TekWar (1994)

[@Lorenzooooooooo]

I just discovered this in 2021. Who needs the cinema when there's TekWar on KZbin.

[@tionalindanguyen3427]

You see, until that night when you sat with him, Warvold never knew that the leader in Ainsworth had set those men free in The Dark Hills.

[@NanciesArt11]

I just found amongst my late Sister's things a VHS tape that she did of Tek Wars. Decided to see if it was on KZbin?! Ha! Grreat, as I threw the dusty coverless tape away.

[@petercoronado9844]

For about afternoon then back to the cinema. When I was a kid I would have watched these videos all the time.

[@andrewrigy8637]

Even shelling in Kharkov couldn't distract me from this movie)

[@josephleblanc5122]

@@andrewrigy8637 Hope you're staying safe for more Tekwar movies. 👍

[@licensetodrive9930]

I'm so pleased to see my video captures of the 4 TekWar films got a wide audience here on KZbin, I love old obscure films and these TekWar films were just a few of many I collected, captured and put on Cinemageddon many many many years ago. TekWar (1994) is a US laserdisc rip which has had IVTC applied to restore it back to 24fps, the other 3 films are UK PAL VHS rips which were slowed down back to their original 24fps, hence why they don't look as crisp as the laserdisc rip of the first film.

[@vonkarolinas]

They all look the same on my end. I think the crisp first version you speak if has left the building.

[@licensetodrive9930]

@@vonkarolinas the term 'crisp' here is between the two old video formats as laserdisc has a higher horizontal resolution than VHS and does look cleaner, though I fully understand what you mean because we're now watching it on HD screens. The source captures were 720x480 for the laserdisc & 720x576 for the VHSs, KZbin scaling those analogue video captures up to 1080p & 4k can't ever look as clean as HD video quality we're all now used to.

[@jonathanyoung2588]

Your hard work is much appreciated, my friend

[@ravenfire77]

Hey, what about a 1080p upscale? It really needs it, and would look great.

[@brazil-y2y]

What is the correct order to watch Tekwar?

[@phearamax4146]

Oh hey Civvie!

[@JaxFPrime81]

I loved reading the books from William Shatner's awesome imagination.

[@logsupermulti3921]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Shatner hired a ghost writer.

[@pgaven9396]

Best creation of William Shatner and Bob Goulart (Rip Bob who just passed in Jan 2022..you were sorely underrated)

[@evandetwiler2810]

yeach bob played a much bigger role than people think. such a great writer. rip

[@josethemio1878]

I watched this tv series in 90,s. At that time for me it was an incredible vision of a possible future. Shatner,s vision.

[@danmoss1685]

I remember this show. Lord have mercy this takes me way back.

[@heidisuszko353]

This series ran in rotation with several other sci fi or fantasy shows in a package called "The Action Pack" from UPN network. Similar to the "ABC Mystery Movie" series of rotating mystery shows, it was a way to test out ultiple shows in the same time slot and stretch out short seasons of episodes until one or more of the shows found an audience. A couple did. Tekwar didn't last very long but I enjoyed it. A few others from this Action Pack were Xena Warrior Princess, Kevin Sorbo's Hercules, and Babylon5

[@dragonchr15]

I think you are getting PTEN and Action Pack mixed up.... Action Pack was on WPIX (channel 11 for me) and included Xena, Hercules, and some others. PTEN was on UPN and included Babylon 5, Time Trax, and KUNG Fu.... I watched em all so I remember well.

[@raywong4990]

@@dragonchr15 I'm guessing we both grew up in New York since I saw it on WPIX as well.

[@jC-kc4si]

Action Pack was Universal Syndication, not WB or UPN or PTEN

[@CraigMcfly1985]

​@raywong4990 so did I.

[@menzicosce]

I think the Action Pack ran on WB in New York City

[@Virikel]

Waaaaaaat!!!! I first experienced TekWar via the late 90s video game. It featured William Shatner live action cutscenes at the end of every mission. Then I learned the game was based on his books. Now I'm actually watching the movie for the first time, and then I see the Shat at 27:04 😮😮😮😮

[@TheSilmarillian]

Just came across these good to see my favorite starship captain in action.....yep an unabashed trekkie back when the Enterprise went where no man had gone before....hello from Australia

[@charlesratcliff2016]

Thank you for posting this. It brings back some great memories.

[@wickedclown926]

God i remember when this first came out. Ive missed seeing this show but thank you for posting this. :-)

[@lostboyninja8963]

Some of the same crew as earth final conflict I love this

[@rdlssmd]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I loved the tv show but never saw this or the other so called tv movies. They had it on VHS as a rental but we were members of a different video store so all I could do was stare at the box art and dream about it. It is very appreciated, thank you.

