Star Trek: 10 Characters Permanently Displaced In Time 

Scotty, for the love of... just because he was stuck in a transporter's pattern buffer, doesn't mean he doesn't count. Hence, "Relics".

Tasha Yar (Alternate) from Yesterday's Enterprise. She was from the alternate time-line where the Klingon Empire was defeating the Federation in war. She went back in time with the Enterprise-C, got captured by the Romulans, and had a daughter with one of them. All without ever giving away any future knowledge.

I can't believe hat no-one has said it yet. But what about everyone's favourite Enterprise Chief Engineer, Scotty? The events of Relics, should be apart of this episode.

Berlinghoff Rasmussen! The three Americans from the 20th century in TNG: "The Neutral Zone"! The Voyager's EMH backup from "Living WItness"! The Vaadwaur! The Borg in the Arctic! Not to mention THE ENTIRE DISCOVERY CREW, not just Burnham and Mirror-Phillipe. And Captain Kirk in Generations (even tho he died soon after arriving in the future.

How could you forget Chief O'Brien? After the episode Visionary, he is a few hours displaced back in time. O'Brien didn't suffer just to be left off the list. Jaysus.

The other nice touch about George and Gracie is that through Spock's mind meld, they had the situation explained to them and they consented. I love how the writers thought of that!

I read through a few of the comments, and was surprised to see no one mentioned the man who created warp drive, Zefram Cochrane! He zooms off into space at age 87 to die in space only to be drawn to Gamma Canaris N by the Companion, and was kept there until Kirk and Co. are taken there to meet him and to provide companionship. The episode was "Metamorphosis" in TOS second season.

At the end of Time's Arrow, Data's head is 500 years older than the rest of his body. Then there's that DS9 episode where O'Brien was suffering by jumping a few hours forward in time. At the end, he ended up sending the future him back to fix the problem, leading to that O'Brien being the guy we had for the rest of the series.

Did you forget the three people who Data found in a failing cryogenic preservation satellite that Dr. Crusher healed and brought back to life just before the Romulans made their 1st Next Gen appearance in an episode forshaddowing the Borg presence near the Nuetral Zone? A Wealthiy Businessman, a Famous Entertainer and a Homemaker were all permanently displaced in time. I would really have loved a follow up story on Sunny's music career.

Unlike the others, Amelia Earhart didn't travel through time, she just took a really long nap, like Rip Van Winkle or Walt Disney. Or Kahn.

Why didn't you guys include the guy who stole a 30th century time ship. Then visited the enterprise d. Where he tried to steal from the enterprise and was caught. The time ship auto pilot then returned to its own time stranding the criminal from the past in the 24th century.

You forgot Scotty. If Khan’s crew in a sleeper ship counted, certainly Montgomery Scott looped in a pattern buffer for 70 years also counts.

I think time travel became a staple in the Original Series because they simply re-used the sets and props on hand from other shows and movies at the studio. It was a really cost-effective way to get the crew out of the Enterprise ship set without blowing the budget re-creating an alien planet. For the same reason, we also saw the enterprise going to planets that re-created the Roman Empire, 1920's Gangsters and Nazi Germany.

Completely missed Tasha Yar from arguably the best episode of TNG. Also, if you're gonna add Khan for being sleepy for so many years... why not add Scotty for doing the same in a transporter buffer?

I have ANOTHER one for you guys. That revived Emergency Medical Hologram from Voyager who was part of a museum on some world in the future, THEN, he was allowed to take a ship from the Delta Quadrant back to the Alpha Quadrant. The whole thing was going to cause him to be a good 5 or 600 years out of his time once he reached Federation Space. Episode: Living Witness

What about Scotty? They find him in a transporter decades later. Because of this he likely served in the Dominion War or at least was alive and active during the time.

