Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4, Episode 5: “Cold Station 12”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is sent to locate Arik Soong and the Augments.

This episode can be seen as an illustration of how beneficial it can be when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious.

In “Cold Station 12” the Enterprise travels to the coordinates given to them by Arik Soong, and find a facility abandoned except for one human, Udar. Udar was left behind by the Augments over a year ago because he was deemed not strong enough. Archer takes him aboard Enterprise. Enterprise then travels to Cold Station 12, Captain Jonathan Archer believing that this is where Soong and the Augments will be going because that is where the rest of the genetically enhanced embryos have been kept. Archer has a brief conversation with Dr. Phlox about how perhaps genetic engineering could have saved his father, who died of Clarke’s Syndrome. Soong and the Augments reach Cold Station 12 before the Enterprise does, and Soong and Malik try to extricate the command codes that will provide them with access to the embryos from Dr. Jeremy Lewis. When the Enterprise away team of Archer, Commander Charles (Trip) Tucker III, Lt. Malcolm Reed, Phlox, Udar, and security officers, beams down, it is obvious that Phlox is a friend of Lewis. Soong threatens Phlox’s life and Lewis gives him the codes. The Augments leave Cold Station 12, setting a device to release deadly pathogens in four minutes.

In this episode, in the conversation between Archer and Phlox discussing how Denobulans perfected genetic engineering and how that did not happen on Earth, when Phlox tells Archer that the reason so many people were killed in the Eugenics War was because human intellect and instinct were not in sync, this infers that if human intellect and instinct were in harmony, then progress could have been made in a beneficial manner. This is the basic idea of analytical psychology, as proposed by C. G. Jung, that if the rational conscious ego were to acknowledge bits of material from the unconscious and integrate them into itself, then the ego would be stronger and the psyche more whole. This sense of wholeness, on a larger scale, is what Phlox is speaking about here, and is a goal of depth psychology.