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Among the entries in the recent reboot of television's gold rush, "Quantum Leap," NBC's revival of its early '90s sci-fi drama, is arguably the series most deserving of a contemporary reimagining. That's not because "Leap" was a box office hit. It performed modestly enough to be considered a cult series by the standards of its day, working its way up to a mere 100 episodes over five seasons. But the high-concept hook is no less potent now than it was during the show's heyday. The original found Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula), a talented physicist desperate to save the time-travel technology he's been building with government money with very little to show for it. To prove his concept and save the project, Beckett tests the technology on himself with spectacular, if inconvenient, results. Indeed, Beckett can dart back and forth across the space-time continuum, but each "jump" brings him into the consciousness of a random person who f...