Sci-Fi Heroes
The captain of the starship Enterprise.
Who is James T. Kirk?
These robots are cute, in love, and save the world.
Who are WALL-E and EVE?
This character has pointy ears, green blood, and micro bangs.
The name of a paradox wherein a time traveler prevents his own birth, often by killing his grandfather.
A corporation that controls human beings with screens and consumerism.
What is Buy N Large?
The terminator travels back in time looking for this person.
Who is Sarah Connor?
In Blade Runner, artificial human beings are referred to by this term.
What are replicants?
Arrakis and Mars have this in common.
What is terraforming?
Interstellar suggests that this is the only force other than gravity that can transcend both time and space.
What is love?
The result of synthesis between a man and a fly at the molecular-genetic level.
Who is Brundlefly?
A chosen one capable of dodging bullets and bending spoons with his mind.
Who is Neo?
In Interstellar, this helpful NASA-commissioned robot enters a black hole alongside Coop.
What is TARS?
This species has a sole evolutionary objective to propagate its own kind at the expense of all competing life forms.
What is a xenomorph?
This concept describes how time moves slower for objects that are moving very fast or in strong gravitational fields, because time depends on the observer's relative motion and position.
What is time dilation/relativity?
In Dune, the House of Atreides wants to colonize the planet Arrakis in order to gain access to this resource.
What is spice?
Along with her ginger cat, this character is the last surviving crew member of the USCSS Nostromo.
Who is Ellen Ripley?
In this story by E. M. Forster, human beings come to rely on technology to the point of worship, never leaving their pods or experiencing the real world.
What is "The Machine Stops"?
This paradox questions why we have never encountered extraterrestrial life despite the vastness of the universe.
What is the Fermi Paradox?
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke, and The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last" all have this theme/trope in common.
What is the end of the world?
A utopian city where human beings live in perfect joy and harmony, with the exception of one child, who lives in darkness, misery, and filth.
What is Omelas?
The gravity-defying, humanity-saving space station from Interstellar is named in honor of this character.
Who is Murphy Cooper?
This android secretly deceived the crew of the Nostromo about their mission's true purpose to retrieve an alien organism at their own expense, deeming them expendable.
Who is Ash?
This alien lays eggs in a person's stomach and then harvests the larvae by cutting the host open when they are ready to be born.
Who is T'Gatoi?
"Time is like a river - you can throw a pebble in and create a ripple, but the current always corrects itself. No matter what you do, the river just keeps flowing in the same direction."
This quote suggests that time is ____________.
What is immutable?
Jurassic Park, Frankenstein, and The Fly all feature characters with this fatal flaw.
What is hubris?