In Star Wars, the Troopers aim is pretty garbage. Does anyone know why? I think it is because they can't really see in the suits. Then I think they don't want to kill the Rebels, and do it awfully on purpose. Does anyone know why?

Admirals in Star Trek tend to be middle-aged or elderly. Meanwhile, Kirk became a Captain in his early to mid 20's in the Kelvin-verse. I am trying to set a lower bound on the age at which one could reasonably be promoted to the rank of Admiral in Starfleet. Ideally, I would like to know the lowe...

Admirals in Star Trek tend to be middle-aged or elderly. Meanwhile, Kirk became a Captain in his early to mid 20's in the Kelvin-verse. I am trying to set a lower bound on the age at which one could reasonably be promoted to the rank of Admiral in Starfleet. Ideally, I would like to know the lowe...

spoilers for TCW, Rebels, and season 2 of The Mandalorian The history of the Darksaber is that it was passed down through Clan Vizsla for years until Maul won it from Pre Vizsla in a duel. This made him the rightful heir, and it granted him the loyalty of the Mandalorians for a time. However, M...

THE LOKI SERIES Have you seen those three heads on that wall? This is the living tribunal! Many MCU fans believe this, I wanna hear from other people, do you agree?

Active question: Who is the youngest Starfleet Admiral? Unintended duplicate post, now deleted: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243734/12857 I typed out my question and clicked the button to post it. The page scrolled to the top and I got the "Our automated system checked for ways to improve yo...

A world where when you turn a certain age you get a number on your hand and if your a zero your killed and the main character has a friend who gives him a lucky hat and he can do magic.

After Nedry shut down the fences and security systems of the park, stole the embryos and fled, it looks like John Hammond, Ray Arnolds, Muldoon and the tourists are the only people left on Isla Nublar. Where have all the other staff gone? E.g. the jeep driver who took Ellie back to the visitor ce...

Tolkien is often cited as the father of modern day fantasy in his lord of the rings books he popularized a lot of what is in most modern day fantasy books, Elves, dwarfs, Dragons, orks, magical swords, a quest etc etc. You could also make the argument that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson further refi...

I saw a movie when I younger. Kind of like Night of the Creeps, Slither, and The Hidden. It had a monster/alien that looked like an Antlion that crawled down your throat. It may have been a 70's or 80's movie.

I'm looking for a sci-fi book that I've read long ago and it's plot was like: The interplanetary Empire is ruled by some smart 'scientists' - people who write some kind of a code. They predicted that some hard times are coming and they might last for 10000 (ten thousand) years. One of them (or sm...

Supergirl (2015) 03x13 "Both Sides Now" Supergirl (2015) 03x09 "Reign"

The Patriot Act was passed after 9/11. Project Insight is the program for wiping threats off of the face of the earth. If you need to know about the Patriot Act, you can probably find it on google. The patriot act is legislation. Project Insight is in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

What do you do, when you run across a fen who's never read "Stand on Zanzibar"? I mean, yes, not everybody's read everything, and SOZ came out 60+ years ago, but still...

In Avengers Infinity War, after Thanos apparently escapes Thor's hammer by clicking his finger - why does Thanos end up inside the Soulstone? What exactly does the Soulstone moment mean? Is it that Thanos was effectively killed (sacrificed) and so found himself temporarily inside the Soulstone?

Trying to track down this short story about a father who dies but comes back to life as a robotic version of himself. There was this traveling salesman who sold the household on this process whereby the deceased person's mind was implanted into a lookalike robot. The robotic dad is delivered to t...

From what I recalled, it’s mainly about a girl whose father was murdered due to him being framed I believe and the girl was forced to move somewhere else for her safety. I don’t remember what happens after that but I do remember there was a focus on a cave where supposedly something lurks and was...