For maybe the first time, I'm more interested in a real-world answer, not an in-universe one. In-universe, all that can really be said is that those "godlike" beings do exist, and Kirk and company crossed paths with them quite often. Out of universe, was this a favorite "angle" of Gene Roddenber...

After the Colonial Marines landed on the planet and determined the control building was "secure", most of the marines moved into the control building. The pilot, Corporal Colette Ferro, and her assistant, Private Spunkmeyer, remained behind on the dropship. They stayed on the dropship even after...

I couple years ago my friend let me play a game on his Nintendo DS and I remember playing a man with a sword running around in a misty maze of trenches that lead into open arenas where you fight wolves. I also remember using some kind of spells by using the stylus to trace symbols. I cannot remem...

In a footnote in the beginning of Richard Adam's novel, Watership Down, he makes this statement: "Rabbits can count up to four. Any number above four is hrair “a lot.” or “a thousand.” Thus they say U Hrair-“the thousand’- to mean, collectively, all the enemies (or elil, as they call them) of ra...

In real live plasmas give off some odor. The closest to a reference I find is this. But one can easily check for himself. It's mostly ozone what one smells (smell of thunderstorms). So I was wondering as lightsabers are kind of plasma and we sometimes see even flashes between blades - do lights...

Why did Tiger Lily lie to Peter about his mother? I know she claimed it was to keep him on his destined path but surely if it's his destiny he will end up doing what he was meant to anyway. If it was me and I found out she lied I would tell her where to stick it.

In Deathly Hallows they traveled every day to a different place, for months, all over England. How could they know so many places? Or does apparition work even when you don't know the place you are going? And it's not that they traveled some miles near the previous place: The weather grew colder...

I'm trying to recall the title and author of a short novel which centered on a question of identity: A man has been returned from the other side (e.g., to the U.S. by Soviets back in the day, that kind of thing) with a prostethic skull and hands. The people he's come back to aren't convinced it's...

Title says it all. For those who do not know: The Mandela effect is the pseudoscientific belief that some differences between one's memories and the real world are caused by changes to past events in the timeline. Many Mandela effect believers believe it is caused by accidental travel between al...

In the books, apparition is described as a process when you disappear in one place and immediately reappear in another. In Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them movie, it is displayed as a very fast flight (like hyperspace travel in Star Wars), but still a process that takes time. Is there any ...

Okay, here is another question for you wonderful people. I remember a show where a man dies and wakes up on a beach with a bunch of other people. They are all from different periods in time, with one of them being a caveman. All of these people try to build a society but of course conflict ensue...

...instead of killing them right away? I mean, they tatoo people's wrists so that they can be scanned, and gather them in concentration camps, etc. This happens in Genisys and in Terminator Salvation, at least. It's acceptable that the terminators always waste a lot of time when attacking, but...

We all know that a Klingon, facing battle, says Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam, translated as "Today is a good day to die." As non-Klingons, we can imagine saying something similar as a joke or in resignation if we are faced with an unpleasant but not life-threatening task. For example: Time to vis...

In the BTTF universe, we know what is needed for time travel. A flux capacitor, 1.21 gigawatts and a travel speed of 88 miles per hour (I know there are more requirements than that but I do not want to get bogged down by tiny details). If any one of these three things is absent, per the story's l...

I have been trying to remember a movie I watched many years ago, it had memory extraction, people would get money (I think) to have a chip implanted that would record their experience for a time, afterwards people would come and extract the device, killing them, and others could live these people...

The novel (I think it was a trilogy) had to do with a country where there is an unnamed god who takes on human incarnations. I think the newest incarnation had to be taken away from his family in secret. Anyway, there were people trying to kill the new god, and a group of people traveled with him...

In Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides, there's a scene where Captain Barbossa and Jack Sparrow are in a ship looking for two silver chalices. Upon finding that the Spanish have taken the chalices, they consult a map that a skeleton on a bed is holding. However, as Jack attempts to tak...

The name of the short story was/is "Sanity". It was about a post-apocalyptic town where everyone was going clinically insane; except one guy who was made the "mayor". During a council meeting, he expresses all these very "sane" ideas to get the town back on its feet only to find the town council...