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

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).

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

You sure? Star Wars doesn't have any existential threats to sapient life, petty godlike entities or hegemonizing swarms.

Dune is oil in the Middle East.

as long as they are not generals

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!

An honorable waste extraction technician.

Oof.

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

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

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”

Something really bad is waiting for me there

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.

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.

they'd just need to do some temporal signature scanning

Maybe if they could like… let me peak at the time continuum so I knew how to enact the most effective change to move society towards Star Trek futurism I’d accept that as my role and return.

What if I end up being one of the tiny events that makes the change that starts this utopia?

What if you end up being obe of tge tint events that prevents that utopia happening, and only by bringing you forward through time can that be prevented? Maybe they don't even realise that it is only the act of brining you forward in time that allows for the future to unfold as it has for them, so they willingly send you back, destroying their timeline in the process, or at least divering the flow of time away from it.