Synopsis: Lt. Commander Dax, Lt. Commander Worf, Dr. Bashir, Leeta and Quark travel to Risa for a vacation.
In this episode we can see what happens when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego becomes too one-sided and also the healing that can take place when bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious are acknowledged by and then integrated into it.
In “Let He Who is Without Sin . . .” Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax and Lt. Commander Worf decide to take a vacation on Risa, known as a pleasure planet, to give them some time to explore their relationship. Dr. Julian Bashir and Leeta, a Dabo girl who works at Quark’s, ask to go along with them. So does Quark. All five of them head to Risa. When they get there, a member of the Essentialist Movement, Pascal Fullerton, is also there, and he calls all the individuals on Risa spoiled children seeking pleasure and he wants to shut the planet down and restore morals to the Federation. Worf, who seems to have difficulties engaging in pleasurable activities, briefly aids Fullerton in his efforts to hack into the weather grid until Fullerton becomes violent. When Dax confronts Worf about his behavior, Worf tells her how when he was thirteen he accidently killed a human competitor in a sporting event he wanted to win, and that since then he realized that to live among humans he must practice restraint.
Here, Fullerton embodies the rationale of the conscious ego, we must be moral and true, and forget about pleasure. He is so completely sure of his ideals, yet he resorts to violent means driven by a suppressed unconscious he cannot perceive. He does not understand that he is identifying with an unconscious archetype and its god-like powers and that he is not only self-destructive, but dangerous to all around him. Worf, on the other hand, while also acutely conscious of his moral code, is a bit further along the path of integrating bits of material from his unconscious. When he is able to explain to Dax that he withholds some things because he accidentally killed a human when he was playing as a boy, she is able to understand him. While he has not fully integrated his irrational drives, since he feels he must restrain them, he has acknowledged their existence and that they influence his behavior.
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