Time Travelers Are Spies: Difference between revisions

* This is the premise of the ''[[K9]]'' episode "The Cambridge Spy": a [[Lightning Can Do Anything|lightning strike]] sends Jorije back to Cambridge in 1963, she's arrested as a Russian spy, and K9 and Starkey have to travel back to rescue her.

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

** "[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Assignment_Earth Assignment: Earth]". When the ''Enterprise'' is deliberately sent back in time to Earth in 1968, Kirk and Spock are arrested as spies when they're caught inside McKinley Rocket Base.

* The Doctor and his companions in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' sometimes fall prey to this, such as when they go to Skaro in "Genesis of the Daleks," where they are mistaken for the Kaleds' deadly enemy the Thals (or their common enemies, the wild mutants that run around in the nuclear wasteland). Everyone being [[Human Aliens]] in this case did not help. Sometimes the Doctor genuinely ''is'' a spy, working for himself, simply by virtue of being too nosy for the villain-of-the-week. Other times, such as in "The Brain of Morbius," the irate locals correctly identify him as a Time Lord but automatically assume he's there to steal their stuff because they're suspicious of Time Lords in general. The titular Morbius similarly assumes the Doc is there on behalf of the Time Lords to hunt him down and was just stumbling into the creepy castle as a ruse.