Synopsis: Ensigns Boimler and Mariner are sent on an away mission, while on the U.S.S. Cerritos, Ensign Rutherford explores different assignments.
This episode can be seen an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory.
In “Envoys” Ensign Brad Boimler is excited about his new assignment, to escort Klingon General K’orin to a peace accord on Tulgana IV. However, when he arrives at the shuttle he is to pilot, he learns that Ensign Beckett Mariner has also been assigned to the mission, and that K’orin and Mariner know each other. K’orin and Mariner drink bloodwine on the way to Tulgana IV, and when they arrive K’orin has passed out. However, when Boimler and Mariner set out to find something to help sober him up, K’orin takes the shuttle and Boimler and Mariner must find him and get him to the peace accord on time. Meanwhile, aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos, after Ensign D’Vana Tendi invites Ensign Samanthan Rutherford to watch a pulsar with her in the morning, but it conflicts with his schedule, Rutherford decides to ask for a transfer from engineering to try other assignments on the ship. He tries command division and medical division to disastrous results, but when he transfers to security division he finds out he is a natural fighter. However, when he sees a Jeffries tube, it calls to him and he realizes that he is an engineer first and foremost, and transfers back. And as it turns out, Tendi can watch the pulsar with him on a PADD in the Jeffries tube.
In this episode, when Rutherford tries on different assignments but then realizes that he is truly an engineer and that is his calling, this can be compared to an individual that listens to their inner daimon. And this is the basis of Hillman’s acorn theory, which is the idea that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak tree, we all have an inner daimon that has all the information in it to become who we were meant to be.
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