Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise respond to a distress call that brings them to the home world of Tasha Yar and her sister, Ishara.
In this episode, when the crew of the Enterprise encounter the sister of their dead comrade, they remark how much the same they are, but they are also surprised by the differences. This can have something to do with the acorn theory, that was the subject of the last two blogs, but it can also be seen as an illustration of the oppositional pulls of the union of sames.
To review, James Hillman’s acorn theory is that just as an acorn contains everything it will need in order to become an oak tree, each individual human is born with an inner daimon that contains all that an individual needs in order to become who they are meant to be. Hillman’s concept of the union of sames means that two polar opposites are not separate, rather they are two halves of one thing. In archetypal psychology that one thing is an archetype, a pattern of energy that is represented the same way in all humans. Such as a mother or a father archetype.
In the case of “Legacy” that archetype illustrated would be that of two polar opposites, that are really the same, only different. The crew of the Enterprise trusted Lt. Tasha Yar deeply and saw her as brave and willing to put the safety of her shipmates above her own. Ishara Yar, was also brave and willing to put the safety of her comrades above her own. The difference is the crew of the Enterprise thought that those she was protecting was them, when really her comrades were in the Coalition faction on the planet. The two sisters were very similar, yet the perception of them by the crew of the Enterprise was very different, and because of that, the Enterprise crew felt betrayed by her. But if they thought more closely about it, they would have seen that Ishara and Tasha Yar were the same, only different.
Original post created 28 August 2021
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