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
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |