In the first episode of SG-1, the base is attacked by aliens. After they arrive, the gate closes. How were they able to dial out again? They apparently did not access the control room.
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At the very beginning of SG1, the Goa'uld invade Earth, and then return somehow. How did they manage to return? There was no DHD, and somehow they didn't let it be known where they were going, IE, there was no log of the return. This seems a bit odd to me...
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SPOILERS FOR   Star Trek Discovery Season 1 Episode 3       The Shuttle that Michael Burnham is on is flying through a dangerous cloud that has energy-eating organisms inside it. When the discovery rescues the ship you see it just outside the cloud above the shuttle clearly is not in danger. So the question is: Why did the shuttle fly through the cloud when it clearly could have flown above the cloud?
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In the tie-in of SG-1 and Atlantis, they had to use a ZPM to power the gate, and use an eighth chevron to travel to the Pegasus Galaxy. It was (so I thought) common knowledge that they could only travel to gates within our own galaxy unless they had met those requirements.   Now, I recently rewatched the movie, in which the probe traveled to the Kaliam Galaxy, or as Catherine put it, "the other side of the known universe." So, why the limitation on the TV show? And why were they able to travel back to that planet in the first episodes?
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The following situation happened towards the end of our last session(I am the DM): A player cast Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, so they could take a break to heal up their comrades and rest a bit.   Then, that player cast the Mansion again (after a long rest) and placed the portal inside the first mansion. Everyone went through before the first mansion disappeared, and expected to return to the main overworld again after another 24 hours.  But technically, the Mansion only expels creatures, not portals to extradimensional planes, so shouldn't they be thrown out where the first mansion was, an extradimensional space?  I am not gonna do this to them now since this would be the end of the story and not something anyone expected, but still: Under RAW, would my players be back to the extradimensional space where the first mansion was?
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We all know how to blow up the first Death Star: Fire a couple of proton torpedoes into the thermal exhaust port.  It's ray shielded, so only torpedoes will do.  To do this, the Rebel pilots had to fly down a very long trench, where they were vulnerable to fire from any TIE fighters to the rear.  In fact they were so vulnerable that most of the pilots on this run were blown up once the Imperial forces started responding to the attack. This battle is in space, so the fighters can, if necessary, come to a dead stop and hold their position while firing.  Also, when Luke fired his torpedoes, they took a 90 degree turn and went straight into the port.  So the torpedoes didn't have to be fired from in the trench. We also didn't see any gun emplacements firing at the fighters from near the exhaust port, but if there were, the Rebels could have targeted them and taken them out or run interference to make it hard for the towers to fire at a fighter targeting the exhaust port.  (They were already dodging fire in the trench as well.) A fighter could have easily flown directly at the exhaust port, firing torpedoes multiple times on approach and, if not under fire (or if protected by other fighters), could have actually stopped and taken time to target the exhaust port before firing. Is there any valid in-universe reason that the pilots had to fly down the trench before firing on the port?  And if there is, is there any reason they had to enter the trench so early? Just for reference, here is the  on YouTube.  There's no explanation given for having to fly in the trench.
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In Star Trek franchise there are command codes that seems to give you access to the ships systems, can you change or at least disable them?  In one episode of ST:VOY the captain, B'Elana and Tuvok are assimilated but something goes wrong and and the Borg Queen gains access to Tuvok's memories including his access codes?  So can you change or disable access codes or is the crew of ST:VOY totally stupid?
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Once the Rebel fleet showed at Endor there was no need for stealth operations.  Soon after arriving, the Rebels discover the stealth mission was not successful and begin a battle over the moon of Endor.  Why did the Rebels not use their ships to attack the shield generator?  Looking a the hologram displayed on Home One, the shield only covers Death Star II, not the moon. Furthermore, the shield generator's location on the Moon would not be hard to find as it had to be within the proximity of Death Star II and stood well above the tree line. It seems that even a few X-wings, B-wings or Y-Wings could have made short work of the Tower.  One possible answer is that the Tower was also protected by a shield. Okay, but they would not even attempt to bomb it?   Perhaps the location of the strike team was unclear and they did not want to risk the lives of the Strike team. If this was the case, why did they not target the tower or the dish to disable the shield projector unit?
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I'm trying to find an episode from what I think is a sci-fi TV series produced sometime in the 80s or 90s.  In the episode, a man and another character(s) finds himself stuck in the interval between two seconds.  In that interval, he witnesses a crew of workers whose job it is to destroy the "old" second (everything in it; house, yard, the rest of the world) and build a near duplicate of the upcoming second.  The man is discovered by this "time construction crew" and is told that since he's seen the truth about this in-between time world, he can never return to his time.  He will simply disappear.  He manages to hide at the last minute and the time crew has run out of time to catch him.  The "real" world catches up as the next "second" ticks into place.  I thought this might have been an Amazing Stories episode but upon reviewing summaries of those two seasons, I don't think I saw it there.  Does anyone know this episode and series? There were other good episodes in this Twilight Zone-like series.
