Month: October 2021

Synopsis: The Enterprise receives a distress signal from a freighter and end up rescuing individuals from two planets with a strong relationship to the cargo they were transporting. In this episode, representatives from two neighboring planets, Brekka and Ornara, dispute the ownership of the cargo that was recovered, along with themselves, when the freighter carrying… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 22: “Symbiosis”

Synopsis: On a mission to investigate the disappearance of a Starfleet vessel, the crew of the Enterprise encounters a planet populated now only by computer generated sales pitches for weapon systems. Like many episodes in Star Trek: The Next Generation in “The Arsenal of Freedom” there is a plotline aboard the Enterprise, and a separate… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 21: “The Arsenal of Freedom”

Synopsis: On a mission to investigate disturbances in the Neutral Zone the crew of the Enterprise encounter three Klingons who have taken over a cargo vessel. “Heart of Glory” elucidates the idea of different ways of seeing, both physically, as the blind Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge does using his visor, and culturally, as Lt.… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 20: “Heart of Glory”

Synopsis: On Relva VII Wesley Crusher takes his test for admission to Starfleet Academy at the same time that Captain Picard is considered for promotion. This episode seems to illustrate a bit of an in between place. Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher taking his exams for Starfleet Academy while Admiral Quinn and Lt. Commander Dexter Remmick… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 19: “Coming of Age”

Synopsis: The Enterprise visits a terraforming operation on a lifeless planet and encounters a biological lifeform that is harmed by it. The whole concept of terraforming, which was also a plotline in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, fairly screams of inflation, the concept… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 18: “Home Soil”

Synopsis: The Enterprise encounters the mythical planet Aldea, but then its infertile inhabitants kidnap children on the Enterprise to populate their world. Amidst the forward moving action of the plot of “When the Bough Breaks” there are a few scenes which illustrate James Hillman’s acorn theory from his book The Soul’s Code. The acorn theory… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 17: “When the Bough Breaks”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is tasked with bringing an aging admiral to negotiate for a release of hostages on a planet, as he did 45 years prior. There is much to this episode that refers to a trip to the Underworld. In this case the Underworld created when Admiral Mark Jameson broke the Prime Directive of… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 16: “Too Short a Season”

Synopsis: While presenting themselves as upgraders to the Enterprise’s systems, a race of nonbinary unified pairs steals the Enterprise to try to save their planet. It is both ironic and strangely meaningful from a depth psychological perspective, that in this episode, in which Bynars, a race of non-binary unified pairs – neither male nor female,… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 15: “11001001”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise encounters a matriarchal society on the planet Angel One. In this episode, viewers see the physical manifestation of a matriarchal society from the point of view of the patriarchal society of the 1980s projected into the galaxy in the twenty-fourth century. What I mean by this is, does the… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 14: “Angel One”

Synopsis: While visiting Lt. Commander Data’s home world, Omicron Theta, they find the life on planet destroyed and a duplicate of him, his brother, Lore. This episode gives viewers the opportunity to understand Carl (C. G.) Jung’s theory of the shadow, as did the episode “The Enemy Within” from Star Trek: The Original Series, except… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 13: “Datalore”