Synopsis: Lieutenants junior grade Mariner, Tendi, and T’Lyn take on an away mission to retrieve technology left behind on a pre-warp planet.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of projection—one way the conscious ego becomes aware of a complex by projecting bits of its own psyche onto another.
In Fully Dilated,” the U.S.S. Cerritos is repairing another dimensional fissure. This one allowed a purple Enterprise to come through to our reality. The purple Enterprise left a piece of technology behind on Dilmer III. Before lieutenants junior grade Beckett Mariner, D’Vana Tendi, and T’Lyn leave for an away mission to retrieve it, Captain Carol Freeman tells Tendi and T’Lyn that she needs to choose a Senior Science Officer. Mariner, Tendi, and T’Lyn are told that once on the planet they will experience time dilation—one second on Cerritos will equal one week on the planet. Lieutenant junior grade Bradward (Brad) Boimler spills drinks on the transporter console, so after Mariner, Tendi, and T’Lyn retrieve the technology, which turns out to be purple Data’s head left behind by purple Enterprise, they wait what is the equivalent of ten months to beam back up to the Cerritos. While they wait, T’Lyn builds a windmill. Tendi feels threatened by this and revives Data’s head with a hand crank and asks him about science. T’Lyn then grows huge fruits and sells them at market, and this causes Tendi think that T’Lyn is trying to out science her. T’Lyn tells Tendi that she was not trying to out science Tendi, but that she was trying to bond with her. They beam back to Cerritos and purple Data’s head talks to Freeman. Both Tendi and T’Lyn get the promotion.
In this episode, when Tendi believed that T’Lyn was trying to out science her, in reality what she was doing was seeing her own ambitions in T’Lyn. While T’Lyn was working on science projects as a way to bond with Tendi. Tendi’s actions can be seen as an illustration of what Jung called projection—when the conscious ego projects bits of its own psyche onto another individual. When this is happening, the ego cannot see the projectee for who they are. However, if and when the projection is removed, the ego can see the projectee for who they truly are. Here, because this occurred, Tendi and T’Lyn’s friendship deepened and both Tendi and T’Lyn were promoted to Senior Science Officer.
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