Star Trek: 10 Characters Permanently Displaced In Time

10. Morgan Bateson

Captain Morgan Bateson was introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Cause and Effect. In 2278, he was commanding the USS Bozeman when it encountered a temporal distortion and collided with the USS Enterprise-D in 2368.

The resulting explosion of the Enterprise-D ruptured the spacetime continuum and locked both ships in an endless loop of the Bozeman colliding with the Enterprise-D followed by the Enterprise-D exploding and triggering a new loop.

Although the crew of the Enterprise-D eventually broke the loop, the Bozeman and her crew were now trapped in the 24th Century.

Bateson eventually continued his career in Starfleet. In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode Grounded, Bateson was instrumental in proving that Captain Carol Freeman of the USS Cerritos had been framed for the destruction of the Pakled homeworld.

Bateson's career was fleshed out in several Star Trek novels, short stories, and comics. Ship of the Line, for example, depicted the events leading to the temporal causality loop, the crew adapting to life in the 24th century, and their eventual assignment to a new USS Bozeman that participated in the Battle of Sector 001 in Star Trek: First Contact.