Synopsis: Lt. Tendi is summoned to Orion to attend her sister’s wedding.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory—that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak tree, we all have inner daimons with all the information we need to become who we are meant to be.
In “Something Borrowed, Something Green,” Lt. D’Vana Tendi is granted leave to travel to Orion to attend her sister’s wedding. Lt. Beckett Mariner and Lt. T’Lyn accompany her. When they arrive on Orion is it clear that Tendi is no ordinary citizen. In fact, she is the prime daughter of a major syndicate family and her title is Mistress of the Winter Constellations. Tendi’s parents inform her that her sister, D’Erika has been kidnapped and as the prime daughter it is her responsibility to find her. Everywhere they go, Mariner and T’Lyn observe that Orions bow down to Tendi, and comply with her every wish. Tendi takes Mariner and T’Lyn to a location that she used to visit with D’Erika as children. Tendi admits to Mariner and T’Lyn that she is a trained assassin, and that she hates that they have seen her real self. Mariner and T’Lyn tell her that it was obvious to them that she had these skills, but that they know the true Tendi and her love of science and Starfleet. D’Erika appears and tells Tendi that she kidnapped herself and that she was angry with Tendi for leaving Orion, which means that she needs to fill the role of prime daughter. They fight, and D’Erika wins. Tendi tells her that this just proves that she was meant to be the prime daughter. This being settled, the wedding takes place.
In this episode, Tendi seems torn between her past, her upbringing, and her chosen profession, which is clearly not the family business. But she follows her heart and is recognized for it by her friends. This also allows her sister, D’Erika, to fulfill what she is destined to become. This can be seen as an illustration of Hillman’s acorn theory, and that we all have an inner daimon inside us that has all the information we need to become who we are meant to be. Although it can be daunting, and sometimes as in Tendi’s case, unexpected, when we also listen to our inner daimon, we will fulfill our place in the unus mundus, Carl (C. G.) Jung’s term for the one, unified world, and be in service to the anima mundi, his term for the soul of the world.
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