Category: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Synopsis: A visitor from the Gamma Quadrant tells Odo about changelings like himself in the Gamma Quadrant. In this episode, we see Odo, the chief of security at Deep Space Nine, struggle with impulses both from his rational Logos-driven conscious, and the irrational, Eros-driven unconscious, when an individual from the Gamma Quadrant awaiting trial for… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 12: “Vortex”

Synopsis: The Ferengi leader – Grand Nagus Zek visits Deep Space Nine. In this episode we see how even though different belief systems seem to be completely unreconcilable, yet as is the case between the conscious and unconscious in our psyches, they do need each other to become more whole. In “The Nagus” when Commander… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 11: “The Nagus”

Synopsis: The first official delegates from the Gamma Quadrant arrive at Deep Space Nine. This episode, much like the earlier one “Captive Pursuit,” deals with foreign species that come from the Gamma Quadrant through the wormhole and bring the unexpected. Which is much like how bits of unconscious material come to the attention of the… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 10: “Move Along Home”

Synopsis: A rescue of a ship in distress brings a dangerous consciousness onto the station. In this episode we see a theme of certain episodes that goes back to Star Trek: The Original Series in which consciousness has so been separated from our body that bodies have become interchangeable, even between species. This is unlike… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 9: “The Passenger”

Synopsis: Representatives from a planet where Curzon Dax is accused of murder and treason thirty years ago, come to the station to extradite Jadzia Dax and bring her to trial for the alleged crimes of her symbiont’s former Trill host. This episode explores the relationship between the Trill’s symbiont being and its host body, how… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 8: “Dax”

Synopsis: Two characters originally seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q and Vash, make an appearance on the station. Just as I mentioned in a previous post that Deep Space Nine has no control over what might come through the wormhole that connects it to the Gamma Quadrant, in this episode Vash is found… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 7: “Q-Less”

Synopsis: Deep Space Nine comes to the aid of the first ship that comes through the wormhole from the Gamma Quadrant. This episode illustrates that Deep Space Nine has no control over what might come through the wormhole that connects it to the Gamma Quadrant, just as the rational conscious ego has no control over… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 6: “Captive Pursuit”

Synopsis: An artificially engineered virus infects the population on Deep Space Nine and causes them to lose their ability to communicate with words. This episode can be interpreted as being an illustration of how the unconscious communicates to us indirectly, by means other than rational thought or speech. Depth psychology is the field of psychology… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 5: “Babel”

Synopsis: Constable Odo finds himself a suspect when there is a murder on the station. In this episode we learn a little more about how Commander Benjamin Sisko is adjusting to meeting Lt. Jadzia Dax, who is the new host of his old friend Curzon Dax. Curzon Dax having been an older man and mentor… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 4: “A Man Alone”

Synopsis: A Bajoran freedom fighter seeks asylum on Deep Space Nine. In this episode, much like the episode “Emissary,” that proceeded it, there is a preponderance of images used to introduce viewers to characters; what their backstory is, how they think, and how they act. Perhaps because of this, I believe that the most visible… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1, Episode 3: “Past Prologue”