So in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country at about the 21-minute mark two Starfleet Security officers are guarding the transporter room door when the Klingons transport over to talk with Spock and crew about the assassination of the Klingon High Chancellor Gorkon and arrest of Captain Kirk. You...

A follow up of this related question Why did the Ministry order a Dementor’s kiss for Barty Crouch Jr. without any trial? If all the dementors are loyal to voldemort and barty crouch junior is a death eater who voldemort trusts Why did a dementor torture barty crouch junior, if all dementors ar...

Why does Darth Tyranus have a quillon-like spike sticking out of one side of his lightsaber? See that metal spike sticking out next to the business end of the lightsaber? The quillons on a metal sword protect the hand holding the hilt, but that only makes sense in a duel of two metal blades. Wit...

In Highlander, the Kurgan sneak-attacks his victims several times. He spies on Brenda and Connor when they visit the zoo. He was within 6 meters of Connor MacLeod at the zoo. He sneak attacks Connor MacLeod after he leaves a bar to follow Brenda. He got to within a meter or two of MacLeod. He i...

It's a Harry and Draco pairing story. I don't remember much of the story but all I remember is that Draco had amnesia and Harry and Ron found him. Harry had 3 kids Lily, Albus and James. He lied that Draco was his wife and took him home to his children. I'm not sure what happened to Harry's forme...

If I remember correctly, to be referred to as a Pure-blood all your grandparents must be magical. If you have one (or more) Pure-blood grandparents and one (or more) Muggle grandparents then you are a Half-blood. What I am wondering is this; two Muggle-born marry and have children. Those childre...

Has force ever used to make a planet join/stay within the Federation? I know the Federation did not overtly go out invading or overthrowing governments, but, especially in the early days did it help populaces overthrow tyrants, defend itself from empires fighting against it, with the resulting ...

Summary: There are two identical twins who are amazing with music. They are part of a circus and when playing, odd things happen to their audience which starts attracting the wrong attention and they are then chased around by these things I think were called Executors. Date Read: A couple years ...

In Half-Life 2, we do hear the Vortigaunts referring to Gordon as "The Free Man" which kind of makes sense under the oppressive regime of the Combine and that he has become the symbol of the resistance. (Fighting for freedom). But I'm assuming the creators of the game didn't plan this while the...

in the Lord of the Rings Sauron is essentially a spirit which has taken the form of the great eye. If the fellowship had failed, how would the forces of Mordor actually given the ring to him? I know that in the back Sauron dispatches a Nazgul to acquire Pippin/the ring but was the Nazgul to do on...

I saw a live-action Chinese-language (Mandarin, I assume) movie with English subtitles while on a plane in China in June 2010. It was about an alien who appeared as a Chinese boy (perhaps around 10 years old) who had the ability to grant wishes. The tone was generally lighthearted. The other mai...

In the 1980's I read a lot of these. A huge list is at gamebooks.org. So I define a "multiple choice book" as broadly as possible. There can be any type of game system. There can be no game system; the Dungeons and Dragons multiple choice books had none. There can be any settings. The audience ca...

In 1987 I began high school. There was one YA novel that the school librarian put on a special part of the shelf because it was "too frightening". If this was reverse psychology it worked because I borrowed it. I cannot recall the title. I didnt finish it. I got about 1/3rd of the way through/ski...

If I'm off by a couple of years it could have been early 1990s, but not later than that. I don't clearly recall the structure of the story; I believe there is a present-time framing story with a flashback in the middle. In the present a man with a broken arm gets off his sailboat and goes into ...

In The Way of Kings, the death quotes have years they were recorded in, such as 1171. The Gregorian calendar is based on the birth of Jesus as year one A.D. What event is the calendar on Roshar based on, if any? please tag spoilers

Arcanum Unbounded talks about the gravity and size of planets in “cosmere standard” gravity and size (e.g. “...its size at around 1.5 cosmere standard...”1). I am curious what this is based on. This Reddit comment says this: Cosmere standard is exactly equal to Earth's size and gravitation. ...

I think I read this somewhere in the interval of 1993-2004, and I think it was in an issue of an SF/Fantasy magazine which was new on the stands at the time. As opposed to being a back issue from the 1980s which I'd picked up at a sale, for instance. At any rate, I'm sure I read this fantasy stor...

It's not City of Embers. Plot elements: Families live underground, contact is forbidden, but the protagonist kids want to meet and eventually also escape to the surface, which seems to be a desert. (But the air is breathable contrary to what they are told.) I saw this in Hungarian sometim...