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Question: What happened to Julia? They spend time building up a character and then she dated Frasier and they broke up, and in the next episode there is no mention of her leaving the station - no one talked about her?

Dan23

Chosen answer: TV shows frequently have short-term characters who never appear again. Maybe Julia got another job. Maybe Julia still works at KACL, even if she is never shown or mentioned.

Answer: She became victim to "Chuck Cunningham Syndrome." Which is described as: "when a character in a television mysteriously vanishes from the show. No write-off, no death, not even a passing explanation of what happened to the character."

Ssiscool ★

It's annoying when they introduce the character build it up and then get rid of it with none of the characters mentioning it.

Dan23

21st Jan 2018

Stargate: Atlantis (2004)

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Question: What's with the earth ships lowering or raising shields for beaming and ships to come in and out, and why do they keep changing it all the time?

Dan23

Answer: Shields are shields, and until Odyssey got the Asgard treatment in Unending, nothing can go through them. No transporting and no docking. After Unending, it is shown in Atlantis that beaming can be done through the shields, but not docking. They never changed this but once. Anything else is just a goof.

Well you do see X302 flying out of the ship during a battle and shields are up, but in Atlantis season 5 episode 1 they lower their shields for puddle jumpers to come on on board. I understand that some ships can pass through Shields and some can't. Ancient ships can go through Atlantis shield. Pegasus Asgard could go through an Atlantis shield until they made modifications to prevent that.

Dan23

The shields only work in one direction. Things can travel out of the shields, such as the missiles and railgun fire. This includes the F-302s. The puddle jumpers needed to enter the shields, which cannot be done without lowering them.

21st Jan 2018

Friends (1994)

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Question: Monica has different weird fruits in a bowl on her table. In an interview someone from the props department said that it was explained in an episode - does anyone know what episode it was?

Dan23

Answer: Season 6 episode 18: Ross dates a student.

Ssiscool ★

21st Jan 2018

Charmed (1998)

Season 6 generally

Question: Some episodes towards the end of season 6 feature different end credits with a Warner Brothers logo but in some repeats they replace them with the normal credits - why?

Dan23

Answer: Because that show was first created by Warner Bros, not CW.

21st Jan 2018

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Parturition - S2-E7

Question: Tom is showing Kes how to pilot a shuttle in the holodeck. Why did they use footage of Jem'Hadar fighters attacking?

Dan23

Answer: Because it saves on production costs.

Answer: As stated, the practical answer is to save money on effects. The in-world answer is that they could recreate the fighters from sensor records.

Answer: To help her prepare for threats and other obstacles that she may encounter while piloting a shuttlecraft.

My question is why did the show reuse footage from ds9 s3 of Jem'Hadar fighters attacking?

Dan23

21st Jan 2018

Babylon 5 (1994)

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Question: Was Talia ever mentioned about after the placed personality took over and she left?

Dan23

Answer: According to Babylon 5 lore, PSI Cop Bester was quoted, "We learned some interesting things about Ms. Winters in the course of her debriefing and dissect-that is, examination.

21st Jan 2018

Stargate: Atlantis (2004)

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Question: Was it ever confirmed that Ford died on the wraith hive ship?

Dan23

Answer: No. In "The Third Path" (book from Legacy series), he even appeared on travelers ship.

21st Jan 2018

Babylon 5 (1994)

Season 4 generally

Question: What did Susan do after she left at the end of season 4?

Dan23

Chosen answer: She was promoted to Captain and thus had to leave Babylon 5, becoming a captain on a new Warlock class ship. Later on she retires/quits and becomes the top Ranger on Minbar.

Answer: She was promoted to Captain and headed a new class of ship called the Warlock. Hence she was no longer on the station after season 4, dealing with her grief from Marcus dying.

21st Jan 2018

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)

The Philadelphia Story - S4-E26

Question: Is this the first time Will went back to Philadelphia?

Dan23

Answer: As stated previously, Will returned from spending the summer in Philly at the beginning of s03e01. But this is the first time the audience sees Will going back to Philadelphia.

Bishop73

21st Jan 2018

Stargate: Atlantis (2004)

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Question: How many drones can a puddle jumper hold?

Dan23

Answer: It's never explicitly stated in the show.

21st Jan 2018

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)

How I Spent My Summer Vacation - S3-E1

Question: Where is Will coming back from?

Dan23

Answer: He's coming back from his vacation in Philadelphia.

15th Jan 2018

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

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Question: Why did Voyager seem to have more photon torpedoes than the number of photon torpedoes they said they had?

Dan23

Answer: For the first 4 seasons they kept to the number originally stated and often referred to the number remaining, however by season 5 it was too much of a writing constraint. It is just assumed that they had found somewhere to replenish their supply.

15th Jan 2018

Star Trek (1966)

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Question: Why do the ship's weapons and hand weapons have different colour effects?

Dan23

Answer: It most likely represents varying power levels. Think of fire; as its temperature rises, its color changes. Energy weapons are likely similar.

15th Jan 2018

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Thirty Days - S5-E9

Question: Tom refers to a organisation that explores oceans and seas on other planets. What was the name of it?

Dan23

Answer: Tom mentions wanting to join the Federation Naval Patrol. It was a military organization that patrolled the oceans of member planets to provide security as well as explore the oceans.

Bishop73