Synopsis: A timeship from the 29th century appears and takes Voyager back to 20th century Earth.
This episode is an illustration of how difficult it can be when a complex brings bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious into the awareness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego.
In “Future’s End, Part I” the Voyager’s crew is confronted by Captain Braxton, aboard a 29th century timeship, that fires upon them. He then tells them that they must be destroyed because they created a time rift that caused the obliteration of the solar system. But before he can do that, both vessels are pulled into a temporal rift. Voyager ends up Earth’s in orbit in the year 1996, and when Captain Katheryn Janeway and her crew go to find Braxton they discover that he has aged decades and seems to be like any other unhoused person living on Venice Beach. Meanwhile, a young astronomer Rain Robinson, has been monitoring the space around Earth and discovers Voyager. She tells her employer, Henry Starling about her find and he tries to kill her because in 1966, the year that Braxton landed on Earth, Starling took his timeship and he knows that Janeway and the crew will be after it.
In this episode, when Braxton suddenly appears and starts firing on Voyager, his behavior can be analogized to how a complex acts when that the bits of material from the unconscious that it contains have been suppressed too long. It is a rude, if not violent reaction. And this is followed by a sudden pulling into a netherworld. We will have to wait until the next episode to see how this concludes.
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