Synopsis: Starfleet Academy and War College cadets worked together in a training exercise to defeat an unexpected foe.
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 that have all the information we need to become who we were meant to be.
“Come, Let’s, Away” began with a montage of images of Caleb Mir and Tarima Sadal kissing, in bed, and sitting on a bench along the shore, with the Golden Gate Bridge looming overhead. Then, through telepathy, or what she called mind-speak, Sadal took Mir to her safest place in the universe – a field of golden flowers. But then Mir’s childhood teddy bear appeared. Back on the U.S.S. Athena, the link was broken and Mir was very upset about her going into his head and seeing it. Sadal tried to explain that this was who she was and that she knew she was not for everyone. She apologized and left. Chancellor Nahla Ake explained to the cadets that the Athena had arrived at a ship graveyard where Starfleet Academy and the War College would conduct a joint exercise, to revive the U.S.S. Miyazaki. After a team of cadets had taken a shuttle to the Miyaki, the Athena’s scanners detected thirty ships were in the area and that a boarding party had gone aboard the Miyazaki. Ake is hailed by the Furies, who claimed the Miyazaki as salvage and that they had taken the cadets captive. Admiral Charles Vance communicated with the Ake to suggest she contact Nus Braka, who had been able to get rid of them in the past. Braka told Vance that because Vance was a good guy he doesn’t get what he wants. And that Braka’s father told him that to succeed he needed to control the flow of traffic. What Braka wanted was for the Federation to stop supplying dilithium to Taygeta I, so that its inhabitants will have to travel through him again. Sadal reported to Ake and Chancellor Kelrec that she was able to connect with Mir and that the cadets aboard the Miyazaki did not know what to do. She admitted that when she was young, she couldn’t control her gift, but that now she could. Braka told Ake that the Furies have sensitive hearing and can be beaten by a sonic weapon and then left the Athena on a shuttle. Then ship’s sensors indicated that the U.S.S. Sargasso from Station J19 Alpha arrived and that Braka sent a signal to the Furies’ ships. It was not the Furies in charge but Braka. The Sargasso was disabled. On the Miyazaki, the Furies attack the cadets. Sadal reached out to the Miyazaki and shattered the Furies with her mind. On the Athena, Ake learned that Braka attached J19 Alpha Station and that Starfleet did not know what he took yet. Braka sent a message to Ake that Starfleet infects space.
In this episode, the actions of many individuals, but primarily Sadal, Vance, and Braka can be seen as illustrations of James Hillman’s acorn theory. Sadal revealed her powers to Mir, and then to Ake and Kelrec, and then used them to save others at great risk to herself. Vance was accused of being a good guy by Braka, and then lived up to this pronouncement, which led to Starfleet losing valuable technology. And Braka, who told his truth to Vance and Ake, and then put into action what he told them he would do. These can all be interpreted as illustrations of listening to one’s inner daimon, the inner voice that has all the information we need to become who we were meant to be if we only listen to it.
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