Mormons, not even once.

The dot is the time they experience when O’Brien puts them in the pattern buffer.

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Captain Jonathan Archer stepped into the quantum leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Captain Archer finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

I need to return some holotapes…

This is a technique called Tràkata established in Legends

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tràkata?

Now I have a type-3 phaser

Ho Ho Ho

Yes. He was also Dr. Lucas on Enterprise

And I will see my dream come alive at last

It’s been a long time,

God bless the idiot-proof AirForce

https://yourimageshare.com/ib/7GdKZTMFW9

It’s the o’ Away Team of Thesus paradox