[@robinbrzezinska6191]

A good series and movies. I hope they do more. The song Real or Not by Warren Zevon; seems to sum it all up well.

[@johnbrubaker2033]

One of the best, most underrated sci-fi television series ever. Why it was canceled remains a mystery; William Shatner doesn't like to talk about it. Too bad.

[@ryancoulter4797]

Robby Alexander because it was ghostwritten and book sales kind of ran out of gas. I think it was even pulled from the US network showing it but it lasted a while longer in Canada (most shows in Canada don’t run on ratings but funding instead)

[@bobsullivan5714]

Shatner won't talk about it? Good choice....

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

Apparently if you ask him about the TekWar game on Twitter, he blocks you.

[@kaihinkelmann]

Doesnt want to talk because of his ego.

[@peanut1001x]

not surprising, cheap ST

[@dugclrk]

Not sure how I missed this in the 90's. Lexa Doig as a cowgirl? Crazy. Nice to see Torri Higginson in this, she is gorgeous, hope she is in the next one. Thanks for the upload, never would have seen it otherwise.

[@shanebaker7153]

@Olivia Bordley I remember the reading the books when I was a teenager and I live in the UK so they should be available somewhere

[@emotionaldrift]

She was even hotter in Andromeda!

[@commandercaptain4664]

Unless anyone knows of an earlier example, I think this pioneered the first display of hand-to-air console FX, well before Minority Report (2002) and Iron Man (2008).

[@zigfaust]

Well, your whole knowledge on the subject is moot since you didn't even list Johnny Mnemonic (1995) (the first film/tv that showed gloves and a visor controlling cyberspace sessions/hacking) or System Shock. But the idea itself was first shown in the Shadowrun TTRPG series back in like... 1989. All before my time, but the subject of VR hepatic surfing has interested me for years.

[@Top10WizardReviews]

@@zigfaust I'm going to assume that you're wrong and that an anime OVA exists before '89 depicting this. Cool flex of knowledge tho... ffs.

[@drewdavidson9891]

think Lawnmower Man(1992) depicted similar tech controlling VR iirc.

[@DaveEricksonDaemonDave]

When you've seen enough mustard trousers to last 20 lifetimes...

[@saoirsesmith7583]

Thanks so much for making this movie available; I've been wanting to see it again!

[@tionalindanguyen3427]

Wisdom is vital to being successful at work.

[@tionalindanguyen3427]

Thank's Hnt..."Nichiren writes," The wise may be called human,but ythe thoughtless area no-more ethanol animals" (WND-1,852).222D37-26301J2

[@tionalindanguyen3427]

🙏🙏🙏Society,in many ways,is filled with contradictions. Some parts area quite ugly,and others arenas pretty harsh at times. I hope û.will not take a complacent attitude towards such things and let society get thee better of û.

[@bomblast2000]

Always liked the end credit song. TV movies seemed to be better than the series.

[@MisterTutor2010]

Cowgirl is my favorite Canadian Texan :)

[@Mister_Mag00]

rommie rules

[@skumkulturetapes]

thank you so much for the upload!!

[@LibertyTreeBud]

I caught this when it first came out and it was really good then and it is good now. "Thanks"

[@Omniblade_Gaming]

Liberty Treebud same here

[@macrumpton]

A Cyberpunk Miami Vice with the cheezy best of the 80's, but somehow made in the 90's. With Torri Higginson of Stargate Atlantis as an android. She has made a career out of playing simulated humans in multiple galaxies!

[@cliffbird5016]

lots of actors in this that were also in earth final conflict a gene roddeberry creation. Might be were shatner got his ideas from as those 2 TV shows r very simular.

[@Beholder1777]

Lexa Doig as CowGirl - is the best what happen in this Sci-Fi.

[@josephnoneofyourbeeswax8517]

It is so nice that Shatner is more than just Kirk.

[@Zoomer30]

Funny seeing stuff from almost 25 years ago that was sci-fi that is real now (the auto lights, talking to the computer like Google Home, etc)

[@MisterTutor2010]

Cowgirl has the best Canadian Texan accent :)

[@dg-hughes]

The small devices the use to exchange funds to buy Tek reminds me of Bitcoin using a Trezor.

[@tonybarlow4291]

When Canada became the Hollywood of the north , I see the cast of Earth Final Conflict started on this show

[@karlsmith2570]

And at least one cast member of Andromeda

[@lsvtec420]

Remember this when I was 13 bad ass series

[@johnnycotton3217]

These books a great some one should remake the movies they'd look beautiful with a proper budget

[@ravenfire77]

The first TekWar book has been released unabridged on Audible.

