Synopsis: Lt. Kayshon leads an away team on a mission that turns out to be more dangerous than anticipated, while Ensign Boimler, assigned to the U.S.S. Titan is cloned when the ship’s transporter interacts with a distortion field.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what James Hillman called the metaxy.
In “Kayshon, His Eyes Open” the U.S.S. Cerritos is sent on a mission to catalogue items located in the ship of a recently deceased collector, Kerner Hauze. In the lower decks, Ensign Jet Manhaver gets reassigned to the beta shift, replacing Ensign Brad Boimler, and a power struggle between him and Ensign Beckett Mariner immediately ensues. The two, along with Ensign Samanthan Rutherford and Ensign D’Vana Tendi, are sent on an away mission commanded by Lt. Kayshon to Hauze’s ship. Things go awry and Mariner tells the others she has a plan to escape Hauzer’s ship, but Manhaver has a safer one. Manhaver calls Mariner a renegade hero and tells her that he likes to think through a situation. They then bond when they both mimic senior officers. The away team gets back to Cerritos safely and are reunited with Boimler, who has returned to Cerritos while his clone, created when the U.S.S. Titan’s transporter interacted with a distortion field, stays aboard Titan.
In this episode, Mariner can be seen as representing the unconscious and Manhaver as embodying the conscious ego. This is evidenced by both the actions of the two and also Manhaver calling Mariner a renegade hero, while he likes to think of himself as someone who thinks a situation through. However when they finally find common ground, in this case, mimicking the senior officers, they create a bond and the away team is able to return safely to Cerritos. This bond can be compared to what Hillman called the metaxy, the in between place where the ego and the unconscious can come together to create a third entity where psychic healing can occur.
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