Sam Beckett
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| Name: | Sam Beckett |
| Occupation: | Scientist, time-traveler |
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| Fandom: | Quantum Leap |
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Sam Beckett is the protagonist of Quantum Leap.
Canon
He is a scientist who has discovered a unique time travel method, but the machine went wrong on activation: He can travel to the past, but only within the years of his own lifetime - and he experiences the past through the eyes of a random person, whose body he inhabits and controls. He receives communications from the future via a neural connection to his computer and holographic visits from his friend Al Calavicci. In each episode, he must fix some "wrong" related to his host before he moves on to the next, and tries to figure out how to get out of the endless series of jumps into the bodies and lives of random strangers.
Sam had a wife named Donna, a character who fans mostly reviled.
Fandom
Sam Beckett is most commonly (and almost only) shipped with Al Calavicci (Sam/Al); almost half the Quantum Leap works at Archive of Our Own have the two of them together, and older zines are split between gen and slash featuring the two of them.
Sample Art Gallery
1992
by Jane Mailander, from Green Eggs and Ham #2 (1992)
by Terri Librande, from As Time Goes Bye #1 (1992)
by Linda Fairbanks, from Play It Again #2 (1992)
1993
by Todd Parrish, from Green Eggs and Ham #3 (1993)
by Minds-I-View, from Oh Boy #4 (1993)
by Doranna Durgin, from Leaping to Conclusions (1993)
1994
by Kate Nuernberg, from Play It Again #4 (1994)
1995
by Joan Jobson, from Kindred Spirits (1995)
by Judy Breuer, from Play It Again #5 (1995)
by R. Neville, from Let It Be Me #2 (1995)
Archives and Links
Resources
- Samuel Beckett at Quantum Leap Wiki
- Wikipedia