Synopsis: A Cardassian boy and his adoptive Bajoran father arrive on Deep Space Nine only to find out that the child is not an orphan after all. This episode requires Commander Benjamin Sisko to weigh many different value systems in order to make a decision about the future of a young person, and my reaction… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 5: “Cardassians”
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 6: “Phantasms”
Synopsis: Lt. Commander Data engages his dream program, which has him identifying a threat to the Enterprise that sensors could not pick up. This episode is an illustration of how messages from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious when perceived and acknowledged by the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, can be very useful, and in some instances, lifesaving.… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 6: “Phantasms”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 4: “Invasive Procedures”
Synopsis: A Trill that was denied a symbiont host takes over Deep Space Nine in order to forcibly remove the Dax symbiont from Lt. Jadzia Dax. This episode uses the Trill joined species as an analogy to how psyche – mind, and soma – body, are intricately related, but also how the rational ego feels… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 4: “Invasive Procedures”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 5: “Gambit, Part II”
Synopsis: Aboard a mercenary vessel, Captain Picard and Commander Riker try to foil a plot to recover a deadly ancient Vulcan weapon. This episode has a bit of an unsatisfying finish. It can be analogized to how the rational Logos-driven ego believes that it is the center of the psyche, when it is not. In… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 5: “Gambit, Part II”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 3: “The Siege”
Synopsis: Deeps Space Nine is evacuated of non-Bajorans as Major Kira and Lt. Dax head to Bajor to deliver proof of a conspiracy. This episode illustrates two ways in which human beings can operate, by being led by their rational Logos-driven conscious ego, or their irrational Eros-driven unconscious. In “The Siege” while on Deep Space… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 3: “The Siege”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 4: “Gambit, Part I”
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”
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”
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