2031

2031 is the thirty-first year of the 21st century.

In the movie Frankenstein Unbound, Doctor Joseph Buchanan headed up a research team aimed at creating a massive laser energy weapon that they believed would serve as the ultimate deterrent against war. Unfortunately, the prototype machine had unpredictable side effects, which yielded erratic global weather patterns and rifts in the space-time continuum that caused some people to disappear. While driving home from the research facility one evening, Buchanan was trapped by such a rift and shunted backwards in time to the year 1817.