[@marvinprice7284]

Loved this when it was on.

[@VictorHugoBrazil]

Thank you for posting this, i was curious since i saw whole pages dedicated to it in the StarLog magazine.

[@vichonostalgico]

Thanks for upload the movie. GREAT!!!!!

[@ravenfire77]

Love this series! It was one show, along several others that aired on the Action Pack channel. I picked up the complete series on DVD several years ago, not sure if it’s still available.

[@GCBaXia]

The DVD are long out of print. Quite hard to find them even on eBay.

[@russwaddel08]

Yeah, I loved this back in the day.

[@DivergentDroid]

@@GCBaXia So should I just download all these off of youtube or should I look for a better quality copy? The video here is only 480p.

[@redactedc1928]

This movie is amazing, yeah it's bad, but you can tell someone loved 80's cyberpunk novels and that's what counts.

[@zigfaust]

It's like, if you ever wanted a Deus Ex or Shadowrun series then it's near perfect as even the cheese is part of what makes those IPs great. If you just wanted sci-fi CSI, then it's above average. It only sucks the less you like cyberpunk and detective jank imo.

[@DivergentDroid]

It's Bad because of this copy being a copy of a copy of a copy of an inferior copy. At 2 minutes in do you think in 1994 they had such bad cameras that everything was blurry? No. They won't allow a really good copy on youtube for free.

[@NaatClark]

@@DivergentDroid idk if TekWar ever even got a DVD release and if it did that'd only be 480p max. Unless there's 1080p studio remasters out there it's gonna look kinda ass regardless

[@DivergentDroid]

@@NaatClark Even so if you upscale the resolution on a brick it's still gonna look like a brick.. All the original graphics were brick like. In 1994 they had HD graphics. They could have done a better job.

[@alucard624]

@@NaatClark The whole series plus the TV movies got a legit DVD release in a box set years back in Canada. I've seen it on Ebay and Amazon on and off. The quality of what you see here IS likely what it looks like on that DVD release sadly.

[@jjgerald7877]

This is very nostalgic, TekWar.

[@andrewgill2561]

Loved this, thanks

[@glenncox5695]

That was pretty good! William Shatner has impressed me.

[@glenncox5695]

But, the conception of the internet at that time (like so many Hollywood interpretations) is extremely lame. Laughable, at best.

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

You know he hired a ghostwriter, right?

[@flashzordon7]

It is one good sci fi show on the WB network back the day

[@HistoricalConflict]

Greg Evigan...good ole BJ and the Bear

[@charlesblack2523]

I enjoyed these movies thanks for posting them. This is fun to watch.

[@Quelquefois1793]

I've always loved the scene with the black woman and the dog; plus the uni-cyclist who's always in the picture somehow. I can't wait to see if the 2040's look like this!

[@simonandsimon2352]

Huge Greg Evigan fan right here 🙌

[@FirstLast123]

Great movie, but did you have to take half of LA with it?

[@draven3838]

Good movie ,thanks for the upload ,Greg Evegan always was a good actor

[@eschecs]

Gracias

[@12machabrawn555]

Thanks for uploading. Always wanted to watch this.

[@ISH3000]

Just now, just finding out about this in 2024.... All hail William Shatner...

[@lindalee1051]

They rocked the budget sets. The ice hockey robot and knocking the huge gun out of her hand with a hockey stick cracked me up. Also how did they get Sheena Easton to do this movie? :)

[@GeekBoy03]

Her music career was suffering as a result of refusing to wear a plaid shirt, and sing about how life sucks.

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

@@GeekBoy03 That sounds more like "emo" stuff from the early 2000's than 90's grunge. Which, speaking of emo, I hate emo became synonymous with the whiny goth music. Emo meant emotive music, and came from punk rock. Fugazi did a lot of emo stuff, and there were a few emo style groups in the early 2000's too. Rainer Maria was a good example, sort of alternative but still somewhat emo. I don't know why I'm giving this long info dump, I mean your comment is 6 years old, but maybe you haven't heard of these groups I'm talking about and you'll be interested in checking them out. A good Rainer Maria song, that you can find on youtube, is the song Southpaw. Waiting Room by Fugazi is excellent, never can go wrong with that song.

[@GeekBoy03]

@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Actually it is a reference to interviews on a show done by VH-1 where Vince Neil said something like "we were singing about partying and having a good time, then all of a sudden it's life sucks." Then Nikki Sixx said something along the lines of "I thought I was going to have to buy a plaid shirt."

