During season 2 episode 17, Quantum Leap, Scott Bakula leaps into coroner and is trying to find a killer. The girl's friend is Marcia Cross. In Marcia's show Desperate Housewives, Scott players Trip Weston for 5 episodes and during a flash forward, the characters marry.
Scott Bukula plays a character named Trip Weston. In Star Trek Enterprise, where he plays Captain Jonathan Archer, his second in command officer is also named Trip (Charles Tucker III).