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Novel where people kill duplicates of themselves on a spacecraft to trick an enemy
In the early 1980s I read a science fiction book involving a colony ship, where the hundreds of passengers (and perhaps all crew as well) were in deep sleep for a long voyage lasting hundreds of years....
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Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that talks about life and death
I am trying to find the name of the episode where the Enterprise intercepted a dead person in a package that looked like a cocoon, being sent from a planet to its moon. I can not remember how, but it ...
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Manhwa where the (female) main character can see how and when someone will die
So the story begins when the main character was little and had an accident that made her lose her memory. Afterwards, she realized that she could see how people would die and what causes them to die.
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Which Punisher live-action incarnation used an AT4 anti-tank weapon as referenced in "Deadpool & Wolverine"?
In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), Deadpool mentions that there have been "like five" Punishers. This occurs during a scene where Gambit hands an AT4 anti-tank weapon to Blade, which ...
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Manhwa/manhua where a fox/demon bothers and stays with the male lead
As this is my first question I have tried to search it on Google and the site but didn't find it. It is a fully colored and the characters are described below (to the best of my memory). Also, the ...
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How did people know that the war against the mimics was over?
During the majority of the Edge of Tomorrow, Cage resets to about 24 hours prior to his killing of an Alpha - which occurred in the middle/afternoon of the day of Earth's offensive attack. This means ...
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Audio series (filmstrip?) about kids lost in the past with dinosaurs
This was a series of audio adventures we listened to in elementary school somewhen between 20 and 25 years ago, but I'm pretty sure they were quite a bit older than that. I think they may have been ...
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Was Willy Wonka correct when he accused Charlie of stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks?
In the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka says Charlie stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks. But was it really stealing? Admittedly, Mr. Wonka did not offer it to them but he also ...
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Book trilogy read in 2006/2007 about a girl who is training to become a priestess
I believe one of the books started with an H, but it was not something I could pronounce. I read them back in 2006/2007. It starts out with a girl who is a novice in training to become a priestess. ...
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Young adult or middle grade fantasy book from the 90s-2000s about a girl in a town or village who thinks she doesn't have magic
I'm looking for a young adult or middle grade fantasy book from the 90s-2000s.
A girl is in a town or village and she thinks she doesn't have magic. An eccentric or someone unexpected tells her she ...
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How did Picard's away team transport so far in First Contact and not be detected by the Vulcans?
The Enterprise E transporter has a range of 40,000 km, yet Picard's team beamed up at least 360,000 km from Earth to Enterprise hiding near the moon, and the Vulcan sensors never detected the ...
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Book about Female Monster Hunter Protagonist that has fangs
I read this book about a young woman who begins to see monsters that humans can't see and she eventually becomes a monster hunter. Unlike normal monster hunters, the protagonist isn't human and uses ...
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Boy travels through time using a calculator
I read a book from the late 80's when I was 13 or 14 about a boy who travels through time using a calculator. I don't remember too much detail...but I do know that he was on the run from a bad guy who ...
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Kal-El's time in the Fortress of Solitude [closed]
Regarding Superman (1978), how was it found out that Clark Kent was in the Fortress for 12 years before flying out as Superman?
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Why does Ba'alzamon threaten Rand to strangle him with the corpse of the Great Serpent?
In The Eye of the World chapter 24 Rand meet Ba'alzamon in the nightmare. Ba'alzamon say:
The Light will not help you and the Eye of the World will not serve you. You are my hound and if you will not ...
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TV show from the 70s or 80s where jets join together to make a giant robot
Really struggling to find a cartoon show I watched as a kid.
There were multiple pilots who flew jets / spaceships that would join together to make a giant robot. It was very Voltron-like, but the ...
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Is there a mythical link between Leprechauns and Vampires?
In Supernatural, the brothers are advised in the episode “Clap Your Hands If You Believe” that spilling salt in front of the Leprechaun will slow it down, as he is compelled to count the grains.
