We know that Vulcan blood is copper based instead of iron as in Humans, making it appear green instead of red. This is shown when bruised or bleeding as well as in Bones' insults to Spock. The lips of (especially Caucasian) Humans are red(dish) because the blood shines through the skin. Consequently, Vulcan lips should be green: Is there a decent explanation why this is not the case, both In-Universe as well as Out-Of-Universe? This would be a terribly cheap thing to do, while making Nimoy look even more alien than the ears and eyebrows alone. The fact that Spock's blood is green was established very early in the series if I remember correctly, so it is safe to assume they planned it all along. Answer As the link you provide indicates, caucasian-equivalent Vulcans have not only green blood, they have green skin. (In a caucasian, most of the skin colouration is from the blood, this is why sick caucasian people tend to become so pale as their blood withdraws from their skin.) ...

PLEASE NOTE: This question is not a dupe, because it takes into account more information from the latest episode of Game of Thrones . Game of Thrones season 6, episode 5 (" The Door ") revealed to us how the Night King was created: The Children of the Forest somehow weaponized him (an ordinary man) by pinning him to a Weirwood Tree and stabbing him with some kind of magical stone dagger. Hence, he was created as a weapon to stop the Andals and First Men from taking any more land from the Children. But in the books, the Night's King is transformed after making love to a mysterious woman with pale skin and blue eyes. So I ask: is the HBO series' take on the Night King’s origin story now completely deviating from the books, or is there still a connection between what we saw in episode 5 and the theories/information already extracted/interpolated from the books?

A comment to this question raised a point I always found weird as well: Why would Skynet send back one terminator to 1984, one to 1992 and three hundred terminators to 2007? That was never explained. Answers only bases in canon please, no guesses. Answer So, using another answer as a source , there weren't nearly that many in SCC. The focus of the movies and the series are different, so it had more range of freedom in exploring the world - when on the run as in the movies, there isn't nearly as much time to go on the offensive, as they did in the series. (And I mean "offensive" in terms of stopping Skynet from being formed, not in attacking the Terminator currently after them) Sarah Connor Chronicles, Season 1 Cameron and Cromartie - The protector/terminator of John Connor that parallels the movies Vick Chamberlain 's goal was to ensure Skynet would get created. He was to get close to Barbara Chamberlain, one of the key people who created Skynet in that timelin...

In Goblet of Fire , chapter 35, Veritaserum , while being interrogated, Barty Crouch Jr describes being smuggled out of Azkaban Polyjuiced as his mother. He goes on to tell Dumbledore that Barty Crouch Sr held him captive under the Imperius Curse and an Invisibility Cloak, with Winky the house-elf keeping watch over him. Sirius says that Barty Crouch Jr died about a year after being brought to Azkaban, but I can't find any information stating when that was. He was held captive by his father for many years, until Voldemort came for him the summer before Harry's fourth year and released him from the Imperius Curse. For how many years was Barty Crouch Jr held under the Imperius Curse? I'm looking for a canon-based answer. Please no answers or information from the HP Wikia. Answer Harry canonically 'defeated' Voldemort when he was 15 months old. Barty Crouch Jr. was caught a little after that. He spent about a year in Azkaban, before he was freed and put under an Imp...

In A New Hope , Admiral Motti says that the Death Star plans were stored on data-tapes. “Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data-tapes”* I always figured this was something that would just be conveniently ignored in future installments, but Rogue One doubles down on this by making it clear that the Scarif facility is storing the Death Star plans on a data-tape. Given that holograms, droids, datapads, and other advanced electronics exist, why does the galaxy far, far away use such as primitive technology as data-tapes at all, especially for something as important as the Death Star plans (which can be transferred to whatever un-tapelike thing the rebels hand off to Leia)? Irregular Webcomic #67 by David Morgan-Mar, licensed under CC by NC-SA 3.0 , (C) 2002-2017 * Just realized that Motti’s really rubbing salt on the wound since the stolen data-tapes were almost cer...

