Synopsis: When Voyager encounters a swarm of space-borne life forms, their energetic vapor causes Kes’s internal biological clock to prepare her for motherhood.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what in his later works Carl (C. G.) Jung would call the theory of the unus mundus. The idea that everything in the universe is interrelated.
In “Elogium” Voyager encounters a swarm of small space-borne life forms that move at great speed and seem to be able to nourish themselves on the very essence of space. But there is something about the energetic vapors that the life forms emit that creates a reaction in Kes’s body and causes it to begin the phase of Elogium, the only time in life when females of her species are able to conceive, years before what is considered normal. It also seems that the life forms are attracted to Voyager and start attaching themselves to her hull. Then a larger space-born life form appears. The crew realizes that the larger life form has arrived to challenge Voyager because the smaller life forms are sexually attracted to the vessel. By Voyager’s assuming a submissive position, the life forms lose interest and instead attach themselves to the other large being. Allowing Voyager to escape their pull.
This is an example of how the universe is interconnected and how Jung theorized in his later works that psyche was not something contained in the human body, but that psyche existed both within and around us and that we were all in connected in a collective unconscious. This is reflected here in how Kes’s elogium is set off by the life forms who themselves look at Voyager as a potential mate. This also coincides with Commander Chakotay speaking to Captain Kathryn Janeway about fraternization among the crew after he witnesses two crewmembers kissing. Later, after changing his mind and believing that it will be necessary for a new generation of crew to replace the existing one, an ensign informs Janeway she is pregnant. The synchronicities of procreation abound in this episode, as all synchronicities abound in the universe, if we only acknowledge them.
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