Synopsis: Admiral Janeway of the future returns to Voyager to lead Captain Janeway and the crew home.
This episode illustrates what can happen when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego integrates bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious into itself, to make the psyche more whole.
In “Endgame” an older and more pragmatic Admiral Kathryn Janeway defines the Temporal Prime Directive to travel back in time to a point when Voyager had the opportunity to both return to the Alpha Quadrant and defeat the Borg. When she reaches Voyager she tells the crew and her younger self about her plan. Initially, Captain Janeway thinks the plan is too risky, even with the technology from the future. But Admiral Janeway knows how to convince her younger self, and Voyager heads to a nebula on a mission to find and destroy the Borg as well as travel through a wormhole leading back to the Alpha Quadrant. In a suicide mission, Admiral Janeway injects herself with a pathogen and is assimilated by the Borg Queen into the collective. The pathogen is fatal to the Queen, and the defeat of the Queen and the Borg allows Voyager to return safely to the Alpha Quadrant.
In this final episode of Star Trek: Voyager, when Admiral Janeway self-identifies as being more pragmatic than her younger, more idealistic, self this can be analogized to the conscious ego acknowledging the need to integrate bits of unconscious material into itself. By embracing who she has become – and breaking the rules to achieve a greater good, something her younger more idealized self would never do, Admiral Janeway is able to bring Voyager safely back to the Alpha Quadrant. This can be compared to how when the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of material from the unconscious, the ego becomes stronger and the psyche more whole. The mission if you will, of depth psychology.
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