Synopsis: Ensign Mariner commandeers Ensign Boimler’s holodeck program to create a movie starring the Cerritos crew .
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what it can feel like when the conscious ego acknowledges bits of unconscious material into itself.
In “Crisis Point,” Ensign Beckett Mariner, disobeys the Prime Directive and Captain Carol Freeman and is ordered to report to Dr. Migleemo for therapy. In her session with Migleemo, he tells Mariner that she needs an outlet for her anger. Mariner then rewrites a holodeck program that Ensign Brad Boimler wrote to create a movie starring them and Ensigns D’Vana Tendi, and Samanthan Rutherford. In the film Mariner calls herself Vindicta and commands a marauding vessel that attacks Cerritos. Then Vindicta, Tendi, as an Orion pirate, and Rutherford, as a cyborg, board Cerritos. Vindicta attacks crew members and finally Freeman, causing the film version of Mariner, in her efforts to protect Freeman, to fight Vindicta. The movie ends and later Mariner tells Rutherford that the program helped her work out a lot of issues she was having.
In this episode, when Mariner creates a film version of herself as well as the character of Vindicta, can be compared to when the conscious ego acknowledges that there are bits of material in the unconscious outside of itself in the psyche. When in the movie Film Mariner and Vindicta fight each other, can be compared to when the conscious ego resists and then integrates bits of unconscious material into itself. It is not always a painless process. But when this does happen, then psychic healing can occur, making the ego stronger and the psyche more whole.
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