Plot Details/Summary I'm afraid this is going to be one of those longshot questions. I remember reading this story, but I can only recall a few details. The setting is a new world in which human beings, now capable of FTL travel, have settled. I believe the protagonist is a male, and he has a love interest as well. The basic plotline is, soon after the first colonist from the ship begin living on the planet, strange mutations begin taking place. People are becoming brute-like, and (IIRC) are reverting to earlier states of evolution. I remember the protagonist, fearing contagion or some other planet-borne threat, orders the remaining colonist and crew to stay aboard the ship, which is still in orbit. His love interest is one of the people ordered to stay aboard. The revelation that comes late in the story is that it is not the new planet that is causing the mutations. It's far worse than that. It is that Man has reached the end of his evolutionary possibilities. Not just on the...

From this article I read the following: ...right before the start of the Clone Wars, the Jedi High Council had hardly changed. Only Yaddle and Yarael Poof were no longer present, replaced by Shaak Ti and Coleman Trebor. I recall seeing and reading about these members of the Jedi Council when The Phantom Menace came out, but I never noticed that they did not appear in later films, or that their seats on the Council had been taken by other Jedi. Unfortunately, I cannot find any further information as to what happened to them. Is there any in-universe information (whether Canon, or Legends, or Hidalgo-tweet) about where these Jedi went? Answer Disney Canon No explanation has been given for either Jedi Master's absence (although Yaddle's Databank entry confirms that she was no longer on the council). It is unlikely that we will ever get an explanation, since Disney does not seem interested in exploring things that happened pre-Clone Wars. Legends Yarael Poof His final appearan...

Towards the end of Avengers: Endgame , we see Thanos fighting Captain America. He repeatedly hits Cap's shield with a big double sword thing, which breaks the shield. How did this happen? As far as I know, we've never seen anything that can damage vibranium before in the MCU. Black Panther's vibranium suit is not obviously damaged when hit (admittedly just once, remotely) with Thanos’s sword in the battle. Is the sword made from a hitherto unknown metal? Answer I do believe that Vibranium is the strongest element only on earth! In Infinity war, we see Corvus Glaive cleave straight through Vision as if he were made of butter. Considering that, it's not so surprising that Thanos would have the element himself. After all, why would he entrust the strongest weapon only to one of his lackies... errr... I mean, kids, and not himself?

This question reminded me of a story I read in the 90s. A woman is caught shoplifting a bunch of metal items by throwing them into her purse. She has no memory, and the purse is empty. Anything metal they put in disappears. The police turn it over to government scientists, who investigate by attaching a large lump of metal to some extremely strong wire and dropping it in like a fishing line. They have it hooked up to the biggest, strongest crane available, and they begin reeling it back in. They reason that if whoever is on the other side can't let go, it could turn their universe inside out or something equally unpleasant, thus giving Earth the leg up in opening negotiations. and then The tension on the line increases until is under too much tension to cut. The story ends with the line slowly sliding back into the purse, with the realization that their plan has backfired in the worst possible way. Anyone know the name of the story and author? Answer " Tiger by the Tail ...

I'm trying to find an English-language short story I read in a collection about five to ten years ago (I don't have any idea of the original publication date). Here's everything I remember: The story is about human astronauts landing on an alien's planet, from the alien's point of view. Every organism on the alien planet is part of a single hive mind, and they can telepathically infect the humans (the aliens view this as beneficial, as any mind separated from the hive must be suffering), but choose not to once they realize that there's an entire planet of humans out there. The narrator alien is an organism that was designed by the hive to mimic a non-essential component on the spacecraft, so it can stow away when the humans return to Earth. The narrator alien is preparing to infect all of Earth as soon as the shuttle's door opens, but the component it replaced was the wire that opens the door, so it is fried instantly by the current. Despite knowing all thes...

The Borg has always referred to other species by numbers (i.e. 8472, 3259 for Vulcans, 5618 for Humans ..etc ). It is assumed according to this that the numbers were incremental based on first encounter with few exceptions. My question is: has there been any reference in Star Trek (canon or non-canon) to the identity of species 1, or who are the first species to be assimilated by the Borg? Answer While not made explicit, if we can assume that the numbers are sequential, then the first species would be either the Caeliar , Humans, or Kindir , according to the (non-canon) novel trilogy Star Trek: Destiny , Book 3 Lost Souls , where one Caeliar merged with two Humans to form the first Borg, and the Kindir were the first species assimilated after that: (4527 BCE) After eight days of hiking, the remaining humans returned to Junk Mountain, where they hoped to find the Caeliar alive and still willing to merge with them. However, once there, they found Mantilis apparently empty, although t...

