Synopsis: The Enterprise is confronted by a soldier who has escaped from a military prison, and the crew question why he had been placed there.
In “The Hunted,” after visiting the planet Angosia III, which seeks to become part of the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise is attacked by an inmate from a penal colony of the Angosians on Lunar V.
When Captain Jean-Luc Picard and First Officer William Riker are escorted on a tour of Angosia III, they are told by its prime minister that the Angosian citizens are not warriors, believe that reason should be used to settle disputes, and that they have devoted themselves to a cultivation of the intellect. Which would make the planet’s addition to the Federation likely. However, once they return to the Enterprise, the ship is confronted by a remnant from when Angosians had to defend themselves, a genetically altered former soldier, Roga Danar. They also come to understand that he, and others like him, have been imprisoned in a military penal colony precisely because they do not fit into Angosian society.
This reflects how the Logos-driven, rational, conscious ego, prefers to not acknowledge Eros-driven bits of unconscious material that come to its attention. These bits of unconscious material tend to surface in a complex, which as Carl (C. G.) Jung explains, we all have and ideally should not be understood to be a negative occurrence, but rather an opportunity to grow and make the psyche more whole.
In the episode, the former soldiers who had been imprisoned on Lunar V, break out and confront the prime minister on Angosia III. Demanding to be included in the society there. They refuse to go back to Lunar V. This is exactly what happens eventually in our psyche, if the bits of unconscious matter that emerge into consciousness are continually suppressed. Those bits will then come out at the most inconvenient of times. Much better to acknowledge what comes into consciousness and try to integrate it into our egos in order to make the psyche healthier and more whole.
Original post created 4 August 2021
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