Bateson is not TOS, exactly. Sure, he's from TOS times, but we see him in TNG after he spends a year stuck in Groundhog Day. Okay, it's a temporal causality loop, but it's the same thing. Played by Kelsey Grammer, plenty of people have made Frasier/Bateson jokes, so I'm not gonna bother.
Basic Biography of Morgan Bateson
Note: As we only saw and spoke to him for under five minutes in canonical Trek, most of this is from the excellent book Ship of the Line.
Morgan Bateson is the captain of the Soyuz-class USS Bozeman. Soyuz-class is kinda like Miranda-class (think Reliant) only without a sensor strip and a longer engineering deck in the back, plus a few sensor pods added to the sides. In 2278 (Towards the end of the second five-year mission of the Enterprise 1701) it was sucked into a temporal rift. For the next ninety years he hung out in Puxatawney with Phil Connors, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Xena, Gabrielle, and Autolycus.
After emerging from the rift and almost smashing into the Enterprise-D, the Bozeman crew decided to stick together, get reeducated in the innovations of the twenty-fourth century, and return to service. The original Bozeman was destroyed by the Borg cube in First Contact, and a Bozeman-A was built. Bateson also reconnected with Scotty (they were old friends, and a crewman from the Enterprise had just barely transferred to the Bozeman) and they helped design and test the Enterprise-E. In fact, for a little while there he got a little obsessed and planned to command the E-E. But that's another story...
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