In the ST:TAS episode "The Survivor", there is a scene with Dr McCoy where there is an appearance that he is switching between standing and seated positions multiple times. In this scene, as we later find out, it was not actually Dr McCoy but a Vendorian posing as him. At first, I thought that wh...

I'm pretty sure it was a comedy/slice of life anime, these girls are trained to fight against an alien race that was supposed to come and destroy the world but they never arrive, so the girls just sit around and train their powers.

Recently came across an old SFBC hardback "A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born." It was such a ridiculously quick read (ludicrous speed more appropriate here?), wondered why I'd never gone through the rest of the stories. Unless there's a strong counter-argument, rather than publication order I usually...

I am desperately looing for a dystopian short story about a 'perfect' world with no pain in which a group of boys challenge each other (or are being bullied) into not taking their injection just to see what happens. Their perception of the world then changes, and they see the 'real' world; a dark...

In the famous opening shot of Star Wars, the diminutive Tantive IV is pursued by the much larger Imperial Star Destroyer. I was building the Lego Tantive IV model with my son this evening and mentioned to him that the model had originally been made to be the Millennium Falcon, and as a result, th...

Please help me to identify this movie. It's a science-fiction French film set in Paris, from the late 1990s or early 2000s (because cell phones were still a new thing), with a plot similar to Hibernatus. A woman is cryogenically frozen and defrosted in the late 1990s. She is taken to a hospital, ...

My friend is trying to remember a book series he read in 2009-2013. Here is what he was able to recall: 6 books, 2 trilogies. First trilogy was set long after the fall of a technological civilization and characters were amazed by roads "straight as an arrow" that didn't decay. Second trilogy was...