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Q: Did previous Star Trek series establish Romulan distrust of androids?

VillageIn Star Trek: Picard, it is introduced that Romulans are fearful of androids. Was this fear ever established in the previous TV series?

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Q: Is Picard's disease the cause of the time jumping in "All Good Things..."?

VillageIn the episode "All Good Things..." Picard is seen jumping through time, but being himself at different ages, so it is not a normal time jump where his body moves back and forward in time. It is mentioned that he was suffering from a disease. Was that disease the cause of the time jumps or having...

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Q: Could Dr. Strange bring the decapitated Thanos on the planet Titan 2 back to life using the Time Stone?

user255577I would like to know if it's possible that Dr. Strange could bring the decapitated Thanos on the planet Titan 2 back to life by reversing time with the Time Stone. Consider that in the movie Avengers: Infinity War Thanos was able to bring Vision back to life using the Time Stone so he could take...

 
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Q: A collection of short stories involving dimension travel`

adhereoI read a collection of short stories in high school for a class in 2012 where humans had discovered how to travel to different dimensions by visiting airports and meditating. I have only a memory of one of the places people could travel. It was inhabited by birdlike humanoids, some of which had t...

 
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Q: Does anyone have the floorplan for Lord Vauxhall’s summer cottage?

Jeff DegeDoes anyone have the floorplan for Lord Vauxhall’s summer cottage? From Randall Garrett's story "The Sixteen Keys", in Lord Darcy Investigates. The story is basically Euler's Seven Bridges of of Königsberg problem, it's hard to follow the descriptions without the floor plan, and most reprints o...

 
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Q: Could a portkey be used to travel from one place in Hogwarts to another?

P. M. B.What I need to know is whether or not someone that is already inside Hogwarts could create a portkey to take them to a specific location in Hogwarts. So, let’s say they’re in the Potions classroom; they reach into their pocket, touch the portkey, and it takes them to the Astronomy tower. I’ve se...

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Q: What explains all these dopplegangers?

AdamantIn S02E05 of Always a Witch, Carmen is accidentally dragged back to the past for a brief period. She arrives at a time before the events of the beginning of the first episode of the first season, when she was still a slave in Cristobal's household, and appears to bodily replace her previous self....

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I believe enough detail was added that i can answer this question. I don't have the privilege of voting to reopen though.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/228363/isekai-manga-protagonist-summoned-then-given-a-random-power
It still seems very generic possibly matching quite a few different works
How confident are you, roughly, that you know what it is?
@Jenayah Confirmed not the same user so shouldn't be duped to it: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/228367/58193
@TheLethalCarrot I can only think of a handful of ones that have the Main Character switching between worlds a lot. Mostly its that they are refering to what they need to do as contracts instead of quests. If that is not them mistyping, i am almost certain/
"Mostly its that they are refering to what they need to do as contracts" - if that's the more common form, and the OP says contracts then that still leaves this matching quite a lot of things no?
Unless what you think it is matches the white room and roulette wheel?
09:48
In the one i'm thinking of, he is summoned into a mostly empty room, which could be misremembered as white. He gets Skills by turning a crank on the side of a box, which outputs a skill card.
He gets a new skill each time, most others that i have read have them get all the skills at the initial summoning time, or acquire them as the Character interacts with the world.
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Q: Looking for a horror story about a man pursued by a reflection in the mirror

Philipp FlenkerI am looking for a story which I read approximately in the late nineties/early 00s. I read it in German. It might have been a short story from a book containing other similar short stories, but I am not sure about that. The author might have been Stephen King, but I am not sure about that either....