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

@@GeekBoy03 Oh okay, that makes a lot of sense from their perspective. The sudden change in musical taste and style.

[@shepardbook]

37:37: Jake leaves pop gun on table in front of Bascom. 42:04…Okori henchman picks up off the ground…. Deleted scene, perhaps?

[@geraldladen7768]

Scifi ....oh how I love thee..... always captivating! For there is the good the bad and just mediocre. I love it all in every aspect that is scifi.....

[@Zoomer30_]

Watched it in college in 1994. There was also a PC video based on the show, didn't get very good reviews.

[@peanut1001x]

not surprising

[@metallicarchaea1820]

I loved this movie and TV show

[@zevadprime]

Love that this is on youtube. Bummed that I didn't know it's been here since last year. Thanks for putting this on the net suhkrutussu!

[@jimmackenzie6717]

Enjoyed the movie. Thanks.

[@MrShadowknight2000]

I wishes these was on DVD

[@TheMotorloco]

Torri Higginson was a smoke show!!🔥🔥🔥

[@FaytLinegod]

I heard it cost about $100,000 worth of special effects to create just one blast of Jake's plasma propellant gun.

[@StereotypicBehaviour]

I believe the entire budget for this pilot was 4 million. The CG effects were done by Bob Munroe, Kyle Menzies and Derek Grimes running Prism 3D animation software on silicon graphics stations. 265 shots in 3.5 months by three guys. One little trick they did was to add film grain to their shots. For the budget they had and for the work of three guys (comparable shows at that time would have a staff of about 20 animators usually) it is very impressive what they were able to achieve.

[@Sargonce1]

William Shatner's version of STRANGE DAYS with some influence from Gibson's *Neuromancer,* Interesting stuff! I never got to see it when it was on U.S. television back in the early 90s. I was in the middle of my brief jousting career. Not much time for TV back then.

[@StereotypicBehaviour]

Hmmmm.... Strange Days was released in 1995. Tek War (the novel) was published in 1989 and this tv film was released in January of 1994. There was also a great comic book adaptation of Tek War that was slightly more futuristic than the show. The book was also set further in the future but for budgetary reasons they decided to set the show about “50 years into the future” I think it is fair to say that Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) owes a lot to Tek War, at least that is what I thought when I first saw it.

[@ParadoxapocalypSatan]

Wow, this is...different. So 90's.

[@ParadoxapocalypSatan]

55:47 microphone lol

[@anthonyellis4915]

The 90s was awesome! Television doesn't reflect how amazing that decade was.

[@Zoomer30]

Wow, they jacked in just like The Matrix, they CALLED it the Matrix. Yeah, the producers of The Matrix ripped TekWar.

[@CraigMcfly1985]

They did.

[@Mantil82]

The first time that the concept and the name of "The Matrix" appeared, was afaik in William Gibsons cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer" from 1984, which together with some of his earlier short stories like "Johnny Mnemonic" and later novels was heavily ripped off by the RPG "Shadowrun" in 1989. The writers of TekWar did not invent it either. Edit: Fun fact, appearantly Gibson even wanted to call his novel "Jacked In", but was told that people would call it "Jacked off"...

[@Mister_Mag00]

actually they ripped off a book called "the eye" and it was the biggest hollywood settlement in history

[@matthewskudzienski888]

It’s like in waging warfare

[@karlsmith2570]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't the actor who plays Wildside the same guy that played Augur in "Earth:The Final Conflict"??

[@HellzNord]

WILLIAM SHATNER! LOL That's great!

[@josethemio1878]

First i watched on VHS tapes. After some years, it s appeared in TV.

[@malaikaabdul-rafi5497]

Created by William Shatner, it's got to be good

[@karlsmith2570]

This was actually based on the book series by William Shatner

[@lorettaearle3362]

Well, I'm not sure what that was all about! Still, fun to watch these old films. Thanks. :-)

[@tionalindanguyen3427]

I..."couldn't stay away, lovely lady", replied Henry with a deep bow". I...came here first thing,as soon as I got off the training." These Days even large companies go under. People won't be projected just because they work for a company with a-big name. That's thee reality today's. Amend AMEND amend.

[@CourierSiix]

@@tionalindanguyen3427 tf does that have to do with the original comment? This isnt Facebook, grandma

[@tionalindanguyen3427]

@@CourierSiix Further, he took them at their word when they said they had indeed taken them back.

[@paulcurran9343]

That last song......thumbs up!

