Here and Now and Then

by Mike Chen

The first human to travel through time was Albert Beckett, the scientist who cracked the calculations necessary to create a dampening field that enabled particle acceleration at lower energy levels. In November 2098, the United Nations formed the Temporal Corruption Bureau as an independent overseer of time-travel technology and temporal security, with its existence only on a need-to-know basis within the intelligence community.

This is a huge Quantum Leap reference, one of my favorite time travel stories. Sam Beckett, as played by Scott Bakula, is the time traveler trying to set right what once went wrong, and his companion Al, as played by Dean Stockwell, his holographic helper across time.