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Synopsis: After deserting Cerritos, Ensign Peanut Hamper lands on an alien world. This episode can be seen as illustrating what it can feel like for a neurodivergent individual trying to fit into a neurotypical world. In “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption,” Ensign Peanut Hamper, a sentient exocomp, finds herself in a debris field, where she pieces… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 7: “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

Synopsis: While the Cerritos is docked at Deep Space Nine, Captain Freeman is tasked with negotiating with the Karemma. This episode can be seen as illustrating Carl (C. G.) Jung’s theory on how an individual’s conscious ego projects the individual’s unconscious material onto another. In “Hear All, Trust Nothing,” after the U.S.S. Vancouver is sent… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 6: “Hear All, Trust Nothing”

Synopsis: Ensigns Mariner and Boimler are tasked with representing Starfleet in a recruitment booth at a job fair on Tulgana IV, while on Cerritos Ensign Rutherford is confronted by a younger version of his personality. This episode can be seen as illustrations of how the conscious ego and unconscious operate differently in our psyches. In… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 5: “Reflections”

Synopsis: Captain Freeman takes the engineering staff on a therapeutic retreat while the lower deck shifts try to game the system to win a lottery for vacant room assignments. This episode can be seen as an illustration of neurodiversity, and how having a different way of relating to the world isn’t wrong, it is just… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 4: “Room for Growth”

Synopsis: The crews from the U.S.S. Cerritos and the U.S.S. Carlsbad must work together to complete a mission on a scientific outpost. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung called projection—when an individual’s conscious ego projects contents of one’s own unconscious material onto another. “In Mining the Mind’s… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 3: “Mining the Mind’s Mines”

Synopsis: Commander Ransom is ordered to supervise Ensign Mariner. 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… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 2: “The Least Dangerous Game”

Synopsis: Ensign Mariner tries to find evidence that proves her mother is innocent of the charges against her. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl G. (C.G.) Jung’s concept of a feeling-toned complex. In “Grounded” while the U.S.S. Cerritos is impounded in spacedock, Ensign Beckett Mariner is determined to prove her mother,… Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 3, Episode 1: “Grounded”