As several have pointed out, there are other major and minor characters that could have been included. I also would not include Khan, Scotty, Earhart, or the three 20th century people picked up by Enterprise D, as all of these were not displaced but preserved beyond their normal lifespan. However, the biggest omission is James T. Kirk! He was pulled into the Nexus and pops back out with Picard. He dies and thus permanently displaced in time.

A starfleet captain that knows all about tossed salad and scrambled eggs.

You forgot about Dr. Sam Beckett. Who leaped into the body of Jonathan Archer and couldn’t return to his own time until he set things right, that once went wrong.

You forgot Scotty via a transporter loop stranded on a Dyson sphere and the one, the only James T. Kirk displaced in time while believed dead but subsequently caught in the Nexus until he exited to assist Picard on Veridian III.

Captain Braxton - Voyager. Spent time trying to stop time anomalies on Voyager. Eventually arrested for causing the anomalies. His arrest made him seek revenge on Janeway/Voyager which led to the anomalies.

Missed opportunity to show Captain Archer when the line "set right what once went wrong" was said.

Thomas Riker? Scotty? Just a couple of honourable mentions.

Philippa Georgiou wasn't permanently displaced in time, she was returned to her own time just in a different universe, also what about Tasha Yar?

8:08 I would love to see Gillian Taylor return in an episode of Lower Decks as an elderly scientist who is still researching whales.

You forgot Admiral Janeway in Voyager's final!

I absolutely LOVE the fact that Captain Bateson had a part in Lower Decks! And I want to see that character return to live action, or more in animation! I think it is awesome that, despite not being his century, he just went right back to work!

You forgot Montgomery Scott, who got trapped in a pattern buffer. Last seen, he was still puttering about in the Next Generation timeline

You forgot the Bozeman needing to make a course correction in Generations after the destruction of the Amargosa star.

Montgomery Scott locked in a transporter diagnostic loop found himself in a warp shuttle after helping to rescue the Enterprise D.

As a Starfleet captain AND the local shrink. He could go back in time and bring the whole gang from Frasier to the 24th century. Eddie could be like Archers dog. Seeing his Dad and his old beat up recliner on the bridge. Niles And Daphne as the Doctors (1 medical, 1 psychiatrist) Bulldog as the engineer/tactical officer and Roz as the communications officer. Now that's a Star Trek series I would love to see !

Scotty, Tasha, and if we're counting cryogenically frozen characters, the people picked up in TNG: The Neutral Zone were missing from this list.

"This is Captain Morgan Bateson, I'm listening!"

Scotty & Tasha Yar were worthy of mention far more than guest stars in a single episode or movie that no one really cares about beyond their sole appearance.

Nero & his crew, Spock prime, and Khan and his crew died. You forgot about * the Tasha Yar character who went back on the Enterprise C. * the 3 Earth people frozen in stasis and later discovered by Data in the episode The Neutral Zone (Claire Raymond (Gracie Harrison), a housewife; Ralph Offenhouse (Peter Mark Richman), a financier; and L. Q. "Sonny" Clemmons (Leon Rippy), a musician); all are from the late 20th century. * James Kirk, who was transported into the Nexus while saving the Enterprise B. He died, too, but he had come back almost a century later to help Picard in the movie ST: Generations. * Scotty saved himself by putting him and a colleague in transporter stasis for about 75 years, and the last we saw of him was flying off in a shuttle from the Enterprise D. * On ST:TOS, two characters (Mr. Atoz and Zarabeth, along with everyone else on the planet but we don't see them) had sent themselves back in time permanently to avoid the planet Sarpeidon's destruction. * On ST:TNG A Matter of Time, the Enterprise encounters Berlinghoff Rasmussen, who says he is a 26th century historian but is really a con man/thief from the 22nd century who had stolen a ship from the future. He is kept in Picard's time to stand trial.

Wasn't Data's head left in the past? Then he traveled to the future the old fashioned way?

2:17 looks like Earheart also met the Ninth Doctor. 😉

You forgot the character with the best name in Trek, Berlinghoff Rasmussen.

