In The Gods Themselves, the second part deals with what are (metaphorically, at least) the gods referenced in the title. These are the soft ones and the hard ones. The soft ones have a quite unusual biological nature, with three sexes and an extremely, strikingly unusual life cycle. What is mo...

I am trying to remember the name of a young adult (possibly children) sci-fi book. The story has one main protagonist who is a young teen boy and it turns out he and his family are actually aliens. The boy did not know this and he is beginning a transformation. There is also a secret community...

I don't remember the features of the protagonist only that he is a boy. He has two enemies (as far as I remember) turned allies. The first ally has a bracelet that looks like a cylinder of a revolver which he uses to attack (it flies and he can control it) he also has a red scarf and for some rea...

During the rebel briefing on Home One before the attack on the second Death Star, Solo is asked if his strike team is assembled for the Tydirium shuttle and he seems somewhat confused that he is called a General (and so is Leia sitting next to him). Also there is a short conversation with Han and...

In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren is able to successfully retrieve the information from Poe Dameron that he was looking for during interrogation. It at first appears that Kylo's using the force to torture Poe Dameron and as Poe screams the scene changes. What's not totally clear is whether Kylo to...

I just bought the 2 DVD set for the Children of Dune (TV Mini-Series) that includes 3 episodes. What are the key things to watch out for or to pay attention to when watching the series?

Why are there honeybees in Blade Runner 2049? Joe / Officer-K sets out to find Rick Deckard in what's left of Las Vegas. The city was abandoned after a radioactive bomb attack. When he walks through the city, he finds several beehives. A bee lands on his hand. He then walks past the hives into t...

I don't remember the name of the main character only that she is a black woman and is a prisoner on a spaceship. There is a mutiny on the ship and she becomes captain after the captain becomes ill.

In 12 monkeys s01e12-Paradox, Cole injects himself with DNA from his younger self. The injection is accompanied with a massive explosion destroying everything around. Cole, (already weak at this point), manages to survive (being at the epicenter of the explosion). What enables him to survive this?

The more I look at the list of qualities associated with the Slug Club the more I think that Harry's parents - and probably some of their friends - must have been part of it. [Slughorn] also likes the company of the famous, the successful and the powerful. He enjoys the feeling that he influe...

In Supergirl, there are White Martians and Green Martians. The majority of White Martians perpetrated a genocide of all but a handful of Green Martians. The only remaining Green Martians, of course, are That said, there are still decently many White Martians left on Mars. My initial impression...

Was Rue the real Mockingjay? In the first book, Rue is a friend of Katniss, which is like a rebel's act because districts never united with each other. Rue's death happened because of a spear shot directly through her stomach. And then Katniss sang a song until Rue finally reached her last breat...

Dementors don't choose their victim. The only spell that is effective in repulsing a dementor is the Patronus Charm. Wizards can kill each other just by simply casting the death curse. As for the dementors, the only defense is the Patronus Charm. Wouldn't it be better to finish them off?

In Star Trek Discovery S1:E04 The Butchers Knife Cares Not For The Lambs Cry, we see L'Rell tell Voq: You will need to sacrifice everything. Then there is a reference to the matriarchs of House Mokai. My question is: What does L'Rell mean when she tells Voq he will need to sacrifice "ever...

The show Rick and Morty has seen a couple of different title sequences throughout its three season (so far) run: Which of these scenes are from actual episodes? They do not need to be actual copies, just depictions of the same scene. They may be from after cred...

I watched this a few years ago, maybe in 2014 or so, on a DVD I got from the library (I plan to comb through my history there, but I checkout a lot of material from the library, so it's tricky). The main protagonist is a male writer, I think maybe a poet, whose wife died prior to the start of the...

I was reading this story-id request and it reminded me of story I read somewhere in the mid 90s to the early 2000s in an anthology. A scientist finds a way to explode the iron in the Earth's crust. I want to say that it was something like a Fission bomb, but with iron rather than Uranium. At the ...

After Babylon 5 drove away the Shadows and Vorlons, Garibaldi resigned from his job because he was unhappy with Sheridan. Unlike Star Trek, money still matters quite a bit in Babylon 5. Like any human on Earth today, a person needs to have lots of money to show the middle finger to his boss and...

