I'm looking for the name of a scifi short story. I'm pretty sure it is in one of the 'Years Best in Science Fiction' but I have like ten of them and they are huge so I don't know which one it is in. My memory of it is hazy but it is something like: a story that starts with two young people on...

In Star Trek, are food replicators also used by everyday people as a household items? Or is the technology only available to Starfleet? Thanks.

The 2007 Underdog film was amusing, but not the most logical or plausible superhero [parody] movie. In it, a normal canine is granted various Superman-like powers after being doused in various, unspecified serums and vials of diverse animal DNA. It brought to light the question: How did Underdog...

In Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019), Rick & Mark are watching the feed coming from probes which are send to find Godzilla: Rick: I think we should stop. Mark: Why? Rick: 'Cause I still wanna have kids one day. Preferably without flippers. Why did Rick separately mention "Pr...

You will find hundreds of phone numbers Drain Companies Toronto (GTA), Mississauga in every local newspaper. Even more Plumbing and Drain Companies have web sites online trying to attract customers with discounts and lucrative offers. And of course all the stories about cowboy plumbers that fool ...

In the book "The Fellowship of the Ring" in the chapter "many meetings" the following exchange exists: Frodo - "Then you knew of the Riders already - before I met them?" Gandalf - "Yes, I knew of them. Indeed I spoke of them once to you; for the Black Riders are the Ringwraiths, the Nine Serv...

The great benefit of having a symbiont is having access to it's memories and therefore access to a vast repertoire of knowledge and experience. So, basically, being the first host to a symbiont is, as I understand, not as beneficial as having an old symbiont. On the other hand, the symbiont survi...

In The Rise of Skywalker we find out that the connection between Rey and Kylo is a bit more than what we first though. They form a dyad in the Force: a pairing of two physical beings that become one in the Force. Kylo Ren: My mother was the daughter of Vader. Your father was the son of the Em...

I am trying to work out the title and author of a story I remember reading. I think its a short story, about a library which housed only books of a certain length, but had every single combination of letters available meaning that every story possible was available, amongst all the junk and mess....

In Thor: Ragnarok, why is Thor stopped by the taser in his neck, he god of thunder?

I hope this is the right place to ask- It was a kids cartoon. There were rectangular portals that opened on the floor and kids were abducted or could transport through them. In one scene I remember someone running into the room, seeing the portal and lifting the bed up- just as the portal closed....

In Mr. Robot, Chinese Minister Zhang, aka Whiterose, has at great expense and effort over the course of decades constructed some sort of machine in New Jersey. The interior looks science-fiction-y the few times the show has depicted it. Perhaps like ITER might look, or the Large Hadron Collider. ...

I read this in the past 3 years, but I'm sure it was in an old (1950s most likely) pulp magazine that I read once I discovered that the Internet Archive had hundreds of them. The story concerns either explorers or tourists. (I think I may be conflating 2 stories.) At least there are 2 or more ...

A question yesterday gave me a flashback about a movie I saw a part of long ago, and I'm wondering if someone here could identify it for me. I seem to recall the colors striking me as technicolor, and the general style of the movie was old-timey. Also, there were a few musical scenes. In the mo...

Read this novel circa late 1950s. Plot as follows from vague and imperfect memory. Earth is expanding into near stellar neighborhood. Finds planet that once held a now-vanished civilization, but which left behind remnants of very high tech science. Learns that a galaxy-conquering empire is expan...

In the final episode of the Season 1, Vilgefortz stands as one of the mages opposing Nilfgaard. During the battle of Sodden, he duels Cahir and looses, however, he manages to escape. We can see him later stumbling on a group of dead Nilfgaardian troops... and one man who seems to know him. That p...

We've had the broken Memory Alpha-links fixed directly on the database. Thank you, @Shog9 and @Catija. Can we do the same for all Wikia links, since wikia.com has moved to fandom.com. There's a redirect in place currently, but we don't know for how long. There are far too many links to Wikia to ...