Can a story work when the audience knows none of it is real? Hoshi Sato’s first transport goes wrong in Enterprise Season 2, Episode 10, and Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask what “Vanishing Point” was for.
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Neelix comes back from the dead and remembers no afterlife. Was his faith wrong, or did he just forget? Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin take on Voyager Season 4, Episode 12, “Mortal Coil.”
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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.
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The episode that made Worf, and a security team that badly needs retraining. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh Klingon honor, a death howl, and an extradition with no questions asked in TNG Season 1, Episode 20.
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A charged particle cloud infects the Enterprise computer and it starts pranking the crew. In TAS S2E3, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh forced 1970s gags against Star Trek’s very first holodeck.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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