This question came about from this quote very early in the film. NUTE : Yes, yes, of course...ahhh...as you know, our blockade is perfectly legal, and we'd be happy to receive the Ambassador Link to script used (spelling errors corrected) How is it that Nute Gunray is so confident in the lega...

This fantasy series came out 2005 or prior. It was at least two books, and the author was working on a third. It had 3 distinct story lines in each book, and was written as the idea of it was three parallel universes, or worlds. Not sure which, as it didn't reveal much in the second book. One sto...

SciFi book, late 70s to early 90s. Team is assembled. They go to a planet. There is a large person/giant in the group. Nobody survives except the big guy. The cover, i seem to remember, had a large person pushing a boulder a la Sisyphus.

Is Knowhere, the severed skull of an unknown Celestial floating in space, actually in fact the physical remains that once housed the brain of the Celestial Ego?

In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, Gomorrah's metal sword is able to retract back into its handle even though the extended sword was a few feet long and seemingly made of very strong metal. Can someone explain how Gomorrah's sword is works? What is it made of? Who manufactured it? How does ...

I read this story "post-internet"; that is, internet access and things like public chat networks were common and more-or-less routine, though mostly text-based rather than graphical - think IRC and MUDs, rather than Second Life. The plot has the protagonist being a participant in an online servi...

In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, we see Ego's ship traveling through space with a yellow field surrounding the entire ship. There is no sign of anything blasting out of the back of the ship like you see with other types of propulsion systems. Instead, it seems as if Ego's ship is actually ch...

the story is told by a guy in a limo, he kives in a world where jobs are assigned by your genetics and of all humans he is genetically assigned to enjoy all the other craations people make, clothes the limo, food etc

So I'm writing a scifi/Fantasy story and the setting is a primative steampowered era. No electricity, gun powder, etc. I was wondering how realistically storing steam power in canisters for mobile use would work. Can a steam engine store air pressure like a c02 cartridge? Would it be able to be u...

In the beginning of the season 3 TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident", the Enterprise crew are taken off guard by the sudden appearance of two additional Romulan ships. When Kirk asks Spock, he speculates that the Romulans must have developed a cloaking technology. But they already faced a clo...

3 or 4 people are chasing one criminal across multiverse/parallel earths, some are backwater some are futuristic, some are occupied by aliens. They had a limited window where they had to come to next portal. I remember one epsiode where they had to run inside a building as there was a acid rain.

In the Harry Potter books, women in the magical cover very important roles, and are equal to men from this point of view. This emancipation is similar to what has been quite recently achieved in our times (in UK, at least) What is remarkable is that, when describing ancient magical society, JK ...

I know that Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman have their own movies and more or less we know them. But in the case of Aquaman, Cyborg and Flash that are part of the Justice League, we know practically nothing. Is there a chance that will explain the past of these characters in an introductory w...

In "Requiem for Methuselah", there is a scene where Spock surprisingly knows how to play the piano. He perfectly plays a waltz while Captain Kirk and Rayna dance. My question is, during the recording of this scene, was Leonard Nimoy actually playing the piano, or was it feigned?

There will be spoilers from the book here. In the "Interlude", after chapter 12, we see the Queen of Sheba as she stands on the sidewalk of Sunset Boulevard. She is picked up a passing limo, which belongs to the Technical Boy. Bilquis and Technical Boy don't come to an agreement, so Bilquis j...

It is explained in the third book that they think the shack is haunted, and the noises Lupin made when he was locked in there periodically during his school days were attributed to these spirits, and it is hinted that Dumbledore helped keep the rumour alive to prevent the villagers from going nea...

In season 5 of Arrow, we are introduced to a character known as "Vigilante". He generally seems to be a good guy, attacking gangs, but also clashes with Team Arrow on occasion. As the main plot with Prometheus unfolds, Vigilante disappears from the show, and is not referenced again. Is there...

Reed Richards is able to stretch, deform, expand, or compress his entire body or parts thereof into any contiguous shape he wants. Due to this he is able to more or less change his features (though not as well as Mystique). As quoted from this well-written Marvel Wiki page: Shape Changing...

