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Was Tuvok bluffing when he said that Voyager's transporters rendered the Kazon weapons useless?

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Why did this happen to Thanos's ships at the end of “Avengers: Endgame”?

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What is the prop for Thor's hammer (Mjölnir) made of?

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90s(?) book series about two people transported to a parallel medieval world, she joins city watch, he becomes wizard

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A man in the desert is bitten by a skeletal animal, its skull gets stuck on his arm

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Sword-and-sorcery flick from the 80s with a magic scarf that saves the hero's life

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Did they show Truman doing private things (toilet, etc) when filming him for 24 hours, 7 days a week?

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Have any Chaos Forces ever turned?

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When was the first time Batman disappeared at the end of a conversation?

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In the movie Krull, what happened in the Spider Den?

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Ghost house where the house only appeared once a year for it was the ghost

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What happened in “Ring-a-Ding Girl” for the outcome to turn out the way it did?

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Fantasy trilogy from the 90s where guy starts out as the only person dragons are afraid of, and by the third book he turns into a dragon

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What is the first work of science fiction to take place during or after the most drastic effects of unintended human-caused climate change from CO₂?

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What exactly caused Data to get angry in “Descent” before the emotion chip?

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Are Pokémon like Throh and Sawk wearing clothes, or is it part of their physical bodies?

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Why couldn't Teela Brown make the same calculation that Louis Wu and Chmeee did?

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Why didn't the Discovery crew warn Starfleet about the Defiant?

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Were the Romulans intended as comic relief on “TNG”?

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What exactly was the Borg's intention when finally capturing the ship at the end of “Q Who”?

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Why did the Jedi not know Anakin Skywalker had a secret marriage?

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In The Expanse (TV), why was Thoth Station so poorly guarded?

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Why was Jacob still hanging onto the bucket?

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How much screen time does Yoda have?

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What would have been the Borg's plan for earth if the writers had not changed the Borg into assimilators? [on hold]

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Were Hecate and Miss Cackle's personalities based on the books?

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Who was Lord Commander of the Night's Watch at the end of the show?

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Itinerant doctor foils a would-be emperor's plans to commandeer old space technology to weaponize space

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Why are these Doctor Who regenerations the same in (classic) Who?

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In the Stargate series is there any indication whether the 7th symbol of an 8 symbol address is always the same?

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Why do they not start the search the same day?

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Were the Sphinx's riddles intentionally easy?

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Fantasy quest novel where the music magic hero doesn't get the girl

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Why does Irulan have this change of heart at the end of Dune Messiah?

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Did any of the Doctor's assistants ever need psychological counselling?

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In the “Fate” anime series, why is “hougu” translated as “Noble Phantasm”?

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