Star Trek: Prodigy – Season 1, Episode 14: “Crossroads”

Synopsis: The crew crosses paths with Vice Admiral Janeway, and enlist the advice of Captain Okona to escape the Dauntless.

This episode can be seen as an illustration of how when the conscious ego acknowledges and accepts bits of unconscious material into itself it becomes stronger and the psyche more whole

In “Crossroads,” the crew decides that the best way to get to a Federation station to alert Starfleet to the existence of the weapon aboard the Protostar is aboard a different vessel. They hide the ship and make their way to Denaxi Depot, where they meet Captain Thadiun Okona, who offers them passage, until the local authorities try to take him into custody and he flees. Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway and some of the Dauntless crew arrive at Denaxi Depot as well, looking for Lt. Barniss Frex. After Frex tells Vice Admiral Janeway about what happened on CR-721, she realizes that the Protostar crew are there too and sends her crew to find them. The crew takes a hovercraft-like vessel to where Protostar is hidden, unaware that Okona is hiding in it. The Protostar leaves orbit with Okona aboard and the Dauntless in pursuit. The Dauntless fires on the Protostar, taking the ship out of warp at the edge of the Romulan Neutral Zone. Okona suggests that to evade both the Dauntless and the Romulan’s that the crew remodulates Protostar’s shields to make it undetectable. They do and the Protostar escapes undetected into the neutral zone.

In this episode, when the Protostar crew, who normally try to follow Starfleet rules and regulations, escapes from the Dauntless using advice from Okona, who does not abide by its guidelines, this can be analogized to when the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of unconscious material into itself to become stronger and make the psyche more whole. Carl (C. G.) Jung called this ongoing process the union of opposites, which was facilitated by the transcendent function—that creates a tension between the conscious and unconscious, when they are both given equal value within the psyche, to create a new third way of being in the world.