Synopsis: The Enterprise is sent to Capella IV to negotiate for mining rights.
This episode, like many episodes in Star Trek: The Original Series sets the United Federation of Planets against an enemy, here the Klingon Empire. During the Cold War, superpowers on Earth tend not to confront each other head on, in their own territories. Similarly, here an unaffiliated planet is the place in which hostilities between these two enemies is played out. And while this was often difficult on the location of the confrontation, always leaving it changed in some manner, it does prevent an all-out war between the two opposites.
In depth psychology, this numinous space where the union of opposites can take place is called a vessel or psychic container. Depth psychology offers this type of vessel, but it is just a container, it is not the actual propitiation of the gods within us. It is in accepting the different parts of our psyche, understanding that there are many different aspects of ourselves – or gods – that need to be appeased, that we can become more whole.
The event that leads to success at the end of “Friday’s Child” is the birth of a child, the child being a depth psychological symbol of the self. In the rhyme: “Friday’s child is loving and giving,” and for Captain James T. Kirk, Dr. Leonard (Bones) McCoy, and the Enterprise, the birth of Leonard James Akaar, with help from McCoy’s loving physician’s hands, does give them the mining agreement that they were sent to achieve. Yet it is well to keep in mind that in Star Trek it seems that no matter how difficult the mission, success of the Federation, or the Logos, is the outcome. This reflects the conscious ego always beating out the wants of the Eros of the unconscious. Science fiction is one thing, but in our own psychic development, sometimes the Eros needs a win.
Original post created 17 February 2021
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