History Series / QuantumLeap2022

* RandomTransportation: To a lesser extent than Sam Beckett. Though Ben's leapees appear to be random, each of his temporal destinations were specifically targeted with the new code prior to his stepping into the accelerator.

* ForWantOfANail: In "Atlantis," Ben leaps into an astronaut aboard Atlantis alongside Samantha Stratton, and the two work together to save the shuttle. Sam helped make sure she was born healthy all the way back in [[Recap/QuantumLeapS1E01E02Genesis the pilot]], as a clear example of what the Bartender said in "Mirror Image:"
-->"The lives you've touched touched others. And those lives, others. You've done a lot of good, Sam Beckett, and you can do a lot more."

* AdaptationalDiversity: The show has no straight white men as main characters, starring a Korean man, two women, a Black man, and a non-binary person.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Averted. Unlike the original series, which took place roughly six to seven years after the broadcast date, the "present" day of this series is set in the year each episode is broadcast.

* ContinuityNod: Ben leaps wearing a Fermi suit, as Sam did in "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS1E01E02Genesis Genesis]]" and "The Leap Back" (and as the leapees wear in the Waiting Room in later seasons).

* TheTeam: Played mostly straight, although it is a variation in that Ben only ever directly interacts with Addison; his last interactions with the rest of the team are at his engagement party right before he uses the accelerator.

* LieToTheBeholder: Just like Sam Beckett before him, Ben both looks and sounds like his leapee to other people. The only people who see him as Ben are Addison (or anyone in the Imaging Chamber), [[spoiler:Martinez]], and possibly a delirious Daisy Gray.

* TitleIn: So far, each leap into TheNineties has included the year on screen in large text at the beginning.

* GenderBender: In the first season, Ben leaps into six women: Eva Sandoval, Alexandra Tomkinson, Mallory Yang, Kamini Prasad, Aleyda Ramirez, and Lois Mitchell.

* GenderBender: This sequel series has Ben Song leaping into men and women of the past much as Sam Beckett did in the original series. Regardless of who Ben has leapt into, the audience sees Raymond Lee in the role, only getting a glimpse of the person's real appearance in a reflection or photograph. So far (The series is ongoing.), there have been five female leaps, and one male leap that included trans character.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E4ADecentProposal A Decent Proposal]]" - Ben leaps into bounty hunter Eva Sandoval.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E3SomebodyUpThereLikesBen Somebody Up There Likes Ben]]" to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E10PagingDrSong Paging Dr Song]]" - Ben leaps into Doctor Alexandra Tomkinson.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E9FellowTravelers Fellow Travelers]]" to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E12LetThemPlay Let Them Play]]" - Ben leaps into male basektball coach Carlos Mendéz who has a trans daughter Gia.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E13FamilyStyle Family Style]]" - Ben leaps into cook Kamini Prasad.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E12LetThemPlay Let Them Play]]" to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E15BenSongForTheDefense Ben Song For The Defense]]" - Ben leaps into public defender Aleyda Ramirez.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E14SOS SOS]]" to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E17TheFriendlySkies The Friendly Skies]]" - Ben leaps into flight attendant Lois Mitchell

* GenderBender: Sometimes a leap takes our hero into the body of a female.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Ben doesn't tell the Project team why he leaped, so they're left trying to figure it out. In a twist, Ben himself is locked out of this information as well due to his Swiss-cheesed memory.

* DownerBeginning: Downplayed: Sam ''still'' hasn't leapt home by the time the revival starts. And between the end of the original show and the start of this one, the original Project shut down shortly after "Mirror Image", and Al died in 2021, with the implication being that Sam never got to say goodbye. Not only that, but when ''Ben'' leaps for the first time, he does so during '''his engagement party'''.

* SequelNonEntity: While the Project Team discusses the origin of [[spoiler:"Leaper X"]], they theorize that it could be a foreign power's leaping project, a private corporation's leaping project, or even their own project somehow. However, they don't mention or allude to Lothos, which, given they have access to the original Project Quantum Leap's files, Ziggy should already have some kind of knowledge that another known leaping project is out there somewhere.

* VaguenessIsComing: Ben's pre-leap video message to Addison says that his reason for leaping is bigger than any of them. Later on, after [[spoiler:Ian theorizes that Ben is trying to get to the future, Ben remembers that he leaped in order to save Addison from something]], although he doesn't remember from what. Possibly justified, though, if Janis' warnings that [[spoiler:any details spoken out loud could trickle forward to the future]] are to be believed.

* RetroacivePrecognition: Ben uses information gathered in the future by the Project team to help him in his leaps. It typically comes in handy in a pinch, but it almost comes back to bite him in "Ben Song for the Defense" when he gets his leapee's partner fired from her ADA job when it's suspected that she leaked case information to Ben.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Variation: When Magic explains to Ian how Sam had leapt into him [[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E02TheLeapHomePart2Vietnam back during his tour in Vietnam]], he explains how ''he'' remembers it. Namely, after feeling a sort of nudge in the back of his head, he accepted that nudge, causing him to black out. When he came to a day or so later, he found out that he had apparently saved his entire squad from an ambush. He tells Ian that he initially thought this gap in his memory was due to battle fatigue.