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In the most recent episode S02E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, How exactly does it work?

I read this in the mid-nineties in what seemed to be new hardback book, but some of the other anthology stories seemed 'of the sixties'. The narrator was recounting his experience visiting some alien world and getting told about their education system. Basically the poorer performing students ar...

Near the end of An Artificial Night, book 3 in the October Daye series starring October "Toby" Daye, towards the end of the book, she is a prisoner of Blind Michael and the Wild Hunt. The way she escapes is directly related to events in an epic poem I think was Irish, involving horses, the Wild...

I saw many few scenes in 2013 and do not know the name of the show.

During one of the end credits scene in Shazam! (2019), we see that, NOTE: The question itself is an apparent spoiler So my question is,

Looking for the name of this book series from the 90s or early aughts, and I can't remember the title, the author, or any of the characters names. What I can remember is that one of the girls had four arms, and on one of the covers she's dressed as a pirate, swinging on a rope. I remember that m...

In the movie Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, what did Spock mean when he mind melded with McCoy and he told him to "remember"?

Every single person Robert Baratheon touched on the arrival scene to Winterfell died in various ways as shown. Have the show runners/GRRM indicated in any way this is intentional?

In the mid credit scene, we see Shazam invites Superman to his school in the lunch break. From previous knowledge we know that Shazam has been a part of Justice League. But there was no cameo of any of the Justice league character in the film, and that of Superman is faceless. Do these two film...

TV Tropes claims that Tobias Whale is vegan: In Black Lightning, ruthless crime boss Tobias Whale claims to adhere to a vegan diet. But he seems to be having caviar when he meets with Khalil: TOBIAS: Like it or not, every successful person remembers two things in life. The first ...

searching for a book from the 90's that was a collection of short stories about bio-engineering. The first story i think was about a man who was discovered to have a clinical condition called fetu in fetu, where his twin was surrounded by him in the womb and is inside him, still living , but sta...

In the most recent episode S02E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, As Sphere's data doesn't allow itself to be deleted from the system, My question is: Why can't they simply remove the data core and destroy it? Why destroy a super expensive ship with unique Spore Drive?

Looking for the title and author of a short story, description follows... Two men, possibly cadets in some sort of space force or army but my memory is not so clear are lost in the wilderness on an alien planet. They think they can survive because the weather is good and there is lots of plant l...

In the end of S02E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, I can understand that Section 31 possesses advanced technologies and USS Discovery can't stand a chance in a direct battle. But, USS Discovery has one unique thing which no other ship in the Federation has: Spore Drive. Why didn't Pike simply deci...

In the most recent episode S02E12 of Star Trek: Discovery, we saw that Pay attention: There's no transporter pad available on either side which seems rather advanced capability. Have we seen transportation capability of a Shuttle before?

I'm going to try to plumb my library for this, but I think I read it about 4-5 books as a free Kindle book. The primary protagonist was a woman who had vague memories of having been at a bar attacked by vampires and, grievously injured, staggering off, only to wake up chained in a cell. She's for...

In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), this is how she looks: Who is that cowgirl appeared at Colombia Pictures intro?

Currently, I have two examples in my mind: Halo (Halo video game series; 2001): Can destroy all sentient life within three galactic radii The Moment/ Eye of Discord/ Galaxy Eater (Doctor Who (2005) TV series; 2013): Can destroy entire galaxy within a moment Which Sci-Fi work first showed weap...

We know that Howard Stark was developing radical technologies. So when he comes upon a small, finite supply of the most valuable, world-changing metal known to humans, the first thing he does is whip it up into a "prototype" shield and then forget to even put it on a shelf? Then he sends it into ...

In this answer to a question about Captain America's shield an excerpt from the script is posted: He pulls up a cart with A NUMBER OF SHIELDS, some built, some half-finished (including the one from Iron Man 2). HOWARD STARK: (CONT’D) I took the liberty of coming up with a few options. (p...