OK. We can agree that comic book Batman always gets the bad guy, but sometimes he gets nicked and dinged during the encounter. It's a common thing to see Alfred tending (or trying to tend) his injuries. How does multimillionaire playboy Bruce Wayne protect his secret identity and manage to distract or hide from his business associates and other aquantainces that it frequently appears that his face was smacked by a sack of hammers, or that he can barely move until his broken ribs knit back together? Black eyes can take weeks to go away. Broken ribs take even longer to heal. Split lips heal faster, but with the frequency of Batman's fisticuffs, the chances are that Bruce would have what would appear to be an everlasting fat lip. Answer Alfred- Master Wayne, you can not appear before the board in this condition. Bruce- Fine, tell them I took one of my girls to my private island in the Maldives. Alfred- We used that excuse last month, Sir. Bruce- Tell them it's with a differe...

Could a Muggle access the Room of Requirement? ‘Because [the Room of Requirement] is a room that a person can only enter,’ said Dobby seriously, ‘when they have real need of it. Sometimes it is there, and sometimes it is not, but when it appears, it is always equipped for the seeker’s needs. Dobby has used it, sir,’ said the elf, dropping his voice and looking guilty, ‘when Winky has been very drunk; he has hidden her in the Room of Requirement and he has found antidotes to Butterbeer there, and a nice elf-sized bed to settle her on while she sleeps it off, sir ... and Dobby knows Mr Filch has found extra cleaning materials there when he has run short , sir, and –’ Order of the Phoenix - page 343 - Bloomsbury - chapter 18, Dumbledore's Army The Room of Requirement is clearly an incredibly magical part of the Hogwarts castle; its powers even broach the possibility of sentience. To access the Room of Requirement, whoever is seeking it must walk past its wall three times and concentr...

When NASA sends astronauts to space, they have to wear uncomfortable suits. Why aren't the humans in Star Wars spacecraft doing the same thing? What technology do they have on board that remove this need? Answer Real-world astronauts wear bulky space suits to protect themselves from extreme cold, radiation, and a lack of breathable atmosphere. They only wear the suits if they are planning to enter such an environment (such as going outside their space station, or walking on the moon) or if they're about to do something dangerous where they are facing a higher risk of being exposed to such an environment (such as taking off or landing their spacecraft). On board the International Space Station they do not wear the bulky space suits while going about their day-to-day activities. Star Wars is similar. Most people on space ships do not wear protective suits, because the ship itself provides the air, warmth and protection they need. Unlike our current real-world spacecraft, ships ...

In Goblet of Fire , when Harry dreams about Voldemort, it's always in the third-person. For the first dream, when Frank Bryce is being murdered, the text makes it clear that Harry is not dreaming from Voldemort's perspective. He closed his eyes tightly and tried to remember what Voldemort had looked like, but it was impossible...All Harry knew was that at the moment when Voldemort's chair had swung around, and he, Harry, had seen what was sitting in it, he had felt a spasm of horror, which had awoken him...or had that been the pain in his scar? (GoF, "The Scar") Later he has a second dream. Again, Harry sees the dream in third-person perspective, from behind Voldemort's chair: "Harry - did you see Voldemort?" "No," said Harry. "Just the back of his chair. But - there wouldn't have been anything to see, would there? I mean, he hasn't got a body, has he? But...but then how could he have held the wand?" Harry said slowly. (Go...

Is there any concrete evidence in The Force Awakens or other elements of the Disney canon that Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana was a Jedi temple? It is a towering structure with catacomb-like passages beneath it. It has existed for at least a thousand years if not much more — Han says in the film that it has been under its current ownership for about one thousand. Based on its age and configuration, and what was found by Rey in its catacombs, I wonder about the original purpose of the structure.

Here we see Darth Vader piloting his fighter while hunting for Rebel starfighters above the Death Star: He does it in multiple scenes. Was this some sort of targeting configuration controller? Answer Judging by the result (a slight adjustment to the targeting grid) it's a fine-tune for the targeting. Think of it as a joystick equivalent of "Shift-arrow" for point-and-shoot games (I'm sure modern fighter planes have something similar but I haven't seen Larian LeQuella around here these parts in a while, sadly). TIE Advanced x1 (which was Vader's fighter) Wookieepedia page has this to say: The target tracking system was also more sophisticated than the already formidable advanced targeting system on standard TIE craft, used to overcome the extremely powerful electronic jamming used by all combat craft to defeat target lock in battle. For best performance, the targeting system of the x1 required frequent adjustment in combat. ... but that sentence is completel...