What I really hate about the Picard Second season is the entire time loop paradox. He stays in the past. Ricardo uses the life form Renee Picard finds to clean the environment and their Mariposas created group is still active into the 25th century. And then you have Wesley and that group watching time and the grand tapestry to keep the threads in place. So I have no idea what the true correct unimpacted by time travel future really is? Since there is an agent trying to manipulate things to get Renee onto the ship to support the Tapestry, I have to suspect without Q's influence this is the future one step removed from true. The True future is with no one interfering she gives into her insecurities, doesn't go, and a that dark future is the one true future. But the agents intefere creating the 1 step removed (and I have to assume at some point Song moves on to project Khan losing interest in his other work without Q's guidance and that life discovery), Q steps in and step 2 she is removed and we are back to the correct, they Picard and friends travel back and make a mess of things and step 3 is created. But the debris from this crossing is Rios is in the past and starts the group, and the girl is recruited by Wesley (as in the 1 step removed she has a normal non eventful life). So really the only reason the future exists is due to interference from Wesley?!?!?! ARRGGHHHHH! And as for Khan ... at his peaked he ruled over 1.25 Billion people. And wow at the peak Xi ruled over China with 1.2 Billion people. Is Xi really Khan just not as buff???

The fact that a clip of Captain Archer was NOT shown when you said "...put right what once went wrong" is CRIMINAL! 😉

Can't believe you didn't mention Tasha Yar (STNG: Yesterday's Enterprise) or Berlinghoff Rasmussen (STNG: A Matter of Time).

You totally forgot Commander Data, as his head was a lot older then his body

If I remember right, there was an episode of Star Trek TOS where Zephram Cochran, the inventor of warp drive, appeared in what would have been the future for him. A female entity had brought him there and he ended up staying with that entity by the end of that episode. He was definitely a different version of the character that we saw in First Contact and Enterprise but I think he still counts as permanently displaced in time.

You could have just said the entire crew of the Discovery since they all got stuck in the future

As I watched this video, I realized what a great deadpan comedy duo the two temporal investigators from "Trials and Tribbelations" would make. They can show up in any Star Trek. They're time lords! 😉

I feel like a great number 1 would have been Matt Frewer as Berlinghoff Rasmussen in "A Matter Of Time". Well, any number really, I just kept waiting for him to appear on the list, along with many others.

You forgot zefram Cochrane in a TOS episode episode where Enterprise found him still young on a planet, a alien kept him young because she was in love with and wanted him to stay with her. Then don't forget Scotty who was trapped in a transporter system for 47 years. And Captain Kirk was inside the Nexus band for nearly a century before dying in a fight minutes after getting out.

I think it’s helpful to point out that Nero also lost his wife and family on Romulus. I think he had full faith and hope that Spock would come to his planet’s rescue.

You did miss a lot here 1. Tasha Yar 2. Scotty 3. The three in stasis from The Neutral Zone 4. The revived Borg from the Ent episode "Regeneration" That's what I can think of.

How did they miss the cryo frozen humans from S1E26 The Neutral Zone, Tasha Yar from Yesterdays Enterprise, or SCOTTY from Relics???

My favorite is the next generation s5 e9 "A matter of time" where the stolen time ship is returned with its 26th century origin along with its 20th century thief.

Welcome back Marcus!!! Meant to comment on your last video, but it’s great to have you w/us again!!

The crew of the Enterprise D arrested a time traveler who was stealing technology. That guy’s name was Rasmussen. There were also the 3 people from the 20th century that the Ent-D picked up frozen, who were suffering from fatal diseases. If you’re going to include Khan, might as well include them.

Let us not forget marcus bronzy who got sent foward in time and has now rejoined us

...hoping the next leap will be the one home... Lol!

You missed Kirk because of the Nexus.

