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SST302: Up periscope! Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this story of the USS Defiant in a submarine-like battle. They discuss Kyra’s faith, Quark’s business acumen, and Worf’s leadership style as the crew fights to survive the Jem-Hadar and the environment. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST301: Poor Geordi. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this TNG story that combines a ticking clock story with Geordi’s awkward romantic track record and a strange holodeck encounter, plus discussion of AI in Trek and Picard’s leadership. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST300: To celebrate their 300th episode, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha give their lists of the best episodes in each of the Star Trek series, from The Original Series to Strange New Worlds. The ones they agree on are predictable, but where do they disagree? Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST299: Mudd’s back. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin discuss the animated return of con man Harry Mudd, including the eyebrow-raising content for a kid’s cartoon, the ethical problems of love potions and their portrayal in popular media, and why Rainn Wilson’s Mudd may have been the best. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST298: Death by computer. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this story’s moral implications and real-world parallels with themes of war’s human cost, technology’s role in conflict, and ethical leadership. Plus Kirk killing another megalomaniacal computer. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST297: Psychic goo alien! Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the Enterprise’s encounter with an unusual lifeform where they have to discern motive and morality and debate the ethics of extreme measures to save their crew. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST296: Nullified! Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this Chakotay story in all its weird alien word choice, its “don’t judge a book by its cover” morale, and the themes of courage, indoctrination, and cross-cultural understanding. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST295: Eminent domain! Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss DS9’s “Progress,” including themes of societal good vs. individual rights; the limits of governmental authority, and Kira’s transition from rebel to government official and her ethical and moral dilemmas. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST294: It was a dimly-lit, smoke-filled backroom where Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha crack open the case of “The Big Goodbye.” In a tale as old as the stars, it’s a classic yarn of crew trapped in a haywire holodeck with a twist right out of a 1940s pulp detective novel. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

SST293: Twenty-five years after its release, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the highs and lows of this TNG movie, the ethical quandaries of forced relocation, and the allure of the fountain of youth, plus the humor and usual plot holes. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.

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SST292: Are you of the Body? Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this story of a computer-controlled society suppressing free will and individuality for peace and tranquility, including the religious allegory, the comparison to the Borg, and how the allure of a simpler life could lead to a loss of liberty. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Listen to this episode and subscribe on YouTube. Help us continue to offer the Secrets of Star Trek. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today? Links for this episode: * Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! * You can watch all Star Trek series on Paramount+ and some are available on Netflix or Amazon. * Get the official Secrets of Star Trek t-shirt at sqpn.com/merch. * Purchase Star Trek books and Blu-ray/DVDs of Star Trek series and movies at the Secrets of Star Trek Store. * Join the conversation at the SQPN Facebook page. * Be part of the StarQuest Discord community at SQPN.com/discord * Send your feedback or comments to trek@sqpn.com Want to Sponsor A Show? Support StarQuest’s mission to explore the intersection of faith and pop culture by becoming a named sponsor of the show of your choice on the StarQuest network. Click to get started or find out more.