Babylon 5: Shadow-Price
Five abilities built for the great questions survive the Shadows' war, and Elias Wren inherited them the day he died in a traffic accident and woke in the bunk of a low-clearance station attaché on Babylon 5 in 2257. The kit is ancient — one ability per question a thinking species has ever failed to answer honestly about itself, and every grant carries a rot he cannot spend his way out of. He knows who Sheridan is, what the Shadows want, and where the war turns — but the foreknowledge is worth nothing unless he can stand beside the ambassador table without anyone asking what year he thinks he's in. He speaks Minbari at a tourist's pace, Narn at a merchant's pace, and the language of brokered compromise at a native's pace; that last one is what keeps him alive. The Vorlon never looks at him directly, which means the Vorlon is watching him very carefully.