Category: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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”

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”

Synopsis: The Starfleet staff aboard the station are confronted by a Bajoran spiritual leader with different ideas than theirs. In this episode, the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, here embodied by the Starfleet staff aboard the station are forced to make accommodations for the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, symbolized here by a fundamentalistic Bajoran spiritual leader, Vedek… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 20: “In the Hands of the Prophets”

Synopsis: A Cardassian comes aboard the station claiming that he is the “Butcher of Gallitep,” the leader of a notorious labor camp on Bajor during the occupation. This episode, much like the prior one, “Dramatis Personae,” examines the idea that bits of material from the collective unconscious of a society that was deeply wounded need… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 19: “Duet”

Synopsis: A Klingon ship returns from the Gamma Quadrant through the wormhole with something disruptive and dangerous to the station. In this episode, once again the Gamma Quadrant can be analogized to the unconscious part of the human psyche, and the wormhole as what depth psychologist Carl (C. G.) Jung would describe as a complex.… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 18: “Dramatis Personae”

Synopsis: Lwaxana Troi and three other ambassadors visit Deep Space Nine and experience attitude shifting situations. In this episode in a scene between Odo and Lwaxana Troi, viewers are allowed to experience through them what it means when two individuals remove their projections from each other and in return are able to see each other… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 17: “The Forsaken”

Synopsis: The station deals with figments of the inhabitant’s imaginations being caused by an anomaly in space as well as three visitors from an unknown place. The confusion I have around making sense of this episode is comparable to how the Logos-driven, conscious ego has difficulty trying to integrate bits of material of the Eros-driven… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 16: “If Wishes Were Horses”

Synopsis: Major Kira travels to a Bajoran moon to convince a settler there to leave before the moon will become uninhabitable in an effort to provide power to Bajor. In this episode Major Kira Nerys meets a crochety yet charming settler on the Bajoran moon, Jeraddo, and her compassion for him may well be because… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 15: “Progress”

Synopsis: Chief O’Brien and Dr. Bashir respond to a medical emergency on Bajor, while on Deep Space Nine, Commander Sisko is asked to mediate a land dispute between two Bajoran factions. In this episode viewers get a glimpse of the power of a cultural unconscious shadow. On Bajor, this creates a physical monster, on Deep… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 14: “The Storyteller”

Synopsis: Commander Sisko, Major Kira, and Dr. Bashir bring Kai Opaka to the Gamma Quadrant, where she begins a new adventure. In this episode the concept at the core of depth psychology is explored through the character of Major Kira Nerys. And also, as in the last episode, “Vortex,” the Gamma Quadrant can be seen… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 13: “Battle Lines”