I ...
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Forgotten Title "Poison Master From Wuxia" Story
This novel is most likely a Western fan creation, not Korean, Japanese or Chinese.
Poison master reincarnates from a wuxia world into a world where monsters exist and pose a threat to humanity.
This ...
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Man awakens from suspended animation to stop an asteroid heading towards Earth, which turns out to be a spacecraft from the past
This story was from a sci-fi TV episode in the 1980's or 90's, but I cannot remember exactly when or from where.
A man is awakened from suspended animation to a post-apocalyptic society facing an ...
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Did Queen (or Freddie Mercury) really not like Star Wars?
The song "Bicycle Race" by Queen has the following lyrics;
You say black, I say white
You say bark, I say bite
You say shark, I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star ...
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Were the Balrogs of Middle-Earth essentially empty vessels of Morgoth?
In the role-playing game supplement, Moria: Through the Doors of Durin, there is a section on the Balrog of Moria which makes some curious statements about Balrogs in general:
The Balrogs were tools ...
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Book that features clones used for retirement
Trying to find a book I read years ago. The main premise was that clones were used for people to live on Earth while the original person retired on the moon.
There were two main characters. One was an ...
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Did Loghain abandon the plan at Ostagar because the beacon was lit too late?
In the prologue of the 2009 video game Dragon Age: Origins, the battle plan at Ostagar was relatively simple. King Cailan led a contingent of his army in facing the invading darkspawn horde head-on, ...
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What about the other 35 children who were born in the same manner in The Umbrella Academy. Do we hear what happened to them in the comic or TV Show?
I never read the comics and have recently watched the first 2 seasons.
Apparently in both the comics and the TV show they stated that 43 women who had not been pregnant, gave birth to super powered ...
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Conspiracy "documentary" where the intro scene has a submarine in space with a swastika on its side
There was a movie I saw many years ago that was made in a documentary style. I think it was on YouTube or something similar and I specifically remember these details.
Nazi bases in Antarctica.
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What is the significance of the title of the film, "Infinity Pool"?
I'm curious about the meaning behind the title of Brandon Cronenberg's sci-fi horror film, Infinity Pool (2023). As far as I know, the only literal reference to an infinity pool in the film is the ...
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Is the Settlers of Catan board game based on or inspired by the settlers of Kataan planet in the Star Trek episode The Inner Light?
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light" there is a planet called Kataan. There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. There are many similarities. Is the game ...
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Why didn't Khan's abilities transfer into Kirk?
When Kirk dies near the end of Star Trek Into Darkness, he comes back to life when Bones administers Khan's blood. Khan is genetically enhanced to be a superior life form, so why didn't Kirk recieve ...
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Where did they get facehuggers from?
One of the great selling points of Alien: Romulus is continuing the story from the original movies featuring Ellen Ripley as the main character, especially from the first two ones: Alien (1979) and ...
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80s sci-fi movie about a cargo ship crew murdering each other after their captain abandons them
I'm trying to remember the name of a movie I saw on Syfy, I think earlier this year (2015).
It was an 80s movie, I think. A crew on a cargo ship. Something happens, and the captain panics and steals ...
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Movie where boy finds powerful space rocks
Not too many details as I can't recall much. 2005-ish(?) live-action American film where a boy with straight-ish brown hair finds glowing stones (not gems, but rocks with glowing blue portions) that ...
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What shape would a boggart take if a person doesn't fear anything?
Rereading the Prisoner of Azkaban, this interesting question(at least to me) popped in my head. What shape would a boggart take if a person is never depressed about anything, has no evil memories ...
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Football pools in Dr Who
I was just online buying my National Lottery tickets and I got to thinking about Dr Who.
In School Reunion he meets Sarah Jane Smith after many years, prior to this it's disclosed that he got the ...
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Why weren't civilians evacuated before the fleet at Wolf 359 engaged the borg?
