In Rouge one, Jyn and her crew go to steal the Death Star plans from the empire, doing so in the cargo shuttle they stole. They got away pretty easily after only some banter with control. So, why did the Rebels not try and and stop them, and if they did, how so?

I remember a book series I started to read years ago and now I can't remember what it was called. It was set in space and on alien planets far in the future. All I can remember is these things: I think the main character was named "Priest", someone used mini-nukes as a weapon, and they were part ...

Users of the Force often refer to the "Light Side" and the "Dark Side". Is there any indication that there is an actual separation in the Force between these two sides, or do the terms just refer to moral/idealogical differences? For example, force lightning is often thought of as a Dark Side po...

Why doesn't Captain Janeway initiate Blue Alert in the episode "Dragon's Teeth"? Note that the threat from the Turei had ended before she gave the order to land the ship. (Netflix time index: 6:20)

Hi I read a book about ten years ago I’m trying to find and I can only remember a small part of it. There was a primitive bird species on a planet and humans were trading old weapons with them, eventually the birds turned on them and there was a large pit under their roost that was their bathroom...

I do not know the title or author. The main character is an intellectually simple man who ends up alone on a ship because it passed over some border in space. The border kills criminals (or something like that) and kills the rest of the crew. That’s near the beginning. I think he is stung or pois...

Paperback (I think) where humans (in the USA?) find a giant (grey?) alien in tomb or crashed spaceship circa 1950. Alien is hostile and can mind control everyone around it. It forces the humans to take it somewhere to build a rocket ship or simply just enslave all of earth. Read in early 70s. Re...

This was in the school library when I was in 3rd or 4th grade so around 1992 or 1993 (the elementary had it's own library) though the reading level was above my head at the time. I remember the "armour" spelling, the setting was unusually dark and gritty, it seemed like the book really shouldn't...

At the beginning of the third season, the coven has lost its power due to Lucifer withdrawing his gifts. After some false starts, they eventually hit on a plan. They consider the prospect of draining the energy from a bunch of hedge witches, but discard the prospect due to their advanced age. Eve...

At the end of the seventh episode of the third season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, we see that Caliban was able to, apparently, overcome both Lilith and Lucifer and imprison them in the same sort of prison that Judas Iscariot was originally in. How did he do this? By all appearances, Cali...

Avatars from all nations have their eyes glowing when entering the avatar states. No nation, beside the air nomads, has any extra special visual effect. Why do the tattoos glow? I the tattoos are very spiritual and an air nomad will get his/her tattoos only when they master airbending, but it is...

At the beginning of the show, the members of the Council informed "Faustus Blackwood" that they had suffered a loss of magical "potency." Later, the characters attribute this to the Dark Lord withdrawing his gifts from the Church of Night in revenge for Sabrina and company having imprisoned him. ...

In Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), Gerda describes to Queen Ingrith about the creature that pulled Maleficent from the depths of the sea: Queen Ingrith: What did it look like? Gerda: Her. It carried her up into the sky. Queen Ingrith: Hmm. A wounded animal lashes out and now sh...

Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter is the 38th book in the Asterix series, and the fourth to be written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad. Although Asterix is full of peril and Roman-bashing, the possibility of actual fatality always seems remote to these stories. However, i...

I'm working in a videogame set at the end of the Third Age in Middle-Earth, and I would like to properly use Middle-Earth materials, flora and fauna. I've been looking at MERP (a tabletop RPG) publications, they're great, but I'm aware of them adding non-canon elements. For example, adarcer metal...

Rule #1: The Doctor lies. What are his other rules? Is there a definitive list anywhere?

I'm trying to identify a novel that I partially read many years ago. This is a real long-shot as I remember very little details. Googling the title is impossible due to the festival of the same name that generates millions of hits. A novel that I read in English or possible a Dutch translation o...

Since the Super Bowl is coming up, I thought I'd ask this ad identification question, and hope this is the right place. Background: I remember watching a commercial a long time ago (maybe 20 years?) that I really liked. I thought it was a Super Bowl ad, but I spent a while last year lookin...

Something about the rust virus (or whatever it's called - I can't remember) doesn't quite make sense to me. I'm probably just forgetting some detail or I missed some explanation at one point. Obviously it can pass from metal to metal (to clear up the obvious). Somehow it can also pass via h...

In both Legends and current canon, Luke and Leia had been told at least some true information about their origins while growing up: Luke knew that Owen and Beru were his aunt and uncle, and that his father's name was Anakin Skywalker, although he was told that his father had died and was a "nav...

There are a lot of changes coming in the future DC films [Robert Pattinson playing Batman is just one!] But I'm uncertain where that goes in terms of timeline. considering the success of Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Shazam and the upcoming WW-1984, it would seem that film universe is still active.... b...

Movie is about the search of an ancient artifact. At the very beginning movie looks like a criminal detective or so about the band that is looking for some priceless relics. It appears later, that band is lead by the alien. Near the end of the movie band finds artifact, alien leader is badly woun...

I've been trying to find a PC game that I played a demo for back in the early 90s (give or take). It was a space exploration/RPG with sprite graphics and I think a top-down perspective. You fly around in your starship talking to different people and doing missions for them to upgrade your ship a...

As it is well know in the arrowverse Crisis on Infinite Earths: Has there been any official or unofficial comments as to whether this will be explicitly acknowledged to justify any creative changes on the DCU (like Pattinson’s Batman or any other planned changes? I’m specifically looking for ...

I am desperately looking for an old science fiction book, I only remember this much: A woman (I believe) observes an ancient statue of an extinct race that indicates a point in deep space. After much research they arrive on a planet (perhaps frozen) where they are attacked by flying spheres that...

I swear I've found this one before, maybe on another site. Somewhere between 1988 and 1992, my brother was allowed to borrow an IBM PC from the school (it was an anti-theft measure). I remember we played Hack (predecessor to Nethack), Brøderbund's Ancient Art of War, and a Hoyle card game. There ...