Synopsis: The Enterprise is sent to the center of the galaxy to investigate how matter is created.
In this episode “The Magicks of Megas-Tu” Starfleet and the crew of the Enterprise wanting to understand what makes the galaxy work mirror how the conscious ego seeks to understand the working of the psyche. Both entities realize that there is something outside themselves which must be at the heart of the whole.
The Enterprise, when it is plummeted into the “creation point” finds that it is outside time and space as the crew understands it and is taken to a universe in which magic, or belief, has powers. I would offer that this is similar to a human’s Logos, or conscious ego, realizing that there is a part of the psyche that is not under the control of the rules of Logos, but has its own ruler, Eros.
When Mr. Spock, Captain James T. Kirk, and some of the other crew members discover that they can use magic themselves, it is parallel to the ego’s discovering that complexes can help them access the unconscious. But it also puts them in peril, as we noted that the native magicians of Megas-Tu put the bridge crew on trial – yet they want an explanation as to how they came to discover Megas-Tu and if that discovery has also put them in peril. By Kirk reasoning with the Megans, and letting them know that the humans do not want to hurt them, as was done to them in the past, they are able to bridge the divide between the two realities. The Megans will allow more visitors, but the path created by the crew of the Enterprise’s first contact is still perilous. Just as it is every time the ego comes in contact with complexes that allow us to perceive the unconscious.
Original post created 13 April 2021
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