Synopsis: The Star Trek Scouts defeat a piñata asteroid using a bat and piñata pickles rain down on them on Sprocket’s birthday.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of synchronicity – that everything in the galaxy, the multiverse – past, present, and future – are connected, even though we are normally only allowed to experience it linearly.
“Star Trek Scouts Hit a Pickle Filled PIÑATA in Space – Asteroid Blaster #4” began with a celebration of Sprocket’s birthday. He tried to blow out the candles on his cake using the air power mode on his bionic arm, but it was too strong, and frosting blew everywhere. The party was interrupted when an asteroid was detected heading straight for the Star Trek Scouts’ school. Sprocket identified it as a piñata asteroid from the Pulsar Party System. The asteroid deflector wheel was activated and a confetti popper was chosen as the weapon to use against the asteroid. The asteroid deflector was activated, and the confetti popper was energized and fired into the asteroid. It did not work. Instead, it caused the asteroid look even more festive. Sprocket seemed to believe this was great, since it was his birthday. The asteroid deflector wheel was activated again, and the next weapon was chosen, a leaf blower. But it was missing. Finn had it and wouldn’t let the scouts use it, instead he used it on them. Sprocket used the air power mode to defend the scouts against Finn, but when Finn was blown away, so was the leaf blower. Then the last weapon was selected for use against the asteroid, a bat. The bat works. Piñata pickles were inside the piñata, which was just what Sprocket wished for on his birthday.
There were several instances of synchronicity seen in this short episode. First, that the asteroid heading for the scouts’ school was a piñata asteroid, on the day of Sprocket’s birthday. Also that Sprocket just happened to be using the air power mode of his bionic arm moments before Finn came in and threatened the scouts. And finally that the piñata asteroid was filled with piñata pickles, which was the fulfillment of Sprocket’s birthday wish. These events could all be seen as illustrations of the concepts that were a part of Jung’s later writings about the collective unconscious and synchronicity. In our normal day-to-day life, we may not realize this web of coexistence until something out of the ordinary happens, which alerts us to know just how interrelated we are to everyone and everything around us.
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