Synopsis: Infinity and her crew find the Protostar and Captain Chakotay, but must convince him that they need to repair the timeline.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung called a feeling toned complex.
In “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part I,” Infinity arrives at the planet Ysida, where Captain Chakotay has stranded, Commander Adreek-Hu, the Protostar, and himself and for the last ten years to protect the Federation from the weapon that is aboard it. He briefly speaks with the Infinity crew and then locks himself in the Protostar. An ion storm develops outside and the Infinity crew are trapped in it. Hologram Janeway pleas with Chakotay to let them seek shelter in the Protostar. When they come in from the storm, Hologram Janeway tells them that Chakotay’s first officer, Adreek-Hu, had a plan to leave the planet but Chakotay wouldn’t listen. The next day Dal R’El sets out alone and finds a lightning rod and Adreek-Hu’s body. Realizing that he is missing, Chakotay, Gwyndala (Gwyn), Jankom Pog, and Murf go looking for Dal R’El. They find him, Adreek-Hu’s body, and an antimatter storage pod. Chakotay is now convinced that he must work with the Infinity crew.
In this episode, the feeling the Chakotay and the Infinity crew share, that they must act to save the Federation and the timeline, can be seen as an indication of a complex, in this case a savior complex. Here, Chakotay felt compelled to strand the Protostar, Adreek-Hu, and himself to save the Federation from the weapon aboard the Protostar, just as the Infinity crew felt that they had to locate Chakotay and the Protostar to save their timeline. Jung wrote that one can understand oneself to be in the throes of a feeling-toned complex when one cannot help but act in a certain way. However, a complex is not necessarily negative, but is an opportunity for self-knowledge. If we accept a complex as an opportunity to grow, and integrate the unconscious material contained in the complex into our conscious ego, then the ego is made stronger and the psyche more whole. This can be compared to Chakotay realizing that he now needed to change his course of action.
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