StarQuest Podcasts

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.

If you died tonight, could your family get into your phone, email and bank accounts? Dom Bettinelli and Tom Grelinger revisit Tech Memento Mori with the legacy tools Apple, Google and Facebook now offer.

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.

Is a rebuilt Vision with borrowed memories still Vision? Patrick Mason, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Leonardi open VisionQuest episodes 1 and 2: Ultron in the attic, a bounty hunter at the door, and a son named Tommy.

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.