Synopsis: While traveling in the Delphic Expanse, Enterprise starts experiencing anomalies all over the ship
This episode can be seen as an illustration of how complexes try to make the Logos-driven rational conscious ego aware of bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious.
In “Anomaly,” as Enterprise heads deeper into the Delphic Expanse, anomalies occur all over the ship. With her systems down, she is vulnerable, and crew members from an Osaarian ship come aboard and loot her. One of them is left behind. He tells Captain Jonathan Archer that his crew was like his once, but then became raiders to survive the Delphic Expanse. The crew figures out a way to track the Osaarian ship, in which they find not only their stolen supplies, but evidence that the ship has been in contact with a Xindi vessel recently. Archer asks the Osaarian about the location of the Xindi vessel, and when he doesn’t respond, he forces the Osaarian into an airlock to get information from him. He gives Archer the information he needed and at the end of the episode Archer has him returned to his vessel. Upon his departure he tells Archer that mercy will not serve him well in the expanse.
In this episode, the Enterprise and her crew can be seen to represent the conscious ego and the anomalies that occur all over Enterprise can be compared to complexes that try to alert the conscious ego that there are bits of unconscious material that need to be addressed. The scene where Archer tortures the Osaarian can be analogized to when the conscious ego integrates bits of unconscious material into itself, to make the ego perceive and operate in a way that is not normal to it. The way that unconscious material acts is not always appealing to the conscious ego. The warning that the Osaarian gives Archer, about how mercy will not serve him well in this area of space can also be likened to a complex. Whether or not Archer and the rest of the crew will heed the warning we will have to wait and see.
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