This series started life as a series of novels written by Shatner, or written by Ron Goulart, who seems to be uncredited and Shatner lending his name to them for exposure/promotional purposes...Anyway, it seems like Shatner, after Star Trek, just needed to stay in the limelight by any means possible, and this was the "any means."  I haven't read any of these (yet?) but maybe I'll see if I can find an audiobook version.

I realized that I made a mistake by watching the TV series first, and then the movies.  Only later did I realize that the movies preceeded the series as a kind of pilot.  Ooops.  Oh well.  Honestly, no great loss. You end up picking the story up, and the movies then become "prequels" 😂.

So, what's the story about? The story is about an ex-cop (Jake Cardigan...what a stupid name, btw🙄) in a futuristic Los Angeles who becomes involved with "Tek." What's "tek"?  Glad you asked.  It's an addictive virtual reality drug. Jake was hooked on it, he went into cryosleepe prison, but was brought out 4 years into his sentence by Boscom (Shatner), who wanted him to work for his private detective agency. The series follows Jake as he navigates a world of crime and technology, investigating the drug's origins and fighting against powerful "TekLords". The series is basically about drugs without saying the word drugs.  It's stupid...but whatever.  The series basically reminded me of the Star Trek TNG Episode "The Game," except a whole series about the universe in which "The Game" exists, and instead of the future it was the present(ish).  The most fun thing about this series is playing the "name the actor" game because this series has a lot of Canadian actors who I've later seen in shows like Stargate Atlantis, Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda, and so on.  It was also interesting to see what people thought VR and the internet (which they call "the matrix") was envisioned as.