Synopsis: While conducting trade negotiations in the Gamma Quadrant the Defiant is attacked by Jem’Hadar warships. While the above is the plotline of this episode from the external point of view, there is a lot of psychic growth that is happening on the U.S.S. Defiant as the crew struggles to live through the aftermath of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 6: “Starship Down”
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.
* Monday through Friday, excluding holidays
Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 8: “Persistence of Vision”
Synopsis: A telepathic alien is able to control the minds of the Voyager crew by letting them see and live their hidden thoughts. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego has the ability to confront bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious through what Carl (C.… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 8: “Persistence of Vision”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 5: “Rejoined”
Synopsis: Lt. Commander Dax is reunited with the current host of the symbiont who was the wife of Tobias Dax. This episode can be seen as an unusual illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. This is his concept that just as each acorn has all the information inside it to become a tree, inside each… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 5: “Rejoined”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 4: “Indiscretion”
Synopsis: Gul Dukat accompanies Major Kira on a search for survivors of a crash of a vessel transporting Bajoran prisoners. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung called projections. Projections are bits of unconscious material that an individual’s conscious ego has placed upon another. If what is projected… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 4: “Indiscretion”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 3: “Hippocratic Oath”
Synopsis: Chief O’Brien and Dr. Bashir are captured by a group of renegade Jem’Hadar, whose leader wants to free them from their inborn addiction to ketracel white, while on Deep Space Nine Lt. Commander Worf gets used to his new surroundings. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 3: “Hippocratic Oath”
Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 7: “Parturition”
Synopsis: Lt. Paris and Mr. Neelix are sent on a mission together to gather food, come across an alien hatchling, and resolve the issues that have come between them. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego must confront bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious through… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 7: “Parturition”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 2: “The Visitor”
Synopsis: After coming in contact with an energy discharge from the warp core of the Defiant, Captain Sisko is trapped in subspace. This episode can be seen as a physical representation of some of David Bohm’s theories from modern physics – explicate order, implicate order, and holomovement, and how they relate to some of Carl… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 2: “The Visitor”
Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 6: “Twisted”
Synopsis: Voyager comes in contact with a spacial disturbance ring which reconfigures the structure of the ship. In this episode if Voyager can be seen as a physical manifestation of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, outer space as the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, then the spacial distortion ring that the vessel comes in contact with can… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 6: “Twisted”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 1: “The Way of the Warrior”
Synopsis: After a Klingon fleet appears at Deep Space Nine, Captain Sisko decides to enlist the assistance of Lt. Commander Worf in his dealings with them. This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego can react to experiencing bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious. In… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 1: “The Way of the Warrior”
Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 5: “Non Sequitur”
Synopsis: Ensign Kim wakes up in a reality in which he is not on Voyager. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what James Hillman calls the acorn theory. The idea that just as within each acorn there is all the information it will need to become a tree, within each of us… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 5: “Non Sequitur”
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