“Nichelle Nichols in her Final Performance”
When Prof. Steiner creates a new technology to link people's minds together for rapid communication and learning, his nefarious ulterior motives become evident. His first subject, a young woman named Ominara, falls prey. Together with her two friends Shane and Alex, she sets out to stop Steiner while traveling the cosmos in search of allies. A continuing mission to explore new worlds while having a little mischievous fun across the galaxy. Ominara, Shane and Alex try and stop Professor Steiner as their journey takes them deeper into unknown worlds and into further dangers.
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Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.
