Ba'al liked life as an Earth billionaire. So why wait 70 years, round up the System Lords, and then try to win Earth with a phone call? The Secrets of Stargate panel isn't sure the plan holds up. #Stargate #Baal Continuum - Secrets of Stargate: starquest.fm/SSG283

Verad isn't after money or power. He steals a symbiont because he can't bear being ordinary. Jimmy Akin calls it "criminal FOMO." #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 Invasive Procedures (DS9) - Secrets of Star Trek: youtu.be/MiXoyQTz5NY

Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced Harry Houdini had real paranormal powers. Houdini kept telling him they were tricks. Could a stage magician ever pick up something he had no way of knowing? #Houdini #Magic #Paranormal Follow @mys_world for more. Could a Pagan God Convert and Go to Heaven? (& More Weird Questions) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World: mysterious.fm/440

Verad isn't after money or power. He's convinced he's mediocre and that only something outside himself can make him more. That's a very human kind of villain. #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine Invasive Procedures (DS9) - Secrets of Star Trek: starquest.fm/SST437

August 1784, Carmel. Seventy years old, thirty-five of them in constant pain, and he refuses to have Communion brought to him. He walks to the chapel, kneels, and sings the Tantum Ergo out loud. Same man who looked at the horses at Veracruz and said no thank you. #CatholicHistory #Saints St. Junípero Serra: Always Forward, Never Back - Holy Troublemakers: starquest.fm/HTM007

Genesis 9:6 has been read as a case for the death penalty. John 8, the woman caught in adultery, as a case against it. Which passage shapes how you think about justice? #Catholic #Bible Inadmissible: The Church and the Death Penalty - Catholics of Oz: starquest.fm/COZ164

Robert Pattinson made Antinous so loathsome that the panel counts it as a triumph. Anne Hathaway's Penelope holds the whole Ithaca story together. Who gave the best performance in The Odyssey? #TheOdyssey #AnneHathaway #RobertPattinson The Secrets of the Odyssey - Secrets of Movies: starquest.fm/SCR205

Don S. Davis filmed his last scenes as Hammond for Stargate: Continuum and died before it was released. The panel remembers him. Continuum - Secrets of Stargate: youtu.be/q8AniYk9ysQ

Billy will show up. Agatha probably won't. And it might all end with Vision and Ultron taking each other out to save the twins. Predictions from the VisionQuest premiere. #VisionQuest #AgathaAllAlong VisionQuest, S1E1 & E2 - Secrets of Television: starquest.fm/STV031

Blinded by mist, worn down by blaster fire, Kara stops fighting her own feelings. Her red blade turns silver. Balance, or something colder? #StarWars #TheNinthJedi With @salerno_thomas. The Ninth Jedi, Episode 6: Light of the Force - Secrets of Star Wars: starquest.fm/SSW271

Your executor might be able to see who you emailed and still not be allowed to read a single message. Under the law most states follow, it takes explicit language in your will. Not legal advice: ask your lawyer. #EstatePlanning #DigitalAssets Tech Memento Mori, Revisited - Secrets of Technology: starquest.fm/TEC366

Claudia Black is in nearly every scene of Stargate: Continuum, and Vala barely appears. The film hands her body back to Qetesh. Smart twist or a missed goodbye? #Stargate #ClaudiaBlack Continuum - Secrets of Stargate: starquest.fm/SSG283

When Verad takes the Dax symbiont, it shows no will of its own. So how much of Jadzia Dax was ever Dax? #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 Invasive Procedures (DS9) - Secrets of Star Trek: youtu.be/MiXoyQTz5NY

A Trill takes the Dax symbiont by force, and Dax goes along with it. If the symbiont has no will of its own, how much of Jadzia Dax was ever Dax? #StarTrek #DS9 With @bettnet and @jimmyakin3000. Invasive Procedures (DS9) - Secrets of Star Trek: starquest.fm/SST437

Suppose we made contact with an alternate timeline that has its own pope. Could he change our canon law? Could his infallible definitions bind us? #Catholic #AlternateHistory #SciFi Follow @mys_world for more. Could a Pagan God Convert and Go to Heaven? (& More Weird Questions) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World: mysterious.fm/440

November 1775. Hundreds of Kumeyaay burn Mission San Diego and kill Fr. Luís Jayme — Serra's friend, from his own island. Serra writes to the viceroy and asks that the killers not be executed. And asks that if he himself is killed, his killers be forgiven too. #CatholicHistory St. Junípero Serra: Always Forward, Never Back - Holy Troublemakers: starquest.fm/HTM007

"Both cruel and unnecessary." That's not Pope Francis on the death penalty. That's St John Paul II in 1999. The 2018 Catechism change didn't come from nowhere. #Catholic #JohnPaulII Inadmissible: The Church and the Death Penalty - Catholics of Oz: starquest.fm/COZ164

"Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things." Even Sauron doesn't know them. Is the Watcher in the Water one of them? #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings Monsters of Middle Earth - Secrets of Middle-earth: starquest.fm/SME120

All film long, Ithaca fears the mysterious "sea people." Nolan's answer turns The Odyssey into a story about guilt and the ancient law of hospitality. Clever twist, or a modern idea forced onto Homer? #TheOdyssey #Homer The Secrets of the Odyssey - Secrets of Movies: starquest.fm/SCR205