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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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Friday · 42 min
SSG275: Spoils of War (SGA)
The Wraith don't breed. They're grown. Season 4's "Spoils of War" (S4E12) finally shows how, and Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams weigh a cloning facility, a pregnant Teyla, and the episode where Sheppard names Todd.
Friday · 1 hr 54 min
MYS432: The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas)
Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness.
Thursday · 1 hr
TEC358: Friction Maxxing: The Internet Rediscovers That Struggle Is Good for You
Struggle has value, and the internet just rediscovered it. Friction-maxxing means making your tech deliberately harder to use — and Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Joseph Sund, and Pat Scott find that the monks got there about seventeen centuries first.
Thursday · 1 hr 50 min
SCR200: The Secrets of The Movies That Made Us
Some films don't just entertain — they get wired into who you become. For episode 200, Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Salerno, Kathryn Laffrey, and Alix Murray trace the movies that shaped their tastes, fears, faith, and futures.
Wednesday · 52 min
STV023: Silo, S3: A Dark Web
Stop taking the vitamins and the memories come back — along with everything the Silo buried. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray take on Silo S3E3, "A Dark Web," and an AI that knows Camille better than she knows herself.
Tuesday · 1 hr 46 min
SME116: The Mythmakers
Two archetypes walk you through the lives of Tolkien and Lewis and never once say their own names. Thomas Salerno and the panel on why *The Mythmakers* is not the kids' book its cover promises — and why its ending earns the tears.
August 24 · 49 min
SST428: Level-Five Transporter Accident (SNW)
Is Star Trek's puppet episode genius or a cop-out? Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler split over whether Strange New Worlds S4E5's dream-ending twist earns its plot holes, plus a hidden Lucille Ball reference few will catch.
August 24 · 14 min
SSA058: How Van Eyck Painted Forever
A Magnificat bookmark turns into a full rabbit hole back into the Ghent Altarpiece. Kathryn Laffrey and Alix Murray zoom into Van Eyck's endless blue horizon and the restoration secrets it just gave up.
August 22 · 21 min
SCI106: Scientists Can't Be Everywhere — So They Need You
Scientists can't be everywhere. Volunteers with smartphones are catching invasive species, rescuing 19th-century weather logs, and flagging new objects in the night sky. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle on becoming a citizen scientist.
August 21 · 40 min
SSG274: Be All My Sins Remember'd (SGA)
Atlantis aims Earth ships, Wraith hives, and Traveler vessels at the same planet in Stargate Atlantis S4E11. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones on the biggest battle the franchise ever staged, and the face in that last shot.
August 21 · 1 hr 25 min
MYS431: Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests
Colored light around every living thing, readable by anyone with the right training — or by a camera at the mall. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow the aura from Mesmer to the selfie app, and weigh what happened under controlled testing.
August 20 · 1 hr 23 min
TEC357: Upgrade Your Home Office Without Going Broke
Desk setup videos sell a look with a shopping list attached. Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier sort the home office upgrades that matter from the ones that just photograph well — chairs, lighting, power, ergonomics, and cable chaos.
August 19 · 50 min
STV022: Silo, S3: It's All Good
Six silos reset. Three hundred fifty-two years of erased memory. As the Algorithm reveals its scale, Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray ask whether Silo S3E2 is right that we're nothing more than the sum of our memories.
August 18 · 53 min
SSW266: The Ninth Jedi, Episode 1: A New Threat
A new Jedi Order rises from the ashes of Coruscant. Patrick Mason, Kathryn Laffrey, and Jeff Haecker break down "The Ninth Jedi, Episode 1: A New Threat" — plus the freshly dropped *Ahsoka* Season 2 trailer.
August 17 · 47 min
SST427: A Case of Chiaroscuro
In Strange New Worlds S4E4, Number One gets stranded on a Klingon-occupied world that's basically Casablanca in space. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler debate the shaky black-and-white science and cheer her overdue spotlight.
August 15 · 1 hr 24 min
COZ160: Catholic Social Teaching 101: Dignity, Subsidiarity, and Solidarity
Caroline's away, so Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle tackle Pope Leo's teaching on human dignity, subsidiarity, and the common good — then pivot to five citizen-science projects you can join this week, from mosquito traps to Martian clouds.
August 14 · 37 min
SSG273: This Mortal Coil (SGA)
Cut your hand and watch it close. That's the first sign Atlantis isn't Atlantis in Stargate Atlantis S4E10. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams weigh a sharp premise against an episode that talks its way straight through it.
August 14 · 1 hr 17 min
MYS430: Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman
A flashlight, three discs over a Missouri ranch, and a ray that cured fifteen years of back pain. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow Buck Nelson from Ozark farmer to saucer celebrity — and to a twist that isn't funny at all.
August 13 · 59 min
SCR199: The Secrets of The Goonies
A boy's faith in his father, a booby-trapped pirate ship, and more swearing than any 1985 kids' movie should have. Dom Bettinelli, Rob Leonardi, and Patrick Mason revisit why The Goonies still pulls fans to Astoria, Oregon.
August 12 · 52 min
STV021: Silo, S3: Who Are You?
Memory is a weapon in Silo S3E1. Juliette wakes as an amnesiac figurehead while a shadow government and an amoral Algorithm rewrite the truth. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray unpack the premiere's slow-burn payoff.

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