10 Dream Star Trek Moments That Could Still Happen

3. Bateson/The Bozeman In The 24th Century

"Perhaps you should beam aboard our ship. There's something we need to discuss." Those were Captain Picard's words to Captain Morgan Bateson of the USS Bozeman at the end of Cause and Effect. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the room where that conversation happened!

Ninety years was a lot of time to be out of the loop in a temporal causality loop. A crash avoided with the Enterprise-D meant a crash course in the 24th century for Bateson and crew. Three years later, the Bozeman had to make a course correction thanks to Doctor Soran. Two years after that, it was on course for the Borg cube at the Battle of Sector 001.

The last we saw of Captain Bateson himself was as leader of a crack black-ops team in 2381 in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode Grounded. Keep tossing your starships and scrambled eggs, however, as that appearance had no dialogue. Bateson was just a bit-player of a much better story.

In fact, in the spirit of Lower Decks, it would be far more interesting to hear from the subordinates of the Soyuz-class stranded in another century. How did they all cope with the temporal transition? They lost family but gained replicators, so, you know, give and take!