Month: June 2022

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 6: “Starship Down”

Synopsis: While conducting trade negotiations in the Gamma Quadrant the Defiant is attacked by Jem’Hadar warships. While the above is the plotline of this episode from the external point of view, there is a lot of psychic growth that is happening on the U.S.S. Defiant as the crew struggles to live through the aftermath of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 6: “Starship Down”

Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 8: “Persistence of Vision”

Synopsis: A telepathic alien is able to control the minds of the Voyager crew by letting them see and live their hidden thoughts. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego has the ability to confront bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious through what Carl (C.… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 8: “Persistence of Vision”

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 5: “Rejoined”

Synopsis: Lt. Commander Dax is reunited with the current host of the symbiont who was the wife of Tobias Dax. This episode can be seen as an unusual illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. This is his concept that just as each acorn has all the information inside it to become a tree, inside each… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 5: “Rejoined”

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 4: “Indiscretion”

Synopsis: Gul Dukat accompanies Major Kira on a search for survivors of a crash of a vessel transporting Bajoran prisoners. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung called projections. Projections are bits of unconscious material that an individual’s conscious ego has placed upon another. If what is projected… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 4: “Indiscretion”