10:19
@TheLethalCarrot disagreed. They posted it again, admitted they did, and added no additional information. Different users maybe, but still very much a dupe then.
They copy and pasted because it seemed like they were after the same one, we have no idea they are after the same one
Closing as a dupe like this goes against the entire duplicate policy for story id questions
If it was anything other than story id, sure it;'s a dupe, but they're a special edge case
Only the OP knows the answer and they are only duped when an answer is accepted
In this the old post has no answer (at the moment, needs undeleting) never mind an accepted answer
The new user here is a little confused (and trying to cut corners) we should help them and follow the actual policy rather than shutting it down
Regardless of the intent, the text is exactly the same. The questions are literally duplicates.
Long day of work today, but I'm open to discuss that further tonight
Right but this is a story id post, the user is cutting corners but that doesn't mean they have the same answer
@Jenayah OP has edited now anyway
Someone fancy casting the last undelete vote here: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/228369/58193
@DavidW There a reason you left it closed?
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Q: What did Olaf rearrange in this scene?

Steve ChapellIn Frozen II (2019), Anna confronts Kristoff in the charade game: Anna: I don't think Olaf should get to rearrange. Doesn't matter. This is gonna be a cinch. What did Olaf rearrange in this scene?

@Marvin Are they just describing Kányádi Sándor's poem "Románc" in an unusually inventive way?
@TheLethalCarrot OP keeps deleting it, shall we just leave it deleted now?
SQB
SQB
Probably.
Maybe a mod could super-ping them to chat, to try and work out what's up with all of that.
Worked out the problem with their own question, it should be getting reopened in review queue but who knows
Don't know why they keep deleting that answer though
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Q: Why didn't EDITH recognise Mysterio and inform Peter?

NazgulIn Spiderman Far From Home, Peter transfers EDITH to quentin Beck. But why didn't EDITH recognise Quentin, who was a former employee under Tony Stark? So why didn't EDITH inform Peter that Mysterio is actually a former Stark industries employee who was fired by Stark and not some guy from multiv...

 
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Hope y'all don't mind me dropping this in here, but there's a question on RPG that y'all might be interested in (maybe?):
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Q: Sources for Benchmarks of Prices in the Star Wars universe

vicky_molokh- unsilence MonicaI am planning to run a Star Wars campaign, and I would like to get a better feel for the setting's economical 'realities', such as approximate relative prices of things and services. I understand that that there are fluctuations of such things (though a combination of a handwavy setting and the e...

@Randal'Thor Fair enough, only reason I posted mine was because we already undeleted the answer once and the OP re-deleted it again
Hey, since when does @Jenayah have a gold tag badge in story-ID? Congrats! :-D
@TheLethalCarrot Seems a bit of a complicated situation, but since the main reason for Jordyn's post is that they solved Ceci's question, that answer is the one that should be kept if anything.
Aye, I tried to do that but they weren't having it. Only posted my answer so the OP still had an answer to the question if/when they return
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I'm not sure why you deleted this. It seems to be a helpful answer to the question posted. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 9 secs ago
Let me know if they delete again and I'll lock it.
Shall do
What's your thoughts on the dupe closure? Especially now it has been edited to not a copy/paste job
Didn't/don't have time to examine that properly.
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@TheLethalCarrot Editing the question isn't normal for an answered story-id, but not a sufficient reason to re-open either. Hadn't checked in here yet, so I wasn't clued in to the whole mess, and I just deferred to Jenayah's dupe-close.
"Editing the question isn't normal for an answered story-id" well it wasn't answered at the time
TBH I'm not sure it should have even been closed in the first place
But it is a whole messy weird situation
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@TheLethalCarrot That's where I fell down by presuming the dupe-close was because the question had an answer, at least in a comment.
Well both questions had an answer, it was all really odd
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Q: Short story about man able to stop time but can not find right moment of happiness

sfissI read this a long, long time ago (I guess maybe 15 years ago, but the book was definately older than that, I would guess at least 30 years old by now, probably older) and am not sure if I got the details right. Also, the story might have been of German origin. I think it goes something like this...

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Q: Young Horror Anthology - Short story with devices passed into a hole in a wall, returned powered by worms...?

p.qI remember reading short story when I was young where the protagonist passed a series of objects though a discovered portal (in their room?) and they were returned powered by - or containing - worm-like creatures. I thought this story may have been written by Joan Aiken, but would very much like...

