Synopsis: After a Klingon fleet appears at Deep Space Nine, Captain Sisko decides to enlist the assistance of Lt. Commander Worf in his dealings with them.
This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego can react to experiencing bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious.
In “The Way of the Warrior” the Klingon flagship arrives at Deep Space Nine, asks for shore leave, and then a fleet of Klingon ships decloak and surround it, as a way to protect it from any Dominion ships that may come through the wormhole and attack. When Captain Kasidy Yates’s freighter is stopped by a Klingon vessel after leaving the station, Captain Benjamin Sisko takes the Defiant to rescue her. Once back on Deep Space Nine Klingon General Martok lets Sisko know that his interference was not appreciated. Sisko then has an idea, that the only way to fight a Klingon is with a Klingon, and he asks for Lt. Commander Worf to be assigned to the station. Worf is able to find out that the real reason that the Klingon fleet is there is to launch an attack on the Cardassians. Sisko meets with Gul Dukat and Worf speaks with Chancellor Gowron. A truce is established, for the time being.
Here Sisko realizing that he is not in a position to negotiate with the Klingons by himself and asking for Worf to help him, can be seen as how the conscious ego will do whatever it takes to try to keep equilibrium and not acknowledge or surrender to the unconscious. Yet, when Sisko enlists the aid of Worf it could also be argued that this is his way to acknowledge that the Klingons need to be addressed and that by incorporating Worf’s Klingon energy into his crew, he is making it stronger, just as the conscious ego becomes stronger when it incorporates bits of unconscious material into itself.
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