Synopsis: Retired Admiral Picard is interviewed on the anniversary of the Romulan supernova and then visited by a young woman who thinks he will keep her safe.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. The idea that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak tree, we have an inner daimon with all the information we need to become who we were meant to be.
In “Remembrance,” Retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard is interviewed on the anniversary of the Romulan supernova. Picard left the Enterprise to command a rescue armada to help rescue and relocate Romulans left without a homeworld when a group of rouge synthetics attacked Mars and destroyed the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. This caused Starfleet to stop the rescue operation, a decision that Picard found dishonorable, and which caused him to resign his command. Meanwhile, a young woman, Dahj, is with her boyfriend, Caler, celebrating her receiving a fellowship at the Daystrom Institute when three black clad attackers murder him, restrain her, but then something happens that activates her, and she is able to kill the murderers. Dahj ends up at Chateau Picard believing she will be safe there. Picard recognizes Dahj as Commander Data’s daughter, and Dahj is killed protecting Picard from a team of similarly clad attackers. Picard travels to the Daystrom Institute and learns that it is possible that Dahj was created from a positronic neuron from Data and that if this is the case she would have a twin sister.
In this episode, when Dahj is activated, she remembers programming that was given her to be used when it was needed. Similarly, when Picard resigned his commission from Starfleet because he felt it was no longer Starfleet, this activated something deep inside him. These can both be seen as illustrations of Hillman’s acorn theory. They both had to allow something deep inside themselves, their inner daimons, to tell them what to do in a moment of decision. Hillman wrote that our inner daimons had all the information we needed to become who we were meant to be if we only listen to them.
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