Synopsis: After Captain Picard is presumed dead, Commander Riker investigates the murder, only to be captured by alien mercenaries who have among them the very much alive Picard. This episode gives us a glimpse of how different individuals respond to loss. It also elucidates what happens when we project the negative inner anima or animus… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 4: “Gambit, Part I”
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: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 2: “The Circle”
Synopsis: Major Kira leaves Deep Space Nine for Bajor looking for peace but finding political intrigue. This episode illustrates how bits of unconscious materials trying to break through into conscious awareness are embodied in two of the lead characters, Major Kira Nerys and Commander Benjamin Sisko, and how they both respond to it. After the… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 2: “The Circle”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 3: “Interface”
Synopsis: While using a device that allows him to interface with a mechanical probe to try and save the crew aboard a vessel trapped in a planet’s atmosphere, Lt. Commander La Forge comes across an image of his mother, that is actually an alien pleading for assistance. This episode illustrates how messages received from our… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 3: “Interface”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 1: “The Homecoming”
Synopsis: Major Kira rescues a leader of the Bajoran resistance movement from a labor camp with unexpected results following his safe return. In this episode there is an interesting tension between the idea of the need of a society to have a symbolic leader and the concept that a person is not always well suited… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 1: “The Homecoming”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 2: “Liaisons”
Synopsis: Three ambassadors from a race having its first cultural exchanges with the Federation come aboard the Enterprise with different missions to understand humans. If the last episode illustrated the depth psychological concept of ego inflation and deflation, this episode elucidates another central idea from depth psychology, that of projection. Projection in this sense is… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 2: “Liaisons”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 1: “Descent, Part II”
https://anchor.fm/margaret-mendenhall/episodes/My-Daily-Soul-Trek-Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation—Season-7–Episode-1-Descent–Part-II-e1plgco Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise are confronted by an army of individualized Borgs led by Lt. Commander Data’s brother, Lore. This episode illustrates two possible effects upon the Logos-driven conscious rational ego when it comes in contact with bits of Eros-driven irrational material from the unconscious: inflation and deflation. Both are necessary to… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 1: “Descent, Part II”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 20: “In the Hands of the Prophets”
Synopsis: The Starfleet staff aboard the station are confronted by a Bajoran spiritual leader with different ideas than theirs. In this episode, the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, here embodied by the Starfleet staff aboard the station are forced to make accommodations for the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, symbolized here by a fundamentalistic Bajoran spiritual leader, Vedek… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 20: “In the Hands of the Prophets”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 26: “Descent”
Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise comes across Borg individuals not attached to the collective, just as Lt. Commander Data experiences his first emotion. It is fitting that this episode be titled “Descent,” because that is what the Logos-driven rational conscious ego perceives is occurring when it comes in contact with bits of material from… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 26: “Descent”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 25: “Timescape”
Synopsis: While responding to a distress call from a Romulan warbird the Enterprise is caught in a temporal anomaly. In this episode we can see what Star Trek does so well, in that the crew of the Enterprise responds to a sudden emergent situation in a Logos-driven rational way, only to find out that this… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 25: “Timescape”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 19: “Duet”
Synopsis: A Cardassian comes aboard the station claiming that he is the “Butcher of Gallitep,” the leader of a notorious labor camp on Bajor during the occupation. This episode, much like the prior one, “Dramatis Personae,” examines the idea that bits of material from the collective unconscious of a society that was deeply wounded need… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 19: “Duet”
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