Synopsis: Several months after Deep Space Nine was evacuated, things are not going well for the Federation.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what can happen when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego conflicts with the Eros-driven irrational unconscious.
In “A Time to Stand” several months have passed since Captain Benjamin Sisko ordered that Deep Space Nine be evacuated. He is given a new mission to destroy a supply station where it is believed that the Dominion stores its ketracel white. The station is destroyed, but the vessel that Sisko and his crew used in the mission is disabled, and without a warp core, they are now seventeen years from Federation space.
This episode, like many that are primarily outwardly driven by war, are the ones that are the most difficult for me to watch. Perhaps this identifies a shadow within myself, that of being uncomfortable with internal conflict. In any case, the war between Starfleet and the Cardassian/Dominion Alliance can be analogized to the ongoing inner struggle some individuals feel raging between one’s rational ego and one’s unconscious. I feel it, yet I know that in order for my rational ego to become stronger, I must accept bits of material from my unconscious, even those bits I would just as soon deny exist. But that does not make it any easier.
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