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Synopsis: A transporter malfunction sends Commander Sisko, Lt. Dax, and Dr. Bashir back in time to San Francisco in the year 2024. This episode, through the mechanism of time travel, illustrates James Hillman’s acorn theory, that we all contain an inner daimon with all the knowledge we need to become who we are destined to… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episodes 11 and 12: “Past Tense, Part I and Part II”

Synopsis: A breakout of Zanthi Fever occurs when Lwaxana Troi visits the station. This episode illustrates the power of projection, as it is meant in depth psychological terms. In “Fascination” the residents of Deep Space Nine act as if they have all taken a hit of ecstasy. And while this harkens back to the episode… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 10: “Fascination”

Synopsis: Lt. Riker, the duplicate of Commander Riker created in a transporter malfunction, poses as the original in order to take the Defiant and deliver her to the Maquis. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory, the idea that we are all born with our own internal daimon that… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 9: “The Defiant”

Synopsis: The crew of the Defiant comes across a planet that exists in two universes. This episode can be seen as an analogy as to what happens in one’s psyche when one becomes too one-sided in favoring the Logos-driven ration conscious ego over the Eros-driven, irrational instincts and urges of the unconscious. In “Meridian” Commander… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 8: “Meridian”

Synopsis: When an anti-insurgency defense system is triggered, everyone on the station must work together to stop the automated destruction of Deep Space Nine. This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of what can occur in our psyches when bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious try to come into awareness of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 7: “Civil Defense”

Synopsis: When a Jem’Hadar infant is abandoned on the station, Odo tries to raise him. While I have written much in recent posts about James Hillman’s acorn theory, perhaps this episode is the one that is the clearest analogy to it. The acorn theory being the idea that we all have an internal daimon that… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 6: “The Abandoned”

Synopsis: Major Kira is abducted by the Cardassian Obsidian Order in an attempt to trap a high ranking Cardassian dissident. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory. The idea that we all have an internal daimon that has all the information that we need to become who we are… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 5: “Second Skin”

Synopsis: Lt. Dax is confronted by the memories of a host to the Dax symbiont that had been clinically removed. In my blog for the last episode “The House of Quark” I wrote how it can be seen as an illustration of the concept that Carl (C. G.) Jung called the union of opposites, or… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 4: “Equilibrium”