In Tomorrow is Yesterday the Enterprise beamed Captain John Christopher onto the transporter pad from his cockpit. He was sitting in his pilot seat when he dematerialized, then he was standing upright, back to Captain Kirk when he materialized. Is the transporter able to manipulate you any way i...

I was watching Clash of the Titans (2010) and I really liked the Djinn, I thought the idea of bark skinned desert sorcerers was really cool and wanted to read more about it. I know Djinn is usually another name for Genies or spirits from Arabic myth but that isn't anything like what we see in the...

I have a very intriguing question about this film. Why isn't the brother a selkie? I already looked up on google. I even researched the folklore story of the selkie. I just don't understand on how his sister was a selkie but they have the same mother. Who you was a selkie.

I read this in an anthology sometime in the 1970's. A chap was winding various coils for his radio receiver. He hears a message from 'Mars'? The story ends when the 'special' coil is crushed by some accident. The protagonist is concerned that he could never reproduce the 'unique' shape again! I...

If a question has no answers and is closed, an edit will necessarily change some of my original intent. I am the OP, and it just wasn't working. How tightly do I have to stay in the box which didn't work? Let's limit the discussion to "primarily opinion-based" closures. Making it "not opinion ba...

In the 1st harry potter, at the end its revealed that Quirrell ran into Voldemort in Albania, where he possessed him. At the end, Voldemort leaves Quirrell, and he dies. Since Voldemort was still a spirit, and not able to hold a wand, how does he get back to Albania? In book Three we learn that "...

The story is about a detective talking to different people trying to gather information about a clone. The story deals with clones of a criminal who committed murders, and they make exact clones of the criminal so the families of the victims can kill the clones to feel they got revenge.

This is the scene from chapter 25, where Watney describes how he had produced and stored hydrogen, which he produced by electrolysing water. I need clarification of the bold part. LOG ENTRY: SOL 529 I’m turning water into rocket fuel. It’s easier than you’d think. Separating...

In Wrath of Khan, during the first strike, we see various emergency doors closing on in engineering. One of these appears to bisect part of the warp core. Is this merely an oversight of the production crew?

I'm looking for the name of manga where entire class is summoned by goddess but the main character has only paralysis poison and sleep skills and is abandoned in a dungeon. He uses those skills to kill monsters in a dungeon. Definitely not Arifureta. And ENTIRE school class is transported.

In the beginning of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets" Harry scares Dudley into thinking that he can do magic out of school. However this should have never scared Dudley as Petunia should have known from Lily's time as a student that students can't perform magic out of school. So why is i...

One night when I was a kid, in the mid eighties, I saw a Sci-Fi movie late night on TV. I seem to remember it had a really long name. It opened with the main character on his spaceship (which was kind of a piece of junk), drunk, and talking to his lawyer over radio about his divorce from his wife...

If Harry had killed Voldemort before Voldemort "killed" the horcrux within Harry, would Voldemort just have managed to come back again somehow?

Why was Lord Voldemort's nose different from his young version as Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter films?

The United Federation of Planets supposedly works on a principle of mutually shared advancements. In TOS: Arena they say UFP works on “the principles of universal liberty, rights, and equality, and to share their knowledge and resources in peaceful cooperation, scientific development, space explo...

Did the Enterprise, Voyager or DS9 have a cleaning crew and janitorial staff? Or is it like the Japanese where everyone would devote time to clean? Or do you think they use the transporters to beam the dirt off ship or whatever mess they have to clean at the time? I wonder if they had space age R...

How to the Borg find consensus, i.e. what protocol do they use? Is it a democracy like consensus or are there special drones for each task (i.e. tactical drone, combat drone, maintainance drone...)? However, if there are several borgs responsible for a task, how do they determine how and who wil...

At the beginning of season 5 in Agents of SHIELD, Coulson's team is (mostly) abducted from Rae's Diner by Enoch and a crew of men. These men all seem to be human. One of them even says: My wife thinks that I'm at a friend's house for our fantasy draft. Doesn't even occur to her that we're in ...