Synopsis: The Starfleet staff aboard the station are confronted by a Bajoran spiritual leader with different ideas than theirs. In this episode, the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, here embodied by the Starfleet staff aboard the station are forced to make accommodations for the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, symbolized here by a fundamentalistic Bajoran spiritual leader, Vedek… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 20: “In the Hands of the Prophets”
Month: December 2021
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 26: “Descent”
Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise comes across Borg individuals not attached to the collective, just as Lt. Commander Data experiences his first emotion. It is fitting that this episode be titled “Descent,” because that is what the Logos-driven rational conscious ego perceives is occurring when it comes in contact with bits of material from… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 26: “Descent”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 25: “Timescape”
Synopsis: While responding to a distress call from a Romulan warbird the Enterprise is caught in a temporal anomaly. In this episode we can see what Star Trek does so well, in that the crew of the Enterprise responds to a sudden emergent situation in a Logos-driven rational way, only to find out that this… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 25: “Timescape”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 19: “Duet”
Synopsis: A Cardassian comes aboard the station claiming that he is the “Butcher of Gallitep,” the leader of a notorious labor camp on Bajor during the occupation. This episode, much like the prior one, “Dramatis Personae,” examines the idea that bits of material from the collective unconscious of a society that was deeply wounded need… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 19: “Duet”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 18: “Dramatis Personae”
Synopsis: A Klingon ship returns from the Gamma Quadrant through the wormhole with something disruptive and dangerous to the station. In this episode, once again the Gamma Quadrant can be analogized to the unconscious part of the human psyche, and the wormhole as what depth psychologist Carl (C. G.) Jung would describe as a complex.… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 18: “Dramatis Personae”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 17: “The Forsaken”
Synopsis: Lwaxana Troi and three other ambassadors visit Deep Space Nine and experience attitude shifting situations. In this episode in a scene between Odo and Lwaxana Troi, viewers are allowed to experience through them what it means when two individuals remove their projections from each other and in return are able to see each other… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 17: “The Forsaken”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 24: “Second Chances”
Synopsis: While trying to retrieve data from a science station evacuated eight years prior, Commander Riker discovers his double. In this episode we can see how the depth psychological concept of projection works in a very direct way. Projection is the way in which we are able to perceive those unwanted or suppressed parts of… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 24: “Second Chances”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 16: “If Wishes Were Horses”
Synopsis: The station deals with figments of the inhabitant’s imaginations being caused by an anomaly in space as well as three visitors from an unknown place. The confusion I have around making sense of this episode is comparable to how the Logos-driven, conscious ego has difficulty trying to integrate bits of material of the Eros-driven… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 16: “If Wishes Were Horses”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 23: “Rightful Heir”
Synopsis: Lt. Worf travels to the Klingon holy planet of Boreth in search of spiritual awakening. In this episode we can see how similar the concepts of depth psychology and the search for meaning in life align with religious belief systems and how the process of analysis is challenging and frustrating at times. In “Rightful… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 23: “Rightful Heir”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 15: “Progress”
Synopsis: Major Kira travels to a Bajoran moon to convince a settler there to leave before the moon will become uninhabitable in an effort to provide power to Bajor. In this episode Major Kira Nerys meets a crochety yet charming settler on the Bajoran moon, Jeraddo, and her compassion for him may well be because… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 15: “Progress”
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