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Huh, weird, my flag didn't clear on the answer being deleted
Interesting. Same.
Oh, they've done a lot of CSS updates recently which has broken formatting across the show (and made deleted posts look terrible, arguable whether quotes are better). They may have messed around with some of the other stuff
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Q: Post deleted but Not an Answer flag is still pending

TheLethalCoderNot sure if this is somehow related to all the wonkiness going on with the CSS updates recently but a recent deleted post on SFF was deleted (via 3 users) but the flags haven't been marked as helpful and are still pending. The post was flagged at 15:10:34 and deleted at 15:14:33.

Ah looks like the JavaScript is "lagging", that's been upvoted but no top bar notification
Also the LA and LQP for this deleted answer came in "late"
So they may be having some server issues
Don't know if this is relevant or not, but I deleted by the action button on the post instead of by vote. — DavidW 21 secs ago
@DavidW Do you mean on the post itself instead of through the LQP?
(Well of course you do, you didn't review it in the LQP haha)
Comment flag just updated, so yeah, some weird stuff going on
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@Null Does the flag still show pending for mods? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/228424/58193
Wondering where the problem is
@TheLethalCarrot Yes. Says "invalidated".
Invalidated for the flag?
Didn't even know that was an option
I know the LQP review can become invalidated (i.e. handled outside of review) but not flags
The post flag history shows multiple NAA flags, all of which were raised before the post was deleted.
It looks like I can mark them helpful but I shouldn't have to do that.
Ah yeah that's what I thought would be the case
Some weird bug when the post was deleted that it didn't handle the flags
I marked them helpful and now they all show a "helpful" result.
16:16
Yeah updated in my profile too
Edge case bug I suppose
The system says the post was deleted by the users who raised NAA flags.
I see no reason why the system didn't mark the flags helpful.
It was having a few hiccups around the time the post was deleted so guess that's why
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Q: Are there some Star Trek episodes whose main theme is an infection or contagion?

SekhemtyAs the title says, are there some episodes, in any of all the released Star Trek series, whose main plot is about an infection/contagion/disease or any other medical hazard, and about how the crew/population try to deal with it, from a medical point of view but also with its crisis management asp...

@Marvin Star Trek: The Next Generation: Double Helix book series....
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@Null Is that problematic? I'll raise a flag on a post in FP/LA so it's bumped to the LQP queue for others to see, but I'll VTD on the post itself immediately after reviewing.
@Marvin Yes.
More flags means it takes longer to kick it out of the LQP review from Looks OK votes I believe, I'm in the habit of automatically flagging before VTD whether through review or on the post.
@DavidW That's not a problem. The only thing you might do differently is flag for a moderator instead of voting to delete if the post is worth keeping as a comment.
@DavidW You can also VTD in the review but depends on the answer's score
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@Null It probably largely boils down to me being cranky, but "worth bothering a moderator to keep" is a fairly high bar to clear most days. :)
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@Randal'Thor since a month ago :) scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/143/…
Thanks!
 
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Q: Altered Carbon, What is Poe's age or how long has he known Kovacs?

Gabriel FairAs it is slightly important by the second season, What is Poe's age? Or how long has he known Kovacas?

@Marvin so which is it?
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@Jenayah Only six people have it? That seems impressive.
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Q: Fantasy book where main character hunts demons with his master

LoganThe main character gets taken away from his home by the master. Their main weapon is a staff that he holds in his left hand with a hidden blade in it. The back of the book had the message "Don't read in the dark". There was a girl named Alice(?) with red hair. They only ate a small amount befor...

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Q: Why was this question closed as off-topic while a very similar one was left open?

AlarionThis question was asked and closed today as off-topic due to being a "lists of works or recommendations" question. In the comments, the author asks why his question was labeled off-topic while this very similar question was on-topic. I'll go further and ask why today's question was mostly down-vo...

