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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.

Can science show the soul survives death? Jimmy Akin announces two fall courses for the Rhine Education Center: one on near-death experiences and reincarnation-type cases, and Introduction to Parapsychology.

Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler's parents, Revelation's scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.

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.

Can one human being possess another? MKUltra tried. Jimmy Akin answers that and seven more listener questions — purgatory when the world ends, fallen guardian angels, brain swaps, and whether lizards were once dragons.

A shadow self is the part you hide, not the evil twin, which gives Season 4, Episode 9 away a mile off. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler on the fairy tale, the Rukiya payoff that never lands, and whether Pike commands like a captain.

A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no way to know, and ask how they got them.

A grieving admiral wants 5,000 people killed to be sure of one cloaked ship, and only Kirk objects. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on Strange New Worlds S4E8, and ask why nobody calls it an illegal order.

An EgyptAir 767 fell out of a clear sky off Nantucket in 1999, and two governments read the same black boxes and reached opposite verdicts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh four theories and one Arabic prayer.

Trelane turns the Enterprise into a soap opera for a school project, and only Pike notices. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask whether *Strange New Worlds* S4E7 survives a five-minute bit stretched to an hour.

Could Jesus have incarnated on a Klingon world while he walked in Galilee? Jimmy Akin takes that question and eleven more from patrons — telekinesis, the Mary Celeste, Salem, ley lines — with Dom Bettinelli.

A table tears loose in sickbay and cuts Dr. M'Benga nearly in half — and Nurse Chapel refuses to let him go. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on *Strange New Worlds* S4E6, the real-time hour that finally feels like *Trek*.

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.

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.

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.