In the fourth book of Ender, "Children of the Mind", So why didn't Jane just imagine herself a (not necessarily human) body in the outside and pull it in in order to live in it?

Early on in DS9, Zek is introduced in a story where he uses Quark to test his son Krax's worthiness to become Grand Nagus. Krax plots to kill Quark in order to seize the throne. In one of the final episodes of DS9, though, Zek officially retires and appoints: as the new Grand Nagus. Is the...

A popular song on the radio lists various superpowers that the singer does not have. They include Spider-Man's control Batman and his fist Does Spider-Man have a "control" power of some kind? His powers I am aware of include agility, web slinging, and "spidey-sense" which detects danger. Bat...

My friend keeps on writing it yet he wont tell me where its from.

In universe Thor and The Asgardians are the basis of Norse mythology. So when we meet Thor and co why do they speak English, rather than a Norse/Nordic language? This answer's ideally aimed at an in universe MCU answer, but if you have an alternative answer i'd love to hear it!

In Guardians of the Galaxy, why was Drax the Kyln? What crime did he commit to get himself locked up in there?

This is one of those vague memories that nag at me, but I've lost most of the details over the years. I saw in on TV somewhere in the 1990s in the United States (Ashland, KY if that's relevant). It would have likely been on broadcast TV as my parents were late adopters of cable TV. A new teacher ...

I'm looking for name of the book about young man flying an interstellar cargo ship alone. His uncle had pre-programmed the ship's computer to ask questions and give directions before dying. The boy's family had been killed by pirates.

I recently noticed that we have these tags for Guardians of the Galaxy: guardians-of-the-galaxy for the series of films about the titular Guardians, guardians-of-the-galaxy-1 for the first film, 'Guardians of the Galaxy', guardians-of-the-galaxy-2 for the second film, 'Guardians of the Galaxy: ...

Obviously Dumbledore and eventually Snape knew that Lupin was a werewolf, but I don't believe either found out about the others being animagi until PoA. I have a hard time believing that no one else knew, especially James being as hopelessly braggadocious as he is. Until the events of PoA outed ...

In "Hollow Pursuits," an ever-increasing warp speed creates an imminently dangerous situation: if the issue is not resolved, the ship will suffer a loss of structural integrity and tear apart. It seems to be a poor design that such a steady increase in warp causes the ship to break apart. In "D...

In the recent Batman vs Superman movie, we see that Batman made a Kryptonite spear intending to However, in the end the spear is used to and then is it just left there? Do we know what happened to it?

Ok so I started reading the Wolverine comics and started off with Origins I & II (2001-2002). I want to read more about Logan and Origins ended with Wolverine killing Victor Creed's brother (Saul Creed). I'm assuming this is where Victor and Wolverine meet in WWII. Google is telling me that the n...

Like b in the title said is Sibyl System possible in real life? Can we build it with our current technology but improved if possible?

A few years ago I had watched a movie on netflix about a superhero wearing a blue suit who checks into a motel and encounters two other hero's , a male and female and possibly fight each other . I can't find it anywhere and I dont remember the name of the film.

If Harry Potter had killed someone and created a Horcrux, would it have contained a fragment of Voldemort's soul, tethering Voldemort to life while this Horcrux still existed? Also, would this Horcrux be in any way shielded from harm/destruction by his Mother's protective spell, or would the Love...

I feel like enough of Spider-man's enemies have had enough of a background in chemistry and technology to have been able to analyse and replicate spider-man's spider webs. Especially if they stole his web shooters, web cartridges, or even just picked up one of the many webs he leaves around town ...

I'm looking for the name of a book that came out 10 or 15 years ago. The plot involved a boy and girl who both received super human genes in early childhood from an ancient human or alien. Possibly Adam. They developed super intelligence/strength/accelerated healing abilities among other Mary Su...

I have always thought it interesting that Gandalf briefly handles the One Ring once or twice without being affected by it, as powerful as he is. (And my understanding is that the temptation is stronger the more powerful you are, which is why Hobbits are the safest bearers.) Furthermore, Frodo kee...