@Alex I don’t think my egos big enough to boast about how many people have the gold tag badges I have :P
This?
Yeah, but I wouldn’t boast to someone’s “face”
On another site there's one tag where I have a score more than double the next highest user. But there's still a long way to go for the gold badge.
Score is usually the easiest bit to get
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Depends on the site. On this site my score is always better than my number of answers. Elsewhere my score is usually much lower (relatively) than my number of answers.
Heck my SW tag score is already 100 over the gold score and I don’t even have the silver badge yet
Sure, some sites it isn’t as easy with but even so score usually gets there first
My scores lag far behind my answers.
Though maybe I just post lots of low quality answers.
Well for bronze it’s a bit different anyway cos the thresholds are low
and I couldn’t possibly comment on your answers, especially on that site
I don't post a huge number of answers, but until I get down to the last few tags that are 1/20 or 2/20, the top bar (score) is always longer than the bottom bar (number of posts). Probably just a function of SF&F being a busier site.
And lots of Hot Network Questions that can get you 50 upvotes a pop (at least in certain tags).
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Oh hey, @TheFallen/SSumner is active again!
There's a face I haven't seen around for a loooooong time.
Whose face have you seen?
Yours.
(Using "face" in a metaphorical sense, obviously.)
I'm usually referred to as a "blob" around here.
Feb 24 at 18:50, by DavidW
@Jenayah You've been hanging out with a certain blue blob too much lately. :)
Feb 24 at 1:12, by Jenayah
I was mildly amused when reading it and had a "I'm not surprised it's Alex" chuckle when I saw you blue blob
Mr Blobby?
Feb 11 at 6:17, by Jenayah
@Alex I'd recognize that blue blob anywhere
Though I suppose in the first case I have no real proof that it was a reference to me.
Interesting, that search just informed me that we have a fair amount of questions about blobs.
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Anyway, SSumner used to be one of our most active reviewers.
Went completely dark after the 2016 mod election, citing the departure of several prominent users.
Not even seen on the site since 2016, until ... today?
@Randal'Thor oh thanks for giving me nightmares for tonight
Best wishes to the community and perhaps one day I will return. (My emphasis)
Makes me wish I was around back then.
Yeah you think we have drama now
I was only a lurker during those days but even I saw some of it
22:43
I've never been active on a site having an election.
I feel like I'm missing something.
in Poisoned room; it is defunct., Feb 3 '16 at 14:06, by Ixrec
how are you guys doing? anyone else get deleted?
@TheLethalCarrot Oh, you were already lurking back in 2016?
I thought you were way newer.
Third to last day of 2015 according to the profile.
Been on the network since 2015, didn’t create my SFF account straight away and even then lurked for a bit
Well, I guess if we're including all levels of lurking then I've been lurking on SFF since 2012.
I remember seeing Slytherincess when her username was "a Slytherin".
But only joined the site in 2014.
I feel so young.
Only joined here in mid 2018.
22:49
You were on the SE network a lot longer though?
Not much.
I was active elsewhere since December 3017.
I created my account a year before that, but never did anything with it.
I would never have guessed SE would live that long
@Alex Damn time travellers.
I thought that was @Gallifreyan's speciality.
I think this was my second site.
Found it via Hot Network Questions.
Ha! Since I merged my network account, it now goes back to 2010-04, which is before Sci Fi SE even existed. (But my Sci Fi SE account is actually from 2012-02.)
22:53
Oh, you did merge it finally?
@Alex I think I found SFF via the site list in the footer.
So I'll always pop up and object when people are saying that footer list is useless and nobody ever uses it to find network sites.
I found it from the HNQ I’m pretty sure, though I may have found it from the site list
@Randal'Thor You may be the only one.
@TheLethalCarrot You got your site lost?
"A Little Site Lost", by Seliam Blake.
Hey it’s hard to type when I’m still trembling over Mr Blobby
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@Randal'Thor I merged my accounts in 2017-08.
22:55
I think I found the network to begin with via Google.
@b_jonas I just remember you saying for a long time that you hadn't merged them.
@Alex Jenoogle, you mean?
@Randal'Thor Yes.
Didn't know she introduced you to SE.
@Randal'Thor Nah, she came after me.
Though was here a month before me.
@Alex resist the urge to comment, must resist the urge to comment.
23:00
Comment!
Comments are third-class citizens.
Post an answer instead.
:-P
I feel like I may be missing a good joke.

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