According to Memory Alpha, Geordi LaForge was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. However, his parents (Silva and Edward LaForge) don't have Somali names (and Geordi isn't very Somali), Geordi culturally seems very American rather than Somali (unless you count his love of Italian food as related to the ...

I remember very few details about the book. I read it in the 1990s. I remember it had a young girl who lives in a clan, maybe? There was something to do with the moon. I think they had advanced technology. I have a vivid memory of the girl talking about how she learned to clip her nails in a stra...

[SPOILER WARNING!] So, in the events of Multiverse of Madness, all the characters seem to be very aware of the Multiverse's existence, as if it were common knowledge. However, the MCU made no mention of it until the TVA in Loki. So my question is:

I understand and love the overall story, numerous scenes and situations, the characters, dialogue, etc. However, I find it extremely difficult to follow the author's descriptions of new areas. I'll admit that English is not my first language, but I've also read the books multiple times in the pas...

From what I remember the story focuses on a young male protagonist who lives in a community of humans far beneath the surface of the earth. Maybe as part of becoming an adult, or maybe just because it's "cool", he goes on a solitary journey up the levels of their subterranean complex into uninhab...

I read this book some time ago - the hero is asked to carry out some task on a hostile planet and used a suit that is like a self contained spaceship. The suit supposedly is proof against all hazards but the planet manages to wreck all its mechanisms so the hero must manage without it

In this manga the mc dies in the final battle is sent back in time to redo the fight but with his conscious intact. He works in a mine and spends all his money on health potions becomes broke and in debt or something like that. He then figures out it was non other that the demon lord that request...

I am wondering if the velociraptor name is legit, or was made up only for the movie.

When I was younger I remember reading a book series from the 70s or 80’s. The basic premise was that a colony ship crashed on an alien planet and lost contact with earth. The book series follows with how this crew develops into a civilisation that spans Millenia. The final book book has them reco...

I guess this question belongs to this section as it is a science fiction, but please vote to close this if it doesn't. In the series Scorpion, they were trying to download a copy of the software from what's left behind on a plane, and from what I understood, the reason they were doing this was be...

Another anthology short story I read in the mid 70s-80s. This is set on a planet which is covered with large hostile plants. The air is thick with moulds and spores so humans working there have to wear protective suits with air filters. If, for some reason, their helmet gets broken or suit ripped...

Why is he so shocked to see the doc has a “striker” tattoo, when the prisoner knows it’s not his arm, but an implant from someone else?

In Monsters University (near the beginning) we are quickly shown an image of a test or quiz taken by Sulley. In the low quality version I watched, I can make out comments like "Zombie Sharks!?" Are the actual test questions on the quiz readable, and if yes, what are they?

I’m dying to find this one book I read in like 2011 or something. I barely remember much but I think it was a guy who went through a mirror in an abandoned house or something? And he enters a different world. I think he gets sick or something or isn’t accustomed to the world and he’s slowly turni...

Just looking at the medieval theme of the universe makes me wonder if this setting takes place 40k years in the past instead future. Maybe a story about a pre flood civilization? What do guys think? I know it's a ridiculous question, but I find the thought fascinating.

I’m looking for a collection of young adult science fiction short stories. I read it in the 90s. The cover had a very vintage pulp look to it. It depicted a starship caught in a web, with a planet in the background with glowing eyes and spider legs coming out of it. I think there was also a purpl...

I am pretty sure the author was called Adam Douglas (not Douglas Adams). Although I may be wrong. There was a hairy mammal type character that was on the good guys side. Laser whips were in use throughout the book. I also seem to remember some sort of terminator line (possibly of fire) approachin...

I do not have all the Dragons of Pern books by Anne McCaffery or her children (I think they're her children). What I do have are these: The original three Dragonrider books, the Harper Hall of Pern series, and All the Weyrs of Pern. Here's my problem: The White Dragon closes with our intrepid Per...

I have looked and looked on Google images, eBay, Amazon, Star Trek shop, Memory Alpha... There are no references whatsoever to this badge design yet I obtained this commercially available example 20+ years ago. Which series or stories is it from? What does the symbol mean?