In a well-known scene in A New Hope, a rebel analyst describes the Death Star's weakness: "A small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port." What is the "main port?"

From wikipedia article on Starro, I learned that Justice League team defeated by coating it by quicklime: Eventually, they are stopped by the superheroes Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman. The heroes defeat Starro by coating it with quicklime, which nullifies ...

In the new Peacock series 'Vampire Academy' Lissa and Rose share a specific bond because Lissa revived Rose from the dead due to which Rose is able to sense whenever something bad happens with Lissa. Rose also has one additional power of sensing Strigois when they are near. How does she get this ...

So I don’t remember much but I do remember the mc was talking to her sister who was going to marry the ml but the sister convinced her that the ml hates her and wants to kill her so the sister gave the mc poison to drink. She drinks it no surprise there and dies and travels back in time not knowi...

I'm trying to track down what I think was a movie I watched on British TV as a kid in the mid-early 90s. The key scene I remember is a young girl (maybe 6-10) and an older man (grandad age). They live under a futuristic biodome in almost American looking (wooden?) buildings. The scene I remember ...

A short story, probably from sometime between 1960s through 1990s, that I read either in an anthology or in a magazine like Analog or Asimov's, about a guy who describes how he has to figure out how to solve the problem afflicting the human colony on an alien planet he's on. The issue is that the...

In the last episode of the show LOTR-ROP, during the scene between Halbrand/Sauron and Galadriel, Halbrand makes a reference to "The One", but I don't understand what it can be. As for me it cannot be The One ring as it has not been forged yet. Moreover, Halbrand says "The One again", so it means...

Do the books in Wayward Children have to be read in release order or can you read any one of them first?

In the TV show Dead End, Pauline Phoenix's eponymous park is a magnet for supernatural activity, most of which seems to come from the interdimensional elevator located in the park, which links to the other twelve planes. Pauline outright assets that she built the elevator, although she may have ...

While watching the sixth episode of Tales of the Jedi, a sith inquisitor, voiced by Clancy Brown: When the inquisitor dies, it appears that his head deflates: Is this down to the inquisitor's biology, or the fact that Ahoska was fighting some sort of dark-side apparation, or was he just a human...

What I believe is this is possibly a short story that appeared in Omni Magazine but I can’t be sure & a Google search has yielded no results thus far so I’m asking you good people here for help. Plot is fairly simple, man receives a cat from ex girlfriend who got cat from devil worshippers who su...

I watched this film in the mid 1990's, but I'm about 90% sure it was a black and white movie, so was likely from the 1950s or 60's. The film was set in an American town that was sparsely populated. Either an alien invasion or a chemical/nuclear accident caused creatures that looked like woodlice ...

I'm looking for a short story I read in an anthology -- I had thought it was one of "The Year's Best Science Fiction" anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois, but I'm not sure of it. I'm pretty sure the author was a woman, and I remember recognizing the name when I read the story, though I can't rem...

When Odo became human he gained the ability to enjoy food in a way he could not as a changeling. When he was reverted to a changeling did he retain his sense of taste/ smell?