Spock is dying and the only cure is in the hands of Orion pirates willing to blow up an asteroid to protect their neutrality. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler on the TAS episode written by a 19-year-old.

Early Christians were no exception in ancient beliefs in ghosts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss reports of ghostly encounters in the ancient Church, what theologians thought of them, and how Jimmy would evaluate these cases today.

A woman who hates her unborn child. A scheming Klingon. A Prime Directive that's barely an idea yet. Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin unpack D.C. Fontana's bold "Friday's Child."

The story of the exorcism of "Anna Ecklund" in Earling, Iowa, in 1928 as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli recounted last time was only the beginning. Because there was an account of the exorcism contained in a secret manuscript that was kept private... and Jimmy has a copy. What does it reveal about the real-life Anna Ecklund and about this remarkable case?

She erased the memory. The guilt came back anyway. T'Pol hunts a Vulcan fugitive on an icy moon — and relives a killing she'd had ritually purged from her mind. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin on memory, guilt, and trust.

In 1928, an exorcism unfolded in a tiny Iowa convent. It inspired a 2016 movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the public account and a never-published secret manuscript of the Earling Exorcism. Part 1 of 2.

Tom Paris and Neelix crash on Planet Hell and are forced to care for a newly-hatched alien creature — and finally put their rivalry over Kes to rest. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler break down the Voyager episode Parturition. Stranded together, Paris and Neelix must cooperate to care for a newly-hatched creature. The panel examines Neelix's controlling jealousy, Janeway's command style, plot logic holes, and the writers' deliberate choice to finally resolve the Paris-Neelix tension.

In 1952, a self-taught philosopher near Palomar Mountain walked into the California desert and claimed to meet a being from Venus. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli investigate the remarkable story of George Adamski, the first UFO contactee.