Jimmy Akin Podcast
1) Homefront (DS9) - The Secrets of Star Trek
What happens when fear overrides freedom? As changeling paranoia grips Earth, martial law looms and trust fractures. With Sisko and Odo at the center, Jimmy Akin, Father Jason Tyler, and Dom Bettinell...Show More
2) The Tennessee Prophet John Hendrix
A mysterious Tennessee farmer who received startling visions of the future no one believed. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli revisit the story of John Hendrix with new information about his incredible cl...Show More
3) Catch-1782 (Big Finish) - The Secrets of Doctor Who
Is Eleanor a glitch in time? Did Hallam fake the death record? History works without aliens. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin debate laudanum, class, and a canister loop in the Sixth Doctor audio story, ...Show More
4) The Defector (TNG) - The Secrets of Star Trek
A tense moral chess match. Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin ask: Was Picard right to cross the Neutral Zone? Cold War stakes, Henry V echoes, stellar acting.
5) The Nephilim (Bible Mystery: Aliens? Angels? Something Else?) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Were the Nephilim of Genesis 6 aliens or human-alien hybrids? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli re-visit one of the strangest passages in the Bible to consider some more theories about who they were.
6) The Caves of Androzani (Revisited) - The Secrets of Doctor Who
A ruthless tycoon, a masked fanatic, and Spectrox stakes. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin discuss whether “Caves of Androzani” is good send-off—does the Fifth Doctor’s choice redefine heroism?
7) The Slaver Weapon (TAS) - The Secrets of Star Trek
A shape-shifting “soft weapon,” Kzinti honor, and billion-year tech—are some powers too dangerous to exist? Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin connect TAS’s “The Slaver Weapon” to Larry Niven’s Known Space...Show More
8) Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting (The First UFOs) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Was Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting evidence of extraterrestrial craft? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli revisit the case, weigh rival explanations, and assess why his measurements still unsettle skeptics...Show More
9) Full Circle - The Secrets of Doctor Who
What if the “colonists” aren’t who they think they are? Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin assess e-Space, Adric’s rocky debut, mistfall’s biology, and the Deciders’ big lie. Bold takes, sharp lore chat, p...Show More
10) Operation -- Annihilate! (TOS) - The Secrets of Star Trek
Parasites, pain, and ethics: Was McCoy’s cure a betrayal? Should Kirk have tried talking to a hive mind bent on torture? Dom Bettinelli, Father Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin tackle TOS’s “Operation—Anni...Show More