Commander Riker refused his own command (and, by extension, a promotion) a few times during TNG's run. Captain Picard rejected Admiral Quinn's attempt to have him promoted to admiral. If a lowly ensign or lieutenant were to be promoted due to excellent service, could they reject the offer and st...

I read this book in the US, 15-20 years ago, but I believe it dated back to the 70s, based on the general feel. It was set mostly on a starship. I believe it and other ships had names from Freemasonry, and some of the ranks among the crew were from Masonry, such as 'Deacon' and 'Warden'. This ...

In Attack of the Clones Obi-Wan seeks the advice of Master Yoda in finding a missing planet. During this time Yoda is teaching a group of younglings. One of them is a Togruta of unknown gender who looks similar to Ahsoka Tano. Is it ever acknowleged in canon that this is her, or is it another...

Can anybody explain to me why Voldemort didn't know how Grindelwald looked? It's not like there were ages between them – both Grindelwald and Dumbledore were still alive in the era of Voldemort, their duel was famous, the information about it was virtually everywhere: in Hogwarts schoolbooks, in...

I am reading Death's End, the third book of the three-body problem trilogy, and I have come upon this concept again, but I have since forgotten its meaning (I am reading things in a very spaced out way). What was intended with it?

Captain Braxton returns through the rift in Future's End having never experienced the catastrophic destruction of the solar system time line, which has been altered. Then in season 5, "Relativity" his far future self plants a device to prevent himself from going back to the timeline which no long...

I'd like to track down an English-language short story I read sometime between 1990 and 2010, approx. It's about an alien intelligence (monster?) which had taken-over/mind-controlled/inhabited the mind and/or body of a female industrial worker/scientist in an underground(?) facility/lab/drilling ...

In The Predator (2018), after the Predator set off a timer bomb to destroy the ship, Traeger, despite being enemies, joined hands with Quinn's team. Why did he join his hands with Quinn's team?

It was an early 2000s comic book, most surely from the USA. I think it was the first number in a series. Four high school boys and girls find the body of a female superhero in the woods. Most of the story was about the lives of teenagers. One boy was a conflictive student with a dysfunctional f...

In the Knights of the Old Republic comics series, one of the central themes is a Jedi prophecy known as the Prophecy of the Five, which describes five people who are to bring on the return of the Sith and many other horrible things. Knights Of The Old Republic Issue #24 As the story progresse...

In Warhammer 40k, the Tau Empire is lead by Ethereals. The 5th Tau codex states ‘it is speculated that they (ethereals) exert some kind of pheromone based or latent psychic control over the other castes... the adeptus mechanicus and adeptus arbites are very interested in this aspect of tau cult...

Looking for an old anime with a blue robot that was found by a boy. That robot lost his memory. The face of the robot was on a display. I don't remember very well they were fighting together and that blue robot was very powerful. If I am not wrong, I can remember also a scene where there was a fi...

It's been a few years but in this anime the characters have an element which they control time on to fight, speeding up or slowing down time on said element, some include water, air, cards and school clothes. They fight time monsters which take time from people, eventually killing them. The MC co...

(It wasn't particularly body-positive, let's just say, but I am looking for it anyway). Anthology. I thought it was pretty mainstream, like Datlow or Greenberg or Dozois, but no matter how I search I cannot find it. It was not super-old, but not published in the last couple of years either. I do...

There is this possible leak that states that the final starter evolutions for pokemon gen 8 are: Fire Electric Water Dragon Grass Fairy I thought a bit and i think this could work because it maintains the balance between weaknesses of the starters, but the water dragon thing seems a bit op du...

Why couldn’t Newt use ‘Accio’ to retrieve all his beasts? ‘Accio’ only works on inanimate objects. While people or creatures may be indirectly moved by ‘Accio-ing’ objects that they are wearing or holding, this carries all kinds of risks because of the likelihood of injury to the person o...

From what I remember, in the spring of 2007, I was reading a novel in class (5th grade) about a future where everyone was color-blind by mandated ingestion of medicine. And that no one was allowed to engage in sexual reproduction only certain classes of genetically acceptable males were allowed t...

Is it legit for an answerer to roll back an edit made by the original author of a question? Here's a link to the question that led to me asking about rollback etiquette. Here's the timeline of edits. Here's the timeline of events on that question. Author posts a question about feasibility of...