I'm aware that the 1990s Battletech cartoon is only loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name. As such, the stories will diverge. This question relates specifically to the cartoon though... Was there any canonical resolution to the conflict or s...

There’s a bizarre kids' movie from the 60s (maybe earlier or later) where an evil man has a huge piano that he forces hundreds of young boys to play constantly. I remember a shot of it showing that it is a spiral with many levels. It was set in some sort of alternate world or dystopian society. ...

It could be argued that Mentats would use it but they use something else (or in addition to) Spice. In a way, prescience would make plain intelligence pale by comparison but maybe the specific type of intelligence that Mentats need (calculating ability) is not enhanced by Spice.

I don't recall too much of the story, except that the younger family members were resentful of the older ones for not dying already. The final line of the story was something like "It was the best that could be expected in the latter half of the 21st century." I think that I read it in an anthol...

I'd like to expand (clarify?) this answer made in 2011 by DVK-on-Ahch-To. It cites this Wiki article: In 2152, Humans made first contact with the Romulans when the Enterprise NX-01 encountered a Romulan-laid minefield. (...) The Romulans saw that Humans fostered a spirit of cooperation among ...

Is there any in-movie explanation in A New How explaining why did Han Solo change his mind? We see him packing a cash received for saving Leia and some moments / hours / time later his is saving Luke Skywalker life an, eventually, the whole Rebelion. A (too) important change to be made in such a...

In the very beginning of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Orson Krennic found his way to Lah'mu and directly to the farm where Galen Erso and his family were hiding. Krennic: You're a hard man to find, Galen. Krennic and his men landed on the site straight from the space, so he must have kno...

This was a story from an anthology. A man is trapped in an alien blob on a planet. I think his mom or some team member tries to rescue him, by the time she manages, he is so happy living inside the creature that he does not flee with her. By that time he looks like a blob himself. And I think the...

I read this story about 15 or 20 years ago, not 40 as many of my other questions. But the SF collection it was in might have been much older. It is either a longish short story, or a shortish novelette, difficult to remember exactly. (There is no tag for this ambiguity, I had to use "short story"...

In the Doctor Who episode "Dark Water" (S8E11), hundreds of human skeletons are seen sitting in the eponymous "dark water", which Dr Chang describes as follows: It's so cool. Look at this. We call it dark water. Only organic matter can be seen through it. He demonstrates by putting his arm ...

The pair have a Philosophical discussion on whether to intervene if one of the animals/aliens being studied is in danger. One of them is for intervening and the other against altering what would have happened had they not been there. At the end of the story one of the Naturalists is in grave per...

I heard of this novel but never read it. It is based on the Bellman's line "What I tell you three times is true", in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". The entire plot is about convincing aliens that only information obtained three times in a row can be trusted, and in that way saving E...

there was a dark castle I think, that is anyone shouldn't come in!! and there was a servant or something like this in it, that serve for a lord vampire(or maybe he's not a vampire!) there was a big room in this castle that the lord vampire doesn't let anyone enter it and that room has a key that...

I was reading the TV Tropes entry for The Bluebeard and it made me recall a short story (probably less than 20 pages) I read probably in the early 2000s, I think part of a mystery anthology. The protagonist is an older woman, well-off, possibly a widow herself. She meets an extreme charming older...

I read this at least 20 years ago, maybe more. It may be a short novel, in a book by itself, or a rather long novella in a collection, I can't remember. It was a pretty intricate story, involving various themes that interacted with each other. But I can't put them in any chronological order in th...

I only remember the trailer and vaguely at that. It began with a statistic about how many people go missing every year and are nto found. There was an "at first they thought people were being abducted by aliens, but what if the problem was already on earth" part. The visual part I remember was an...