Category: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Blog 456 – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Season 5, Episode 17: “A Simple Investigation”

Synopsis: When Dr. Bashir is chosen as the model for a new long term emergency medical hologram program, he is investigated, and a secret is found out. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what can happen when the bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious make their way into the awareness… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 16: “Doctor Bashir, I Presume”

Synopsis: An encoded Cardassian message that originated in the Gamma Quadrant is received at Deep Space Nine, which is then followed by a Jem’Hadar invasion. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what can happen when the bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious that make their way into the awareness of… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 15: “By Inferno’s Light”

Synopsis: An encoded Cardassian message that originated in the Gamma Quadrant is received at Deep Space Nine, which is then followed by a Jem’Hadar invasion. This episode can be seen as an illustration of just how little control the Logos-driven rational conscious ego has over the bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious that… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 14: “In Purgatory’s Shadow”

Synopsis: Captain Sisko is confronted by his former Starfleet Security Chief Eddington, who is now a leader of the Maquis. While again there is much depth psychological content to this episode, I am going to explore it for the perspective of how it can be seen as an illustration of what happens when the myth… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 13: “For the Uniform”

Synopsis: Major Kira gives birth to the O’Brien’s child and Odo comes across a baby changeling. This episode is very rich in depth psychological material, but what I will highlight in this post is the idea of what is gained by trying to connect to the knowledge of the ancestors. In “The Begotten” there are… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 12: “The Begotten”

Synopsis: Members of the resistance cell that Major Kira was once part of are being killed and she investigates the murders. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the following passage written by Carl (C. G.) Jung: “Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 11: “The Darkness and the Light”

Synopsis: After being knocked unconscious by a surge of energy in a holosuite program, Captain Sisko, the Bajoran Emissary, starts to have visions. This episode is an illustration of what happens when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego identifies too closely with the energy of an archetype of the Eros-driven irrational unconscious. In “Rapture” Captain Benjamin… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 10: “Rapture”

Synopsis: Odo and Quark crash land on a baren planet while on Deep Space Nine Jake Sisko and Starfleet Academy Cadet Nog become roommates. This episode is an illustration of what happens in the place in between the Logos-driven rational conscious ego and the Eros-driven irrational unconscious that archetypal psychologist James Hillman called the metaxy.… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 9: The Ascent”

Synopsis: Captain Sisko, Lt. Commander Dax, Odo, and Garak are returned to the past, when Deep Space Nine was under Cardassian control. In this episode we can see what happens when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego suppresses bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, and what happens when they erupt into its purview through… Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 8: “Things Past”