Synopsis: The leader of the xenophobic organization, Terra Prime, uses a half-human half-Vulcan clone as a symbol of what the future brings.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of the James Hillman’s concept of the metaxy. That third entity between the conscious ego and unconscious.
“Terra Prime,” just as Minister Nathan Samuels of Earth is about to convene a meeting to create an alliance of governments from a group of different planets, a xenophobic organization, Terra Prime, led by human John Fredrick Paxton, interrupts with a message of the threat to humans when aliens are allowed to stay on Earth. He broadcasts from a well-fortified outpost on Mars an image of the cloned half-human half-Vulcan baby girl. He orders that all aliens leave the solar system or he will destroy Starfleet Command. Paxton is stopped and the baby, a bilateral clone, that was created with faulty technology dies. But Dr. Phlox tells Commander T’Pol and Commander Charles (Trip) Tucker III at the end of the episode that there is no reason to believe that Vulcan and human DNA are not compatible enough to conceive a child.
In this episode, the cloned baby that is used as an example of what can happen when two species conceive can be compared to the idea of the metaxy, that which is between the conscious ego and the unconscious. However, in this episode, the baby is manufactured by faulty technology instead of natural means. This can be seen as a caution that creation of a metaxy cannot be forced, it must come about on its own terms.
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