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In "The Woman Who Fell to Earth (S11 E1)" the Doctor is found on a train after an alien appearance. When she suggests that the creature that fell through the roof of the train (not her) was an alien, Graham says "Don't be daft, there's no such thing as aliens."   However, at this point, there have been several major alien events on Earth, and by this point I thought aliens were common knowledge (though not many people know much about them). As I recall, just last season alien pyramids were landing on Earth.  On the other hand, it's possible that one of the various reboots or time messes changed on Earth changed the situation.  Given the events of the previous season, why would this man be skeptical of the existence of aliens?
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In episodes IV: A New Hope and VI: Return of the Jedi we are shown ships landing in Death Star 1 and Death Star 2 landing bays seemingly exposed to the vacuum of space, and yet non-suited Imperial personnel are seen standing on deck (for example in about the 3rd minute of Episode VI). How does this work in-world?  If there are some kind of shields, what happens to them when the ships cross the threshold? Why don't we see de/repressurization?  What, in short, is the deal?
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I was wondering if there is an explanation why in the final fight scene of T1, there was no explosion? Clearly the hydraulic press completely crushed the terminator unit and this should have compromised the hydrogen fuel cell.    If anything it would result in a explosion like this (picture from the T3 sequel just after terminator threw out the damaged hydrogen fuel cell) and blow up Sarah Conor along with the whole factory.
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The Stargate in Stargate, Stargate: SG-1, and it's derivatives, creates a wormhole between two Stargates, which most of the time has an unstable vortex kawoosh that tends to destroy anything that's sufficiently away from it's surface, before falling back in and leaving a mostly flat water or pool like surface. But what is the surface made of? It tends to ripple like water, but it's obviously not water. And in the season 2 episode "A Matter of Time", a large gravitational force of a black hole on the other side was enough to make it spin down/inwards like an eddy or .    In-Universe answer please.
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I am trying to figure out the scene near the finale of Tenet where Neil unlocks the door and gets shot in the face. I can't really see the flow where he opens and holds the door and the protagonist walks in and fights the bad guy. Can you tell the series of events as Neil sees them happen till he gets shot? UPDATE If I am not wrong, I see it like this: Neil was running down towards the door, both the protagonist and his mate are inside with the door locked fighting the bad guy, then, he unlocks the door and walks in and stands behind the door. The protagonist's mate comes out of the room, then the protagonist, then he closes the room, then he look back to get shot in the face. But this doesn't make sense, if he wanted to unlock the door when he was running down, they were already in fighting the bad guy!!!!!
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I just finished Episode 5 and wondered, if there were alternative endings or game branches. I brought the whole group with me, and am wondering what would have changed if different people accompined me, and if the episode is possible to play out differenly.      On my playthrough, Lee killed the stranger, and on the run back to Christa and Omid, was to weak to continue. Clementine shot him. Kenny died along with Ben after he fell off the building. And Lee was cut off Christa and Omid after they went over the "bridge" first.
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So in Episode 1 they reveal that force sensitivity can be measured scientifically by counting midi-chlorian in your cells. Does anyone know the midi-chlorian counts of any of the main characters? The amount of detail in back stories in Star Wars is often so in depth that I wouldn't be surprised if the data were available somewhere.
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I can't believe I missed this three times. I went back to the beginning of AoT in episode 1 and noticed these scenes that occurred at the beginning of the episode. Eren is having some type of daydream or nightmare before waking suddenly with Mikasa leaning over him. Here are the still shots of it.                 What exactly were these visions? Were they some type of compressed/hidden memories? What was the farm house we saw? I am also pretty sure this wasn't in the anime but manga answers are welcome also. ;)  Note: I couldn't find a video link to give but there is a animated GIF version of it that I made . Also helpful but it is quite easy to see the scene if you want to since it occurs straight after the opening of AoT in episode 1.
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I remember very little but enough... I know that there were 3 worlds, a real one, a mid-world kind of with a teleporter, and the world with all the creatures. The first episode was in the desert and there was a good monster that saved the main guys from a bad one. Before he saved them he said every end is a beginning and every beginning is an end.   Please help me; I've tried everything. I saw it on , I think it was not Japanese. I live in Croatia, so I saw it there. It was aimed at kids, but not younger kids. The main characters were human, around 15 years old. The teleporter was in the middle of a big structure. It was a 6 piece tp, so every circle was one, and it was shaped like a star. There were robots working there; they carried food and other things.  I remember that all the creatures thought that the humans are evil, all but the one, the "lord" of all of them. And yes, the main character got to the world by some sort of a device that he found and it belonged to another kid who lost it and they were able to transform in the creatures from the world by it. When they are in the "other world", their body stays in the real world and acts normally but their soul gets transported to the mid-world