Science Fiction & Fantasy Weekly Newsletter - Monday, August 31, 2015

Top new questions this week: Are any ships in Star Wars capable of intergalactic travel? It always made me curious to hear: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ... Which implies that the Star Wars universe is in a separate galaxy to our own. Then I was reading Are there Star ... star-wars spaceship   asked by Andrew Thompson 39 votes answered by Petersaber 35 votes What's the story behind the mugs in Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5? As much as I personally love Deep Space Nine, a case can be made that major features of the show were ripped off of Babylon 5. Although the first episode of DS9 hit the airwaves six weeks before the ... star-trek star-trek-ds9 babylon-5 food   asked by Praxis 37 votes answered by N_Soong 48 votes How was Ramirez's sword forged over 1,500 years before katana swordsmithing techniques were perfected in Japan? In the 1986 film The Highlander we learn that the Immortal Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez was given an ivory handled katana in 592 B.C., forged by the great Japanese swordsmith Masamune. How was ... highlander   asked by RobertF 30 votes answered by Yasskier 41 votes Where is the image of the man from? Ok, so I stumbled across this image recently - And after some close inspection, it turns out this was fan made (Some clues indicate the Typography - the "C" looks terrible, the symmetry of the ... character-identification   asked by Ben 27 votes answered by Keen 54 votes Did Tolkien have Pippin die originally? According to the movie mistakes website for Return of the King, it is mentioned that Tolkien had Pippin originally killed off at the Battle of the Black Gates. He was pursuaded by his dear friend C.S. ... lord-of-the-rings tolkien middle-earth   asked by user35594 26 votes answered by Shamshiel 26 votes Where did the insults generated by the Marauder's map come from? When Severus Snape attempted to make the Marauder's map "yield the information it conceals" and whatnot, how could it insult him in the way it did? Specifically, it talked about how he was a ... harry-potter   asked by AJL 25 votes answered by Nerrolken 52 votes Who are these DC superheroes? Besides Batman, Superman , Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, who are these superheroes? dc-comics   asked by JeanPaul 24 votes answered by Sean Duggan 36 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: In what order should Tolkien's writings on Middle-earth be read? I've already read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which I assume would be the best start in any case. I also got about halfway through The Silmarillion several years ago and am quite familiar ... lord-of-the-rings suggested-order middle-earth   asked by Travis Christian 40 votes answered by Horacio Nuñez 26 votes Why did Darth Vader die in Return of the Jedi? At the end of Episode VI, Luke had beaten Darth Vader in a duel, but didn't seem to injure the latter critically — all Luke did was to sever Vader's right hand, which was a prosthetic to begin ... star-wars plot-explanation   asked by TCSGrad 91 votes answered by LudoMC 100 votes Can you answer these? What is the Cylon Recon Drone? Battlestar Wiki has an article: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Cylon_reconnaissance_drone I don't recall this craft at all, and the aforementioned site doesn't have a picture. Is it ever shown ... spaceship battlestar-galactica-2004 cylon   asked by Kidburla 1 vote Were there ever any plans to have Picard be Wesley's real father? Were there ever plans on The Next Generation to have a "reveal" where we find out that Picard is Wesley's actual father, rather than Jack Crusher? In my research, I came across old murmurings on ... star-trek star-trek-tng   asked by Praxis 16 votes What did Darren Cross mean with "Word travels fast" In the recent Ant-man movie, when Dr. Pym has been invited to Pym Tech and Darren is about to sell the suit to Hydra, it is revealed that Cross knew about their plan to steal the Yellowjacket. ... marvel-cinematic-universe ant-man   asked by milez 2 votes New blog post: Live Chat: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) by Jack B Nimble on Aug 25 Recently the live chat movie night has been reborn. Several movies have been watched and commented on. One recent one was the classic 1951 film “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Previous ...

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