Jabba the Hutt kept scantily clad humanoid slaves. Jabba even tried to kiss Leia. But IIRC Hutts are hermaphrodites and of course should by all biological reasoning not be attracted to creatures of a specific sex (don't recall sexy dudes hanging around) with radically different body design. So do Hutts find humanoid females hot, and if so why? Or do they just do this for status and to show off to the largely humanoid populations that surround them? Answer Jabba's affection for "dancing girls" is not common to all Hutts. Jabba is a specific Hutt who took pleasure in surrounding himself with bikini-clad dancing girls , but not necessarily the only one. From The Hutt Gambit : But Aruk was not one of those sybaritic Hutts who relished the pleasures of the flesh. True, he was a gourmet, and often a gourmand, but he didn't maintain entire palaces filled with slaves to cater to his slightest--or most perverse--whim, the way some Hutts did. Aruk had heard that Jiliac...

Does Vernor Vinge ever expand upon the identity of Mr. Rabbit? In an interview from 2006 , Mr. Vinge indicates that there's nothing in the book that directly identifies who or what Mr. Rabbit is, but he does say: I have some theories about what Mr. Rabbit is, and I eventually hope to put those down in writing. Has he followed through with this in the intervening years? Is there any further explanation about Mr. Rabbit in other writings or interviews of his?

I read this book back around 2002-2004 The protagonist is given the key to perpetual energy by a mysterious alien, all is well until he finds out the energy is actually slowing the earth's rotation. There might even be a second book in the series but it's been forever, and I can't recall. I've posed this question to the folks over at borderland books as well with no luck, hope you can help! Answer I think that is Eric Nylund's Signal to Noise . It's not actually free energy, but teleportation, which can be used to provide energy. The second book, A Signal Shattered , deals with the aftermath. Jack Potter puts computer cryptography to work for the highest bidder: sometimes for private corporations, sometimes for the government. Sometimes the work is legal; if not, Jack simply raises his price. But one day, Jack discovers something cloaked in the hiss of background radiation streaming past the Earth from deep space: a message from an alien civilization. One that...

In "A Call to Arms" (DS9, episode 5x26), it is made clear that the Dominion has a non-aggression pact with Bajor, which would prevent the Cardassians from retaking Bajor. However, since DS9 is under the control of Bajor (ever since the occupation ended) and only administered by the Federation, why did the Bajorans allow the Cardassians to take control of the station? Shouldn't it be protected by the non-aggression pact as well? Answer Sisko causes a very complicated chain of events. The most reasonable explanation is that the Bajoran government replaced Starfleet with the Dominion as administrators of the station. When Starfleet refused to surrender the station, the Dominion were authorized to remove them. Mining the Wormhole constituted an act of aggression against the Dominion. This seriously pisses off Weyoun, and he demands that the mines be removed. However, Bajor hasn't signed a non-aggression pact yet; the paper wasn't signed until about halfway through t...

I vaguely recall this book which was a trilogy. Some free people are living near Jupiter or some such. People on Earth are slaves, and terraforming is taking place. On Earth, people have to cultivate plants that grow very tall and produce different tasting fruits, some that taste like meat.

Who was the rightful owner of the Sword of Gryffindor? ‘So where is it?’ Harry asked suspiciously. ‘Unfortunately,’ said Scrimgeour, ‘that sword was not Dumbledore’s to give away. The sword of Godric Gryffindor is an important historical artefact, and as such, belongs – ’ ‘It belongs to Harry!’ said Hermione hotly. ‘It chose him, he was the one who found it, it came to him out of the Sorting Hat –’ ‘According to reliable historical sources, the sword may present itself to any worthy Gryffindor,’ said Scrimgeour. ‘That does not make it the exclusive property of Mr Potter.’ Deathly Hallows - page 109 - Bloomsbury - chapter seven - The Will of Albus Dumbledore Scrimgeour doesn't go on to say the Sword of Gryffindor belongs to the Ministry, although he does say it does not belong to Harry. Even so, I'm sceptical enough of the Ministry's motives to conclude that a case could probably be made for Harry being the sword's rightful owner. But was he? Is there a canon answer to ...

