Time Trax

Time Trax
Capt. Darien Lambert and SELMA
Created by	Harve Bennett Jeffrey M. Hayes Grant Rosenberg
Starring	Dale Midkiff Elizabeth Alexander
Country of origin	United States/Australia
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	44 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Gary Nardino Productions Lorimar Television (1993) (Season 1) Warner Bros. Television (1993-1994) (Seasons 1-2)
Distributor	Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (1993) (Season 1)
Release
Original network	PTEN
Original release	January 20, 1993 – December 3, 1994

Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television.

In the year 2193, over a hundred criminals become fugitives of law enforcement by traveling back in time two hundred years, using a time machine called Trax. Darien Lambert (Dale Midkiff) is a police detective of that period who is sent back to 1993 in order to apprehend as many of the fugitives as possible. He is assisted by the Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive, or SELMA (Elizabeth Alexander), an extremely small but very powerful computer (described as equivalent to a mainframe) disguised for the mission as an credit card and communicated through a holographic interface which takes the visual form of a prim young woman. Lambert is also equipped with an MPPT (Micro-Pellet Projection Tube) disguised as a keyless car alarm remote, which can stun targets or engulf them in an energy field, rendering them transportable to the future. This process, executed by SELMA, incorporates a transmission sequence to send the criminal on his way. Dr. Mordecai Sahmbi (Peter Donat), who was responsible for sending the fugitives to 1993, tries several times to kill Lambert.

Captain Lambert, fearing the possible consequences of altering the timeline, does not actively attempt to interfere with the natural flow of history, although he frequently leaves messages for his colleagues in 2193 (via the 'personals' sections of assorted newspapers). However, the series makes occasional allusions to a theory of parallel timelines, implying that time travelers go into an alternate past so that their actions there have no effect on the 2193 "present".

"It began in the future. A scientist turning to evil, a time machine called TRAX, criminals who vanish and a lawman with a mission. He has one weapon and a computer named SELMA."

SELMA: Good morning, Captain Lambert.