Synopsis: The U.S.S. Discovery and her crew carry out a plan to defeat the Klingons, but with a twist.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what James Hillman called the metaxy, that third place between the conscious ego and the unconscious, where change is possible and new things emerge.
In “Will You Take My Hand?”the Terran Emperor, acting as Captain Philippa Georgiou, has a plan on how to defeat the Klingons. She takes Specialist Michael Burnham, Lt. Ash Tyler, Cadet Sylvia Tilly to Qo’noS on an away mission to locate a shrine built over a tunnel to a volcano. She tells the away team that they are sending a drone down to supply Discovery with mapping coordinates, but it really is a bomb. When this is discovered, Burnham informs Commander Saru. Saru and Burnham then contact Admiral Katrina Cornwell. Cornwell tells them that they are desperate and have no choice but to use the Emperor’s non-Starfleet tactics. Burnham and Saru do not accept this. Burnham devises a plan that puts L’Rell in leadership of the Klingon Empire in return for her agreeing to call off the Klingon forces that are about to attack Earth.
In this episode, when Burnham comes up with a way to do something that is different from what Starfleet ordered and what the Terran Emperor told them was necessary in order to survive, this new way of doing things can be seen as a physical manifestation of a new third thing that can be created in the metaxy, the in between place between the conscious ego and the unconscious. When Burnham comes up with this plan, Discovery is itself physically in an in between space, in a volcanic cave inside Qo’noS. In archetypal psychology, this third, in between place is where psychic change can happen. Here, the third unexpected way that Burnham devises to end the war, is an example of what can be achieved in the metaxy.
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