Synopsis: The Protostar crew initiate their plan to prevent war and save Starfleet and Solum.
This aptly titled episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C.G.) Jung’s concept of an enantiodromia, or that everything turns into its opposite.
In “Ouroboros, Part I,” on Solum, Asencia is frustrated by her failed attempt to take over the planet and opens up wormholes with her weapon to send warships into Federation space. On Voyager, Wesley Crusher says that this is how Protostar will be send back to Tars Lamora. Captain Chakotay takes the Protostar crew to prepare the ship to be found exactly as it was on Tars Lamora. On Voyager, the ship fires on Asencia’s warships. The Protostar crew uses Asencia’s technology to create a wormhole. The Vau N’Akat help Gwyndala (Gwyn) defeat Asencia. A signal comes from the wormhole, the Loom.
In this episode, after Asencia’s initial victory, events started moving in opposition to her intentions. Asencia was briefly in control of Solum, but then the Vau N’Akat inhabitants defeated her. Further, in a one-on-one physical battle between Gwyn and Asencia, the Vau N’Akat used their kinetic abilities to help Gwyn defeat Asencia. Also the wormholes that Asencia created are used to destroy, not propel, her warships heading into Federation space. And then the Loom appear through the wormholes to threaten Solum. These events, running to one end of the spectrum and then to the other opposite, can be analogized to what Jung called an enantiodromia, or that everything turns into its opposite. As the title of this episode indicates, one symbol of this is the ouroboros, or the snake eating its own tail.
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