Star Trek: Titan - An Accident in Time

[Little_kingsfan]

Having read another post about a possible DTI story, I decided to post my idea for a time travel tale that I came up with a few years ago:

While investigating a spatial anomaly in the Beta Quadrant, the U.S.S. Titan, led by Capt. William Riker, finds itself thrown back in time to 2010s Earth. Can the crew of Starfleet’s most species-diverse starship make it back to the 2380s without disturbing the timeline?

This story idea came to me after reading Dayton Ward's From History's Shadow, which dealt with the US government's secret discovery and subsequent ongoing investigation into alien life, courtesy of all of Star Trek's time travelers. My thought was that by the 2010s, they'd built up quite an intelligence chest that would enable them to not just learn that Titan was hanging out in space, but that they might actually pose some kind of potential threat to our 24th century heroes. Not to mention that there's a character in that era who knows and is acquainted with a member of Titan's crew, which brings its own set of both problems and solutions...

One of the strongest ideas I have for this story is the image of Will Riker walking down the street in a US Navy captain's uniform, using the closest decorations awarded in the 21st century to match his own service record - this would cause some eyebrows to raise, considering that he would wear the Medal of Honor (which is a very uncommon ribbon at this particular point in time) as well as ribbons from multiple countries.

Anyways, let me know what you think of this idea.

 

[Finn]

Why would he walk around in an uniform? Trying to get to the nuclear wessels in Alameda?

 

[Little_kingsfan]

Actually, my thought was that he might need to go to the Pentagon, or possibly some civilian defense contractor (the reason to come in the actual story), and it'd be easier to go in as a Navy Captain. In the same scene, I also see either Deanna or Christine Vale (possibly both) along with Tuvok and - now that I'm really thinking about it - a cosmetically-altered CPO Dennisar who serves as the Captain's bodyguard. And if some junior officer or enlisted sailor is brave enough to inquire about Commander Tuvok's Vulcan ears, he simply proclaims it none of his or her concern and goes about his own business.

 

[Tenacity]

considering that he would wear the Medal of Honor (which is a very uncommon ribbon at this particular point in time) as well as ribbons from multiple countries.

That makes Riker (or whoever out-fitted his uniform) sound careless, because the ribbon for the Medal of Honor would make Riker stand out, and would make it easy to check that he wasn't who he was pretending to be.

A fast look only found one Naval officer with the medal who isn't an old man.

 

[Little_kingsfan]

I know there's probably dozens if not hundreds of ways to put together a "normal" ribbon rack for a Navy Captain who's had a decorated career, but one of my premises is that Riker and his crew are 350+ years out of date and something like a ribbon rack isn't going to be his top priority...or even any kind of priority - he asked the computer to synthesize a US Naval Officer's uniform using his own service record as a baseline, and the computer gave him the closest 21st century equivalent.