Synopsis: Counselor Troi discovers Jack Crusher is connected to the Borg Collective, which sends him seeking the Borg Cube that has been calling him.
This episode gives an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung called the collective unconscious.
In “Võx,” Counselor Deanna Troi uses her empathic abilities to join with Jack Crusher to explore what is behind the red door in his mind. Troi opens the door which reveals a Borg Cube. Troi disengages from Crusher to warn Admiral Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher about the Borg threat. Picard goes to speak with Crusher, who tells him that he always thought that people should listen to each other and now he understands why he felt alone. Crusher takes a shuttle to try to find the Borg Cube, where he is assimilated by the Borg Queen. Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Titan heads to the Frontier Day celebration to warn the rest of the fleet about the Borg plan to destroy Starfleet and assimilate Earth. They are too late, but Picard, Dr. Crusher, Worf, Captain William T. Riker, Troi, Data, and Commodore Geordi La Forge, take a shuttle to the Fleet Museum where the unassimilated U.S.S. Enterprise D has been lovingly restored.
In this episode, the connection that the Borg makes with Crusher can be compared to what Jung called the collective unconscious. In his early writings Jung described the collective unconscious as something that was common to all humans, later he wrote that the collective unconscious was something that all humans were connected to by being inside of it. The Borg with their hive mind and adaptive abilities can be analogized to this description of the collective unconscious. And now the field of terra psychology has taken this idea one step further to explore how all living things on Earth are connected to each other.
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