One of the example characters from the 84-97 time period is the brother of one of the other Sarah Connor's that the first terminator sent back killed, who is a theoretical physics professor with entirely wrong theories about time travel and quantum mechanics that seem crazy enough in that time period to cost him his tenure, but he is successfully tracking down sites where time travel has happened and discovering that Cyberdyne and the police are hiding something.
He's the most Call of Cthulhu ass character I've seen in a while, he's great.
