Synopsis: When an away mission goes awry, Lt. Tuvok and Lt. Torres are captured, while Captain Janeway is aided in their rescue by a man who believes she is his daughter.
What happens in this episode is comparable to what happens in a therapeutic analytical psychological setting. One of the steps in healing is called transference, whereby the analysand, or patient, transfers the role of an important relationship onto the analyst, or therapist.
In “Resistance” an away team travels to a colony on a planet ruled by a paranoid and hostile order called the Mokra. The Mokra captures Lt. Tuvok and Lt. B’Elanna Torres. Meanwhile, Captain Kathryn Janeway is injured and rescued by Caylem, a resident of the colony who seems to believe that Janeway is his long lost daughter, Ralanka. Although Janeway does not want him to risk coming with her to rescue Tuvok and Torres, he does, saves her life, but is himself mortally wounded.
Here Caylem identifying Janeway as his daughter, Ralanka, and treating her as such, can be seen as analogous to when an analysand transfers onto the analyst a familial relationship, most often that of father or mother. Janeway, similar to how an analyst would act, acknowledges what is happening and understands that Caylem is very vulnerable in his associations with her. While morally bound to do her best to cause no harm to come to Caylem, he does in fact become mortally wounded. Before he dies, Janeway tells him what he wants to know most, that his wife was fine and that his wife and daughter forgave him. This may be a bit of a stretch, but Janeway understood, as Caylem’s daughter would have, that this was what needed to be done by her in order to ease his mind as he died.
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