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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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  • Yesterday · 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.

  • Friday · 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."

  • Thursday · 1 hr 10 min

    TEC364: Local-First: Keep Working When the Cloud Doesn't

    When the cloud goes down, does your stuff still work? Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Leo Devick put notes apps, ebooks, photos, smart homes, and password managers through the outage test and the shutdown test.

  • Thursday · 1 hr 4 min

    SCR204: The Secrets of Masters of the Universe

    It's a toy commercial pretending to be a movie — and somehow it works. Patrick Mason, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Story break down why Amazon's Masters of the Universe reboot earns its emotional beats, and why Idris Elba steals the whole film.

  • Wednesday · 50 min

    STV029: Silo, S3: Farewell

    Who gave them the right to choose who lives? In Silo S3E9, "Farewell," Bernard trades his life for his friends and a nuclear blast seals the silos. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray on redemption and playing God.

  • Wednesday · 23 min

    HTM005: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: The Widow Who Built A Church

    Locked in a freezing Italian quarantine house with a dying husband, a young widow named Elizabeth started asking questions about the Eucharist. Dom Bettinelli traces her path from teenage despair to America's first native-born saint.

  • Tuesday · 1 hr 11 min

    SME119: Concerning Hobbits, Part 2

    Why would Tolkien trust the fate of Middle-earth to people who mostly want second breakfast? Jeff Haecker, Rob Story, Patrick Mason, Fr. Bryan Shackett and Rob Leonardi on unlikely heroes, courage, and the Ring.

  • Monday · 54 min

    SST434: Amok Time (TOS)

    Vulcan biology gets its first real explanation, and it nearly kills Spock. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler break down TOS S2E1 "Amok Time" — the salute, the fight music, and two plot holes nobody ever patched.

  • Monday · 17 min

    SSA061: Nine Hundred Years in an Empty Field

    The key to a twelfth-century chapel hangs on a signpost in an empty Shropshire field. Alix Murray walks Kathryn Laffrey through Heath Chapel's carved Norman arch, its Reformation-scarred wall paintings, and a saint named before reading a word.

  • October 3 · 16 min

    SCI108: Not All Roads Lead to Rome

    Not all roads led to Rome. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle look at new research built on Itiner-e, the biggest map of Roman roads ever made, and the three myths it busts. Plus listeners share their citizen-science stories.

  • October 2 · 34 min

    SSG280: Midway (SGA)

    Two warriors who can't stand each other, a station billed as unhackable, and the day the Wraith almost walked onto Earth. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker and Lisa Jones take on Stargate Atlantis S4E17, "Midway."

  • October 1 · 1 hr 5 min

    TEC363: Not Amused: Meta Wants Muse on Your Face

    Would you let an AI agent buy a jacket just because you looked at it? Meta's Muse wants to. Dom Bettinelli, Pat Scott, and Fr. Andrew Kinstetter size up Meta's new VR and AI glasses and ask whether Meta deserves that trust.

  • September 30 · 54 min

    STV028: Silo, S3: Gray Goo

    The silos weren't built after the world ended — they were built by a trillionaire who decided it would. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray unpack Silo S3E8's gray goo reveal and the one thing its founders refused to save.

  • September 30 · 21 min

    HTM004: St. Ignatius of Loyola

    A cannonball ended his career at 30. Stuck in bed with a ruined leg, Iñigo López de Loyola noticed which daydreams left him empty and which left him happy. Dom Bettinelli traces how that one habit of attention built the Jesuits.

  • September 29 · 46 min

    SSW269: The Ninth Jedi, Episode 4: Nawaam Attacks

    Juro is gone and Nawaam is unmasked. In Season 1, Episode 4 of The Ninth Jedi, Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Kathryn Laffrey ask whether a man who uses the dark side for others can still be called a Jedi.

  • September 28 · 59 min

    SST433: Tomorrow's Enterprise (SNW)

    Two Uhuras, a year apart, and a Scotty who died in one timeline: the Strange New Worlds Season 4 finale (Episode 10) plays like a pilot for Kirk's Year One. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh its heart against its physics.

  • September 26 · 1 hr 15 min

    COZ162: Living Water: The Season of Creation

    Not all roads led to Rome, and salt water doesn't turn fresh. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle read Ezekiel's impossible river for the Season of Creation, then take apart what everyone thinks they know about Roman roads.

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