One of the stories was about the aliens building an invisible structure and they play music that calls all the humans to it. The main character is pulled away from it and is angry even though he knows it's a garbage disposal. He's put into a prison with invisible furniture with a few other young ...

In the first season episode "The Naked Now", Tahsa Yar and Data have an (ahem) intimate moment. Although Tahsa expresses her desire to forget it at the end of that episode, other episodes refer to this special relationship between these characters ("Skin of Evil", "The Measure of a Man", "The Mo...

A book about a teenage boy named Bart or Burt. He and his little sister( maybe more than one sibling) and their parents recently moved into a new house. BART/Burt used to be a bookworm and nerd but I’d now a high school football star. Strange things start happening in his home and he finds out t...

In Ready Player One, two huge multinational conglomerates control the internet: GSS and IOI. But are any current-day tech companies still in existence? Do Google, Apple, Facebook, etc, still exist, or did IOI/GSS put them out of business?

I read a book in middle school set on the snake river, it was post-apocalyptic/post-cataclysm. The primary character escapes on a river barge, avoids danger, I think a cult and saves a young girl in the process.

Could you help me identify a DC comic I read in the early 1980's. I only read a few pages then but as far as I can remember this happen. Superman and another guy are facing a huge demonic creature that seems to be made of fire. They do not appear to be on Earth but in some other dimension. The s...

As I was a kid, I watched this one movie where I have forgotten most of it, I want to watch that movie again and I am asking for your help. Here's what I remember in as much detail as possible. A man thought to be dead after an aircraft accident that crashes his plane into the sea was found aliv...

I remember reading a series of short stories published in one of the main magazines in the late 70's or 80's. The stories were about a crashed colony, which had ended up on a planet with a lot of heavy metals, and were terraforming by using chimeras, formed by DNA recombining. The first story ref...

It's an old animated series from either the 70's or early to mid 80's. It was shown on our cable TV, but I cannot find it on the list of shows on TCC... I am sure the title character was named Blue, in addition to being blue and I remember a line from the title song as "Blue, the future lies (or...

How would you fine people think the home world of the quozl be based upon the physical appearance of the quozl? I know that their home world is dangerously overpopulated, other than that I’m at a loss on the conditions of it.

Yes, I know that full goblins work at Gringotts, but if, say, Professor Flitwick, who is part-goblin, hypothetically quit his job at Hogwarts and wanted to work at Gringotts, COULD he?

In the episode Captive Pursuit, Tosk is arrested for attempting to tamper with a weapons locker. When the Hunters arrive, they demand Tosk be released to them to conclude the hunt. After agreeing to, essentially, consider the Alpha Quadrant out of bounds for their hunt, Sisko agrees to return Tos...

Chindugo (I’m not sure of the spelling,sorry) is a Japanese term for a almost useless item(useful for a VERY specific use & useless for pretty much anything else) now my question is this: has a chindugo ever been used in movies or in a tv show?

Chindogu is the Chinese/Japanese unuseless gadget term( basically the chindogu is useful for one VERY specific use) almost useless for all other uses. Has any chindogu ever appeared in tv shows or movies for entertainment purposes? I put down the science fiction tag as I could not find another ta...

This has bothered me ever since I noticed it; the viewscreen in The Next Generation maintains depth perception even when viewed from an angle when, I would imagine, such an angle should start to warp the image (like with TVs in real life). I simply shrugged all this off as out-of-universe "mov...

I read this story in Russian in 1990s. It was a translated story. The name of the author escapes me, but I have a vague feeling it was some Anglophone or Hispanic name. The story is essentially about Earth (or possibly an Earth colony on another planet) being so scarce of resources that all kids ...

We know Gideroy Lockhart wrote the multi-volume "Magical Me." But there are other books as well that he wrote, including one about pests. What is the total number of books that Gilderoy Lockhart wrote, counting each book of Magical Me as a unique title?

In the comments to this question, there is a discussion whether Gilderoy Lockhart's "Magical Me" is a distinct work or merely the title of the full 10-or-so book collection. Which is correct?