(*I, SithLord176, am allowing Damon to respond again. It is tricky to respond to certain posts when the Dark Side consumes oneself. Perhaps Damon is trying to resist my power... foolish whelp...)
Okay, I think I know what you mean now... you mean that the 11-year-old Sammy Jo is accidentally retrieved instead of Sam in 1978, correct? (On that particular date, July 28, 1978, I believe, she would be 11, not 12, but it's not that important.) Interesting theory, since I myself have had similar theories. The problem with that is that the interview seemed to imply something different...
Unless I read it wrong (which is quite possible), the impression I got from that was that it would begin with Sam leaping back to a pre-teen Sammy Jo in the year 1992 (not 1978 ), and she continued living her life normally from
that point on; so that by the time 2005 comes along, she is now in her mid-twenties and in college. Which would mean that at some point between 1978 and 1992, her life got "uprooted" from her normal space-time coordinates by an unknown source...
This is what has many of us a bit concerned: if her younger self was displaced in time as a result of a retrieval attempt gone "ca-ca" in the present, then that younger self should end up in the year 2005, not in the past. Meaning, if the Sammy Jo of 2005 leaped into her younger self in 1978, then the Sammy Jo of 1978 would end up in 2005, not 1992. Project Quantum Leap was still being built in 1992, so how can her displaced younger self wind up in a timeframe before the time-travel experiments even began? I do understand what you're saying, but it can't be explained logically using what we know about how Project Quantum Leap works.
Now, if someone left behind some kind of portable time-travel device that she found in 1978 which accidentally sent her to a random point into her future, then ok, maybe. I mean, that's basically what I wrote in my "Lifetime" trilogy for TVS to explain how Alia's son, Adam, is out there mucking up time: Sam leaped 30 years into the future (2034/2035), received a retrieval chip from Sammy Jo's future daughter, Isabella Fulton, brought it back with him to 1984, planted it in a key component of Ziggy's prototype at the Starbright Project, and it activated 20 years later, bringing him home. Cause and effect. Meanwhile, after Alia was freed, she ended up in 1977 as herself and had a son in 1980 named Adam, whom she gave up for adoption. He grew up and began inventing new technology using the journals he received from Zo?'s father in the early 90s (which
he got when he interrogated Sam in 1959), then created a portable time-travel unit in 2005, went back to 2000 (as himself, which means that he was now 25 years old in 2000) and became Zo?'s new partner shortly after they lost Alia. They waited for Sam to return home: Zo? leaped into Sam, Adam leaped into Al, they both sabotaged Ziggy so that Adam could steal the chip that Sam brought back from the future; then he betrays Zo?, sends her back and escapes, traveling through time as himself. Sam returns home, only to begin a new leaping cycle so that the Acclerator wouldn't overload and create the dark future he saw the first time around. But, Adam is still out there, traveling through the timeline with future technology he isn't supposed to have. There's no telling what effect that might have on the space-time continuum. See how complicated this stuff can be for the average person? And yet, this is
nothing compared to some of the other stuff I've come up with over the years. (And yes, that might have been just a tad confusing, so if you don't understand that, I'll be happy to explain it more when I have the time.)
P.S to Crowovw: See, now, if you had just brought up this theory and asked in the very first post how ABLF ties in with the VS, if at all, there wouldn't have been a problem. We're not like the other boards (I won't mention names, *cough* STARTREK.COM *cough* DCCOMICS.COM *cough*) where someone posts a wild theory and someone else says, "Your theory sucks!" Most of those people have no imagination and only have one opinion that they rigidly stick to. Nothing at Al's Place is ever a dumb question... (at least, not most of the time anyway). We just didn't know how your theory related to the topic of discussion, that's all. I hope you "get it" now... and I am sorry if my post sounded like I was "going off" on you. I'm still not sure I like your blas? attitude toward the way we reacted (given the :nut emoticon you used), but I'm letting it go for now. This discussion ends from this point forward. If you wish to debate this further, PM me. Keep it off this board, okay?
To all members: Let's get back to talking theories, stories, character discussions, or whatever else tickles your fancy. And most of all, keep it clean and civilized, okay?
(*SithLord176 once again fights for supremacy... "BEGONE, Dman! I am your master now! Stop trying to fight me! Out damn spot! OUT, I say!" )