On Tuesday, 09-28-2021, about 10 or 11 pm EDT, I thought of a plot problem in the classic story "The Lotus Eaters'. In Stanley G. Weinbaum's story "Parasite Planet" the dangers encountered by Hamilton "Ham" Hammond and Patricia Burlingame on the planet venus include attacks by the semi-intelligen...

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So the magician is either avoiding the capital or is being hunted by them. He is all alone, lives by himself in a log cabin. It might be an isekai or he is a very talented magician, huge magic circles. I'm pretty sure he uses a gigantic one to destroy an army or to purify a lake. I remember very ...

Did the Prophets have a backup Emissary if Sisko died or something unforeseen happened? Is their any mention of more than one Emissary?

I remember playing the games when I was younger, they were educational, and obviously contained no violence. When you encountered a villain, you were quickly teleported away. In Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? I don't remember the characters having that ability. They did however get into dange...

Can the Q create other universes? In VOY: Death Wish: He did this by taking Janeway to the Q Continuum, which was presented in the Human-comprehensible form of a house in the middle of a desert with a road running by it. The road, he told her, represented the universe's edge and there was nothin...

Why would the prophets choose a Human to be an Emissary for them? Won't it have been easier to choose a Bajoran? Someone they could relate to?

I've seen Enterprise many times, and it only now occurred to me that Archer never encountered Q or a member of the Q Continuum. If you believe Trelane is part of the Q Continuum, then it would seem every captain until Sisko encountered Q or a member of the Q Continuum. As I remember, I don't thin...

Author William Gibson is often credited with creating the cyberpunk genre characterized by a dystopian future and a technology heavy society. He receives this distinction primarily due to popularity of two of his works Johnny Mnemonic published in 1981 (one year prior to Blade Runner being releas...

In ENT: Regeneration, the crew of the Enterprise encounter the Borg (although it's never mentioned they're the Borg). Archer asks Phlox if he has a treatment: PHLOX: Better than I anticipated. The nanoprobes seem to be having trouble with my immune system. But they're persistent little fellows. ...

In S1E7, What If... Thor Were an Only Child?, Loki appears as a regular-size (i.e. large) Frost Giant. The difference in this reality is shown to be Odin returning the infant Loki instead of keeping him. However, Odin only found Loki because he had been abandoned for being a runt. So why does he ...

Cordwainer Smith's stories about chimeras (see Definition 4 in this link) , i.e., people who were part human and part animal seemed the farthest-out of far-out science fiction when they were first published -- at least to me. I could wave my arms, suspend disbelief and accept faster-than-light-d...

In the episode 8 of What if... ? we see I know that in the comics But I would like to know if there is a similar situation in the comics, My question is : Would it be breaking the vow if The Watcher did something ? I might actually be misunderstanding the Sorry for all the spoilers blocks I ...

Could you explain what are those lights passing on 10s mark?

In TNG "chain of command" part 1, when Picard transfers command of the Enterprise to Jellicoe, he reads the order and states that he is requested and required to give up command. Why the "requested" part? If he's required to do it that seems like it's unnecessary. Is it possible to be required bu...

Has anyone ever counted, by checking all the episodes, how many extras of the crew have shown up on screen to see if it exceeds the 150 crew Voyager is supposed to have?

Professor Brand reveals only to Murph (on his deathbed) that Plan A, solving the equation was 'impossible'. I am struggling to reconcile; A) How Murph knows that it is quantum data needed to solve the equation. B) How Cooper knows that in order to save humanity, he must send the quantum data to M...