Synopsis: A Xindi aids the Enterprise crew by sabotaging a shipment of kemocite.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of Jung’s concept of projection, how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego of an individual projects a bit of Eros-driven irrational unconscious material onto another, instead of realizing that the material is part of one’s own psyche.
In “The Shipment,” Captain Jonathan Archer, Lt. Malcom Reed, and Major Hayes
take a shuttlepod to the planet that Tarquin directed them to, where they find a facility that is processing kemocite, a necessary component of the Xindi weapon to be used to annihilate Earth. Archer enters the home of one of the Xindis who works at the facility, Gralik Durr. Gralik tells Archer that he doesn’t believe that the kemocite was being used to create a weapon, until Archer brings him proof in the form of a piece of the probe that attacked Earth. Gralik also admits that there is conflict between the different Xindi species, and he agrees to help Archer in a plan to sabotage the shipment of kemocite that is about to be shipped from the facility. At the end of the episode Gralik tells Archer that not all Xindi are his enemies.
At the end of this episode, there are two inferences of projection. One is when Gralik tells Archer that not all Xindi are his enemies. When Gralik says this it is because he realizes that Archer is projecting his own anger over the attack on Earth upon all Xindi whether the individuals deserve it or not. The other inference of projection is when the Xindi who is responsible for creating the weapon to destroy Earth, Degra, describes humans as a ruthless species. Degra doing this, is projecting his own animosity upon the entire human race. This type of projection, upon a species, or race, or even an individual, who is perceived by the conscious ego as the enemy must be overcome if the individual is ever to be seen for whom that person is, and for any type of understanding of our own unconscious to be achieved.
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