"Star Trek" icon William Shatner's TV movie adaptation of his own "Tek" cycle of pulp sci-fi novels is just a television cop show extrapolated 50 years hence (bargained down, evidently, from the text's 22nd-century setting).
Jake Cardigan (Greg Evigan), a disgraced undercover officer, thaws out after serving four years of a 14-year sentence in suspended animation for allegedly killing cohorts while high on the virtual-reality narcotic "tek." Though far from satisfied that Jake is innocent, Walt Bascom (Shatner),
string-pulling head of the Cosmos Detective Agency, believes Cardigan can still use his contacts in the tek underground to locate a missing scientist wh...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins