Month: March 2022

Synopsis: Lt. Riker, the duplicate of Commander Riker created in a transporter malfunction, poses as the original in order to take the Defiant and deliver her to the Maquis. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory, the idea that we are all born with our own internal daimon that… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 9: “The Defiant”

Synopsis: The crew of the Defiant comes across a planet that exists in two universes. This episode can be seen as an analogy as to what happens in one’s psyche when one becomes too one-sided in favoring the Logos-driven ration conscious ego over the Eros-driven, irrational instincts and urges of the unconscious. In “Meridian” Commander… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 8: “Meridian”

Synopsis: When an anti-insurgency defense system is triggered, everyone on the station must work together to stop the automated destruction of Deep Space Nine. This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of what can occur in our psyches when bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious try to come into awareness of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 7: “Civil Defense”

Synopsis: When a Jem’Hadar infant is abandoned on the station, Odo tries to raise him. While I have written much in recent posts about James Hillman’s acorn theory, perhaps this episode is the one that is the clearest analogy to it. The acorn theory being the idea that we all have an internal daimon that… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 6: “The Abandoned”

Synopsis: Major Kira is abducted by the Cardassian Obsidian Order in an attempt to trap a high ranking Cardassian dissident. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. The idea that we all have an internal daimon that has all the information that we need to become who we are… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 5: “Second Skin”

Synopsis: Lt. Dax is confronted by the memories of a host to the Dax symbiont that had been clinically removed. In my blog for the last episode “The House of Quark” I wrote how it can be seen as an illustration of the concept that Carl (C. G.) Jung called the union of opposites, or… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 4: “Equilibrium”

Synopsis: Quark is involved in the accidental death of a Klingon and the family struggle for control of his property that ensues. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the concept that Carl (C. G.) Jung called the union of opposites, or the transcendent function. In analytical psychology, this is the integration of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 3: “The House of Quark”

Synopsis: Odo learns about where he came from while the Dominion learns how far Commander Sisko will go to protect Bajor. Like the first part of this two-part episode there is one plotline having to do with war and a separate narrative having to do with Odo’s understanding of where he came from. And what… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 2: “The Search, Part II”

Synopsis: Commander Sisko takes a warship into the Gamma Quadrant in order to find the Founders. In the midst of all the aggressive stances taken by the various species in this episode, it also can be seen as an illustration of what Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman calls the acorn theory. The idea that just as… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 1: “The Search, Part I”