Synopsis: A battle breaks out between Starfleet Command and the now united Klingon Empire.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of the deflation of the conscious ego that occurs after the inflation and one-sidedness, in a balancing circling back to the opposite action that Carl (C. G.) Jung called an enantiodromia.
In “Battle of the Binary Stars”the armed conflict between Starfleet Command and the Klingon Empire that the U.S.S. Shenzhou’s First Officer, Commander Michael Burnham, insisted that she was trying to avoid, breaks out. There are many casualties on both sides, especially to Starfleet. This includes the death of Shenzhou’s captain, Philippa Georgiou. After the battle Burnham is court martialed, stripped of her rank, and sentenced to life in prison.
In this episode, the consequences of Burnham’s actions lead to the very bloody conflict that she thought she could avoid. Starfleet is defeated, Georgiou is dead, and Burnham is sentenced to life in prison. This string of events can be analogized to the deflation that is sure to follow the inflation felt by the conscious ego. This complete reversal from one direction to another Jung called an enantiodromia, or running counter to. And while not always as extreme as illustrated here, the inflation and deflation felt by the conscious ego is all part of the ongoing process of the union of opposites, the way by which the ego acknowledges and integrates bits of unconscious material into itself, to make it stronger and the psyche more whole.
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