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Did Star Trek: Discovery’s Georgiou Just Create a New Timeline?

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 9. The biggest twist from Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 has returned for Season 3. After living in the Prime Universe since the end of Season 1, Phillipa Georgiou, former Terran Emperor in the Mirror Universe, has been confronted with the very real prospect that she might need to go back to where she came from in order to stay alive. But what’s really going on? In “Terra Firma, Part 1,” Discovery has taken a very unexpected turn, seemingly in the middle of several other storylines, to fully tackle…
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Jacob’s Ladder: How LSD, Tibetan Buddhism and Tim Robbins Combined to Create a Cult Classic

Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin still recalls one viewer’s reaction to Jacob’s Ladder.   “I was stood outside the theatre on the very first day it opened in LA, waiting for the crowds to come out to see how they responded,” Rubin recalls. “As the credits started rolling this guy ran out, probably five feet from me, and yelled at nobody in particular: ‘If I ever meet the guy that wrote that movie, I’ll kill him.’”   It was  an extraordinary reaction but, then again, Jacob’s Ladder is an extraordinary movie.   Released on November 2, 1990, the film was only a modest success…
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