Synopsis: The Star Trek Scouts rescue a gormagander and return him to his family.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of how a complex is created and when assimilated into the conscious ego can lead to self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and therefore psychic healing.
In “Star Trek Scouts Save a Space Whale From a Black Hole!– Holodeck Rescues #4” The Star Trek Scouts entered the holodeck program aboard a starship and saw a space whale, which Roo identified as a gormagander following food that was leading him into a black hole. The ship’s tractor beam was activated by Roo, which captured the gormagander, but resulted in him pulling the Star Trek Scout’s ship closer to the black hole. The tractor beam was deactivated, and Roo put on a space suit to go speak to the gormagander, while telling the others that she spoke his language. Roo communicated the situation to the gormagander, who told her that he would pull them all away from the black hole. But the gravity of the black hole was too strong. Then, Sprocket suggested that the Star Trek Scouts initiate a slingshot maneuver to use the power of gravity of the black whole to allow them to escape. This was successful and the gormagander was returned to his family.
In this episode, when the Star Trek Scouts decided to use the black hole’s gravity as a means to escape it, this can be compared to how a complex can be used for self-knowledge and psychic healing. Jung believed that complexes were not negative, but opportunities for self-knowledge. Here, the black hole’s gravity was the source of the problem for the Star Trek Scouts, using it was also the method of how they would be freed from it. This can be analogized to how a complex brings unconscious material into the realm of the conscious ego, where it can be acknowledged and integrated into it, making the ego stronger and the psyche more whole.
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