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StarQuest Podcasts

SQPN, Inc.

SQPN produces programs at the intersection of faith and modern culture for an international audience, including Secrets of Star Trek, Secrets of Doctor Who, Secrets of Movies and TV, Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, Secrets of Technology, Catholics of Oz, Secrets of Stargate, Secrets of Star Wars, Secrets of Sacred Art, Secrets of Middle Earth, and Let's Science.

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Today · 38 min
SST437: Invasive Procedures (DS9)
Can a stolen symbiont make a mediocre man great? In Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 4, Verad takes Dax from Jadzia. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh what joining really gives a Trill.
Saturday · 1 hr 18 min
COZ164: Inadmissible: The Church and the Death Penalty
Should a killer's execution be livestreamed? The Fort Hood case prompts Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight and Lino Saubolle to trace how Catholic teaching on the death penalty developed, then a Tesla that flies.
Friday · 1 hr 18 min
SSG283: Continuum
A Goa'uld erases the Stargate program by sinking one ship in 1939. Victor Lams, Lisa Jones and Jeff Haecker take on Stargate: Continuum, SG-1's final film, its Arctic shoot and its missing Vala.
Friday · 1 hr 58 min
MYS440: Could a Pagan God Convert and Go to Heaven? (& More Weird Questions)
Could a pagan god meet Jesus, repent, and go to heaven? Jimmy Akin answers listener Weird Questions with Cy Kellett, from angels outrunning light to an alternate timeline's pope, Atlantis, the mark of Cain, and bison in tornadoes.
Thursday · 1 hr 6 min
TEC366: Tech Memento Mori, Revisited
If you died tonight, could your family get into your phone, email and bank accounts? Dom Bettinelli and Tom Grelinger revisit Tech Memento Mori with the legacy tools Apple, Google and Facebook now offer.
Thursday · 1 hr 1 min
SCR205: The Secrets of the Odyssey
Christopher Nolan gave Odysseus a guilty conscience. Does a hero who mourns the sack of Troy still belong to Homer? Jeff Haecker, Fr. Bryan Shackett, and Patrick Mason weigh a stunning IMAX epic against its source.
Wednesday · 1 hr 18 min
STV031: VisionQuest, S1E1 & E2
Is a rebuilt Vision with borrowed memories still Vision? Patrick Mason, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Leonardi open VisionQuest episodes 1 and 2: Ultron in the attic, a bounty hunter at the door, and a son named Tommy.
Wednesday · 21 min
HTM007: St. Junípero Serra: Always Forward, Never Back
He walked 250 miles rather than ride a horse, and begged mercy for his friend's killers. He also signed off on whippings. Dom Bettinelli doesn't let either half of Junípero Serra's record disappear.
Tuesday · 1 hr 30 min
SME120: Monsters of Middle Earth
Tolkien gave his monsters a few paragraphs apiece and still made them terrifying. Jeff Haecker, Rob Leonardi, Fr. Bryan Shackett, Rob Story and Patrick Mason take on wargs, werewolves, Ungoliant and the nameless things.
October 19 · 51 min
SST436: Heart of Glory (TNG)
The episode that made Worf, and a security team that badly needs retraining. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh Klingon honor, a death howl, and an extradition with no questions asked in TNG Season 1, Episode 20.
October 17 · 17 min
SCI109: Meet the Tilcayo
A stray kitten raised on rice and noodles turned out to be a brand-new wild cat species. Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle on the tilcayo of Bolivia's cloud forest and the DNA study that found five tiger cats where one was assumed.
October 16 · 42 min
SSG282: The Last Man (SGA)
A solar flare throws Sheppard 48,000 years ahead, and a hologram of old McKay tells him how it all went wrong. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones and Victor Lams take on Stargate Atlantis S4E20, "The Last Man," the season 4 finale.
October 16 · 1 hr 56 min
MYS439: Do Daleks Have Souls? Star Wars Catholicism and More Weird Questions
Is every prayer a kind of telepathy? On Halloween, Jimmy Akin takes listener questions with Cy Kellett, from ghosts who never ask for Masses to Star Wars' religious roots, time travel, and whether Daleks have souls.
October 15 · 1 hr 15 min
TEC365: Apple's Home Strategy Comes into View
Can one $299 screen that knows every face in the kitchen serve the whole family? Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier weigh Apple's new HomeView, HomePod mini, $299 Apple TV 4K and Apple Home Collection, and decide what to buy.
October 14 · 59 min
STV030: Silo, S3: Troy
Can a man be reprogrammed into a killer and still be guilty? In Silo Season 3, Episode 10, "Troy," Daniel Keene wakes with no memory and a massacre to carry out. Is he a Trojan horse, or only a weapon?
October 14 · 24 min
HTM006: St. John Henry Newman: One Step Enough for Me
Stranded on a becalmed orange boat off Sicily, a sick Anglican clergyman wrote six lines that would outlive his career. Dom traces John Henry Newman's path from Oxford star to disgraced convert to Doctor of the Church.
October 13 · 45 min
SSW270: The Ninth Jedi, Episode 5: The Storm of Violence
Kara's lightsaber turns red in Season 1, Episode 5 of The Ninth Jedi. Was it the kill or the rage? Jeff Haecker, Thomas Salerno, and Kathryn Laffrey weigh her fall against Anakin, Moses, and Nawaam.
October 12 · 34 min
SST435: The Practical Joker (TAS)
A charged particle cloud infects the Enterprise computer and it starts pranking the crew. In TAS S2E3, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh forced 1970s gags against Star Trek's very first holodeck.
October 10 · 1 hr 33 min
COZ163: Without Sacrifice, There Is No Love
Without sacrifice, there is no love. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight and Lino Saubolle read the Australian bishops' call to heal social division through encounter, then meet the Tilcayo tiger cat, a new species from Bolivia.
October 9 · 53 min
SSG281: The Kindred, Parts 1 & 2 (SGA)
A cloned Carson Beckett, a pregnant Teyla strapped down in Michael's lab, and a plague built from an old anti-Wraith drug. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones and Victor Lams take on Stargate Atlantis S4E18 and E19, "The Kindred."

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