In the Star Trek: TNG two-parter Best of Both Worlds, Starfleet assembles a fleet of 40 ships to engage the Borg at Wolf 359. In Deep Space Nine's first episode, Emissary, we learn that civilians ...
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Manhwa about a saintess with disciples that had to physically obey her every command
A year ago, I read a manhwa but can't remember the name.
It was about a saintess, except no one knew she was the saintess as there was a fake saintess. I remember that the saintess had disciples that ...
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Why was the Space Stone used to control people and give powers?
In The Avengers,
In Captain Marvel,
Why was the Space Stone used to do this?
Should not these be the functions of the Mind Stone and the Power Stone, respectively?
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What was the last riddle set by Morgan le Fay?
In Stargate SG-1 season 10 episode The Quest (part 1), the last riddle set by Morgan le Fay in the cave system protecting the Sangraal is incompletely translated. From the transcript:
DANIEL (...
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What is the physical size of the ring gate network of star systems in The Expanse?
I recall reading (in either book 7 Persepolis Rising or book 8 Tiamat's Wrath) that it had been determined that the 2 most distant gated star systems were 1 thousand light years apart. Implied is ...
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YA Trilogy where boys live on an island. They're unaware of the existence of women
I remember a trilogy of YA books I read as a kid, but I can't remember the name. Here are a few details, maybe they'll strike a chord with someone here.
Boys live and study in a school on an island
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Movie on an middle-ages alien planet where everyone is tall and grey, with guards riding hippo-like creatures
I watched it around 2008 - 2010, but it might be way older. All I remember is one scene. It all happened on a different planet. Everyone was alien. They were tall, grey and it looked like they lived ...
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Childhood counting book about a boy who goes to miniature worlds based on the numbers 1 to 10
Children's counting book. Both counting forward and backward to 10. Late 80's/early 90's
It had a child (male) going on an adventure in the woods behind his home? his grandparent's home? I don't ...
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Sci-fi comedy show from 90s: In one episode they crash on a planet and end up eating one of the crews without knowing it was human meat
I only remember bits and pieces. It seemed like Star Trek with comedy elements. I think it takes place on a ship in space. There is a group and I think there might have been one black dude among the ...
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Children's book about intelligent bears or maybe cats
I read this as a child, as a library book, so this would have been mid-late 1970s - the book could be older of course.
The setting was a post-human earth, where a society of intelligent bears (?) ...
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Literature scene where a man determines he's in a space station by doing some tests
This was part of the prologue of a book on psychology and physiology (for a chapter on senses outside of the typical 5) that I have since misplaced. I'm pretty sure that I read it somewhere in the ...
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Book about a girl who is sentenced to death by robot elders for idolizing a man who was considered dangerous to her society
I'm seeking a book I would have read about 20 years ago.
It's set within a totalitarian society that survived a world-changing event that was either war or a catastrophe. There are walls enclosing the ...
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Science fantasy book regarding a student that learns everything but when tested he always fails [duplicate]
The book (or series) revolves around a young man that diligently studies under successive masters to no avail. When he has to demonstrate his skill it fails each time resulting in him moving to the ...
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Origin of the name 'James T. Kirk'
How did the name 'James T. Kirk' originate? I heard it might have come from the fact that Gene Roddenberry once lived in New Jersey and the name of a mayor from Elizabeth, NJ was James T. Kirk.
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What happened to the original bodies in Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
We all know the concept of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: alien cells reproducing Earthling cells, plants and animals.
In the 1978 film, when Jeff Goldblum's character closed his eyes, the copy ...
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During the Ganymede attack, why did the destroyed solar mirrors/panels immediately start to fall?
I am assuming here that these solar mirrors/panels are orbiting Ganymede, not flying through its atmosphere.
Nothing indicates that Ganymede has a substantial atmosphere - it is missing it now, in ...
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Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer?
Star Trek often refers to 47 and Star Trek made a sport out of finding real or imagined references to 47. Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer in the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?
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