TIME TRAX season 1 story line

In the year 2193 A.D., an evil scientist, Mordicai Sahmbi (PETER DONAT), uses time travel to transport himself and other criminals back to the year 1993.   Police officer and fugitive retrieval specialist Captain Darien Lambert (DALE MIDKIFF) is assigned the job of apprehending these criminals by traveling back in time.  

Darien is assisted by Selma (ELIZABETH ALEXANDER), a highly advanced pocket computer, who can project a holographic image of herself.   Since only two time-travel trips, into the past and back, are safe, Darien remains in the past, using a special weapon known at a PPT to transport fugitives back to the future.

Darien pursues Sahmbi many times, but in each case, Sahmbi eludes capture.   Darien thwarts Sahmbi's schemes though, including transporting nuclear waste to the future, stealing the Holy Grail, and selling a method of mind control to unscrupulous businessmen.

Among Darien's other adversaries are two brothers, wanted in the 22nd century for computer theft, who use their advanced technology to steal 25 million dollars from the US Treasury; a fugitive from the future who operates a gambling casino in New Orleans; a serial killer who drains his victims' bodies of blood; Sepp Dietrich (HENK JOHANNES), a political assassin and leader of a group of white supremacist terrorists; and a fugitive who uses a futuristic laser to cheat in horse racing.

Darien forms many alliances also, including one with computer operator Tulsa Giles (MARY-MARGARET HUMES), who helps Darien foil the plans of a fugitive working for a powerful international agency; and government agent Annie Knox (MIA SARA), who looks identical to Darien's former lover, Elissa (also MIA SARA).   Elissa was Sahmbi's assistant before Sahmbi murdered her and escaped into the past.   Later, Darien has a lusty affair with an attorney from the future, Laura Darrow (AMY STEELE PULITZER).   Laura searches for her client whose conviction was overturned.

Darien helps many people in crisis, including a country music star stalked by a psychotic fugitive, a deaf boy lost in the woods, and the wife of a fugitive, Haskell (EDWARD LAURENCE ALBERT), as she gives birth in the middle of a hurricane at a hotel owned by Noah Fuller (EDDIE ALBERT).   Darien even persuades a 22nd century heavyweight fighter, destined to kill his physically inferior opponent, to return to the future.

Darien's greatest dilemma involves US Marshal Tom Kane (STUART WHITMAN), who saves Darien's life and then deputizes him.   Darien's respect and friendship for the "Old West" lawman is jeopardized when Darien discovers that Kane is actually a fugitive from the future.

Finally, Darien uncovers a fugitive's plot to blackmail a man who is destined to become one of the world's greatest presidents.

(92/93-YR.1 SUMMARY)

TIME TRAX season 2 story line

Twenty-second century Fugitive Retrieval Specialist Darien Lambert (DALE MIDKIFF) remains in the 20th century to pursue his mission of sending criminals back to the future.   Many of these criminals were transported from the future by the evil mastermind, Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi (PETER DONAT).   Sahmbi continues to evade Darien's capture, however.

When Sahmbi claims he has developed a treatment for curing fatal diseases, Darien exposes it as a deceptive and ultimately lethal procedure.   Then, Sahmbi creates an android double of Darien (also DALE MIDKIFF) and orders it to kill Darien and replace him.   Darien outwits the android and discovers a "human" side to it.   Finally, Darien encounters two beautiful but deadly twin sisters, Marie (KELLY ELIZABETH MILLER) and Melissa Fontaine (also KELLY ELIZABETH MILLER), who perform criminal acts for Sahmbi.  

Among Darien's other romantic encounters is a beautiful Japanese policewoman, who helps him stop a yakuza from the future from unifying the Japanese crime families.   He also becomes involved with a conscientious female doctor, while preventing a worldwide epidemic that threatens the 22nd century.   When pursuing the fugitive Charles Mood (SHANE BRIANT), Darien is blinded and is nursed back to health by a concert pianist, Kay Archer (LYNN CLARK).

Darien is aided by Selma (ELIZABETH ALEXANDER), a highly advanced holographic computer.   When Darien is mugged, the thieves steal Selma because they think she is a credit card.   Selma leaves a clever trail for Darien to locate her.   Also, with Selma's assistance, Darien helps an extraterrestrial find his mate who was accidentally left on Earth during a previous expedition.  

Selma and Darien pursue a Middle East arms dealer who kidnaps a scientist and his flying invention from the future.   Their partnership continues as they thwart Simon Cale (JOSEPH LAMBIE), a weapons expert from the future, who is manufacturing 22nd century weapons and selling them to 20th century criminals. They are led on a chase across the Wisconsin plains by the futuristic bank robber Morgan Pierce (FREDRIC LEHNE); and they pursue a fugitive from the future to a little Texas town, where they discover a murder coverup involving all of the townspeople.  

Darien also helps Ev Rankin (RONNY COX) rescue his son, John (NIQUE NEEDLES), from Colonel Tenn (FRANCOIS CHAU), a sadistic Vietnam War criminal.   Later, Darien protects a streetwise priest, Trey Hawkins (JULIUS W. ERVING), from a futuristic killer, and pursues a time-traveling madman intent on altering the future by murdering all of the ancestors of the man responsible for his girlfriend's death.

Darien briefly reunites with his former partner from the future, Mace Warfield (PAUL GANUS), when Mace travels to the present time to apprehend a corrupt police commander.   While pursuing 22nd century embezzler Al Logan (SEAN SCULLY), Darien meets Kit Logan (also ELIZABETH ALEXANDER), a woman who looks remarkably like Selma.   The orphaned Darien discovers that Kit is his mother who gave him up for adoption because she was involved with criminals.   After Darien reconciles with Kit, she is killed while saving his life.

(93/94-YR.2 SUMMARY)