Paul Gomes (b. ca. 2078) was an employee of Crosstime Traffic. He and his father Lawrence traveled to an alternate designated "3477", wherein Imperial Germany defeated Britain, France, and Russia in a brief war in 1914, and subsequently occupied Europe in the late 1930s and then the United States in 1956. The Gomes traveled to that timeline's San Francisco to run a shop called Curious Notions which sold electronics. The technology their store sold far was more advanced than the average citizen had encountered in that alternate, as Germany kept technological advances a secret.