I once studied at a cyclotron laboratory (mid 1980's) and an already-old comic book circulated amongst the students with a cover showing "Superman vs. the Cyclotronic Man". I think that the Cyclotronic man was vanquished at the end of the comic book via something that stops normal cyclotrons as w...

The Enterprise is very often to be found in dangerous situations, with casualties reported on, say, Deck 10 and fatalities resulting from attacks by enemy ships. Is there any reference, in any episodes or EU material, as to how often, if ever, the civilian children on board the Enterprise were nu...

The movie is about a set of characters who I think go to a haunted monastery of some kind. They are also tortured killed off by an insane, red-headed doctor with scars on his face. I think the doctor himself may or may not be some kind of spirit, but one of the characters has some repressed traum...

The appearance and behavior of the fluids in both movies are sort of similar. Not only are both fluids sort of versatile (in D9, it is a fuel and mutagen and in Prometheus, a weapon and a mutagen, sort of). I could see Ridley Scott being inspired by D9 subconsciously -- I don't think there is any...

Maxwell Lord visits Egypt to buy oil wells from Emir. In this segment, we see the wall raise suddenly in Egypt: Why did the wall raise suddenly in Egypt?

Here's the Scenario for how the Long Nights Go in this setting divergence: The Long Night Happens during a Winter never a summer The Long Night Happens on regular or semi-predictable intervals During the Long Night(s) the Others or White Walkers would resurrect dead creatures and humans on the N...

I read quite a few chapters so I can be very specific, still, I can't for the life of me find this story and I'd really like to finish it. It was amazing! Although somehow very unknown. The whole story is available as a series of webpages. White site. Thin blocks of text centered. Every page star...

As the question states we hear that Sauron fell during The War of the Last Alliance where men and Elves united to take down Sauron and his forces. But what about the Dwarves of Middle-earth? What did they do during the time that lead up to the war of the Last Alliance (from the forging of the Rin...

Both the Maia Sauron and Saruman served under the Valar Aulë. And both eventually became corrupted, and turned to evil. Where there any particular thing about the nature and values of Aulë that could have caused this. I know Aulë likes order in things and taken to the extreme this could lead to s...

Was Scotty directly responsible for the Klingons eradicating the Tribbles on their home world, due to his actions of transporting them to the Klingon battle cruiser?

In the episode First Contact, the Enterprise is in orbit around the planet Malcor III, a pre-warp society that is planning to launch their first warp-capable vessel in a year. The implication behind this would seem to be that the Malcorian are capable of launching objects into their own orbit and...

I'm trying to identify a book I half-remember. The plot revolves around a PI in early 20th century Paris, who is also a jazz musician, and I believe not very successful at either. He meets a woman (presumably she comes to him with a case?), things escalate REALLY QUICKLY, and by the end of the bo...

In Tolkien's Middle-earth, Men and Hobbits lived together amicably at Bree, but I recollect no suggestion in The Lord of the Rings that the Big and Little People ever intermarried despite sharing a common culture. Elves and Men, who Tolkien considered to be more different from each other than Hob...

In light of later episodes and Picard, I am confused as to whether the effect of the ruling of the hearing in the TNG episode "Measure of a Man" was strictly confined inter partes or if it had any precedential (or, if the Federation is more civil law, res judicata) effect or binding force on othe...

Merlin shows Ghostwheel to Random, talks to Ghostwheel, hears it and then goes out on a way to shut it down, thinking about Ghostwheel. At that time Ghostwheel warns Merlin to go back, again with the same voice. So how is that happened that Merlin does not recognize voice of Ghostwheel (again, hi...

Are there any explanations ever given why the stewards of Gondor never tried to claim the throne officially? It was nearly 1000 years after Eärnur died before Aragorn eventually claimed the throne. I understand that the stewards were basically the kings and were set up to rule forever continually...

This may have been a Twilight Zone episode or similar though I am less certain if it was a written story. Remember seeing/reading it when I was much younger (+20 years ago) but recall it may have been much older. I'm fairly certain it was a black and white anthology tv show — very similar shootin...

A human ship crash lands on a planet that is inhabited by bee-like humanoids that have six fingers. A man from the ship is found by a wandering junior queen and is mistaken for a drone. When he doesn't die after sex she decides to keep him.

Going through filmography of Matt Damon, I found that he acted in Thor: Ragnarok. When I couldn't recall him from my memory of Thor: Ragnarok, I googled. But, his role is nowhere to be found. What role did Matt Damon play in Thor: Ragnarok?

In Star Trek: Generations, Picard Why doesn't he exit the Nexus further back and prevent the events from ever taking place at all?