I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct place to ask this, because it's not exactly a question about a specific movie/series (but it can apply to many different ones I guess). I've had a debate with some people - they think (if time travel was possible, of course) you could go back in time, and ...

The playful story I'm looking for must be from the 1940s or 1950s, and may be playing in the late 20th century. A young pilot skillfully seeds clouds over fields growing the area of today's LA suburbs. He uses his knowledge of the area's topography and meteorology, being informed about the changi...

Picard has been in one captain's chair or another for a long time. He was commanding officer of the USS Stargazer, the USS Enterprise D, and the USS Enterprise E. For how many years has Jean Luc Picard been the commanding officer of a Federation spaceship? I am looking for answers with canon sour...

In the film of Catching Fire at about 2:00:45 when Peeta explains to Katniss why she has to be the one to survive, he says: If you die and I live, I'd have nothing. Nobody else that I care about. However, earlier in the film at about 0:21:33 when yelling at Katniss for not telling him about th...

In comments below this excellent answer to Are there methods of lightning detection on Mars? I lament not being able to remember where I'd read about radio noise in the receiver of a real-world Martian lander or rover being interpreted as electrical discharges in dust storms on the planet. Now I'...

The novel itself contained a shapeshifter character, who I believe had violet or purple eyes, might have been female, might have been an assassin. I believe the character was not the protagonist or antagonist, but a side character that the main character wasn't sure they could trust. I also belie...

I am interested to understand what movie I saw when I was in kinder-garden. Occasionally, a guy came (organized by the teacher) and projected films on the wall. I have a clear memory about only one - at least, a memory which can lead to a movie identification. I saw that movie in 1980-1982 or aro...

The series should have been written in the late eighties or nineties. Space opera involving a large mercenary space force...star commander or similar was the title of the main protagonist. Kidnapped to a planet and force to work in the sewers, he is found by his second in command...who is a fem...

The main character (male) is called to a lab built on the ocean floor that is atop some sort of vault that is in need of the main character's expertise in figuring out the password to unlock it. The calculations always come up with impossible numbers like 0/0. Does this ring any bells? I belie...

The setting is the near-future (or then-near-future) west/mid-west U.S., somewhere potentially subject to periods of drought. The protagonist is either new to a small farming community or newly returned. As he's driving around he notices at various farms some abandoned solar energy collectors; I...

Trying to recall a science fiction short story which begins with the protagonist being asked to join a husband and wife team on a trip to South America (IIRC) to investigate a mysterious phenomenon (I think it was a constant, never-ending wind) in some high mountain valley type of locality. The s...

I don't remember too many details. It was a late 80s early 90's tv show. I watched doubed to Spanish, but I think it may have been American (?) The guy travels to the 20th century to trap someone (?) And save humanity. I think he comes from 23-25th centuries and human bodies have evolved, making ...

In this story, if I remember correctly, two humans in a prison are discussing how humans lost a war with an alien race because they kept improving their weapons, by which involved waits while the technology was developed, while our alien enemy just kept building less sophisticated weapons, but so...