With current information available about the Time War, how did the Time Lords end up losing the Time War? What where the reason or reasons behind the Time Lords losing the Time War so badly, that in the end Galifrey was being besieged by the Daleks to such a degree, that it would seem that only t...

I ask because he is the King of Pride Rock. But I do not know if Simba is a monarch, or a dictator, or a tribal chief, or two of the three, or all of the three. Also, I do not know if it would be more appropriate to call Simba authoritarian or statist. However, I think monarchs can only be consid...

Any thoughts on the white prison in THX1138, which seemed in the middle of nowhere? In their escape from the "prison" there was a long walk, so much so that they brought extra food rations. How big might it have been?

This American short story, from its content, probably dates from the late 1960s/early 1970s. I can't remember if is was in a magazine or an anthology, but it was probably in a magazine of the time. The MC has been sent (by teleportation?) to a prison (can't remember if it was on Earth or another ...

Near the beginning of A Mad Tea-Party, the Hatter suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, states “Your hair wants cutting,” which words Alice takes as a personal insult. This was the Hatter’s first speech in Wonderland (the words “No Room! No Room!” don’t seem to count). This seems to have been ...

Maybe 20 or 30 years ago I read a short story recounting a futuristic raid (I suspect on another planet) on an enemy settlement by (I think) a handful of soldiers. I think that they more or less run through a forest or jungle, too quickly and expertly to be intercepted. I don't recall exactly w...

This is what I remember of this manga it first starts out talking about how there are mercenaries in the world and depending on how powerful they are is what rank they have. The mc is in a school to become a mercenaries and is ranked relatively low in the school however it turns out he is one of ...

On page three, panel four (first panel of second row), in the second part of The Dream of a Lifetime, English original, Donald shouts toward Bombie the Zombie, but addressing Scrooge: HALP! HE'S COMING FOR ME! HE'LL GET ME AGAIN! Emphasis as it appears in the comic. Absolute page number in The ...

The haiku I'm looking for is probably of an anonymous author. I got a hint on a Japanese message board that it's maybe Musashi's one and I should find it in Eiji Yoshikawa's famous novel, but it's not there. I have only the Russian translation of the haiku. In English it's like this: Chain wrapp...

I remember reading this book about 15-20 years ago but for the life of my I cannot remember its name and only patches of what the book was about. I weirdly had a dream about it the other day and have been racking my brain trying to find the book! Classic 1980/90's sword and sorcery book. There...

So I was thinking one day that if eat meat or something like that when you are in the Matrix or a program similar, then would you still be vegetarian/vegan?

Please I want information on designing this the Emperor's chair is Emperor's chair isthrone Emperor Palpatine is seen sitting on in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi? There is information available abou...

Why was Lucius Malfoy against Harry Potter or against mud-blood and ‘liberals’. I mean how was he pure? His ancestors, his hate for Lilly and James. And why did he let Longbottoms live?

I'm re-reading Starship Troopers, and I'm wondering about the Mobile Infantry's TOE. From what I've read, so far, there are 50+ in a platoon, two sections with three squads each. Do we learn any more about the organization? About higher echelons?

I'm talking about the show WandaVision. Spoilers ahead.... We get to know that Vision living with Wanda is actually created by Wanda herself. She was in grief and that caused uncontrolled power surge which created the new Vision. What about the soul stone! Is it a real soul stone? In episode 9, V...

WandaVision S01E09 Finale Spoilers ahead.... When Wanda's brother first got into the scene, most of us thought that this Pietro is from another universe. He has the same power as actual Pietro AKA Quicksilver. Later, we came to know that this is not Wanda's brother and this Pietro is controller ...

Has there ever been an in-universe explanation of why the phasers on the Defiant are powered by power cells and not by drawing power from the power grid? With the ship being overpowered then surely there must be more than enough power available to power the phasers

I am looking for a 19th century short story. I thought it was written by Guy de Maupassant, but didn't find it. A French country priest starts having vivid dreams that he is a diabolical courtier in hell. The dreams become ever more intense and elaborated. The last line is something like: "One ni...