In the off Broadway play "Puffs," about Hufflepuff students and their inconsequential role in the greater Harry Potter story arc, year 6 includes an extremely protracted scene that mystified me. I've read all the HP books repeatedly and seen all the movies, but I cannot figure out where this scen...

Captain Rex's phase 2 helmet (when he finally gets one) appears to use a phase 1 visor style, with it being thick at the nose and tapering towards the ears, while the standard phase 2 helmets start thinner at the nose and expand to make a larger blob around the eye. Standard phase 1 helmet: ...

How did that happen? In the original, they seemed to be every portrayal of Allied white arrogant racists who thought they were superior to others. And specifically Communists being they represented Russians. In "TNG" they were black, and admirable. I say this since the races represented real lif...

I read a piece someone said with Data was a lousy person with the emotion chip. I beg to differ: in Generations, he feels guilt about not doing enough for Geordi in the hostage situation with Soran. In First Contact, he develops an elaborate ruse, pretending to be on the Borg Queen's side, and sa...

I never understood why she was created. For me it seemed to contradict the whole purpose of the Borg - a cyborg killing machine race with no face or leader. A collective. Anyone can elaborate why?

I'm wondering if they were there for months on end before the huge invasion at the end. Because throughout the movie, the army enlister states that the last couple of nights, strange beings were seen, in the dark shadows, the cop in the beginning says dogs and other animals were acting strange la...

What was the reason for this change? I mean mostly about the writers.

Doctor Strange experiences 14,000,605 timeline scenarios, one of which was a win. Why does he proceed to return back to his origin point so he can say he already did it once, just so he can do the same thing again? It already happened and he was there, why not just stay there instead of going bac...

I've always wondered. It was 1989. The writers at the time did not know what to do with the Borg. The end scene of "Q Who" airs. Guinan warns Picard that because the Borg know of the Federation's existence, that they will be coming. The Borg in that episode did very destructive things. If it was...

I am trying to find a story I read as a child. I remember little about it except for the following: I suspect I read it before 1985, but it was a school library book which means it could be God knows how much older than that. This may mean it was a book meant for younger readers. In memory ...

I saw that warp 9 is like 1500 times the speed of light, but it would still take a day to reach the nearest star. but in the closing credits, we are passing stars at a rate that seems much faster than that. Pretending that space looks like that when you are traveling as such high velocities (and ...

May be i missed something obvious but I didn't understand how K knew Deckard was the father of the child?

In S01E10 of Star Trek: Discovery Burnham notes that the USS Defiant is believed to be the first ship from the prime universe to arrive in the mirror universe. However, the Defiant comes from Discovery's future, specifically the TOS episode "The Tholian Web" which occurs around a decade later. S...

Sorry, I don't recall much, this is very faint UK memories from the 1970's, I think it was a novella in an anthology. The protagonist is (I think) a native bearer with an Earthmen hunting party. He is on a diaspora colony world that has, a few years before he was born, been found again by an ex...

I remember reading a story about a demon who is trying to send a man insane or send his soul into hell (or both). The demon goes to the man's home and tries to terrorize the man, creating a haunted house environment, with creaks, groans, bad smells, poltergeist-type activities. But the man is u...

(I am only 3 episodes into The Boys, nor have I read the comics, so I don't know if this is answered later on). In The Boys (2019 TV series) it seems that the world has an immense number of superheroes, even to the point that Vought desires to have a Supe in basically every small town/city acr...

Hoping you can help with this half-remembered poem that from what I can recall was written by someone who worked for the New Statesman or the Spectator in the 1970s. The opening part is: 'They say consider the ant O thou sluggard,go to its ways and be wise Well,I've considered the ant and I'm ...

We read some stories in school-for me around 3rd/4th grade-about 3 brothers. I remember it being from the youngest one's point of view, and I think their names were Steven, Timothy, Johnathon, but I could be wrong on that. I can't remember the time period it's set it-but I think it was civil war/...

I am looking for a comic that I read as a kid somewhere in the 80's. I read it in my native language (Dutch), but the style and theme looked very much like American comics of that time, so it was most probably a translation. The story was set in the near future, in a world ruled by business carte...

At the end of Dune Messiah, after Paul walks into the desert, Alia and Duncan/Hayt have this exchange, starting with Alia: "I must save the life of the Princess Irulan. That one! You should hear her grief. Wailing, giving moisture to the dead; she swears she loved him and knew it not. She re...

I would have probably read this in the mid/late 1990s or very early 00s, but I'm trying to hunt down a novel I remembered earlier. I'm pretty sure it was part of a series. I was living in Ireland at the time, if that helps - I think this series could have been from the 80s, too, as I may have got...

Talking the opening scene where they fight the renegade Borg on the outpost. Something all of a sudden causes Data to be angry. I take the hint to be the guy who says every biological organism. As though he's holding something to lure Data.

Something I'm curious about. When the renegade Borg were causing havoc with their attacks on the Enterprise and the brutal fight in the outpost, was Lore heading that ship or was he on the planet doing his business with other renegade Borg drones there?

On the first NES game, you only see a few people-merchants in caves-and other than that, you only run into Zelda. Where is the rest of Hyrule? Where is Kakariko village or even the main castle?

I recently got the Wrath of Ashardalon board game and want to extend my experience by reading more about the setting. However, I couldn't find any by googling. I only found the wiki entry for Ashardalon and found it to be lacking. I'm also planning to take inspiration from the reading materials ...

I just finished the Broken Earth Trilogy and was waiting for a reveal related to this. Maybe I missed it, but: Do we know for sure that It seems to me that

In Star Trek: Voyager 2x07 "Maneuvers", Voyager beams several Kazon Majs off their ship. Tuvok and a complement of security officers are in the transporter room waiting for them, and the Majs draw their laser pistols. TUVOK: Please stay where you are. You will find that our transporters have ...