I know Darth Maul used a lightsaber staff which was basically two lightsabers end to end. I had thought that lightsaber nunchaku would be amazing, but the fact that you'd rather quickly lose your own hand during a change over would be problematic!! So are there any other weapons designed using this technology? Answer Lumiya used a Lightwhip , which was same technology. "Related" links section on Wookieepedia includes: Crossguard lightsaber · Curved-hilt lightsaber · Darksaber · Dual-phase lightsaber · Double-bladed lightsaber · Lightclub · Lightfoil · Lightwhip · Long-handle lightsaber · Lightsaber pike · Paired lightsabers · Protosaber · Sabercane · Lightsaber shoto / Guard shoto

In The Dark Knight Rises , during the sewer fight scene we see Bane lift Batman up and drop him on his knee, reminiscent of the comic book scene where Batman's back is literally broken. Are we to believe Batman's back was actually broken here? Is the amount of time that passed (for his recovery) a realistic length of time to enable him to fight Bane and jump around in later scenes? [embedded content] Answer Here's an actual doctor commenting on the back break and recovery . His conclusion is... The diagnosis (herniated disc) is impossible given the trauma. You can't punch a herniated disc back into place. A herniated disc takes 8 weeks to 4 months to recover without surgery. Another type of broken back is a compression fracture. They can be caused by a hard fall on your feet or osteoporosis. With no surgery, a compression fracture will heal in 8-10 weeks . Batman probably didn't have a compression fracture, but I throw it in there to show that a broken back doesn...

In the movie Alien , Ash turns out to be an android. At one point, he freaks out, rolls up a magazine, and stuffs it into Ripley's mouth. What in the world was he trying to do? Answer Ash is trying to kill Ripley, but the way he's doing it suggests some sort of sexual overtone that is seen in the movie Alien. The movie Alien has a lot of sexual overtones .

After having seen The Force Awakens , I am having a bit of trouble trying to figure out when the blue lightsaber that Finn uses to fight Kylo Ren first appears in the saga. We know that its last user was Luke Skywalker, who received it from Obi Wan in Episode IV, and that Obi Wan "stole" it from a dying Anakin Skywalker in Episode III. Now here is when I lose its trace. Did Anakin construct that blue lightsaber some time in between Episodes I and II during his Jedi training? Or was that actually the same lightsaber used by a young Obi Wan in Episode I when fighting Darth Maul? Answer The Force Awakens: Visual Dictionary states that Anakin constructed this lightsaber at the start of the Clone Wars: This lightsaber, Anakin's second lightsaber , is first seen in The Clone Wars CGI film and TV show and in Revenge of the Sith . This is the same lightsaber Obi-Wan gave to Luke and that Rey uses in the sequel trilogy. Timeline of this lightsaber throughout the Star Wars sa...

I've read only one of the books in the '90s (I think it was the second). There is a ship whose's captain is a "lioness": she is from a race of anthropomorphic felines, whit a social structure very similar to heart's lions. The males are the heads of the families but the females do all the work. Patriarchs live with the fear, especially when they get older, to be deposed by their elder (or stronger) child. The only things I remember are this alien race, that the ship was a trading ship and that it was a series. The protagonist is a human but the captain of the ship has an important role and I think she has a part in the entire series. Answer This sounds like The Chanur Saga by C.J. Cherryh : The main character is Pyanfar Chanur, the captain of The Pride of Chanur . Pyanfar is a Hani: Hani are a feline-like species, maned, bearded, usually of red or tawny fur. Females are smaller than humans, males much larger (for much the same reason as Earth lions).... They...

It is a major plot point in Goblet of Fire that the Marauder's map identifies Bartemius Crouch Jr. as simply Bartemius Crouch; therefore leading to the confusion that Bartemius Crouch (Sr.) was the person searching Snape's office. This has always bothered me a bit; surely the Marauder's map would be able to distinguish between two different people? If Barty Sr. and Barty Jr. were standing next to each other, would the map show Bartemius Crouch twice? Are there other instances of the Marauder's Map not showing the complete truth that would make it seem more plausible that it can't distinguish between a Sr. and Jr.? Answer At the risk of stating the obvious, the map appears to be designed to show the full forename and surname of each person in range. Although he might be known as " Barty Crouch Jr ", that's not actually his name. IF A =>1 THEN PRINT 'FIRSTNAME + SECONDNAME' It's incredibly unlikely that his actual name ended with the ...

