The crew of the U.S.S. Discovery try to find some way to communicate with Species Ten-C.
This episode is an illustration of the idea that there are ways to communicate and be in one’s environment other than those used by the conscious ego.
In “Rosetta” the U.S.S. Discovery comes across a planet once inhabited by Species Ten-C. Captain Michael Burnham and an away team visit the planet, believing that they will find something on the planet that will give cultural context to how Species Ten-C communicate. The away team discovers that the hydrocarbons in dust on the planet elicit different emotions and bring that information back to the ship.
In this episode, when Burnham realizes that there is a need to find a way to communicate with Species Ten-C beyond the language of words, that they might express themselves in other ways, this can be compared to when the conscious ego acknowledges the existence of unconscious material. When Burnham and the away team realize that the hydrocarbons in the dust on the planet where Species Ten-C once lived contained emotions, and that this is the way in which they communicate, this can be seen as an illustration of how the conscious ego integrates unconscious material into itself. This ongoing process of acknowledging and integrating unconscious material into the conscious ego Jung called the union of opposites, or the transcendent function, which makes the ego stronger and the psyche more whole.
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