So sure, aliens are actual within the Quantum Leap universe.

Which makes watching the newest episode of the brand new Quantum Leap, season 2 episode 3 “Closure Encounters,” an odd expertise. The episode particulars Ben’s (Raymond Lee) leap right into a authorities agent in 1949 investigating unexplained extraterrestrial exercise. Proper from the beginning Ben disproves an alien sighting and doesn’t put a lot inventory in extraterrestrials. Again on the Challenge, Ian (Mason Alexander Park) believes in aliens and hopes that this mission will affirm their existence.

Sadly for Ian their needs don’t come true, Ben exposes that what individuals thought have been aliens was merely a Bell 47 helicopter, a Zero Level jet, and a few evening imaginative and prescient goggles. There’s no ambiguity right here, no little wink to the viewers that perhaps aliens may nonetheless be on the market. Ben proves it past a shadow of a doubt. Aliens aren’t actual.

This can be a large contradiction to “Star Mild, Star Vibrant.” Why was Ian so targeted on the potential for aliens current when there’s data within the Challenge recordsdata that show it? Why didn’t Ben or Addison (Caitlin Bassett) even entertain the notion that actual aliens could possibly be at play right here? It’s laborious to say, until that a part of the unique Challenge Quantum Leap was categorised and nobody on the new Challenge had entry to it.

A extra fringe idea that would clarify this discrepancy is one which calls for a more in-depth studying of “Star Mild, Star Vibrant.” In that episode, Sam made a connection that the alien spaceship visited Earth as soon as each 47.5 months, seemingly starting in 1955. If that was the primary time the alien ship visited Earth then the date of 1949 in “Closure Encounters” would imply that ship hadn’t come to Earth but. Even when it had and nobody reported it, that may imply the ship would have beforehand visited Earth in 1951 and 1947, lacking 1949 by a large margin.

This idea nonetheless means it’s essential headcanon a cause why Ian or anybody else on the new Challenge Quantum Leap doesn’t point out the occasions of “Star Mild, Star Vibrant” however it does present one key factor. The aliens from “Star Mild, Star Vibrant,” even when that they had been visiting Earth earlier than 1955, couldn’t have proven up in 1949. Thus not one of the characters mentioning them not less than makes just a little extra sense.