Synopsis: The Enterprise returns to the “Shore Leave” planet to find the Keeper has died.
In this episode, which returns the crew of the Enterprise to the planet from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Shore Leave,” we find out what happens when the mediating presence between the unconscious drives of the crew members and the rational ego that constructs reality is lost. In this episode this mediating presence, which Carl (C. G.) Jung called a complex, is embodied in the form of the Keeper. His death has left a wound in the Thought Duplicator’s programming. One reason why of the members of the landing party it was Lt. Nyota Uhura who was captured and taken to the computer brain, was that it was trying to find its anima; that feminine soul entity found within the psyche.
Without the Keeper, the vessel between the unconscious wishes the Thought Duplicator receives from individuals visiting the planet, and its computer brain that makes them reality, is lost. It has trouble listening to Uhura, the anima figure – perhaps still not ready to face that much introspection. Yet it does listen to Captain James T. Kirk when he once again out-logics a computer mind, convincing the Thought Duplicator that it does not need to travel, travelers will come here for it to learn from. It is a Logos-driven solution, for the Thought Duplicator computer brain, but it does have a bit of Eros, in that individuals, starting with Mr. Spock, will feed its need to learn more and have meaningful contact with other entities.
Original post created 14 April 2021
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