Isn't that Gillian Taylor from Star Trek IV?
Huzzah!18 years! Congratulations to you, too!
Perhaps Our Heroes have to build giant robots in order to fight the dinosaurs?
I was speaking of having a recurring main Human character on a TV series come from the time the show was created. So imagine that a 21st century Human gets into an accident and wakes up in the 24th century, and rather than returning them home, for reasons, they remain a member of the ship's crew and go on multiple adventures with them. The kind of thing people do in fanfics. No Trek series has done that with a human - the closest they've gotten is frozen aliens in Prodigy.
Like if they kept one of those guys around from TNG: "The Neutral Zone"
Yes, like that.
It could be interesting, but you know it would instantly be pegged as Buck Rogers.
The DISCO going forward to the 32nd century is like that, but without having their original time period in common with the audience. Weirdly, or unbelievably, it had few negative consequences for the crew and ship, and pluses even (the spore drive).
That decision also had the negative effect of making the 32nd century not really that different than what we've already seen before. A 900 year gap between where you were living your life and where you are now: doesn't matter how smart the crew is, there should have been a MUCH harder transition period for the crew just for the technology alone. But there was almost NO issue for any of them to adjust to the technology, culture, and everything else, which not only makes the 32nd century feel like nothing really changed, but defied believability.
Take any person from any period and put them 900 years into their future... there is no way the transition will be THAT smooth. It was (yet another) failure of the writing of DISCO.
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Honest question: Would it really? I mean, historically, yes language has changed quite a bit. But we're in a unique era in history now in that we now have recorded audio as to what language is "supposed" to sound like, so would the basic terminology really drift all that much aside from slang?
Just like at IHOP.
Kinda what I meant by "unbelievably". 
Probably not, plus the translation aspects would also impact language drift slowing down.
The existence of the universal translator means that there's little to no cost associated with any language changes. I don't think we have any real world experience under such a system. If everybody's keeping their linguacode current with regular updates, it could conceivably accelerate language changes.
Like I said before, they were in a zoo...The absolute awesomeness of Michael Burnham!
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