I read a trilogy of sci fi novels in highschool that I really want to read again. I know the first book started with V. The story was about a kid that was living with his dad, had some technokinesis ability that he used to help his dad win gambling. He was taken in by authorities and put into a ...

In Season 5 of Stargate: SG-1, team member Daniel Jackson was briefly replaced by Jonas Quinn, a human from Langara. In addition to an optimistic, almost child-like curiosity about everything, Quinn shows numerous intellectual abilities above and beyond the average human. He can read quickly, rem...

Oh no. So the next avatars won’t be able to ask Kiyoshi, Aang, or Roku anything! Right?

According to Memory Alpha, which itself was referencing Star Trek Generations, the Nexus is an extra-dimensional realm in which time and space have no meaning. The main antagonist of the film, Tolian Soran, wants to enter the Nexus so he could be reunited with his deceased family. His plan succee...

When I was 6 years old I saw this black and white SF movie and it made a big impression on me. It tells the storybabot normal looking people that lure innocent people to a small bridge in someones backyard and then they get sucked into a alien laboratory. The only thing that distinguish the good...

In around 1986 I asked my dad what the paperback he was reading was and he told me the plot of this book. A spaceship breaks down and the man inside builds a spacesuit from the working parts of it, and flies through space in this tiny one-man ship-suit. The cover had an illustration of this sarco...

Was she a mortuary assistant? A medical examiner? A coroner? What kind of career includes taking pictures of the deceased and their fingerprints?

I just finished Ender's Game. In the book there is the concept of an Ansible, a device that allows for instantaneous communication across the universe. Traveling to the stars still adheres to the laws of relativity. So if someone from earth wants to facetime to a spaceship traveling at near ligh...

In the first Thor movie Odin explains that they rescued the earth from frost giants and then settled in Asgard and stopped venturing in other realms. At the time of war, Thor was too young to go to the war. So he didn't come to Earth. But later Erik Selvig describes Thor as a hero of Norse Mytho...

In "The Crimes of Grindelwald" it answers why Jacob recovered his memories: NEWT: But you were supposed to have been Obliviated! JACOB: I know! NEWT: So . . . But . . . JACOB: It didn’t work, pal. I mean, you said it, the potion only erases bad memories. I didn’t have any. I me...

In The Legend of Korra, we only see Republic City, the Spirit World, small villages, etc. but what about he big cities in The Last Airbender. Does Omashu, Ba Sing Se, and other cities still exist?

At the end of The Avengers, Thor takes Loki with him to Asgard as a prisoner. He also took the Tesseract. But why didn't he take Loki's staff? Seeing that S.H.I.E.L.D. used the Tesseract to make weapons of mass destruction, he will surely realize that the staff was of great power and earth's peop...

We know that the Alpha Gate, the one with the famous symbol , was brought to Earth by Ra, at a time when the Ancients were more or less no longer active there. But the symbol is still used quite frequently by them: 1) "At" - an ancient phoneme, used as a Stargate glyph 2) Not just one that appe...

So yeah, theres this show I watched as a kid but I completely forgot it's name it starts with a blond prince that literally only wears blue sent into exile with his parents whom are the former king and queen of the realm and their protective knight that wears a crown of some sort. the prince's p...

In SG1S1E10, Daniel describes 2 types of Star gods: the Tyrants the Culture bearers The Tyrants were equaled with the Goa'uld. While on the other hand there was Thor as a friend and protector of humans. But is this distinction sufficient? What about Athena, Isis, Osiris, Horus/Heru'ur, Olokun...

I am looking for the author of a trilogy, possibly from the 80's or 90's. The "hero" is attacked early in the first novel by a gang that has genetically modified themselves to be like werewolves (or use some kind of electronic disguise). Next, he is contracted by aliens who are basically like 6'...

We see him climb the wall, but how did they come down? The same way they got up or are there any stairs belonging to the Night's Watch? If so, then why did the red-haired girl say "It's a long way up and a long way down" just in the prior episode?

In Mortal Engines, the Sixty Minute War devastated civilisation as we know it, leaving most 'old tech' completely inoperational. Yet, despite the collapse of technology as we know it, they managed to do something that literally could not be done today: put cities (most astonishingly, London!) on...