I read this book when I was younger. The cover had a picture of an Asian girl in a spaceship and her companion was just this floating ball with a face. The main parts of the story that I recall were the girl was in her room, living her everyday life and doing homework when a spaceship showed up a...

I am trying to recall a martial arts movie, likely chinese/Hong Kong but not 100% sure. I think I ran into it because of a small interest in Master of the Flying Guillotine and wanted more over-the-top 70s ninja or wuxia films that throw a lot of unbelievable stuff at you. I figure it must be fr...

As the show talks about the massive mycelial network spanning the universe and supplying life itself, as a true fungal Mycelium does, I question where the idea came from. The way they speak of it also conjures imagery of cosmic strings vibrating through our dimensions in M-theory, formed at the b...

Does anyone remember a short story about a hollow sphere containing alien atmosphere that crashes on earth and the earth's atmosphere fights back? There were no people or aliens in it, just atmospheres.

Why does Ash keep getting new friends and leaving his old friends? Misty, Bonnie etc Why does he keep changing friends and forgetting his old ones?

A lot of people say he was. But I don't know. In the end of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds" you can actually hear Picard say "Come" (when wanted to come into the Ready Room) as though he still has cyborg implants in him. Wouldn't that mean he's not 100% reco...

This question may seem off topic, please bear with. A recent discussion about Close Encounters prompted a memory from the 1980's. An episode of The Fall Guy where Colt was investigating some place where they were faking alien spaceships to keep locals away (a very Scooby Doo yarn!) At the reso...

Related How to protect yourself from a Vulcan nerve pinch? But about Doctor Who instead of Star Trek Third doctor doing Venusian aikido https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSRN1XsPte2qLYGVavVY8HXKLfg9z5BdPjf_dA2hHsLwYcEB0yH Thirteenth doctor about to do Venusian aikido on...

A man travels to another state to visit some agricultural museum. Upon arrival it is quite late so he ends up at an old family owned inn. While looking around, it seems quite decent and he decides to check out a room. As he unpacks various things and looks around the room, he begins to notice sev...

It seems pretty obvious that Halo rings are suitable for wildlife. Zeta Halo (Halo from Halo Infinite) is inhabited by a huge amount of wild species. Also, we see wildlife in Halo 2 and 3. So why Alpha Halo is so empty, like there is no wildlife at all?

Warwick Davis is renowned as an actor that has appeared in a number of Star Wars media. He has appeared in multiple roles throughout the years including: A Ewok in ROTJ A side character in The Phantom Menance A rebel/pirate in Solo Are there any additional roles that Warwick Davis has acted i...

In Asimov's The Caves of Steel, when people get a promotion, their living conditions improve. Bailey had a certain amount of rations for his tobacco. When he was promoted, his living quarters were improved with an added sink. There were communal kitchens. Traveling outside of one's neighborhood r...

In Asimov's The Caves of Steel, the highway system is described as somewhat of a system of conveyor belts that people can get on, that people stand on. They can reach up to 60 mph by hopping from one "strip" to another. The main character has a police car that can also drive on the strip. This se...

I recall that, as a child, I purchased a science fiction anthology of short stories in British Home Stores (BHS) sometime in the mid 1980s. It had a reddish-orange cover with white writing and drawn pictures of aliens, space ships, etc. and I suspect it may have been specially made for BHS as wel...

There was a a humorous piece by Stephen Leacock (I remember reading it as a child from a late seventies Reader’s Digest) inanely titled either “How to kill a spider” or “How to make a board” or some such. It described how the author made a wooden board to squash small crawly creatures. Have been ...

In the episode “Q who?” Picard, Riker, Guinan and Q are in 10-forward having the discussion about Starfleet pushing out into space too fast and not being prepared for what awaits them. Q says the humans don’t have a clue as to what’s out there, and Guinan says “They’ll learn, adapt, that’s their...

The simple fact is that answers change. Especially in this SE where new content and plot lines are constantly adding knowledge. So an answer to the Marvel Fantastic Four franchise (to pull a random example out of my ...) may be X today, however a new movie can completely rewrite that. Hence, "co...

Can a question enter limbo when the asker moves on and just stops their activity on SE? An owner can bounty, accept, un-accept, and exercise other owner privileges on their own question. Do these privileges simply vanish with the owner?

So it appears that at some point in the recent (distant? I don't know) past, Memory Alpha changed its domain from memory-alpha.wikia.com to memory-alpha.fandom.com. Given the copius number of times links to that site appear in questions and answers on SciFi SE, is it possible to fix them all with...

I've seen the first season of The Expanse, and liked it -- but it's been my experience that the book is always better than the movie/TV series. There are a number of books in that setting; what's the recommended reading order?

A group of high school students are brought to another world, but while training in the fields the mc “dies” protecting the girl who loves him. He is then teleported somewhere else that I forgot about. If that is not enough to find it this might help in one of the latest chapters from like 2-3 mo...

In several fictional universes, if a robot or cyborg has to physically interface with a computer, a very long sharp metal spike is used, instead of a normal cable socket with multiple wires insulated from each other as we do in real life. Bonus points if that data connector doubles as a deadly we...

In Avengers: Endgame, Thanos

In Avengers: Endgame,