Month: August 2023

Synopsis: After Captain Archer assesses the damage to Enterprise from the Romulan minefield, he orders that a distress call be sent out and the response brings an unexpected complication. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 4: “Dead Stop”

Synopsis: Sub-Commander T’Pol tells Captain Archer and Commander Tucker about a Vulcan ship that crashed on Earth in 1957. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how to help heal what Carl (C.G.) Jung called ancestral trauma, psychic wounds that we share with past generations. “Carbon Creek” begins with a celebration that Captain… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 2: “Carbon Creek”

Synopsis: Temporal Agent Daniels sends Captain Archer to the 31st century in which Starfleet never existed. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C.G.) Jung calls a complex, and how it allows bit of material from the Logos-driven irrational unconscious to be acknowledged by and integrated into the Eros-driven rational conscious… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 1: “Shockwave, Part II”

Synopsis: The Enterprise crew is blamed for an explosion that destroys an alien colony. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the relationship between the two archetypes, or energies patterns, found in the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, that of the Senex and the Puer. In “Shockwave, Part I” Enterprise arrives at a Paraagan colony… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 26: “Shockwave, Part I”

Synopsis: Captain Archer and several crewmembers travel to Risa for shore leave. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. The idea that just as an acorn has everything inside it that it will need to become a tree, we each have an inner daimon that has all the information… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 25: “Two Days and Two Nights”

Synopsis: Captain Archer and Commander Tucker are invited to visit a planet, not realizing that their host is considered a terrorist. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious come into the awareness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego through what Carl (C. G.) Jung… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 24: “Desert Crossing”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is ordered to extricate a Vulcan ambassador, who was a personal role model for T’Pol, from a planet after she has been expelled by its government. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the relationship between the Senex, or wise sage archetype, and that of the Puer, the archetype of… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 23: “Fallen Hero”

Synopsis: Ensign Sato tries to communicate with an alien that has boarded the Enterprise through an airlock and captured several crew members. This episode can be seen as illustrations of diverse ways to communicate and miscommunicate, which can be compared to the differences between the Logos-driven rational conscious ego and the Eros-driven irrational unconscious. “Vox… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 22: “Vox Sola”

Synopsis: Captain Archer and Ensign Mayweather are held in a detention complex after the shuttlepod they were in inadvertently enters a military zone. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the concepts of cultural complexes. If a complex is created in an individual by a psychic wound and is an opportunity for self-knowledge,… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1, Episode 21: “Detained”