It was established in official canon that lightsaber blades are NOT made of light and are instead plasma contained in a strong magnetic field. This is actually possible to do in real life and therefore it is plausible. However, because of this; a lightsaber when it cuts off a limb or makes contac...

"The Prince of Roum gave me more pleasure than anyone else, but he was cruel." Teratogenic heralds bellowed "make way for the Prince of Roum!"

A year ago, I read a manhwa but can't remember the name. It was about a saintess, except no one knew she was the saintess as there was a fake saintess. I remember that the saintess had disciples that had to physically obey her every command. I think they were referred to as stars, maybe? I also t...

So I remember this movie from 2010-2019ish, and iirc the main character was a woman who was alone on a spaceship with an AI. I’m pretty sure the big reveal was that the whole movie was some big test or simulation to see how well she could save humanity (there was a time limit?) and at the very en...

At the end of the TNG episode "Conspiracy" it is found that parasitic aliens are taking over Starfleet Command. Dr. Crusher finds that Admiral Quinn is infected with a parasite. PICARD: Never mind the details. Can you remove it? CRUSHER [OC]: I don't think so.> [Sickbay] CRUSHER: Not without kil...

I forgot the name of this manhwa I was reading. It starts off with a little girl meeting a man (some kind of priest or something) who was brought by her parents to help her since she would never smile and didn't act like a child or something. The girl then scares the guy off by telling him that s...

It involves a woman on a farm after world war two. She has two farmhands, one a former Nazi, the other a former allied soldier. Also there's the proverbial macguffin, providing the "science" of the story. Most likely it would have been from a short story collection of one particular writer, rathe...

I'm trying to find the origin of a scene, possibly at the end, or at a climax of some sort, where an apocalyptic event unfolds and in a nightmarish scene, the camera points to the sky, and rising is a (probably unconvincing now) burning devil shape. I suppose the shape is like a devil emoji, but ...

I remember, when I was very young in the 1960s, reading an already-tattered book called (I think) "C-for-Charlie". The plot was about a boy who discovered a Gremlin -- C-for-Charlie -- who used to fly on aircraft in the war, but was now out-of-work. C-for-Charlie offered the boy three wishes, bu...

I read this short story about 20 years ago, in a collection that was possibly much older. Some sickness has almost destroyed mankind and the survivors are sterile, and in the rare cases they can have children, the latter will also be very sick. On the other hand, a planet similar to Earth has bee...

The adjective of the planet Mars is Martian (note the s changes to a t). This is part of common knowledge, and it is in use in the Expanse novels. The adjective of the planet Jupiter is Jovian (the exclamation "By Jove!" might be a more known example of this declination quirk). This is nowhere ne...

I just finished re-reading God Emperor of Dune and the final bit where Leto II is setting up his marriage ceremony seems awfully silly and careless when considered at the surface level: Tuono Village was a location poorly suited for the marriage ceremony in multiple ways He changed the location ...

Black-and-white, early 1960s or late 50s. Old box TV on 4-legged wire stand moves by itself. It was rolling down the street and people were hiding.