Author: Myth Maggie

Synopsis: The Enterprise is sent to Beta III to try to ascertain what happened to the starship Archon, a Federation vessel which disappeared after passing by there one hundred years before. What is an archon? In the episode “The Return of the Archons,” to the crew of the Enterprise the Archons were the survivors from… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 21: “The Return of the Archons”

Synopsis: Captain Kirk is tried for negligently causing the death of a crew member. This episode can be seen as the conflict between Logos and Eros being physically manifested in the pitting of Captain James T. Kirk versus the Enterprise’s computer. Man against machine. Kirk maintains throughout “Court Martial” that in an emergency situation he… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 20: “Court Martial”

Synopsis: The Enterprise gets caught in a time warp and is sent back in time to Earth of the late 1960s. I do not have a lot to say from a depth psychological perspective per se about “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” perhaps because despite the dire need for the Enterprise to leave the Earth of the… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 19: “Tomorrow is Yesterday”

Synopsis: The Enterprise chases a Gorn ship into an unknown star system, where the Metrons decide that Captain Kirk and the captain of the Gorn ship will fight to the death to settle their differences. What is most interesting about this episode is that we are given the opportunity to see  the actions of the… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 18: “Arena”

Synopsis: The Enterprise comes across a planet in a star desert and an unusual lifeform. Trelane is the embodiment of the Puer Aeternus archetype that I described briefly in my post on Episode 8 “Miri.” James Hillman writes that some of the qualities of the Puer are: “narcissistic, inspired, effeminate, phallic, inquisitive, inventive, pensive, passive,… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 17: “The Squire of Gothos”

Synopsis: Mr. Spock’s first command is a mission on the shuttlecraft, Galileo, sent out to investigate Murasaki 312, a quasar, that becomes marooned on planet Taurus II. “The Galileo Seven” illustrates what happens when we rely solely on our rational mind to get us out of an Underworld situation. When the Galileo is affected by… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 16: “The Galileo Seven”

Synopsis: The Enterprise crew, in need of rest and relaxation, comes across a planet where any fantasy can become a reality. This episode illustrates what happens when our unconscious fantasy world is repressed for too long. While orbiting an uninhabited planet in the Omicron Delta region of space, Mr. Spock speaks to Captain James T.… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 15: “Shore Leave”

Synopsis: The Enterprise comes across a Romulan vessel at the Neutral Zone. In this episode, after over one hundred years of truce two opposing races finally see and confront each other. This meeting can be interpreted as an illustration of Jung’s concept of the union of opposites, and the consequences of this coming together not… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 14: “Balance of Terror”

Synopsis: The Enterprise transports an acting troop to the Benecia Colony that may include an actor who was once “Kodos the Executioner.” There are a couple topics regarding this episode that I want to briefly touch on. First, there is the title “The Conscience of the King.” The way I remember how to spell “conscience,”… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 13: “The Conscience of the King”

Synopsis: Mr.-Spock is court martialed for taking over the Enterprise in order to take his former commander, Captain Pike, to the forbidden planet of Talos IV. I will discuss both these episodes together because their story is too interwoven to be separated, along with the original pilot for Star Trek, “The Menagerie,” which in a… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episodes 11 & 12: “The Menagerie, Parts 1 & 2”