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Time Cop's Time Sled
- Time Travel device featured on the sci-fi
series TIMECOP/ABC/1997.
The series starred the adventures of cocky
Timecop Jack Logan (T. W. King) who worked for
the Time Enforcement Commission in the year
2007. His mission: to hunt down rogue time
travelers and bring them to justice before they
can alter the past and thus change history.
"The year 2007, time travel is a reality and
it's fallen into criminal hands. With history
itself at risk the United States has formed the
Time Enforcement Commission, a top secret agency
responsible for policing the temporal stream. An
elite team of agents track unlawful travelers
across time, their mission: protect the past
preserve the future. These agents are known as
Timecops."
To accomplish his mission Logan traveled back
into time on a time sled. Mounted on rails much
like an amusement park ride, the time sled would
accelerate towards a wall and just as it appears
the sled would crash through it, the time sled
time warped into another reality.
What's a typical day in the life of a Timecop?
Well, according to a press release for the show:
"Imagine spending the morning sailing to the New
World with Christopher Columbus, the afternoon
witnessing JFK's assassination, and the evening
coming back home to the year 2007. It's all in a
day's work for the Timecops, who police the time
continuum for criminals looking to change the
course of history. Your assignments are not
always clear, and if you don't get your suspect,
or if you leave something unfinished, the
consequences can be severe."
During his stint as a Timecop, Logan chased a
variety of criminals from rogue Timecops to
master assassins, including the time:
- Logan wanted to rectify a mistake he made thirty year
earlier goes back in time to discover where a
jewel thief hid some jewels. Consequently, Logan
teams up with the younger version of the
detective to thwart the future version of
himself from changing history.
- Logan pursued Ian Pascoe (a.k.a. Jack the
Ripper) who wreaks havoc in 1888 and number of
other time lines.
- Logan went to Hollywood, California in 1956 to
stop Pascoe from murdering actress Rita Lake,
who would be the mother of the 44th President of
the United States. Pascoe used a time-jumping
watch to maneuver through time continuum.
- Logan travels to 1977 to stop an
attempted diamond heist.
- Twin brothers plot a return to 1939 to
sink a luxury liner with a hidden cache of
gold
- Logan and Hemmings travel to 1990 to
investigate a missing co-worker who may be
involved in a sabotage scheme against the TEC.
Time Sled
"In the past, things
were simpler. There's black and white, right
and wrong. There's good and evil. But, that's
history. We're not allowed to change history"
-- Jack Logan
TRIVIA NOTE:
The TV series is based on the 1994 movie
Timecop starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as
Max Walker a police officer in the year 2004
whose job was to go into the past and stop other
time travelers from changing history.
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