In Aliens, Ripley is taken back to LV-426 aboard which military ship?
USS Sulaco
In the same film, Ripley returns to which colony world or moon?
LV-426
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Khan takes control of the USS Reliant, but what is its NCC number?
NCC-1864
In Blade Runner, what is the empathy test used to help identify replicants called?
Voight-Kampff Test
In Alien, what is the formal name of the Nostromo’s ship computer?
MU/TH/UR 6000
In The Matrix, what is the name of Morpheus’s hovercraft?
Nebuchadnezzar
In the Dune universe, what are the highly trained human “computers” known as?
Mentats
In John Carpenter’s The Thing, the dog at the start of the film is being chased by researchers from which country?
Norway
In Event Horizon, the experimental gravity drive is designed to create what in order to fold space?
Artificial black hole
In The Expanse, before being renamed the Rocinante, what was the ship originally called?
MCRN Tachi
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