History OutsideContextProblem / LiveActionTV

** Season 4 of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' is all about this trope, as the Federation (and our entire galaxy) find themselves facing a ginormous and destructive anomaly so massively outside their scope of technology (even a thousand years into the future of the original series) that it takes almost the entire season just to figure out its origin -- an extragalactic species utterly unlike any race the Federation has encountered.

* Subverted in ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Arthur Dent's words "I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" travel through a wormhole to the far reaches of space millions of years in the past to a planet populated by two races, the G'Gugvuntts and the Vl'Hurgs. Unfortunately this sentence in Vl'Hurg is the most grave insult imaginable and kicks off a war that lasts millions of years. Eventually the two races figure out that the offending words came from Earth and their combined fleets set course for Earth to exact revenge. This doesn't present a threat to Earth because it is on an entirely different scale from the G'gugvntts and Vl'Hurgs's home planet, and both fleets are soon swallowed by a small dog.

* On ''Series/{{Elsbeth}}'' the title character is this to every killer. Each one of them was ready to take on conventional detectives and might very well have gotten away with it as even veteran cops can miss stuff and would fall for their FrameUp of an innocent suspect and most just want to close the cast as fast as possible and move on. What they never expected was a wildly eccentric lawyer whose quirky mind allows her to latch onto a detail others would dismiss and often befriends them while slowly but surely chipping away at the story until she can prove the killer's guilt.

** Getting back to ''Next Generation:'' In Season 3, there's an episode called [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E11TheHunted "The Hunted"]] that features Roga Danar, one of numerous former soldiers from the planet Angosia, who have been [[SuperSoldier enhanced with superhuman abilities]] in order to fight their wars. Unfortunately, they become renegades, and even prisoners, afterward, when there's no place in society for them. When the ''Enterprise'' crew are forced to deal with a rogue Danar, they find themselves completely unprepared for someone who can NoSell phaser blasts, block their own life signs from scanners, and -- get this -- ''resist the transporter beam.''

*** The Crisis itself is this to the [[LockedOutOfTheLoop various other Earths who didn't know]]; the opening shows the residents of [[Series/Titans2018 Earth-9]], [[Series/{{Batman}} Earth-66]] and [[Film/Batman1989 Earth-89]] reacting to the red skies, while [[Series/BlackLightning Jefferson Pierce]] is teleported from his Earth by Pariah just before its' destruction to assist the heroes. Thanks to skipping out on the ''Elseworlds'' event, the Legends are also unaware of the Crisis, until Lyla as Harbinger teleports into the bar where Ray and Sara are to recruit them. There's also the matter of [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse Movie-Barry Allen]], who encounters his Arrowverse counterpart in the Speed Force, [[HeroOfAnotherStory and is not only unaware of the Crisis]], [[NoodleIncident but unclear on how he's there in the first place.]]]]

** Another example from ''VOY'' was Annorax and his quest to restore the Krenim -- and more importantly, his deceased wife -- from "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]". At first, the ''Voyager'' crew have no clue why these temporal shockwaves are happening, nor are they remembering the effects altering the timeline. Then they create temporal shielding...but that just ends up attracting Annorax's attention.