Synopsis: While the other Starfleet Academy cadets worked through their feelings by doing a play, SAM returned to her home world in order to be healed. If last week’s episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl Gustav (C.G.) Jung’s concept of a complex, one way in which unconscious material comes to the awareness… Continue reading Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Season 1, Episode 8: “The Life of the Stars”
Author: Myth Maggie
My name is Margaret Ann Mendenhall, PhD - aka Myth Maggie.
I am a Mythological Scholar and a student of Depth and Archetypal Psychology. I am watching an episode or film from the Star Trek multiverse every day* and blogging about it from a mythological and depth psychological perspective, going back to The Original Series. If you love Star Trek or it has meaning for you, I invite you to join the voyage.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 7: “Ko’Zeine”
Synopsis: Starfleet Academy cadets learn about themselves during a school holiday. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl Gustav (C.G.) Jung’s concept of a complex, one way in which unconscious material comes to the awareness of the conscious ego. “Ko’Zeine” began with the various Starfleet Academy cadets preparing to leave school for… Continue reading Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 7: “Ko’Zeine”
Star Trek: Star Trek Scouts – Season 2, Episode 6: “Star Trek Scouts Defeat ROBOTS on the Moon!– Holodeck Rescues #6”
Synopsis: The Star Trek Scouts come to the aid of a moonchuck when two fighting robots threaten to destroy the moonchuck’s home. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the difference between behavioral psychology and depth psychology. Depth psychology being defined as any branch of psychology that concerns the unconscious. In “Star Trek… Continue reading Star Trek: Star Trek Scouts – Season 2, Episode 6: “Star Trek Scouts Defeat ROBOTS on the Moon!– Holodeck Rescues #6”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 6: “Come, Let’s Away”
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… Continue reading Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 6: “Come, Let’s Away”
Star Trek: Star Trek Scouts – Season 2, Episode 5: “Star Trek Scouts vs. Shadowtrix in Underwater Mission!” – Holodeck Rescues #5”
Synopsis: The Star Trek Scouts pursue Shadowtrix into a dark cave and a sea monster trench to retrieve the glow she stole from a glowray. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of the union of opposites, or transcendent function, how the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits… Continue reading Star Trek: Star Trek Scouts – Season 2, Episode 5: “Star Trek Scouts vs. Shadowtrix in Underwater Mission!” – Holodeck Rescues #5”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 5: “Series Acclimation Mil”
Synopsis: SAM (Series Acclimation Mil) ties to solve the mystery of Benjamine Sisko and understand organic lifeforms. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of individuation—“the process by which a person becomes a psychological ‘in-dividual,’ that is, a separate, indivisible unity or ‘whole’” (C. G. Jung, 1939/1969, p.… Continue reading Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 5: “Series Acclimation Mil”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 4: “Vox in Excelso”
Synopsis: Cadets from Starfleet Academy engage in a debate on the fate of the Klingons and Cadet Kraag finds his voice. 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 contain… Continue reading Star Trek: Starfleet Academy – Season 1, Episode 4: “Vox in Excelso”
Star Trek: Scouts – Season 2, Episode 4: “Star Trek Scouts Save a Space Whale From a Black Hole!– Holodeck Rescues #4”
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… Continue reading Star Trek: Scouts – Season 2, Episode 4: “Star Trek Scouts Save a Space Whale From a Black Hole!– Holodeck Rescues #4”
Star Trek: Scouts – Season 2, Episode 3: “Star Trek Scouts Stop a Mudslide & Save Dinosaurs!– Holodeck Rescues #3”
Synopsis: The Star Trek Scouts rescue three hatchling galactic pterodactyls and return them to their mother. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’ concepts of inflation and deflation, as well as an enantiodromia, his term for the idea that integrating bits of material from the unconscious into the conscious… Continue reading Star Trek: Scouts – Season 2, Episode 3: “Star Trek Scouts Stop a Mudslide & Save Dinosaurs!– Holodeck Rescues #3”
Star Trek: Scouts – Season 2, Episode 2: “Star Trek Scouts Save a Baby Monkey in Outer Space – Holodeck Rescues #2”
Synopsis: The Star Trek Scouts rescue a baby nobonimbus monkey stolen by Shadowtrix and return it to its mother. This episode can be seen as another illustration of how an individual’s psyche is made up of both conscious and unconscious material, and that when the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of unconscious material into… Continue reading Star Trek: Scouts – Season 2, Episode 2: “Star Trek Scouts Save a Baby Monkey in Outer Space – Holodeck Rescues #2”
