Questions tagged [parallel-universe]
For questions about a parallel universe or alternative reality, a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality.
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Was the Enterprise-D the first Galaxy class starship? Why?
According to the script of Yesterday's Enterprise, the Enterprise-D was, "the first Galaxy Class warship built by the Federation".
How can that be? I thought the first would be the Galaxy, hence the ...
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What is the title of a story about a elevator through time and the smallest possible change [duplicate]
Many years ago I read a story about a guy working for an organisation that would influence time-lines by traveling through time using a sort of elevator. The objective of the operators was to ...
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A web comic where a woman in a hoodie asks what universe she is in?
Some years back I read a beautifully illustrated fantasy web comic, rather surreal.
All I remember is a woman in a hoodie stumbling into some alternate world. She zipped up her hoodie to obscure her ...
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A (G-rated) graphic novel with a picture of purple tentacles coming out of a door on the cover
I'm trying to find a graphic novel about two kids, a boy and a girl, who moved to an old family house because they couldn't afford where they were living anymore. In the house, they discovered a ...
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Is there any evidence that using alternate universe/timeline in a franchise hurts/helps it?
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There is a widespread approach in sci-fi/fantasy franchises to use alternate timelines/parallel universes as a technique/device to continue/extend/expand the franchise. Notable examples I ...
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What exactly are the 'voids' in the Fringe parallel universe?
From what I can tell the primary reason that the other parallel universe is seeking to destroy our universe is because they presume that the voids that appear there are being caused by this universe.
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