In the "Stargate: Atlantis" episode 'The Seed' (S05E02), Dr. Jennifer Keller becomes infected with an alien pathogen that causes her to grow Wraith-like tendrils out of her body. Dr. Carson Beckett determines that the pathogen was developed by Michael on planet M2S-445, and that all surviving tea...

This is the first time I've asked a question here, so I'm going to be extra cautious to avoid spoilers. In the final episode of Series 10, Then, at the end, My question is, at this point, I'm not sure which is the case--

Spoilers for "Captain America: Civil War" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" In the first part of "Captain America: Civil War", Tony Stark tells Steve Rogers that Pepper Potts left him (I assumed that the real reason was that Gwyneth Paltrow was sick of the MCU). Later in the film, he meets Peter...

I have a dim memory of seeing a movie on a TV channel in the USA in or before 1968. My impression is that it was a space travel movie, but I also remember the characters using aqua lung equipment for diving, presumably in an alien ocean. It was in English or dubbed in English and seen on a blac...

I remember there being children who come of age to be apprentices. There is a whole ta do about being chosen.There are a boy and girl character that I remember. The girl is chosen to be a muse or seductress type? Boy was a blacksmith or mage type of person. If not a blacksmith he visited the blac...

Moaning Myrtle, the resident ghost of one of the Hogwarts bathrooms, has a bad habit of leaving her bathroom and spying on male students in various stages of nudity. She makes Harry very uncomfortable, and although she assured him she hadn't been watching him, he isn't at all sure if to believe t...

I remember that one of the main characters was a researcher into psychic abilities. He went to a remote Scottish location following reports of a girl with special abilities and found her, living like an animal because she was so overwhelmed by hearing everyone's thoughts. He helped her gain con...

I was reading this very funny Twitter convo where someone finds out that they've actually read a fan-fiction version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It's bloody hilarious, I'm crying from laughing so much! Fan-fic details: Dudley gets placed under the Imperious charm by Wormta...

In the 2017 film "Logan", X-24 is apparently the latest culmination of the Weapon X program, but is basically just Throughout the film, X-24 doesn't speak and generally just kills people. His handlers use very basic commands to control him, but as we see on-screen he can choose whether or not ...

Would an advanced civilization with regular space travel and access to other planets, build a factory in space? Would it be pointless or would it still be beneficial to have one in orbit around a planet?

Ok so in Sense8, we have the episode, What is Human?, where we see Lito(well with some help) beat up Joaquin. What I cannot fathom is that I would have tied up Joaquin and taken his phone and destroyed it(maybe I would have destroyed all his electronic devices and tortured him and asked whether h...

I'm looking for a novel series that I only know from reading a teaser/sample exerpt. Main character is a woman raised in privilege, who bucked social norms by going to military college. (First woman in her homeworld's history, and they changed the laws after she was gone to make sure she was the...

Recently, I decided to rewatch Ben 10 I became interested in certain aspects of the Omnitrix. How does the Omnitrix convert a human (or any other species for that matter ) into another species. I know it has something to do with genetic manipulation but how does the Omnitrix go about doing that...

Have re-watched the Hobbit and LoTR trilogies recently and I wondered if there was any evidence in any of Tolkien's writings as to the what is the greatest range at which Sting (and other elven blades) can detect Orcs or Goblins? In the Hobbit when Bilbo is watching Gollum kill the Goblin, Bilbo...

The chapter in book 5 that takes place in the Department of Mysteries sparks my interest ever since reading it and all these years later I still do no know what is in the Love Chamber ( please no bad puns ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) and I hope there might be some interview or pottermore refference I don't know...

We know that Scorpius is half Scarran half Sebacean, and that he requires special cooling rods inserted into his body to maintain a livable temperature (Sebaceans being incredibly intolerant of heat and Scarrans having extremely high body temperatures). But how did he survive gestation? His own...

Anyone know the title of a european comic (i think it is either french or belgian comic) that have this story : - Earth is environmentally unsustainable - survivor living on space in some kind of station with state of disrepair - They found a big starship on the earth , shaped like TTA Interstell...

