175th Blog!!!! TekWar

 This is my 175^th blog and I welcome you all back kiddies to Day 2 of William Shatner Week and I thought we would tackle some Sci-Fi this time.  No I said we are not commenting about Star Trek or Star Trek themed projects.  Instead I thought we would discuss Shatner’s written work Tek War.  A series of the year 2120 when humanity has turned to cyberspace as a drug called Tek.  It accesses the fantasy portion of your brain, making all dreams come true and spares you the pain of life.  The downside is it will eventually kill you.  So grab your net gear to jack in the matrix, have your credstick and keep your wits about.   This is TekWar.

 

Sweetie, it happens to every man eventually.

Spoilers can surf the matrix like a knife through butter.

After four years of his fifteen year incarceration former cop Jake Cardigan (Greg Evigan of DeepStar Six, My Two Dads, P.S.I. Luv U, House of the Damned, Pacific Palisades, Family Rules and Cerebus) is released from his deep freeze capsule and moved of the prison complex escorted by an android name of Winger (Maurice Dean Wint of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, The Swordsman, Earth: Final Conflict, PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, Robocop: Prime Directives, Blue Murder and Cube) and sent back to his home with his wife and son had left, a time elapsed message was left waiting for him saying the embarrassment of his imprisonment was too much for them both to handle so out on parole he goes to a Tek dealer to get Tek to numb the pain.

Takes...a brave man...to wear... a teal trenchcoat.

 

Cardigan wants justice for his wrongful confinement, his partners were killed and he was framed.  His former partner Sid Gomez (Eugene Clark of 3 Men and a Baby, Night Heat, Sweating Bullets, Knight Rider 2000, Side Effects, Turn It Up and Land of the Dead) yanks him out of the Tek and tells him to get cleaned up and he had a job for his ex-con buddy.   A private investigation firm Cosmos Security is headed up by a man Walter Bascom (William Shatner of Incubus, The Third Walker, Disaster on the Coastline, The Kidnapping of the President, Broken Angel, Free Enterprise and $#*! My Dad Says) who hates Tek as much as Cardigan.

That's Cowgirl, not Call girl.

His methods and motives are his own but Cardigan takes it is stride just to have a shot at Tek Lord Sonny Hokori (Von Flores of Eclipse, Johnny Mnemonic, The Assignment and Earth: Final Conflict)  and finally clear his name and record of all the slime it has been drug through.

Now I would also like to point out the various Canadian actors that made their bones with TekWar.  The following is thus: Lexa Doig (TekWar, CI5: The New Professionals, Jason X and Andromeda), Torri Higginson (TekWar, Memory Run, Storm of the Century, Deep in the City, Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) and Catherine Blythe (TekWar, Terminal Justice, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Papertrail, Shapeshifter and A Taste of Life).  This phenomenal 9 novel series spawned 4 TV Movies, a TV series and helped provoke the imagination of future times in the same fashion novelist William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive) made for the cyberpunk genre. 

Thanks for reading and again feel free to drop messages on my Facebook page and the blog for some suggestions.