Synopsis: While the Cerritos is docked at Deep Space Nine, Captain Freeman is tasked with negotiating with the Karemma.
This episode can be seen as illustrating Carl (C. G.) Jung’s theory on how an individual’s conscious ego projects the individual’s unconscious material onto another.
In “Hear All, Trust Nothing,” after the U.S.S. Vancouver is sent away on another mission, it is left to Captain Carol Freeman to open negotiations with the Karemma, a mercantile species from the Gamma Quadrant. Colonel Kira Nerys welcomes Freeman and the Karemma delegation to Deep Space Nine and takes them on a tour, which includes a visit to Quark’s. When Quark sees the Karemma delegation he starts behaving oddly, and after creating a blackout, the Karemma disappear with Quark and take him aboard their vessel. Meanwhile, Ensign D’Vana Tendi, Ensign Bradward (Brad) Boimler, and Ensign Samanthan (Sam) Rutherford arrive on Deep Space Nine. They also visit Quark’s where Boimler stays to play dabo while Tendi and Rutherford get a tour of the station from an Orion Starfleet ensign, Mesk. Mesk talks a lot about his Orion pirate roots, which upsets Tendi. However, when Mesk, Tendi, and Rutherford are also taken aboard the Karemma vessel, it is Tendi who uses her Orion pirate skills to take control of the ship and return everyone safely to Deep Space Nine. Once there, it is revealed that the reason that Quark was taken by the Karemma was because he stole their technology, which has made him rich. An agreement is made where Quark and the Karemma will go into business together and share the profits.
In this episode, there are at least two illustrations of the operation of projection. Tendi projects onto Mesk all the stereotypes of being thieves and pirates that have been placed on her species, the Orions, especially when he proudly produced an Orion pirate tool. However, when the need arose to take over the Karemma vessel, Mesk has no pirating skills, it falls to Tendi, who has full training in the pirating arts to do so. Also, when the Karemma take Quark, the Starfleet officers presume that it is an abduction, but when confronted, the Karemma tell them that they are arresting Quark for stealing Karemma technology. In both these instances Starfleet officers were projecting their own shadow material onto others instead of seeing the others as who they really were. Once Tendi removed her shadow from Mesk, she was able to use the traits that she projected onto him to save the day. Once the officers removed their suspicions from the Karemma, they were able to see the situation between the Karemma and Quark for what it was. This can be analogized to when an individual’s conscious ego removes the projections of the individual’s unconscious material from the other whom it has projected upon, to see the other individual for who they are and to integrate its own unconscious material into itself to become more whole.
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