Synopsis: Jake Sisko accompanies Dr. Bashir to assist at a hospital in a war zone and learns much about himself.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what the Logos-driven rational conscious ego goes through when it is confronted by bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious shadow and is forced to acknowledge and integrate it into itself.
In “Nor the Battle to the Strong” Jake Sisko, the 18 year-old son of the captain of Deep Space Nine, and Dr. Julian Bashir are in a runabout returning to the station when they get a distress call from a Federation colony on Ajilon Prime that is being attacked by Klingon forces. Bashir initially hesitates to respond because he does not want to endanger Sisko, but Sisko urges him to answer the call for help. When they arrive at the field hospital they immediately come across a Starfleet officer who has shot himself in the foot with a phaser to avoid battling the Klingons. Sisko does not understand how he could do this. Then the hospital comes under fire, the power goes out, and the only way to save the patients is for Sisko and Bashir to retrieve a power generator from the runabout. Shortly after they leave they draw fire and are separated when Sisko runs back toward where he believes the hospital is. Sisko comes across another soldier who is dying in the field and then eventually makes it back to the hospital. In the meantime, Bashir was able to bring the generator back alone. Sisko has a difficult time accepting that he ran away from battle. When the hospital itself is under attack, Sisko is once again separated from Bashir, but this time he stays behind and seals off tunnels that the healthcare workers and patients are using to escape the Klingon soldiers, and is considered a hero.
This episode is an illustration of just how difficult it can be when we do not live up to the aspirations of our rational conscious egos, and instead, and sometimes quite unexpectedly, are taken over by our irrational unconscious. How it is doubly difficult to live with ourselves when we have done things we are ashamed of. Sisko is fortunate in that he was able to do something that his rational ego could be proud of to compensate for it, and this helped him integrate his perceived weakness into his consciousness. Which in actuality, is a strength.
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