Synopsis: Lt. Worf and Captain Picard in their own ways try to protect the Klingon High Council from outside interference.
One way to interpret this episode is as an illustration of the acorn theory from James
Hillman’s bestseller, The Soul’s Code. The acorn theory in brief is that just as an acorn has all the genetic information it needs inside it to become an oak tree, individuals, even before birth have an inner daimon which knows exactly what they are to be in this world, or multiverse. The importance of the daimon being inside us even before birth is that the daimon may actually choose for us the parents that we require in order to fulfill this destiny.
At the end of “Redemption, II” Lt. Worf is given the life of the son of the man who dishonored his family to do with what he will. Worf’s brother, Kurn, would kill him because that is the Klingon way. Worf, responds that it may be the Klingon way, but it is not his way. This exchange is what recalls this idea that we all have our own unique place in the multiverse.
Worf is singular among the Klingons, he is the only Klingon to serve as an officer aboard a Starfleet ship and he was also raised by an Earth couple after his own parents were killed by the Romulans at Khitomer. Just as Lt. Commander Data remarked in his log in “Data’s Day” in Season Four, he was an orphan who was rescued by Starfleet officers and wanted to become one. Hillman’s acorn theory would interpret Worf’s daimon as having chosen parents that would die when Worf was young so that he could be raised by adoptive human parents to become the individual that he is. Further, Worf is fulfilling the needs of his daimon by honoring both his Klingon heritage and his chosen profession in Starfleet. The emotional urges from his unconscious and the discipline from his conscious ego.
Original post created 23 September 2021
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