![]() Her attempt was unsuccessful, simply because she'd established a paradox by linking the times far too strongly. Although Quantum Leap's season 1 finale continually draws Terminator parallels, the closest match is actually with a classic X-Men comic book story " Days of Future Past," in which a future Kitty Pryde tried to erase her dystopian timeline by traveling back and preventing a tragedy. It's likely future Ian believed his entire timeline would be destroyed, replaced with a completely different one, but this may not be the case. Meanwhile, it's important to note the threat of this dystopian future timeline has not necessarily been erased. This was originally supposed to be Addison's role, after all, with Ben as the adviser - which would make for a fun flip. This may simply be misdirection, but it's also possible season 2 will pivot, with another leaper entering the timeline to right historic wrongs. This decision was no doubt made when the show's future was unclear, but NBC has renewed Quantum Leap for season 2, making it an odd way to end the story. Quantum Leap's season 1 finale ends with Ben apparently leaping back into his own body, his adventures at an end. Ben fails in his mission to stop Martinez, with the accelerator becoming increasingly unstable, making the cheat code necessary. He has traveled to 2008 to stop the project before it properly got started, by causing a meltdown of the quantum accelerator. Martinez is essentially Quantum Leap's villain, and unfortunately it seems he's escalated his plan - having interacted with his version of Ziggy, who rightly calculated that killing Addison wouldn't be enough to stop the project. ![]() This unique scenario allows for the cheat code, which must be input in both quantum accelerators " simultaneously" to function. When he leaves Ian and travels back to 2008, ready to try to save Addison, he therefore links 20 - two iterations of the project, both of which have a quantum accelerator. When Ben leaps into the past, he links the flow of time between these two periods. It's only possible in specific circumstances, though, making it fiendishly tricky - and a one-time deal. Ian has spent a decade working on what's essentially a cheat code, one that will give Ben a second try to fix a leap. He gave Ben the code to leap through time, initially trying to stop Martinez, and ultimately meeting with Ian ten years later - in 2051. Ian used the Quantum Leap accelerator to try to stop them in 2041, changing the timeline - leading to Ben stepping into the accelerator instead of Addison. They sent Martinez back in time to destroy the project before it could begin, explaining why they originally targeted Addison, the original leaper. government blamed the Quantum Leap project for their dystopian present, using time travel as a scapegoat for its own bad decisions. The future timeline Ben visits is a broken one, with the United States now in a nuclear war - one that has leveled Los Angeles, so much so that Ian struggled to find a potential host for Ben to leap into. ![]() Should he fail in these encounters - as he has in fact done - he will then leap to the year 2051. Ben's leaps were carefully programmed to give him three attempts to stop another leaper, Walter Perez's Richard Martinez. It seems it's possible for a leaper to build up a sort of temporal momentum, something compared to a slingshot maneuver where a spacecraft builds up momentum by orbiting around a planet or a moon. NBC's Quantum Leap has rewritten its rules of time travel, revealing it is actually possible for Ben to leap into the future.
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