"But... You can't send me home."

Something really bad is waiting for me there

Exactly. They try to get me back home, and I’d be like, “don’t you fucking dare! I’m staying here!“

This is something I really appreciate about Star Trek: a combination of trust, competence, and acknowledgement that even the seemingly impossible happens on a regular basis means we, the viewers, are saved from having to trudge through the "I tried reporting this strange thing but everyone blew me off until it was too late" trope. Instead of spending half the episode on trying to convince upper brass to take concerns seriously, everyone jumps straight into action, just in case the worst is actually happening.

Star Trek and Doctor Who, the Doctor would think it was fascinating but he’d believe you and take you back if you wanted

They’d have to force me. Probably kick me out for ruining the time continuum or some crap.

Me talking to Quark after too many drinks

no no, see you don’t understand, they got these pictures of monkeys, and they like, tell people they own this one, and there’s no others ever because of some magic keychain, and like, sell them for big money even though they’re worthless and don’t physically exist, and you can just launder money through them and no one bats an eye.

And they also have this digital currency that people spend tons of money because maybe it could be worth something, but see that’s the trick it never is cause the smart ones control the value with pump and dump schemes.

Odo breaking in “yeah we need to get you the hell away from this guy before you give him any more ideas like that”

Except that one with Beverly where everyone told her she was nuts the whole time 😛

Counterpoint: that one Voyager episode where Harry Kim has the entire timeline rewritten such that he never ended up on Voyager, is working on some pretty cool projects at Starfleet headquarters, has a girlfriend, and yet still does everything he can- including recruiting a now-out-of-jail Tom Paris as a pilot - to get back.

No-one believes him. No-one. Everyone thinks he’s lost his marbles, including Tom in the beginning. The only reason why Tom comes around is because Harry is treating him like a genuine friend.

Good news, you can stay. A position just opened up at Starbase 80.

Maybe the Eugenics Wars and World War III won’t be so bad…

I’ll be 84 on the date of first contact with the Vulcans. Not great…

Maybe I’ll finally get some fucking health insurance

No, please, do not send me back to the dark centuries! Please, I want to stay in the post scarcity, medically advanced, peaceful society!

To be fair he was not a stranger popping in from out of nowhere, people knew and remembered him on account of the timeline re-write, which would make his sudden (to them) insistence that things weren't right seem very odd.

Pocket-universe Enterprise crew are jerks.

This is why we watch Star Trek. Shit happens, such is life, but the backdrop is a utopian society or at least a society that makes the effort.

Dune: dystopia.

Star Wars: dystopia.

Star Trek: Utopia, but with Ferengi.

In Star Trek they'd force you to go back. In Stargate however, you could join their forces, and not as red shirt but as plot-armored protagonist.

Even then, the Ferengi manage to make significant reforms thanks to Grand Nagus Rom and First Clerk Leeta (the real power behind the thrown like Moogie before her).

like hell I'd tell anyone where the fuck I'm from.

I'm going to pretend to have amnesia and live my life as the jizzmop aboard the enterprise.

An honorable waste extraction technician.

In Stargate you'd get a lot of guns pointed at you and then you'd end up in an interrogation room, at least at first.

It's not until you convince Daniel, who convinces Sam, who convinced Jack, and get the Teal'c nod, that you become legit.

If you clench your jaw in Morse code, you might get the Teal'c nod first.

If you declare science, you may get Sam first.

But to unlock The O'Neill first, you have to be a complete wildcard or a small being (kid, pet, etc).

For that you need to be the captains daughter. With my luck I would become a redshirt with an incureable brain worm infection.

All assuming I am in any way useful for literally anything for the team...

The real struggle isn't that you got trapped in the Star Trek universe, it's that you landed in a colony based on the idea that everyone in it has been trapped in the Star Trek universe. You have to convince the crew that your case is real.

Indeed

Yeah, how pissed would everyone be. So many people have spent almost a decade on SG-not-1, putting up with endless bullshit solving crazy problems, being possessed a dozen times, escaping by the skin of their teeth, just waiting for that promotion to SG-1 only for some smiling alien with a vaguely Aussie accent to have a spot created for her

Plot twist: we are in the Star Trek universe, but it's 2026.

the real power behind the thrown

Calm down with the baseball obsession, Rom!

Gillian Taylor had the right idea.

Star Trek has not always been very kind in its portrayal of women. But that lady… She was fucking brilliant. I would also jump a disgraced Starfleet admiral in Golden Gate Park if it would guarantee me a ride to the 23rd century. For no other reason, than that it’s probably the only way I’ll ever be able to afford to see a competent (or any) doctor for the rest of my life.

At least in the future, there are better beer choices than Michelob 🤮

Seriously. If I tell them where I'm from, they're going to all be like "Temporal Prime Directive!!!" and start putting their damned engineers to work figuring out a way to techno-babble me back home.

Nope, sorry, no idea who I am or how I got here. Perhaps some cosmic Q-like entity was responsible? Oh well, nothing to do but make the most of it. What name do you think fits me?

No reason to suspect they'll let me stay on the ship. But if you're a human who mysteriously shows up on a Starfleet ship with no other info, they're going to assume you're just a lot regular human, not a time traveler. Probably set you up with a new identity and set you loose.

Let's just hope all the records from our time were destroyed in the Eugenics War. Hopefully they can't figure out when I'm from and try to send me back!

And yet somehow the Ferengi still have better regulation than IRL capitalism corporate oligarchy.

Oof.

I think the timeline must have changed because we missed the Irish Reunification of 2024

Maybe we're in the everyone has a goatee mirrorverse. Would explain some things.

You’d end up in front of a doctor and they’d be like “what hell? How did you contract all these illnesses??? We eliminated these decades ago!“

I'm sure if you ask for asylum, they have to give it to you.

Or you become a companion!

And die some horrible convoluted way where you get spliced into different timelines at the same time until your atoms get compressed and you rip a tear in the fabric of history.

I love that the baseball league was like, "you know what we need in this trying time of multiple wars, baseball cards!"

Imagine living in a place where the people in power listen to you and act rationally 😭

I’ll fucking take it. It’s certainly better than never seeing a doctor because I can’t afford it.

We did bump one universe down after the world ended in 2012, they just turned the universe off and on again when the Mayan Calendar stopped. Irish Reunification has been pushed 10 years later.

Or a babe that reminds him of Mary Steenburgen

as long as they are not generals

lorca is from the mirror universe and canonicallly admires musk. it tracks

they'd just need to do some temporal signature scanning

What a callback. I had to look it up: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Steenburgen

"You have a thing for the Simpsons, fishing, Mary Steenburgen, the color peridot and you're a terrible ping pong player."

-Homer Simpson

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