So this novel I read - It concerned a messianic figure who was constructed here on earth from instructions received via radio from space. Among the details I remember are a police chief who over the course of the book has more and more bits replaced until he is an android. The messianic figure so...

There’s this one manga that I can’t remember the name of, but it was about the boy who had to summon a monster Afro something at his school and finds a book and summons a demon. She easily defeated multiple people and their monsters and that’s pretty all I can remember other than that the demon t...

Brunt the Ferengi, and Weyoun the Vorta were two important recurring characters in Star Trek: Deep Space 9, played by the same actor Jeffery Combs. They never met onscreen during the run of the TV show. Both characters appeared in one episode, but they didn't meet. A lot of people have thought th...

This book had a few arcs there. Firstly, a government lab is experimenting with creating viruses that use a type of xeno-nucleic acid that contains some iron compound as its genetic code instead of DNA. This organism proves to be lethal to any form of life. There is a release of it in the lab, an...

In this horror movie, the main character is kidnapped by a man who forces him to play chess against him. He proves to be quite a good player. For their final game, the kidnapper and the main character play a giant version of chess where dead bodies are used as the pieces, revealing that this man ...

Spoilers for the plot of What if..? episode 8 In the 8th episode of what if...? (What if Ultron won), Thanos comes to earth with all the infinity stones except for the mind stone. Vision then kills Thanos and gets all the rest of the infinity stones. But how did Thanos get the soul stone? In a la...

I'm doing a re-watch of VOY, and after Seven of Nine is introduced, she helps the crew using knowledge she has from the Borg. As she becomes more human and less reliable on her implants, would that knowledge fade away? Like human memory? Or would she live with the Borg knowledge until her death?

According to the fourth stanza of the lyrics in their song, Spider-man, the eponymously named theme song of the 1967 cartoon show Spider-Man, composed by Paul Francis Webster and Bob Harris, it is stated: Spiderman, Spiderman Friendly neighborhood Spiderman Wealth and fame He's ingnored Action i...

Sometime in the 90s I saw a Japanese movie, then quite new, which I though was called Tetsuo. I don't remember much of the movie, except for a short fragment (1 or 2 minutes) in which a woman turns into a motorcycle. I searched for that fragment the other day, but I couldn't find it, moreover fro...

What episode is the "Kirk and Bones nodding" gif from? My guess is season 1 from the apparent age and hair style of Shatner, but I couldn't find the scene in a cursory search of the episodes

This story’s only enduring scene has a Lonestar-type sketchy Han Solo knockoff protagonist forced while infiltrating a group of space pirates to perform a gang initiation style act of hazing to show his allegiance. For whatever reason escapes me now, he boats that he’ll get rid of his… ahem, “pis...

In Gordon R. Dickson's Hour of the Horde, an individual from a heavy world is presented as molded by its home to be faster due to the reaction time required from falling faster. While many science fiction works present heavy worlders as stronger, this seems an unusual presentation. What was the f...

In Star Trek Discovery, the AI 'Control' was the second season's antagonist. But what was it's motives? I've just re-watched all three seasons and I can't see any explanation as to why Control decided to murder all life in the galaxy. Am I missing something? Was they're really no explanation for ...

I think it may be from around 1970 but I haven't found any comic book covers that look like this story. A group of some aliens (may be three) pay Daredevil a visit. Their spaceship looks like an aircraft from Jules Verne's novel "The Master of the World": an iron ship with many vertical propeller...

He takes the braincase home, hooks it up to a computer and finds that it is still active. And that it has been writing stories all the time it was buried. He takes the stories as his own and becomes a best-selling author.