Thank you, Marcus! I'm not caught up on a few ST shows (there are so many now!!), but I feel like this entry explained far more than it spoiled for me. I really appreciate it. S

I would have added Voyager's EMH, when his Back Up Module was reactivated in a Kyrian museum after 700 years. The Episode was "Living Witness"

What about the three people Data saved from the cryogenic ship in the next generation?

Burnham's probably should have just been expanded to the majority of the Discovery crew here

The entire DS9 crew in "Children of Time". Odo even got oozy with himself

The crew of the bozeman were displaced in time but technically, the crew of the enterprise d were too, by 17 days. Also, data's head was displaced in time a few centuries following the events of times arrow 1 and 2. Oh and Professor Rasmussen was stranded in the 24th century in TNG A matter of time

I guess you are not counting the alternate time-line Jim Kirk, in Strange New Worlds. He died in the past, and if the time-line is corrected, he never existed. Maybe that means he never exist to begin with and therefore was not stuck out of time.

Hologram Leonardo Da Vinci was brought into Voyager's time when their computers and supplies were pilfered. Moriarity (Sherlock's nemesis) in TNG likewise.

From my understanding it wasn't a new Bozeman but an upgraded one. Needing more ships during the Dominion War it was decided that a refit would be quicker than building a new one

11:17 "Spock, who died and got better". 😆

Nero always bothered me since he literally was transported back in time. His focus was so narrow that he wanted petty revenge. He clearly had no issue messing with time. He could have told the romulans of then to be prepared for a supernova. Could have upgraded the romulan fleet so much that they would be the dominant power and not the federation. But he focused on the one who didn't save his people in time lol.

They forgot Miles O’Brien and Harry Kim. Both “died” and their alternate selves took their places. O’Brien during a thwarted Romulan attack, Kim during a Vidian attack.

I Always wondered what happened to the terminally i'll 20th century people the TNG Grew found in the the sleeper ship. Would have Loved to see these Storylines picked Up further.

TNG A Matter of Time, Watching Rasmussen start to panic before "his" timeship vanishes stranding him is kinda satisfying. "Oh, Professor...Welcome to the 24th century."😆

I hear that Captain Morgan Bateson later started offering helpful advice to other people misplaced in time via a radio call in show.

actually the disco crew hat 2 displacements - the jumped 9 months into the future when they returned from mirror universe

Wouldn't Kirk (Prime) count? He was presumed dead in 2293 but was actually stuck in the Nexus before being retrieved by Picard in 2371 and dying to stop Soran. Shatner even wrote official Star Trek novels where Kirk was resurrected following the events of Generations.

In the original series episode All Our Yesterdays, Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley) had been sent back in time using the Atavachron as a punishment. Although Kirk, Spock, McCoy also end up going back to two different time periods they manage to return, Zarabeth however was doomed to remain as she had been altered to live in the time she had been sent to and so could never return.

Great summary!

So glad to have you back, Marcus Bronzy!

What about Scotty, Tasha Yar (the alternative one), those people revived from the dead in a cryonic ship near the end of TNG Season 1, and Data's head (having to come back from a 500-year backward trek thru time the hard way)?

Amazing video thanks!!

The whole premise of the JJ movie where the Kelvin timeline was created is kind of wonky. Nero arrived back in time well before Romulus was destroyed. In fact, we can presume he was at a point in time before the events of the TOS episode “Balance of Terror”. At this point in time, Romulus was still in existence. The family and friends Nero lost when Romulus was destroyed probably weren’t even born yet. Instead of looking for revenge, it seems to me that Nero could have saved everyone a lot of grief by being proactive and telling the Romulan and Federation governments who he was and what was going to happen in the future. Armed with that knowledge, they could have either prevented the destruction of Romulus or at least be able to evacuate the planet in a timely manner. After Nero was defeated and prime time Spock was stranded in the Kelvin timeline, I have to wonder if he spilled the beans about Romulus’s cataclysmic fate 🤔

Dont Forget, Kelsey Grammar also was Captain of the Stingray in pre warp timeline.