In a scene from Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tony Stark is shown to be attending a ceremony, very possibly a wedding ceremony, in what looks like India. (I'm Indian, I would know). Now, Tony Stark is obviously a very busy man. It seems like someone would be very important to him in order for him to f...

Life-prolonging/life-extension therapies are now more-or-less a staple of science fiction, and do have a long pedigree. The two earliest stories I can recall that make use of them as a setting element are James Blish's Cities in Flight tetralogy (1950-1962), and Heinlein's Future History in 1941 ...

At the beginning of "The Doctor Falls" (s10, e14), the Doctor Later in the episode, two things happen of import to the question, and one in the previous episode. One of the former is that This means they probably used the elevators, or have been traveling a while. Either way, they are able ...

Why did Howland Reed not send men and/or come himself to fight with Robb in the war of the 5 Kings or with Jon at the Battle of the Bastards? And why did Bran send Rickon to the Umbers and not Reed when Rickon needed to be hidden away.

The person who asked HP Fan-fic where an Imperiused Dudley jumps off a building also included a link to Lifeline, the Australian nonprofit that provides support to people who are affected or have been affected by rape, assault, suicide and similar events that may or may not cause extreme distress...

When comparing Star Wars and Star Trek, a friend of mine said that since Star Wars has magic so it is classified as science fantasy and Star Trek as science fiction. But doesn't Star Trek have more magic than Star Wars? I mean, there are creatures in Star Trek that can create entire planets by ...

I posted this question, and it got 5 downvotes and a string of snarky negative comments. I am trying to delete it, but the system is preventing me from doing so on account of someone having already posted an answer to it, so I shouldn't be ruining their time and efforts. The thing is, the perso...

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, we're introduced to Peter's new suit, given to him by Tony Stark, which has goggles over the eyes that can change shape and color. At the end of the movie, So what do they do, aside from allowing Spider-Man to have more expressions? What are the tactical reasons why...

In the conclusive few sentences of Foundation and Empire, the Mule says that: I call myself the Mule - but not because of my strength, obviously - They do not finish the sentence. Earlier in the book some Foundation denizens theorised that it was because of his hard-working attitude to gala...

The suit in Spider-Man: Homecoming has a "one-hit kill" mode that keeps coming up, and it's only used for comedic purposes in the movie. From what I know Peter Parker doesn't seek to kill anyone, and has only ever wanted to kill one person: the guy who murdered Uncle Ben, but even then he doesn't...

In Lovecrafts "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" the narrator talks to Zadok Allen, who tells him things he isn't supposed/allowed to tell. This includes the following: The conversation ends like this: Zadok Allen isn't mentioned in the rest of the story. Later, however, the narrator notices thi...

In the Prologue of Book 2 (The Great Hunt), there is a meeting between Friends of the Dark who receive orders about Rand, Mat and Perrin. Do we ever find out who they are? Here is an excerpt describing some of the Darkfriends (bold numbering is mine): (1) The man who called himself Bors [.....

In Star Trek Voyager, the crew needs to travel 75,000 light years to make it home at "top speed". If their top speed is warp 9.97, why would it take them 70 years to get home?

In LOTR, the sword Sting glows whenever goblins or orcs are nearby enough, and in the movies, it can get pretty bright. Can they see this light? If so, has it ever given the wielder away?

The Japanese TV series of Supaidāman, produced by Toei, ran for 41 episodes with the full blessing of Marvel. Although it was based around the American Spider-Man, it went way further than just translating or modifying its source material for another culture. In this version, a motorcycle racer n...

I don't remember much about the story in general, but here's the details I can recall. It's a short story, intended for a 5th or 6th grade reading level, and I found it in the early 2000s in a collection of stories, the rest being lost to memory. In the story, somehow a kid finds out his neighbor...

Why do all the Klingons in this episode have such nicely straightened teeth? Is this something peculiar to the alternate galaxy? It looks very strange to me...

In Tolkien's works are notorious elvish blades like Sting that glow when there are orcs or goblins nearby. Although Tolkien's work is profoundly original as a whole, the author himself always attempted to integrate ancient elements of European legends and folklore, especially from the northern pe...