In real life, carriers and battleships are usually surrounded by destroyers, submarines, cruisers ect. In Star Wars movies, the rebels have a wide variety of ships of various sizes, while the empire just has its gigantic Star Destroyers. In canon/legends, did the Empire have classes of non-figh...

I saw a preview where Picard & Crusher were lying on the ground, Picard saying, "I love you, Beverly. I've always loved you." What episode/film is this from?

It was a facebook post that said, how come it is always kids and teens who find their way into magic, why not older women? Well, there is a book with that plot -- an older woman finding magic/wizardary/a magical land. I didn't remember the name of the book, though it may have had a Mrs. in the ...

Where did Bellatrix Lestrange live after she left her husband? It never really says she "left" him so I'm assuming she did since she was so totally smitten with Lord Voldemort.

In Altered Carbon, the first episode opens with Kovacs in what is in this question called his “birth sleeve”, and IMDb lists as “O.G Kovacs”, played by Byron Mann. O.G. meaning “original”, if I am down with the kids! However, also in the series (including episode 1) we see him in a sleeve that IM...

A man ends up on a mining/research asteroid lab, his ship is in need of repair and the lab is going to self-destruct or lose all air. An alien female and her child were left there. They find a ship within an asteroid with an active AI. They manage to get the new ship running with air for them all...

I'm trying to identify a story I read a very long time ago and was possibly published in the 70's or 80's. It's was written as a fairly humorous story from the point of a view of an older female cousin in regard to the misadventures of her cousin (Charlie?) who has a knack for making things move....

I once looked at an old science fiction novel--I think it was by Norman Spinrad. It was told from the stream-of-consciousness point of view of a senile dictator of the USA. It didn't have any chapters, only page breaks.

An alien with human form, that has superpowers for create things, destroy things, he can transform himself, and I think he could go back in time for a little (not sure of that last one). He's around 16 years old. His parents where killed by another alien when he was 5 (I guess). He has a list of ...

I heard this story on some podcast in the last ten years, I think even in the last five years. I thought it was on podcastle, but I can't find it in their archive. Anyway, the story is about a man and a woman (the man is black, and the woman is either black or Latina) who find a cursed sword and ...

If I recall correctly, the story describes life on the American frontier, but the characters soon realise there's a world outside and that they're essentially living in an exhibition. The characters then escape and I am 99% sure that the area they escape to the "real world" and discover the truth...

Suppose I have many good friends living in Muggle society and I want to invite them to join the wonderful wizard world and share the secret of magic. However, due to the International Statute of Secrecy, the Muggle who witness the magic phenomenon will be Obliviated. Is there any way to bypass th...

I'm looking for a short story i've found as a PDF on the interweb once, but i can't remember the name anymore and therefore can't find the story: It mostly follows a (bodily) young women, who turns out to be an old women whoes body has been optimized by an selflearning, basically all-controlling ...

It is very clear that Terrans, Liadens, and Xtrang came through the great migration; along with cats and the tree(s). Are we ever told if Clutch Turtles did? Or Norbears? Or were they already in the new universe when the others showed up?

so at a school I no longer go to (sydney, australia, early 2010s, the book was in english) i read this book in the library that was a collection of Aesops. and the author had this very distinctive style that I feel has heavily influenced me in my own writing even now. the book was pretty tall th...

There is some event which leads to a general loss of knowledge, and the story involves (or at least includes) a person or a group relearning such knowledge, mostly math and physics. I heard about it in the 90's but it's probably much older than that (though surely 20th century).

I mean, after killing Snape, Shouldn't Voldemort found that the wand in his hand still refused to show greater power for him? Try several random spells, the Dark Lord would find the wand works no better than when Snape is still alive, then he should realise there is something went wrong....

In Buffy - The Vampire Slayer, vampires are demon spirits inhabiting a human body: The canonical vampires, introduced in the first episode of the television series, are demonic spirits that inhabit human corpses. From the Wikipedia Article on Vampires in the Buffyverse In the Buffyverse, vampir...

Do the Andalites specify anywhere throughout the series what measurement units they use? I'm interested mainly in the time units. (...) <Two of your hours and seven of your minutes,> Ax said. "Ax, they are everyone's hours and everyone's minutes"(...)

Has Spider-Man's spider nature ever emerged to the point that he became dangerous to humans? Or at least had primitive urges that his human side had to overcome?

Here is the substance of my proposed question (maybe I can ask it in Meta?): WARNING - This contains spoilers for the Wheel of Time series. In Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, there are constant references to to the ethnic diversity of his world. Sometimes these are material to the plot. For exa...

Some things in Harry Potter are never really explained. For instance how exactly did Lord Voldemort actually possess Prof. Quirrell?

During the events of the first Dead Space game, the Red Marker is transported from the cargo deck of the USG Ishimura to the planet below: Aegis VII. This is where (Altman's) Red Marker was originally found by the mining ship. However, both Terrence Kyne and Isaac Clarke are under substantial ...

First Age Easterlings were known as Swarthy Men and after the War of Wrath, the evil side of this men fled back into the East where their kinsfolks spread and lived. In the Second Age and the Third Age Easterlings are related with these Swarthy Men, or not?

[SPOILERS FOR DARK SEASON 3 EPISODE 8] After (re)watching Claudia and Adam's conversation, one part of it seems confusing to me. Claudia claims that there had been infinite cycles (= time loops), and that Adam tried to destroy the knot (= kill pregnant Martha) infinite amount of times. She also c...

Did people ever notice that the wands that Dumbledore wielded before and after his legendary duel with Grindelwald were different? Elphias Doge writes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: They say, still, that no wizarding duel ever matched that between Dumbledore and Grindelwald in 1945. Th...

I was wondering how deep could be the black elves underground (in forgotten realms for example) or the dwarves mines. I read that temperature in earth was increasing 25 degrees / km. (http://www.geologyin.com/2014/12/geothermal-gradient.html) So, even if we change slightly the physical rules in a...

In the Buffyverse, Vampires are (most often) humans who have been turned or "sired" by other vampires. This process involves both an exchange of blood, and (it is inferred) an internal demon overtaking the human's body, essentially replacing their soul. Thing is, the human's consciousness is stil...

I have memories of watching a few years ago (I was a kid then) a movie with giant robots, and the enemies were aliens piloting what I remember as giant more animalistic robots. I remember those animalistic ones running on water. The aliens themwelves were a little taler than humans but mowtly hum...