I think source material might be sparse and I'm not sure if there is more than the original screenplay. In Passengers we learn the ships travel to a colony and back to earth. In the movie this cycle takes at least 240 years. We also learn the ships make multiple trips to different colonies. I...

It has been repeatedly asserted by official sources that as of Yoda's passing, Luke is the last Jedi in the galaxy. Of course, in accordance to the Rule of Two, Darth Sidious and Darth Vader are the only Sith in the galaxy, and upon Anakin's redemption, the last. Besides the three mentioned abov...

Based on ANH, I'm guessing that restraining bolts prevent a droid from straying too far from its owner. How does it achieve that effect, and what would happen if the droid tries to go out of bounds?

Very simple question, why does Varys not help Lord Stark escape when he knows he is a very noble person and would serve the realm in a fair fashion, but eventually helps Lord Tyrion escape. So why does Varys help Tyrion escape but not Ned Stark?

I (recently) watched the Battlestar Galactica TV series. It is steeped in religion and religious themes - the dialog and thoughts of characters, the objective events taking place, and the Colonists' and Cylons' culture and, well, religion as described in the series. Now, I was quite impressed by...

Spoilers Set in our current world. A male musician, possibly a guitarist, in his 20's meets a girl at a party and she is his "muse". However, in this world muses are slowly "drained" of energy by the musician. His friend drags him away from the party to make sure he doesn't drain the muse to ...

...Spoiler alert... Alternate history where humans have developed psychic powers. A baby is born whose power is that people "forget" about him. Robot nurses feed and change him etc. His parents constantly forget he exists. As an adult, he works for the government and they send him to infiltr...

Adam West, star of the 1960 Batman TV series has passed away at the age of 88. A well-recognised actor who struggled to find regular employment after Batman, West never allowed his shortcomings as an actor (or dancer, see below) to prevent him from finding acting work, enjoying considerable succ...

One of my posts was apparently edited, but looking at the history, I see no visible changes. What happened here? (This question is motivated mainly by curiosity, but there must be some sort of bug in play.) Inline view of edit history Side-by-side view of edit history Side-by-side Markdown...

There were a few astronauts. Possibly 3, they went to space I think on a rescue mission of another crew. While in space, they saw the bodies of the other crew floating in space. They managed to fish one in that was still alive. But later it turned to attacked the crew. But I think they managed to...

I've noticed we have some questions with the blade-runner and with the phillip-k-dick tags1, which are actually not about Blade Runner, but the original novel. I tried to create a do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep tag, but predictably ran into the 25-character limit. These are the questions t...

I remember watching a movie set in the future when i was a kid. A guy finds a terminator looking thing that is dead. He fixes it up. At the end i think the terminator looking thing comes back to life and stabs him with a needle, he dies i think and he is hallucinating, with bugs walking over his ...

    In last episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Yoda goes to Moraband(Korriban) where among other things he encounters ghost of Darth Bane at his tomb. There is an inscription at that tomb, does it have any meaning or it is just random scribbling ?

I read a short story in the early 1990s (which I think had been relatively recently written), about a physician who diagnosed patients by wiring the pain center of his brain to theirs, so he could feel what they were feeling. Doctors trained that way were looked down on by other physicians. The...