Tons of people die by this spell, the premise of the books is that Harry is the one person to survive it, ever. This is explained by saying his mother loved him so much that he was shielded. I can't imagine no other wizard ever has been in the same situation. Voldemort killed many many people and the situation in the Potter house, a mother refusing to give up her son, must have been something he saw quite often. What was so special about this situation that caused the spell to backfire, because if simply loving your son (a lot) is enough to shield him from death a lot more people should've survived. Even if wanting to sacrifice yourself for your son (like Lily) is required, that must've happened before... I don't think the linked question's answers answer my question. I'm assuming the exact same situation as with Lily and Harry must've happened before with other people. There has to be something more that sets it apart, simply wilfully protecting someone un...

There seems to be a number of ways to block an Avada Kedavra (Physical barriers conjured by magic, hitting the spell with Expelliarmus, etc) so why do people consider it " unblockable "? You just need to have quick reflexes, right? Answer To the best of my knowledge, it's not truly unblockable. What has been said is that there is "no defense against it, no counter-curse" (By the fake Moody in book 4, during his lesson on Unforgiveable Curses). FakeMoody also says it can't be blocked, but please keep in mind that FakeMoody was a lying liar who tells lies, and things he says cannot necessarily be taken as completely honest. FakeMoody then makes the point that no one has been struck by it and survived, save Harry. FakeMoody lied when he said it was unblockable. Indeed, the opposite is extremely true. Dumbledore does clever things with statues in the Ministry, blocking killing curses. During every major battle scene from book 5 onwards, the Death Eaters make e...

Before the events of Return of the Jedi, did Darth Vader ever feel remorse for all the Jedi he killed? Vader killed dozens - maybe hundreds - of Jedi. Younglings, padawans, and knights all fell from his lightsaber. Which probably makes him responsible for killing more Jedi than anybody in the history of the galaxy. Luke sensed some part of the good Anakin Skywalker was still buried deep inside the angry Darth Vader. Did that aspect of Darth Vader feel remorse? I don't want an answer that says he felt remorse after Luke turned him away from the Dark Side.

In Star Trek, ships can communicate visually between them, video communication between captains is quite common, even from a great distance. On the other hand, a mobile visual transmission device (remote camera to the ship) did not seem to exist. It did not appear possible for the captain to see what is happening on the planet or nearby ship. They tried something close with La Forge's VISOR, but it never went anywhere. Why was live streamed video technology absent?

In The Hunger Games , the nation of Panem (implied to be North America after some sort of post apocalyptic scenario) is divided into 13 districts and the Capitol. District 12 is hinted to be in the Appalachia Mountains, and the Capitol is hinted to be in the Rocky Mountains. District 13, which was destroyed, is described as "east of District 12", which made me think it's where Washington D.C. is today. The other districts, however, were mostly ignored, and almost no detail was provided as to their locations in the books. Has there been any supplemental information that reveals where the districts are? Answer Panem is actually where North America currently is, they're not confined to just the current area of the USA. Here's a map from a brief shot in the Catching Fire film. They haven't released an official map, as far as I know, nor do the books fully describe the locations of all of the districts.

I went throught the five books and the TV series and just out of curiosity I wanted to ask if there has been mention by G. R. R. Martin about the existence of life beyond the map of Westeros, north of the wall and the Free cities: What kind of places exist beyond the map? What kind of people are present beyond the wall? Has there ever been any expedition or contact made by the people (from the places mentioned in the book) to the outside world? Answer I think you're asking what's North of the wall, so I'll mostly focus on that, but I've added a little at the end about other locations beyond Westeros and the Free Cities. Drawing partly from my answer to Do lands other than Westeros suffer from long Winters and live under the threat of Others? , Westeros extends further north than other known continents. Here's a low res version of the latest official map. The landmass on the left is Westeros, the much larger land mass on the right is Essos where the free cities ar...

