What would Quincy be crusading against in 2013?
There would definitely be a texting-while-driving episode. It would probably start with some light hearted banter between Quincy and Sam about how Quince can't work his cellphone. Then the catastrophe hits. A child chases a ball into the street, bang he's dead. The driver who kills the kid shows no remorse and he's going to get off with a fine and 30 days suspended sentence! Quincy is out of his mind, every muscle and ligament in his face quivers with righteous indignation. He spends two or three scenes ranting and raving at a series of public officials who are sympathetic but beleagured and helpless. Finally Quince has to testify before Congress if he's going to get something done about this.
A bird flu outbreak in a community of recent Asian immigrants. Quincy has to balance respect for Eastern medical traditions with the need to prevent dozens of deaths. I see Anthony Zerbe guest-starring as a zealous but culturally-insensitive bureaucrat who's really only there to make Quincy look good by comparison. Naturally, Sam gets out of the lab a few times in this episode; even though he's Japanese-American and the immigrants are from Laos, he can still lend a hand convincing them to accept this angry old man and his strange new ways.
Maybe there's a suspenseful race against the clock to save a beautiful young model from necrotizing fasciitis. I don't mean to give away the ending... but he saves her and they all go out to eat at Danny's.
Mountain lion attack. Sexting politicians. Discrimination against overweight people by the TSA. An up-and-coming rapper dies from a codeine overdose after drinking too much sizzurp. The list of contemporary social problems that Quincy could rail against is damn near endless.