Synopsis: A new ensign comes aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos while the ship is hosting a peach negotiation.
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 “Of Gods and Angels,” the U.S.S. Cerritos is hosting peace negotiations between two species of photonic species of pure energy, the Orbs and the Cubes. Also, Ensign Olly, a demigod, has just been transferred to the ship. Lt. Beckett Mariner volunteers to mentor Olly. Hostilities break out between the Orbs and the Cubes, after it is discovered that a young Orb and a young Cube are missing. Mariner encourages Olly to use her demigod powers to stop the fighting, even though Olly tells her that doing this in the past has led to power outages. Olly tells her that she is really more talented in engineering. True to her fears, the use of Olly’s powers to try to stop the conflict leads to a bigger problem – when the energy of all the Orbs and all the Cubes combine into two large beings that are now firing energy pulses at each other with Cerritos stuck in the middle. Using her engineering skills, Olly is able to create a tractor beam which drains the large formations of their energy so the Orbs and Cubes return to their normal size. Soon thereafter the missing Orb and Cube appear. They are in love—just like Romeo and Juliet, and the Orbs and Cubes decide to go back to the negotiating table.
In this episode, when Olly tries to explain to Mariner that even though as a demigod she inherited some powers from her ancestors, that her true gifts are in engineering, this can be analogized to Hillman’s acorn theory, in that we all have inner daimons with knowledge of where our true talents are. Mariner does convince Olly to try to use her demigod powers, but it did not work out well. This illustrates how sometimes situations lead us from straying from our own inner wisdom, which can cause us despair. But when we feel that we are in tune with our own inner wisdom, we feel fulfilled and hopeful.
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