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Synopsis: Dr. Crusher is abducted by a group of terrorists on Rutia IV. It is interesting that the conflict at the heart of this storyline is very similar to that of the last episode in “The Hunted.” The situation in which one group has broken off from the majority when they feel that they have… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 12: “The High Ground”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is confronted by a soldier who has escaped from a military prison, and the crew question why he had been placed there. In “The Hunted,” after visiting the planet Angosia III, which seeks to become part of the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise is attacked by an inmate from a penal… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 11: “The Hunted”

Synopsis: The Enterprise provides asylum for a defecting Romulan officer, who tells them of a secret plan the Romulans have for starting a war with the Federation. In “The Defector,” the biggest issue for Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew is whether or not to believe the information that the defecting Romulan officer is giving… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 10: “The Defector”

Synopsis: After discovering an attack on a science station Captain Picard orders the Enterprise to try to mediate negotiations between clans that have been feuding for generations on a planet. In “The Vengeance Factor” there is an interesting mythological custom that is on display, yet never mentioned in every scene in which parties are brought… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 9: “The Vengeance Factor”

Synopsis: The Enterprise hosts an auction of sorts for control of a wormhole and Counselor Troi is pursued by one of the negotiators. This episode illustrates the depth psychological concept of “projection.” The idea that we see our idealized inner opposite on others when we fall in love at first sight. And what happens when… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 8: “The Price”

Synopsis: In responding to a distress signal, the crew of the Enterprise finds two survivors from a Romulan ship on an inhospitable planet in Federation territory. “The Enemy” offers us an illustration of two ways in which opposing forces relate to each other. This is analogous to the ways that the Logos-driven rational conscious ego… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 7: “The Enemy”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is caught in the same predicament that killed the crew of an ancient starship a millennia before. In “Booby Trap,” Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge was able to devise a way to free the Enterprise from this peril, that for every bit of energy that the vessel generates to free herself from… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 6: “Booby Trap”

Synopsis: A member of the crew of the Enterprise is killed on an away team mission, and officers and an alien feeling responsible for the death, try to ease the pain of the orphan son she left behind. In my last couple of blog posts I discussed the Senex archetype as described by James Hillman.… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 5: “The Bonding”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise comes to the aid of a team of anthropological scientists observing a less developed civilization, only to be discovered themselves in violation of the Prime Directive. In my last blog discussing the episode “The Survivors,” I write how an alien species can be seen as a physical manifestation of… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 4: “Who Watches the Watchers”

Synopsis: Answering a distress call, the crew of the Enterprise finds what appears to be only two survivors on a devastated planet. “The Survivors” gives viewers the opportunity to see a physical manifestation of a character holding the Senex archetype as described by James Hillman. When the Enterprise reaches the planet Rana IV, the ship’s… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 3: “The Survivors”