Don't have any images, but I'll try my best to describe from memory. It's an animated kids show that I used to watch on Netflix. I don't remember the plot, but the main character, if I remember correctly, was a boy who could change into a red and yellow robot with an arm blaster. His helmet looked like a bicycle helmet if that's anything. Answer Could you be thinking of Eon Kid , the English translation of the Korean cartoon, 아이언 키드 (Iron Kid)? He does have a red-and-yellow suit, a blaster, and the head does look a bit like a bike helmet. And it was available on Netflix until 2013. Marty is the lead character of the series. While scavenging for robot parts to sell he finds the Fist of Eon and puts it on, although unwillingly. Marty later discovers that he is a direct descendant of Eon, who 100 years prior to the series start defeated the General and ended the Robot War. Endowed with the power of the fist he must fight the evil forces of the general. He was origin...

Spoilers for The Name of the Doctor It is unclear to me what are the exact effects for someone who enters the Doctor's time stream. Clara goes in to save the Doctor. But given the two scenarios we know (Dalek asylum and victorian London), she doesn't even remember the Doctor. Yes, she saves him, but not because "oh boy there's the Doctor, I came here to save him" , but rather because of a certain turn of events throughout the episodes (a.k.a fate/luck). So what guarantees that Clara's sacrifice to save the Doctor would actually work, if none of her copies actually remember a thing about the Doctor? A possible answer would be "well, the fact that the Doctor reached Trenzalore alive proves that her clones did the job correctly, one way or another" . Which makes sense, but, is there not a better explanation? Answer It's the souffle. Her echoes don't actually know they exist for the purpose of saving the Doctor. Remember that Clara actually bec...

In The Last Jedi : Luke says that when Ben Solo fell to the dark side, he took a number of student Jedi trainees from Luke's temple. Kylo Ren then killed the rest. So what happened to these other trainee Jedi? Were they killed by Snoke or Ren? Where did they go? Answer What you've stated in your question is all that we know so far. As was mentioned in the film and novelization regarding the destruction of Luke's Jedi , some willingly left with him while the rest were killed. Considering they weren't all killed, we can at the very least surmise that Kylo/Snoke had some Force related use for them. Given that these students would have been training alongside him under Luke, it's not unreasonable to theorize that they would continue to follow him afterwards as the Knights of Ren . But as the knights themselves were not included as part of The Last Jedi, we still have no definitive answer. It's worth mentioning that according to director Rian Johnson regarding th...

Before writing A Song of Ice and Fire , George R. R. Martin had written a series of science fiction stories that ended up all taking place in the same universe later titled The Thousand Worlds . Do the A Song of Ice and Fire stories take place in the same universe? Has George ever commented on this himself? Answer George R. R. Martin was asked this on his "Not A Blog" and has stated that the stories are not a part of The Thousand Worlds . The original question/comment is quite long but see the link if you want some more context. Asimov and Heinlein, late in life, both seemed to feel the urge to merge all of their books and stories into one huge continuity. So far I do not feel the urge. No, Westeros is not one of the Thousand Worlds. Not A Blog, Last Year (Writing, Editing, Producing)

The discussion below this question leads me to ask: What was the earliest SF work that used the idea of the Multiverse (parallel universes or alternate worlds)? I'm looking for fairly hard SF treatments, where the idea is presented as a real, physical possibility rather than magical or fantasy worlds, such as Narnia. Answer 1915: A Drop in Infinity , a novel by Gerald Grogan , available at the Internet Archive . Reviewed by Everett F. Bleiler in Science-Fiction: The Early Years : A robinsonade in the fourth dimension. Jack Thorpe and Marjorie Matthews are walking along the shore in Cornwall when a seeming eccentric asks them directions. They humor him by showing the way, whereupon he produces a revolver and takes them captive. A scientist who has worked in dimensional research, he is brilliant, but unfortunately mad and irresponsible. He thinks of himself as a hubble-bubble, and so the characters call him. The Hubble-Bubble reveals that he has obtained access, via the fourth d...

Ever since the days of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, bridge officers in Starfleet have always had a prominent role in away team missions. However, it would seem more logical to me that such hazardous (and, generally, specialized) duties should fall to lower-ranking and/or more dedicated teams. Of course, it wouldn't have made for great TV if every away team was comprised of a bunch of red-shirts. And it would definitely increase the show's budget to have an extra group of main characters whose sole purpose was to handle the away missions. Still, I'm curious to know if there's ever been a real in-universe explanation for this practice? I know it's been brought up a few times, in a few series/movies, that the Captain should not be taking part in hazardous away team missions. But nothing is ever said (that I'm aware of) of the rest of the still valuable bridge crew or other senior officers. Answer Away teams are typically led by personnel holding the rank of full lie...