About 2005-10, I read a story in an anthology. Don't recall the title of the anthology, story or author. Involved the protagonist making repeated trips to the past. At each return, he found the world a little different, but people kept telling him, "See? Nothing's changed." At the end there ha...

Almost everything in Greendale seems to be vintage 1960's (cars, movies, dress). I assume it is to reflect the original comic book, but I swear I saw Ambrose using a laptop computer in the first episode. Was this just to make it more topical? Or is it some kind of alternate reality?

In the first episode of Umbrella Academy('We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals'),Five comes back from the future using a 'temporal anomaly'. In the process,it is shown that he is aged backwards,leaving him with the physical appearance that was exactly like when he left the Academy and...

Near the end of Captain Marvel, From his conversation with Coulson, it seems that Carol is the first super-powered person he comes across and wants to look for others. Next we know, 13 years later he meets Tony Stark We know that earlier than either event Hank and Janet were active super-p...

Has Superman ever had to act and save the day as Clark Kent? What were the repercussions, if there were any?

Humble apologies for forgetting exactly which book. I believe it is in reference to the ship that is supposed to dive into the sun. The contractors were told not to put something in so that the cost would be saved, but then they did it anyway, put it in for 5x the price under "sndry explns" in ...

What happens to the Triwizard cup when the tournaments reoccur? Is it passed around to the next following champions? Or a new one is remade?

Do Vulcans have last names? I don't recall Spock or his father Sarek having a last name and I was wondering if Vulcans have last names.

Before Billy Batson gets his powers, there are two ways to reach the Rock of Eternity, as seen in the movie. Being summoned by the ancient wizard Shazam Using hieroglyph-like symbols to create a magical entrance The first method is the only one used until Thaddeus Sivana discovers the alterna...

When the ancient wizard Shazam summons children to test them and find a champion, he judges them based on their will to resist the temptations of the Deadly Sins. He deems every one of them unworthy because they are enticed by the Eye of Sin. But when Billy is summoned by the wizard, the Eye of...

In movie Interstellar,in the last when Cooper enters black hole he just see interference and other stuff inside black hole. But why spaghettification didn't occurr there? I mean what was the science behind that?

In Chapter Nineteen of Order of the Phoenix we have the following statement from Professor McGonagall: “I think you’ve got enough to be getting on with at the moment,” she said loftily. Nobody could quite believe their ears until she looked directly at Harry and Ron and said grimly, “I...

When Thanos fought the Avengers on Titan in Avengers: Infinity War he had the reality stone, so he could have altered reality to easily beat them. E.g. when he fought Iron man he could have turned his suit into a dress. He could have turned everyone into blocks like he did earlier in the movie to...

Having recently heard (video history of speculative zoology) of caspak, but not yet read the k-pax books, may k-pax be inspired by caspak? Although speculative, answers might help to get some ideas on K-PAX.

I loved this whole series, that is until it reaches to point after killing The king Galbatorix. The story goes from great detail to being very obvious to be done so many times when Eragon is given a chance to continue the story the at this point is weak and seems like the story teller just wants ...

In the novels, Otherland (four parts), the protagonists enter a VR environment for an extended time to investigate an enormous network, and are locked into it. I've read the books several times, and thoroughly enjoy each, but I am curious if, within the story of the mental fabric, there was a ti...

I vaguely remember an old Black and white movie with things that looked like lampshades. The lampshades would settle on a persons head and they would start bleeding and die. Anybody know the movie?

Is "Patience, young padawan" a direct quote from the Star Wars movies, or like "Play it again Sam" a phrase that is based on other quotes or things that Jedi seem likely to say? I've not been able to find a video clip of this actual phrase in use, nor a video clip of a longer version "Patience y...

I read a short story, can’t remember if it was part of a larger narrative or just on its own. It was about a crew that was taking a bunch of space tourists to a planet that had plants with seeds in glass-like structures that make certain sounds. The main character in this story feels connected t...