Time Travelers Are Spies: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', the team finds themselves at the bottom of a missile silo in 1969, [[Justified Trope|leading naturally]] to this assumption. It doesn't help that the officer who just spotted them [[Bluff the Impostor|asks them, in Russian]], "Are you Russian spies?" and [[Cunning Linguist|Daniel]] promptly replies, "Nyet." O'Neill is not happy.

* This happens to Gary in an early episode of ''[[Goodnight Sweetheart]]'' <ref>knowing Himmler and Goebbels' hair colour is what did it; his claims to have seen it in a newsreel fall a bit flat because [[Did Not Do the Research|Newsreels were monochrome]].</ref>. He decides to play it up and manages to convince his captors he ''is'' a spy, but a British one and not a German one as they'd assumed.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'':

** "[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Is_Yesterday Tomorrow Is Yesterday]". When the ''Enterprise'' accidentally travels back in time to Earth in 1969, Captain Kirk is considered a spy when he's caught infiltrating a U.S. Air Force base. (When an interrogator threatens to lock him up for two hundred years, Kirk ruefully acknowledges, "[[The Slow Path|That ought to be just about right.]]")