[@karlsmith2570]

That last song was performed by Warren Zevon

[@unrelatedcoma]

"your son was 11 when you underwent cryo stasis... hes 15 now!" "how long was i under?" seriously?

[@jcp012000]

Hahaha I thought the same thing

[@jeremyzak654]

To be fair, he was just thawed out after being frozen for four years. Thinking straight might have been asking a little too much at that moment.

[@glenncox5695]

LOL! Tek must've fried that neuron!

[@eastlynburkholder3559]

Just woke up, yes he needed to ask.,

[@ryancoulter4797]

Lexa Doig’s first role after being on that YTV video game gameshow. I actually hated her makeover and fixing her crooked teeth.

[@kaliboo60]

I worked on that set. It was a great idea at the wrong time.

[@Zoomer30]

Looks like he stole MacGyvers Jeep. Macs gonna be PISSED!

[@dilciafermin7180]

Thanks!

[@Mister_Mag00]

what order should i watch these? series then movies or movies then series and what order for the movies?

[@GCBaXia]

Watch the series IMO first..

[@gordendavis-p5v]

Thank you

[@THEBANDIT7979]

The 90s. The last great decade. Good stuff. No nostalgia just facts.

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Great series 👍

[@Brendan2097]

I like the Tekwar movies... The cool thing is the others are better!

[@Linchpin_TF]

I like the design of the cryo prison. a huge freezer where the inmates are stored on a helix formation.

[@simonmcjohn]

GREAT - I ENJOYED IT A LOT - MOVIE WELL DONE

[@randyconnor976]

GREAT UPLOAD

[@rogerscottcathey]

I prefer to think our future holds better promise than ever succumbing to "credits".

[@MrBoBoTom]

In the future: handguns will be needlessly large.

[@DrDK144]

MrBoBoTom If having a gun that big makes a man feel a false sense of masculinity, I wonder how big his wang will be?

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

That's all I need to her. It's on my list to watch now.

[@odt]

Haven't even watched it yet, but liked the comment already!

[@genesky61]

Was canceled because to close to the truth.

[@bloodrunsclear]

This is just fun! There should be more cyberpunk on TV :)

[@twt3716]

Glorious.

[@GeekBoy03]

B.J. McKay! Where is your best friend bear?

[@flashzordon7]

funny man really

[@michaelcrandle1068]

I remember the 2 main characters William Shatner and Greg Evigan, especially Greg Evigan with the Cool Gun he has

[@philipaiello3890]

Can someone tell me the order to watch this show? Tek war is obviously the first. Then do I watch Teklords.Teklab , the remaining movies then the series? Do I need to do Tek to watch,HA!!!

[@NICEFINENEWROBOT]

"Pull over!" "Says who?" "Cardigan!"

[@zigfaust]

Damn, thanks Civvie for inadvertantly introducing me to one of my now all time favorite series. Too bad the games suck dong, but the show... it's 80% of the type of 90's Jank TV I've been searching the last 5 years for. Anyone know of a show that has the same vibe as TekWar but more anachronistic?

[@blacksunshine7485]

I'd say TrekWar, I mean TEKWAR, is the greatest thing to ever be conceived by the human hand. It shouldve sold more than the Bible

[@CorporalDanLives]

As a child of the 80s I was taught to Say No To Tek!

[@David_1977]

What happened to the episodes?

[@lordpantsington]

Peter from EVGA got me here.

[@chris1pugsley]

I read William Shatner's books TekWar, Tek Lab and Tek Vengeance, he's excellent writer. William Shatner should have received the Hugo Award.

[@bobbyologun1517]

maybe his ghostwriter

[@DivergentDroid]

@@bobbyologun1517 He initially developed the concept for Tekwar while a writers strike was going on delaying Star Trek The Final Frontier. Wikipedia says he co wrote the books with one of two ghost writers. His creation, he had the final word, so I'm sure he didn't just let his ghost writers write just anything that didn't jive with the world he created. There is so much material out there on this universe I think a great Skyrim/GTA 5 like game could be made to give people a chance to play in a living breathing TekWar world. I bet it would beat Cyberpunk 2077.

[@adogewithnoname7370]

@@DivergentDroid source ? would love to see where this info came from thanks !

[@DivergentDroid]

@@adogewithnoname7370 Mostly following Wikipedia links on anything to do with TekWar I think I started searching how Shatner wrote the books. He created the concept and wrote a little bit but most of the books and movies were ghost written under his direction. Just follow every related link you can find on those pages and you'll learn a lot.

[@adogewithnoname7370]

@@DivergentDroid thanks it’s not super hard to find info but on certain stuff it is i would love to know what shatner thinks about it currently and his view on it etc