what if I found myself in the future theme

We imagine what it would be like to more or less suddenly and unexpectedly move into the future.

Examples

Riker woke up sixteen years in the future as captain of the Enterprise-D, or so it seemed, in tng4x08 "Future Imperfect".

59 total · 11 choice · 39 major · 9 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
as1985e1x03 choice Jobe was somehow transported forward in time from the Battle of the Alamo to contemporary San Antonio. There Jobe was mystified by payphones, break dancing, and other staples of 1980s America.
as2020e05 choice Lt. Cole had been in an aerial battle in Burma during World War II when his plane unexpectedly moved itself to 21st century Dayton, Ohio.
ftt1982e6x01 choice Rip woke up in post-revolutionary America after having inadvertently taken a twenty year long snooze.
movie: Iceman (1984) choice A prehistoric man was revived after having been frozen in ice for 40,000 years.
movie: The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) choice Two sailors, David and Jim, found themselves 31 years in the future when a Navy experiment went horribly wrong.
novel: The Futurological Congress (1971) choice Tichy woke up in the future after a stint of cryogenic suspension.
shortstory: The Man who Saw the Future (1930) choice The story follows the apothecary's assistant Henri Lothiere as he is transported by a pair of scientists from 1444 Paris to the Paris of 1944.
tng1x26 choice Three cryonically frozen humans from the 21st century were revived aboard the Enterprise.
tng4x08 choice Riker :: Riker was made to believe he was 16 years in the future.
tng6x04 choice Scotty :: Scotty woke up 75 years in the future.