Synopsis: Lt. Stamets is the only one aboard Discovery that sees that the ship is experiencing a repeating time loop.
This episode can be seen as another illustration of how individuals are all connected by a common collective unconscious.
In “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery is throwing a party, when Specialist Michael Burnham and Lt. Ash Tyler are called to the bridge. On their way there they run into Lt. Paul Stamets, who is the only one aboard the vessel that realizes that the ship is caught in a repeating thirty minute time loop as Harcourt Fenton (Harry) Mudd tries to figure out what makes Discovery special, so that he can sell her to the Klingons. Stamets explains to Burnham that it is because he injected himself with tardigrade DNA, and the tardigrade was a multidimensional creature, not limited to time and space, so he is able to remember what transpires during the time loops. Eventually, Stamets is able to convince Burnham what is going on, and in turn, she is able to convince Tyler to help them in their efforts to save the ship.
In this episode, the tardigrade DNA that allows Stamets to remember what has happened in previous time loops, can be compared to the collective unconscious, which Carl (C.G.) Jung taught united all humans. As I wrote in my last post, in his earlier writings, he conceptualized the collective unconscious as bits of psychic material common to all humans. But later in his teachings, he came to describe the collective unconscious as a collective tissue of sorts that we are all a part of. And this is what is represented here by the tardigrade DNA, that is not limited to a particular time and place.
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