StarQuest Podcasts

She nearly drowned at 7 and feared the sea all her life, then crossed it more than 20 times. Dom Bettinelli tells how Mother Cabrini turned 2 convents' rejections and an archbishop's "go home" into 67 institutions for...

Kara's lightsaber turns silver in Episode 6 of The Ninth Jedi. Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Kathryn Laffrey ask what Juro taught her about anger, and why a bounty hunter's blade burns blue.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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?

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.