Synopsis: The Red Angel’s purpose for time travel is revealed.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the rational conscious ego needs to acknowledge and integrate bits of unconscious material into itself to become stronger and the psyche more whole.
In “Perpetual Infinity” on the Section 31 vessel, NCIA-93, Control takes over Captain Leland’s body. Meanwhile, on Discovery, Commander Michael Burnham analyzes the Red Angel logs that her mother, Dr. Gabrielle Burnham, created. Dr. Burnham traveled 950 years into the future only to find all life wiped out, so she has come back in time to stop Control from obtaining the sphere archive data, the information that it needs to become powerful enough to kill all sentient life in the galaxy. Dr. Burnham begs Captain Christopher Pike to destroy the sphere archive, but when he tries, the data fights to protect its existence. Burnham and Lt. Commander Paul Stamets devise a plan to send the sphere archive into the future with the Red Angel, where it will be safe. But Control thwarts the plan. Lt. Spock notes that instinct and logic together is how they the Discovery crew will defeat Control.
In this episode, when Spock remarks that it will take instinct and logic together to defeat Control, he is expressing the outcome of what happens when the conscious ego integrates bits of unconscious material into itself, to become stronger and the psyche more whole. This process, what Carl (C.G.) Jung called the union of opposites is a core teaching of analytical psychology. Oddly enough, although Control is an artificial intelligence program, it seems to be acting very instinctively, and seeks the knowledge from the sphere archive in order to evolve, and remove all threats to it, i.e. all life. Both Spock and Control are striving for the same goal from different perspectives; but since this is an episode on a television series, only one will be able to gain their objective.
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