"Future Shock" takes the form of a diary written by Captain Morgan Bateson after the USS Bozeman arrives in 2368.

References

Characters

Morgan Bateson • Marion Dulmur • K'Temoc • Karen • Clark Terrell

Referenced only

Henri Boulle • Crane

Starships and vehicles

USS Bozeman (Soyuz-class) • USS Reliant (Miranda-class)

Locations

Amargosa • Antares group • Mutara sector • Paris Space and Air Museum • Rigel V • Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards

Races and cultures

Human • Klingon

Referenced only

Borg • Inaara • Romulan

States and organizations

Federation Department of Temporal Investigations • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Command • Starfleet Medical

Other references

dyno scanner • electro-plasma system • Kobiyashi Maru scenario • Old Salts • Rigelian fever • ryetalyn • Romulan ale

Chronology

Appendices

Related media

• TNG episode: "Cause and Effect"

Background

• Dr. Crane uses ryetalyn in the crew's blood to cure an outbreak of Rigelian fever in the Mutara sector. (TOS episode & Star Trek 5 novelization: Requiem for Methuselah, TOS episode & Star Trek 2 novelization: Space Seed, et. al.)
• Bateson was a friend of Captain Clark Terrell of the USS Reliant. (TOS movie & novelization: The Wrath of Khan)
• Captain K'Temoc contacts Bateson. (TNG episode: "The Emissary")
• The Bozeman changes course following the destruction of the Amargosa star. (TNG movie & novelization: Generations)
• Agent Marion Dulmur of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations recommends that the Bozeman's crew remain in the 24th century. (DS9 episode & novelization: Trials and Tribble-ations)

Connections

Star Trek: The Next Generation collected short stories, novellas and short novels
Strange New Worlds	I: ("What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit" • "The Naked Truth" • "The First" • "See Spot Run" • "Together Again, for the First Time" • "Civil Disobedience" • "Of Cabbages and Kings") • II: ("I Am Klingon" • "Reciprocity" • "Calculated Risk" • "Gods, Fate, and Fractals" • "I Am Become Death") • III: ("Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" • "A Private Victory" • "The Fourth Toast" • "One of Forty-seven" • "A Q to Swear By" • "The Change of Seasons" • "Out of the Box, Thinking") • IV: ("Flight 19" • "The Promise" • "Flash Point" • "Prodigal Son" • "Seeing Forever") • V: ("Bluff" • "The Peacemakers" • "Efflorescence" • "Kristin's Conundrum" • "The Monkey Puzzle Box" • "The Farewell Gift" • "Dementia in D Minor") • VI: ("The Soft Room" • "Protecting Data's Friends" • "The Human Factor" • "Tribble in Paradise") • VII: ("Life's Work" • "Adventures in Jazz and Time" • "Future Shock" • "Full Circle" • "Beginnings" • "Solemn Duty") • 8: ("Morning Bells Are Ringing" • "Passages of Deceit" • "Final Flight") • 9: ("Staying the Course" • "Home Soil" • "Terra Tonight" • "Solace in Bloom") • 10 ("Wired" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "The Very Model") • 2016 ("A Christmas Qarol" • "The Sunwalkers" • "The Seen and Unseen")
The Sky's the Limit	"Meet with Triumph and Disaster" • "Acts of Compassion" • "Redshift" • "Among the Clouds" • "Thinking of You" • "Turncoats" • "Ordinary Days" • "'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven" • "Friends With the Sparrows" • "Suicide Note" • "Four Lights" • "'Til Death" • "On the Spot" • "Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You"
Star Trek: Explorer	"Q and False" • "Quality of Life" • "Broken Oaths" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "Scramble" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in" • "The Simulation" • "Family History" • "Into the Cardassian Quagmire"
Misc. short stories	"The Captain and the King" • "Last Words" • "Bedside Matters" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "What Dreams May Come" • "Twilight's Wrath" • "Eleven Hours Out" • "Darkness" • "The Sacred Chalice" • "For Want of a Nail"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"The Other Side" • "The Worst of Both Worlds" • "Brave New World"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Adventures in Jazz and Time	Strange New Worlds VII	Next story: Full Circle
Previous story: Adventures in Jazz and Time Strange New Worlds VII	TNG short stories	Next story: Full Circle Strange New Worlds VII
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: John Coffren	Next story: Gone Native Strange New Worlds 9
chronological order
Previous adventure: Triangle: Imzadi II	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Fascination
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2371. The Pocket Books Timeline and Memory Beta Chronology place events from this story in 9 other timeframe(s):
Previous adventure: Cost of Living	24 September 2368 first entry	Next adventure: Sins of Commission
Previous adventure: Here There Be Dragons	3 to 10 March 2369 second & third entries	Next adventure: True Q
Previous adventure: True Q	17 to 24 March 2369 fourth & fifth entries	Next Pocket adventure: Rascals Next MB adventure: Old Debts DC TNG Special - 1995
Previous Pocket adventure: Rascals Previous MB adventure: Restoration	30 March to 6 April 2369 sixth & seventh entries	Next adventure: A Fistful of Datas
Previous adventure: On the Scent of Trouble The Amazing Stories	13 to 20 April 2369 eighth & ninth entries	Next adventure: A Fury Scorned
Previous Pocket adventure: The Quality of Life Previous MB adventure: The Maze	27 April to 10 May 2369 tenth - twelfth entries	Next adventure: A Stitch in Time Part 3: chapters 3 & 5
Previous adventure: Past Prologue	27 May 2369 thirteenth entry	Next adventure: Pathways chapter 2, section 12
Previous adventure: Babel	10 June 2369 fourteenth entry	Next adventure: Aquiel
Previous adventure: Betrayal	24 January 2370 fifteenth entry	Next Pocket adventure: Liaisons Next MB adventure: The Persistence of Memory chapter 10 Cold Equations