Synopsis: Voyager receives a visit from Q and then experiences several supernovas.
This episode is an illustration of what happens when what Carl (C. G.) Jung would call a complex erupts and forces the Logos-driven rational conscious ego to come to terms with bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious.
In “The Q and the Grey” Voyager’s crew enters an area in space that is experiencing significantly more supernovas than normally occur. At the same time, Q comes to visit Captain Kathryn Janeway and tells her that he wants her to bear his child to add her human DNA into the Q Continuum and create a new race of Q. The visit by Q is followed by a visit from a female Q who claims that Q is her mate. Q then takes Janeway into the Q Continuum where she is experiencing the upheaval there as the American Civil War. Q tells her it is because of the member of the Q Continuum who forfeited his powers, Quinn. Q has been following his tenets and tried to teach his ways to other members of the Q Continuum, which has caused chaos. Meanwhile, aboard Voyager the female Q has temporarily lost her powers due to the battle going on in the Q Continuum, but she leads the crew to the site of the next supernova and a way to rescue Janeway. Janeway is rescued, and Q and the female Q hatch an idea for peace and create a son.
In this episode, when supernovas are created by the conflict in the Q Continuum, they can be analogized to how bits of material from the unconscious erupt into the purview of the conscious ego to such a point that they have to stop being suppressed and now must be dealt with. This creates a complex and can be painful. But when this happens, the only way to get through it in a beneficial manner is to acknowledge the bits of unconscious material and integrate them into the conscious ego, to make it stronger and the psyche more whole.
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