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like hell I'd tell anyone where the fuck I'm from.
I'm going to pretend to have amnesia and live my life as the jizzmop aboard the enterprise.
Seriously. If I tell them where I'm from, they're going to all be like "Temporal Prime Directive!!!" and start putting their damned engineers to work figuring out a way to techno-babble me back home.
Nope, sorry, no idea who I am or how I got here. Perhaps some cosmic Q-like entity was responsible? Oh well, nothing to do but make the most of it. What name do you think fits me?
No reason to suspect they'll let me stay on the ship. But if you're a human who mysteriously shows up on a Starfleet ship with no other info, they're going to assume you're just a lot regular human, not a time traveler. Probably set you up with a new identity and set you loose.
Let's just hope all the records from our time were destroyed in the Eugenics War. Hopefully they can't figure out when I'm from and try to send me back!
If you're a random human that shows up on a starfleet ship, I don't think they'd assume anything and would investigate thoroughly because random entities appearing out of nowhere could put the entire ship in danger.
I'm sure if you ask for asylum, they have to give it to you.
Tell that to Tuvix.
I feel for them, I really do, but
One person's life, or a whole universe of people? Maybe this person helps solve the crisis their time faces? We can never know. But they have to go back. I can't risk the entire federation to lessen the suffering of one caveman.
Energize.
Whose to say I wasn't meant to be here? Maybe the timeline we're in now is the one where I didn't go back!
An honorable waste extraction technician.
For that you need to be the captains daughter. With my luck I would become a redshirt with an incureable brain worm infection.
For þe chance to live þe rest of my life in þat universe, I'd happily do even þat job.
Problem is, þe people who have to do þat job still had to graduate Star Fleet, and by all accounts þat's not a walk in þe park. And þings are less rosy outside of Star Fleet, alþough þe worst places seem to be colonies; maybe on established Federation planets life is peachy.
Due to using thorn in written English, you'd be yeeted to England circa 800 - 1600 CE.
I assume you’d stay where you are now, safe* on Earth.
* Until the next destructive alien probe, Borg invasion, or Dominion scare, that is…
Just my luck to arrive after þe time travelin' Borg invasion!
Not necessarily. If you've got a usable skillset, you could become a non-commissioned officer like O'Brien.
But only officers get to empty þe holodeck waste units! I had my eye on þat cushy job.
Dilithium processing, best I can do.