I apologize if the question is improper. In case, feel absolutely free to manage this post as necessary. I am currently trying to complete my Star Wars DVD Collection. I enjoyed very much the 2-Discs editions of the New Trilogy, released in 1999, 2002 and 2005. In fact, I am actually nearly more ...

The photos below were released on the now defunct www.theroadtohogwarts.com website. It seems likely that these were taken at much the same time as the principal filming for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with the topmost being a slightly enlarged (and static) version the one that Slugh...

I've looked for an answer to this but couldn't find one. The question pretty much says it all. The Wraith have ships with sensors, once they found one of the gates in the gate bridge couldn't they just scan for the next one. Essentially following the gates to get to the Milky Way galaxy. I've ...

I've had this question in my head for quite a time and couldn't find an answer to it anywhere. In the Harry-potter universe there are wizards and muggles, and of course half-bloods. Surely we can agree that wizards didn't much like nor were interested in muggle technology, maybe except for a few...

We see that the phrase "We all float (down here)" several times throughout the novel, coming either from Pennywise or from the dead kids. The first time we come across this phrase is when George asks Pennywise if the balloon floats to which he responds with something along the lines of "The ba...

I would like to remember the name of a story, which I believe was possibly a young-adult novel. The main (female) character (1st-person narration?) has some bizarre, new-age-sounding name, possibly "India Ink" (totally un-Google-able, possibly a surname, with a normal-ish first name). One day, ...

We see in The Half Blood Prince that Horace Slughorn boasts of having the best among the Hogwarts students in his Slug Club through the years. Is there any instance of anyone declining (or trying to decline) the invitation to join the club? (Inspired by this comment)

When I read the Harry Potter books, I never put two and two together to realize that Dumbledore and Grindelwald had anything more than a platonic relationship. It was many years later when JKR said something about it in an interview (one which came out sometime after the Fantastic Beasts movie) t...

Across all the books, it's clear that the foxhead medallion protects against saidar, but what about saidin? Consider: In Winter's Heart, and in A Memory of Light, However, in Fires of Heaven, we see that Is there any indication on how this is resolved? My best guess is that but I'm ...

Throughout the series, the Defense Against the Dark Arts position at Hogwarts seems to be "cursed" with no one teacher lasting more than a year. We later come to know that Voldemort had "jinxed" the position at the school because he wanted the job and Dumbledore refused to give it to him. If Dumb...

In Justice League: War, we see Cyborg's origin and he immediately joins the Justice League. However, he is quite young. In certain comics, Cyborg is known as a founding member of the Teen Titans. My question is - does Cyborg leave the Justice League and join the Teen Titans? Is he an active membe...

I've read online that a prequel comic attempts to retcon the two different Sabretooths in the Fox movie franchise, explaining that However, I don't recall any scenes where the big blonde Sabretooth was referred to as Victor Creed. If that's the case, this would seem to leave open the possibil...

I have no clue whatsoever whether I read the story somewhere or saw it on television or whatever. During the whole story, there's a character that lives near the ocean. He (or she, but in my memory it's an old man) is building a seemingly unstable wooden bridge, starting from the beach into the ...

There are two total characters. A man and a woman. The man is on a separate ship, and had left 500-1,000 years before to head to a certain planet. He arrives in orbit and sends a myriad of seeds to the surface. Eventually he goes down and works to fill the planet with animals, and he mines and p...

I have been trying to find this book for years to share with my kids. It was young adult sci-fi. The cover had a boy falling and a silver orb floating next to him. The story is about a kid who gets pulled out of his reality right as a car accident happens, and I believe that they replaced him or...

We loosely remember some things about the movie. But it's based on memories so we may be wrong. It was about some scientists that were sent on a distant planet to kind of rescue some other scientists that already have been there some time. Their job was to find a spot to colonize the planet. We t...

In the prime Star Trek timeline, the USS Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant because Both proved to be a massive advantage over the Borg, but chronologically-speaking, the film "Star Trek: Nemesis" is the last we see of Federation technology and/or vessels. I haven't played Star Trek Online...

The IMDB page has in its trivia that the movie was set in Detroit. I don't remember seeing that in the comic books. Is there someplace in the comics that mentions where it happens?