Sam Beckett never leaped to the future.
Why?
He is able to leap forward and backwar in his own lifetime.
This brings me to the following guess:
He has no future, because he is leaping for the rest of his life.
What do you think?
Although isn't there an alternative ending where he leaps into the future and that's his next set of jobs?
I don't think that Sam could leap beyond the present though, because Sam was supposed to put right what once went wrong. The future hasn't happened yet, since Sam is in the present time, and is just going backward (unless there is some project like Quantum Leap even farther in the future than PQL). Therefore, though, he couldn't put right what once went wrong if the wrong hasn't happened yet.
Plus, Jmoinz has a point about it being harder to write, and Night Terror that leaping forward would have disproved the String Theory. However, I would love to hear rebuttal. This could be a very interesting conversation.
I don't think that Sam could leap beyond the present though, because Sam was supposed to put right what once went wrong. The future hasn't happened yet, since Sam is in the present time, and is just going backward (unless there is some project like Quantum Leap even farther in the future than PQL). Therefore, though, he couldn't put right what once went wrong if the wrong hasn't happened yet.
When the String Theory is explained by both Sam and Al (and also Mo Stein), they all very clearly say all the days of a person's life would touch each other out of sync (out of that line) allowing the leaping back and forth. So again, unless you consider Sam's life as ending when he steps into the accelerator, according to the rules of leaping that we are given, a leap into the future would be theoretically possible.
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