Synopsis: The Enterprise encounters an ancient starship orbiting a dead star.
In “Beyond the Farthest Star” the way that the crew of the Enterprise reacts to the “malevolent” life form aboard the ancient ship reflects how the conscious ego tries to deal with intrusions from a person’s unconscious.
The Enterprise, on a mission to star chart comes across a “negative star mass” that extends its “hypergravity” to drag the Enterprise into its orbit. Then the Enterprise finds a starship that has been orbiting this negative star mass for over 300 million years, to a time before there was even human life on Earth. The ancient starship has a warning for the crew of the landing party, that a malevolent life form has come aboard this vessel and that they had to destroy it in order to stop its spread. Unfortunately, the malevolent entity leaves the deserted ancient ship and comes aboard the Enterprise. The Enterprise figures out a way to leave the unnamed malevolent entity on the dead star. Marooning it there forever, as it cries out: “Don’t leave me alone. Please, please. . . . so lonely.”
This is what happens when the conscious ego is confronted by a piece of the unconscious through a complex. A complex being an opening in the psyche, usually through a wound, that allows unconscious archetypes to contact the conscious ego. And although in popular culture there is a negative connotation to this word, complexes are often not necessarily harmful. We all have them and they are opportunities to learn about ourselves.
A complex can seem like it is extending hypergravity to drag the attention of the conscious ego, to the unconscious, which can be considered a negative star mass. The 300-million-year-old starship can be thought of as an internal defense mechanism that the conscious ego has created in order to keep the unconscious away, a protective shell if you will. This analogy is especially noted because the deserted vessel warns the landing party of the presence of the malevolent entity, which is how the conscious ego can view the unconscious. Yet, the complex allows the entity to reach the ego, just as the transporter allowed the entity to board the Enterprise. And while it is the way of the rational ego to want to disassociate itself with the contents of the unconscious, just as the crew of the Enterprise left the malevolent entity on the surface of the dead sun, this is not the only way to deal with the unconscious. Complexes give us the opportunity to work with bits of our unconscious, and by accepting it and integrating it into our rational ego, instead of avoiding it, our psyches are made stronger. Otherwise, the unconscious will try to reach us again through the complex, until we learn the lesson that has caused it to manifest, in order to teach us.
Original post created 5 April 2021
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