Marcus I am so glad you've come back/started providing commentary again. I love your voice and delivery.

Awesome video

Thanks for this video! I love the "time travel" episodes but what about ST Generations when Picard found Kirk in the nexus?

4.7K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 You're welcome! Thanks! 😊 Notes: I read some comments first, then I viewed your video. Ahem. Okay, I get it now. It is only about naming ten characters to keep the video short! It isn't a "Top Ten" list! George & Gracie, were displaced as well. The whole crew of the Enterprise got sent backwards in Time by three days and did not repeat what they had already done! They presumably ignored their earlier selves and went into hiding for three days, and probably made a vacation of it. 🤔 Khan's whole crew were displaced then, not just him. The list is longer than ten! 🖖

Dont forget the borg who actually created another timeline besides the kelvin one. In TOS and the 80s movies, there were no touchscreens, cyborgs, or androids, at least not on federation ships. In discovery (before going to the future future, mind you), which is supposed to be around the TOS time and even the reboot star trek movies (2009+) have touchscreens consoles, androids, and cyborgs (that character with white makeup and black lines/angles, and the redhead with shaved side of head with implants). The borg made the federation technology deviate in the alternate timeline after their discovery on Earth in Enterprise series.

Khan is a bit of a stretch. He didn't skip any intervening time or cross from one timeline to another. He went through time the same way most folks do: one day at a time. He just passed a couple of centuries of it with his metabolism stopped by cold sleep. That's not time travel, it's just a tech-assisted nap with suspended aging. The 37s don't really count as time travel, either, for the same reason. They were "displaced" in the sense that they weren't conscious during a long period of time they lived through, granted. But in that sense, everyone is displaced in time about eight hours every night when they go to sleep.

I feel like you missed a few. Right off the bat i'd remember Scotty from 'Relics', Tasha Yar who went back in time in 'Yesterdays Enterprise' and the people from the 20th century that the Enterprise picked up in 'Neutral Zone'

Until now, I keep wishing that there's a TV series about Morgan Bateson and the USS Bozeman.

You missed some pretty big ones! Like Kirk! He was taken by the Nexus an🎉d pushed 100s of years in the future. Weasley Crusher became a traveler. Riker accidentally cloaned himself. Loads of better ones man.

Great show...ty

Honorable Mention: Data. Because he was killed with his head left back in the past. It had to wait buried for centuries before being reattached to its body that was left in the 24th century present. So he was technically stuck back in time, and in the present, simultaneously. ^^

always fun to recognize actors across timelines & "universes"! One of my favorites is Babylon5's psychic superweapon "Lyta" being a Bridge officer on the Defiant, always made me chuckle 😆

Lazarus from the TOS episode "The Alternative Factor" ends up literally trapped between two universes, fighting it out with his maniacal alter-ego for all eternity. Talk about a character truly displaced in time...and space!

I love that Quantum Leap reference at the beginning! ❤

What about Data? They left his head in a cave to be guarded by Samuel Clemons

Rasmussen from Star Trek Next Generation- a disgruntled inventor from 22nd century New Jersey that stole this pod from a 26th-century traveler. After stealing Enterprise tech, Picard arrested him and his time pod disappeared leaving him stranded in the 24th century.

That Amelia episode was ridiculous. 1) Earhart died crashing in the Pacific, as remains of her plane were found. 2) The actress used to play Earhart was as close of a match as Chris Rock and James Earl Jones. 3) After all that time, the plane which was outdoors and exposed to the elements looked brand new.

Just thought I'd remind the makers that nothing with the stench of Bad Reboot and especially Klutzman about it counts as Star Trek.

Love the quantum leap reference

I remember a TV show where a guy was wearing a T-shirt that said "Edith Keeler MUST DIE!". One person said I don't get it. The guy wearing the shirt said "If you were a TRUE Star Trek Fan YOU would understand".