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TekWar

  • TV Movie
  • 19941994
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 32m
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5.8/10
770
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William Shatner in TekWar (1994)
Sci-Fi
A television movie based on the futurist story by William Shatner.A television movie based on the futurist story by William Shatner.A television movie based on the futurist story by William Shatner.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
770
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    • William Shatner
  • Writers
    • Alfonse Ruggiero(teleplay)
    • Westbrook Claridge(teleplay)
    • William Shatner(novel)
  • Stars
    • Greg Evigan
    • Eugene Clark
    • Torri Higginson
    • William Shatner
  • Writers
    • Alfonse Ruggiero(teleplay)
    • Westbrook Claridge(teleplay)
    • William Shatner(novel)
  • Stars
    • Greg Evigan
    • Eugene Clark
    • Torri Higginson
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    • 8User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Greg Evigan
    Greg Evigan
    • Jake Cardigan
    Eugene Clark
    Eugene Clark
    • Sid Gomez
    Torri Higginson
    Torri Higginson
    • Beth Kittridge
    Ray Jewers
    • Bennett Sands
    Von Flores
    Von Flores
    • Sonny Hokori
    David Hemblen
    David Hemblen
    • Insp. Winterguild
    Marc Marut
    • Danny Cardigan
    Barry Morse
    Barry Morse
    • Prof. Kittridge
    Sonja Smits
    Sonja Smits
    • Kate Cardigan
    Sheena Easton
    Sheena Easton
    • Warbride
    William Shatner
    William Shatner
    • Walter H. Bascom
    Maurice Dean Wint
    Maurice Dean Wint
    • Winger
    Catherine Blythe
    • Centra
    Ed Sahely
    • Ogden Swires
    Markus Parilo
    • Vargas
    Dee McCafferty
    Dee McCafferty
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    Richard Chevolleau
    Richard Chevolleau
    • Wild Side
    Lexa Doig
    Lexa Doig
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      • William Shatner
    • Writers
      • Alfonse Ruggiero(teleplay)
      • Westbrook Claridge(teleplay)
      • William Shatner(novel)
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    • Trivia
      William Shatner first conceived the idea of TekWar while directing Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).
    • Quotes

      Beth Kittridge: I'm an android. A Level 10.

      Jake Cardigan: At least.

    • Connections
      Followed by TekWar: TekLords (1994)

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    10/10
    I loved this show
    And I still do.

    Now since this was originally released in 1994, there were no such things as "90s Clichés", D'OH, it was the 90s.

    And back in 1994 my computer was running DOS 6.2 with Windows for Workgroups v3.1.1, so the technology represented in this reflected what people thought would happen in the future. We had Tek, we had Sims (mechanical reproductions of people), we had robots like Winger. We had an information super highway and police who traversed it, as well as fringe characters like Cowgirl (Stargate's Lexa Doig) and Wild Side (Richard Chevilleau). But the interesting thing is to see houses with secure entries, logins via hand print or retina scan, and we have these things today.

    It was interesting that the main information highway that is shown in this series is called "The Matrix". And, the jeep that Jake Cardigan (Greg Evigan from my two dads) drives is electric.

    There is a technology-based drug called "Tek", which apparently abuses virtual reality in some way to make the user unable to discern between the real world and a Tek VR.

    This initial entry into this alternate universe is loosely based on the first Tech war book by William Shatner, which was ghost written by Canadian Sci Fi writer Ron Goulart- but he did in fact use William Shatner's concepts and storylines, so this is William Shatner's work as well as his. It's just that the excellent storytelling of the book was all Ron, and he has such an out rages way of telling a story. Fortunately, it did not transfer well to these TV movies.

    No. When this show was produced, it wasn't produced to reflect the comedy and outrageousness of the original book. For example, Winger was made out of chrome he would always polish himself. But there are other funny things like Warbride, A woman who has married herself to war, played by the lovely Sheena Easton. I don't know if she had acted in anything but she does all right she's believable. And kind of funny.

    And we are familiar with the actress who plays Beth Kittredge, if we were ever a fan of Stargate Atlantis. Tory Higginson.

    Von Flores who plays Sonny Hokori was also in the Gene Roddenberry based "Earth: final conflict".

    Which was another Canadian production. But this show, it was produced and distributed under Alex Beaton's "Universal Action Pack" which was responsible for shows like Vanishing Son, and it was also where the beginnings of "Hercules the legendary journeys" came from, they had about five feature-length Hercules "films"- you can't really call any of these productions "films", they were released for TV, and they are formatted 4:3, even when later released for DVD. So the "first season" of tech war was released as for feature-length movies, this is the first one, to be followed by Teklords.

    But the coolest thing about this show was Warren Zevon singing the song at the end, "Are you real or not"

    By standards of today, the show is rather primitive, maybe boring, maybe camp even. But in 1994, these four TV movies were extremely popular. As was the book and there was also a Marvel comics series. But it was an attempt to bring a book that was extremely popular to life, and for the most part, it worked. They got a lot of the details from the book absolutely right.
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      • January 23, 1994 (United States)
      • Canada
      • United States
      • English
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      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Atlantis Films
      • Universal Television
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    • 1 hour 32 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby

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