Category: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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”

Synopsis: After a Klingon fleet appears at Deep Space Nine, Captain Sisko decides to enlist the assistance of Lt. Commander Worf in his dealings with them. This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego can react to experiencing bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious. In… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 1: “The Way of the Warrior”

Synopsis: After being promoted, Captain Sisko and the crew of the Defiant are manipulated by a changeling in an effort to start a war. This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of Trickster-like energy and how it can relate to the compensatory aspects of the psyche, as another way in which the Logos-driven… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 26: “The Adversary”

Synopsis: Lt. Dax participates in the Trill rite of closure that allows her to meet all the Dax symbiont’s past hosts. This episode can be seen as a physical manifestation of the process by which the Logos-driven rational conscious ego is allowed to experience different bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, by way… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 25: “Facets”

Synopsis: Kai Winn is elevated to the position of First Minister of Bajor’s Provisional Government and asks for Major Kira’s assistance. In depth psychological terms, this episode can be seen as an illustration of the relationship between inflation and deflation. Inflation, as defined by Carl (C. G.) Jung is the identification with the power of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 24: “Shakaar”

Synopsis: Quark’s mother, Ishka, is accused of unlawfully earning profit on the Ferengi homeworld, while on Deep Space Nine Commander Sisko meets Captain Yates. Like the last Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode I wrote about “Explorers,” this episode also contains illustrations of what Carl (C. G.) Jung would call projection. Projection being the way… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 23: “Family Business”

Synopsis: Commander Sisko and his son, Jake, take a journey on a solar sail ship while Dr. Bashir confronts a former classmate visiting Deep Space Nine. This episode can be seen as a series of illustrations of what Carl (C. G.) Jung would call projection. Projection being the way that one projects bits of material… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 22: “Explorers”

Synopsis: The plan for a Romulan and Cardassian joint attack on the Dominion fails. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung would call an occurrence of one-sidedness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego. In “The Die is Cast” we learn of a joint plan between the Romulans and… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 21: “The Die is Cast”

Synopsis: Garak and Odo investigate an attempt on Garak’s life. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the relationship between the archetypes of the Senex, the wise old man, and the Puer, the eternal youth, as described by James Hillman. In “Improbable Cause” former members of the Cardassian Obsidian Order, a CIA-like organization,… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 20: “Improbable Cause”

Synopsis: Commander Sisko is abducted and taken into the parallel universe in order to complete a mission there of rebelling against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the inner unconscious anima and animus, the terms Carl (C. G.) Jung had for our own internal idealized mates, operate when… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 19: “Through the Looking Glass”