What I'm looking for was a tv series I watched long time ago and want to find now, but I don't recall the name of it. The plot was about some student/scientist/highschooler ??? that was cursed with all kinds of "outwordly creatures" being attracted to him, all kinds of aliens , witches, monsters ...

I don't understand why Data said Picard will be "an excellent drone" in Star Trek: First Contact. Picard has already been assimilated, all his knowledge already absorbed by the collective, and he is not young at that moment; his body condition is definitely not in peak quality. If it is about his...

I'm trying to remember a novel I read in the late 80s or early 90s. I don't remember too many details. This is what I do remember: It involved a voyage through hyperspace. As part of this voyage they were transporting a large blue-ish cat-like creature, which may have been intelligent or telepat...

Here is a stumper. I would have seen this movie on TV sometime between 1977 and 1980. It was on our local PBS station late night. My brother and I were allowed to stay up and watch Monty Python, and he came on PBS at around 11:30. This was either on right after it or in place of it one evening. T...

Introduction In Star Trek, and many other science fiction series, computer programs are often used to translate the languages of -- sometimes -- never before encountered species. What reply can you offer to the following thought experiment, which purportedly would demonstrate that translating ali...

Book is about the lost gods and for most of the book you want the gods to come back. Along the way there are reptilian people who are trying to hell the gods return and you learn that the gods weren’t nice. In the end, the heroes lose and the gods return, cruelly using their power to suck the lif...

Just watched Total Recall for the first time in 20+ years, and I could have sworn that I remembered that the last of the long dead aliens appeared - but was completely wrong. I can't figure out which movie I conflated the ending with. I even have them on a dusty/rocky slope in my head. My wife th...

this has been bugging me for months so please help me. it’s about a little boy, who might be blonde i’m not sure. i think there’s a storage room that he goes into with a lot of shelves and then he can go into an imaginary world with his imaginary friends. in the end he almost gets stuck there bec...

Which characters have wielded atleast two infinity stones simultaneously in the MCU? Here is a list of all characters who have wielded the infinity stones (atleast one): Loki wielded the tesseract (space stone) and a sceptor (mind stone) given by Thanos Red Skull/Hydra wielded the tesseract (spa...

A few years ago (2-3) I’ve downloaded this book for free from Amazon on my kindle. It started with a girl breaking into a spaceship that was headed out on another planet (might have been earth) but the ship crashed killing the captain or someone important. The other men went out to patrol the are...

Hope you can help? I read this short story, possibly in a science fiction anthology from the 70's. Now I'm struggling to remember the author and the title of the story and I'd like to use it as reference as it is a great metaphor for immigration. What I remember is a story about the character bei...

I think it was an episode from The Outer Limits, or maybe The Twilight Zone. I think I watched it in the 90s, very likely in color. I had a look at the episode descriptions for The Outer Limits on Wikipedia but found no apparent match. What I seem to remember is that some guy's well-being affecte...

Actor Christopher Plummer died on February 5 2021 (BBC article). He is probably better known for non sci-fi roles, but General Chang was one of the most memorable Star Treak bad guys.

If we're still following the story-id duplicate policy, then this should not have been closed, tempting though it is. Neither the question nor the proposed duplicate has any answers, much less any accetped ones. Did something change recently? This other Meta question is similar, but in that insta...

In Pacific Rim (2013) the Kaijus share a hive (collective) mind, through a hive mind system, the Kaiju can communicate instantly. In Robotech (1985) The Invids re a hive-mind race that is driven by the need to take back what was stolen from them. In The Last Question (1956) by Isaac Asimov, Man m...

A scifi film, half community lived in the day other half lived at night, I think it was a love story. I think it was 2004 - 2010. I watched it at Grimmfest Manchester at their Halloween event.

Recently re-reading Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, which features the "Qeng Ho" - a society of sorts that travels around the galaxy in ramscoop starships trading with planetary civilizations, with no fixed home base. These folks combine the (TV tropes warning!) Space Nomad and (sort of) Pr...