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I'll grab it before anyone else comes up with a Star Trek answer: in the Star Trek: TNG episode " First Contact ", Riker is surgically altered (i.e. given little forehead lumps) so he can observe the pre-warp civilisation on Malcor III. That's definitely a good example. Four to go! In Exc...

OK, in one of my previous questions I asked for shape-changing aliens. This time I'm looking for five examples of HUMANS imitating ALIENS on the alien's worlds, ships, space stations or whatever - by shape changing, makeup, plastic surgery, drugs or whatever else might be needed to convince the alie...

OK - I'll try another - Dr. Prilicla from James White's Sector General series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General To quote Wikipedia A large but fragile winged insect-like being from the very low-gravity planet Cinruss. In addition to being highly skilled in the more delicate types of surg...

I see the Thranx and raise you some REALLY big mutant ants, in the film Them! (1954) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_22_June_1954%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg/555px-Tri-City_Drive-In...

I'm guessing that the Asimov reference you're after is the Earth becoming radioactive and uninhabitable at some point between the first two robot books and the founding of the Galactic Empire in the Foundation series. The trouble is that if I recall correctly that turns out to be a deliberate act of...

Forgot to say that I did as Commander X suggested. Does seem to be some speed improvement. Microsoft Office made me run a repair rather than just telling me fonts were missing, apart from that I've had no problems.

Another one I found by accident - I thought I remembered a Superman story with an atomic-fuelled villain created by a reactor accident - couldn't find that, but did find Pozharnov, a small, abandoned city in Russia evacuated after a 1987 meltdown and later used as an alien base for an invasion of Ea...

...draws its inspiration from 1920s advertising and the late great Harry Harrison. The card is here, for best results print it double-sided with short edge collation https://forgottenfutures.co.uk/album/xmas2023.pdf The illo is here without text if you want to use it for something else https://forgo...

If a meltdown counts: Turnmill Nuclear Power Station near Cardiff, in Torchwood . Partial meltdown triggered by time travellers, damage limited by the actions of two Torchwood agents who are both killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Wounds_(Torchwood) https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Exit_Wounds...

There was also a 1965 Poul Anderson novel, The Corridors of Time, which had literal tunnels going to the past and future with "gates" a few months wide opening every few years if you knew how to enter them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Time

Numerous instances of this in the superhero web novel Worm (John C. "Wildbow" McCrae 2011-13) and sequels - "Door" portals that can be opened to any of several universes at will by the secret "Cauldron" cabal, a permanent portal for electromagnetic communication between...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Planet ok. i worked out LL but im going to throw in a curve ball... Treasure Planet 2002 disney reimagining of treasure island but in space. ths space ship is a sailing ship as per the 1700's pirate ships.... very similar to the ship in PR's book Ll OK - they ...

More clues for the examples I gave - apologies again about the Lovecraft one, I still don't know what I was actually thinking of there. LL (YA novel series) - 2006-8 (some sources show 2006-9) - Author is P R - Author's surname is an old name for a magistrate or other official. V B (novel, part of a...

T D-Q O U (novella) - 1927 (but first published much later) - Author is H P L if hpl is hp lovecraft then the 1927 timing and the title hint at "The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath" , however from reading the plot on wiki i cant see this has anything to do with space or a modified water vess...

More clues for the remaining examples LL (YA novel series) - 2006-8 (some sources show 2006-9) - Author is P R T D-Q O U (novella) - 1927 (but first published much later) - Author is H P L V B (novel, part of a series) - 2007 - Author is J R GG S B (Japanese live action TV) - 2006-7, some footage re...