Synopsis: The Protostar comes across a Borg Cube and the crew believes that it may have technology able to nullify the weapon aboard the ship.
This episode can be seen as illustrations of James Hillman’s acorn theory, that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an acorn, we have an inner daimon with all the information we need inside of us to be who we are meant to be.
In “Let Sleeping Borg Lie,” the crew learns the true nature of the weapon aboard Protostar. They find it, but cannot fathom a way to stop or disconnect it. Then the Protostar comes across a dormant Borg Cube. Gwyn believes that since the collective has the technological knowledge of thousands of species in the galaxy that the Borg may have knowledge on how to destroy the weapon. The crew takes Protostar into the cube, and Fugitive Zero volunteers to go into the collective, believing that the Borg will not be able to assimilate them since they also have a hive mind. But, when Fugitive Zero joins the collective, instead of devising a way to nullify the weapon, the Borg want to assimilate it for their own use to wipe out Starfleet. Fugitive Zero is assimilated and the other crew members are taken captive. But when Gwyn reminds Fugitive Zero that they already have a collective of their own, they break free, rescue the other crew members, and the Protostar leaves the vicinity of the Borg Cube.
In this episode, there are several illustrations of the acorn theory. First, the weapon, the Living Construct, has all the information inside it to destroy Starfleet. The Borg, who assimilate Fugitive Zero and then want to assimilate the weapon aboard the Protostar, rather than try to deactivate it, can be seen as them being true to their own inner daimon, with their objective being to assimilate all life and technology in the galaxy. Finally, Fugitive Zero, when they are reminded that they already had a collective before the Borg assimilated them, can also be seen as having an inner daimon that just needed to be reminded of itself. All these examples can be analogized to the acorn that has all the information it needs inside it to become an acorn.
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