This is a mission about being lost in time and finding your way back again.
In the 24th Century, there is a popular piece of unfinished classical music, known only as "Charlotte's Requiem", known for its minor-key tonalities and slow, soulful feel. It was written, ostensibly, by a man in the late 21st century, in memory of his wife.
Turns out, he was a fairly competent composer, and judged "important" by one of the many movements of the time. Important enough that he was placed into a cryogenic sleeper ship, one that went horribly off-course. He awakened in the 24th Century, terribly alone, hurt, and confused. Rather than shutting down like so many people in his situation would, he started to figure out time travel while composing a new symphony on Cestus III, near where he awakened. He has stolen a runabout and plans to use it to travel back in time, retrieve his wife, and return.
There are a few ways to go with this from here.
First option: he's not really "him", but rather a clone, created by some lunatic fan with a little too much knowledge and too much time on their hands. What implications would this have about his memories? Is his desperation real, or just conditioned?
Second option: this is part of a closed-loop timeline. His grandchild is the man who sells Zephram Cochrane the missile silo in which the Phoenix is built or something like that. He does it because his parents keep telling him that his grandparents took off to the stars - and he'd like to meet them some day.
Third: We have to stop him, because him doing this will somehow destabilize the timestream.
I like the first and third. With the second, we eventually relent.
But here's the big question. Is love stronger than the Prime Directive?
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