Synopsis: Voyager comes across a colony of Ocampa on a space array and they lead Voyager and her crew to the mate of the Caretaker that sent them into the Delta Quadrant. While there are a lot of things that can be viewed from a depth psychological perspective in this episode, I am going to… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 10: “Cold Fire”
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 7: “Little Green Men”
Synopsis: On the way to bring Nog to Earth to attend Starfleet Academy, Quark’s new vessel is caught in a time warp and ends up on Earth, but in 1947. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s concept, the acorn theory. That just as every acorn has all the information inside… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 7: “Little Green Men”
Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 9: “Tattoo”
Synopsis: An away team on a moon finds a symbol inscribed into the ground which has significance to Commander Chakotay. While there are a lot of things that can be viewed from a depth psychological perspective in this episode, I am going to explore the idea that by healing one’s own psyche, by making it… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 9: “Tattoo”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 6: “Starship Down”
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”
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”
