Category: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Synopsis: A Bajoran from Odo’s past comes aboard the station. This episode is an illustration of how sometimes self-knowledge comes to us at the price of embracing the darker unconscious aspects of our psyche, that Carl (C. G.) Jung would call the shadow. “The Alternate” begins with Quark selling off pieces of a dead Ferengi,… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 12: “The Alternate”

Synopsis: A new arrival on Deep Space Nine opens a casino to rival Quark’s. This episode is an illustration of what happens when Trickster energy is introduced to the Logos-driven rational conscious ego. “Rivals” begins with a new arrival from the El-Aurian system, Martus Mazur. Odo immediately identifies him as someone to watch when he… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 11: “Rivals”

Synopsis: Ships from a race fleeing the Gamma Quadrant stop at the station enroute to finding their promised homeland. This episode is an illustration of what happens when bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious are made perceptible to the Logos-driven rational conscious ego and then the ego ignores it. In “Sanctuary” Skrreean ships… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 10: “Sanctuary”

Synopsis: Commander Sisko falls in love with a mysterious woman. In this episode the concept of projection is illustrated in a variety of ways. In depth psychology, projection is one way in which bits of material from one’s Eros-driven irrational unconscious is made visible to the Logos-driven rational conscious ego. If the bits of unconscious… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 9: “Second Sight”

Synopsis: An attack on Quark causes Odo to reinvestigate a past murder. In this episode the shape-shifting character of Odo can be seen as a physical manifestation of what James Hillman calls the metaxy, that third inbetween place where soul, or psyche, is made. The metaxy lies somewhere between the conscious and the unconscious, the… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 8: “Necessary Evil”

Synopsis: A female Ferengi disguises herself as male in order to be able to engage in business opportunities. This episode is an illustration of how we can projection our shadow onto others. In this case, how an entire species, here the Ferengi, are having negative projections placed upon them. In “Rules of Acquisition” Pel, a… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 7: “Rules of Acquisition”

Synopsis: A cartographer from a low-gravity world is assigned to Deep Space Nine and must deal with its higher level of gravity. This episode illustrates the concept from depth psychology that where there is a psychic wound, there is also a great possibility for healing. In “Melora” Ensign Melora Pazlar, from the federation planet Elaysia,… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 2, Episode 6: “Melora”

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”

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”

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”