I’m trying to figure out if Star Trek’s dermal regenerators are more advanced than Star War’s synthskin. Dermal regenerators regrow skin but I wonder if spraying an open wound with synthskin would be just as good if not better. The Last Jedi junior novelization said Kylo Ren waited too long for b...

In the MCU, the inhabitants of the nation of Wakanda largely speak English (although other languages, such as Xhosa, Zulu, and Igbo, are also heard). It's not simply that they are cosmopolitan and happen to know English: this is the case even when people are speaking among themselves, not foreign...

A boy was raised by a robot guy and I remember there was a ship called 'Siegfried,' I think, and it was powered by the bad sister. I also remember that the robot died protecting the boy, now a teen.

In the book Starship Troopers, Colonel Nielssen is discussing the chain of command with Juan Rico and two other cadets: If you go back to the Second Global War, you can find a case in which a naval junior officer took command of a naval ship and not only fought it but sent signals as if he was a...

I read a book about 10-15 years ago that I would love to read again but can’t remember the title. It consisted of a collection of stories, starting with early humans on the plains of Africa, and jumping forward from there. The “shtick” of it was that the members of the family were consistently ca...

I'am looking for an old anime movie from 30-40 years ago, which was released on VHS in Germany. It was definitely Japanese style anime, definitely hand drawn. I think it was a sci-fi setting, because they were using strange weapons (exploding marbles). I am not exactly sure if it was dubbed in Ge...