’s own timeline. The new Quantum Leap makes the home team a major part of the action, with subplots involving high-tech wizardry (usually wrangling “Ziggy,” the resident AI supercomputer), the subterfuge needed to keep Ben’s unauthorized leaping a secret from their government and military overlords, and just being co-workers who care about each other. The latter manifests in scenes where Magic, Jenn, and Ian rally to cheer up Addison—who misses Ben and is in a constant state of panic about keeping him safe, but is also furious with him for obvious reasons—but also bonding moments, like a sequence in which Magic opens up to Ian about his deeply personal reason for restarting the Quantum Leap program: while serving in the Vietnam War, he himself was a “host” for Sam, a story point that offers a nifty callback to the original series.
