Category: Star Trek: Enterprise

Synopsis: The Enterprise crew captures the Xindi Council Chairman Degra, and through deception try to gain information from him. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Jung’s concept of projection, how projecting upon another positive traits from one’s Eros-driven irrational unconscious can lead to friendship. In “Stratagem,” The Enterprise crew captures the Xindi… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 14: “Stratagem”

Synopsis: Enterprise’s crew, with the help of the Andorians, locate the prototype of the Xindi weapon created to destroy Earth. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the different archetypes, or patterns of energy, in our psyches complement and relate to each other. In “Proving Ground,” Degra, the Chairman of the Xindi… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 13: “Proving Ground”

Synopsis: Enterprise’s crew comes to the aid of an alien vessel in distress, but once aboard, the aliens’ leader plans to take over the ship. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how completely differently the Logos-driven rational conscious ego and the Eros-driven irrational unconscious interact inside one’s psyche. In “Chosen Realm,” Enterprise… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 12: “Chosen Realm”

Synopsis: Captain Archer and Sub-Commander T’Pol go back in time to 2004 Earth, in an effort to return Xindi time travelers back to their own time. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how a complex can begin the process whereby the Logos-driven rational conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of material from… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 11: “Carpenter Street”

Synopsis: After Lt. Commander Tucker is severely injured, Captain Archer authorizes the creation of a mimetic simbiot, who’s tissues will be used in a transplant operation to save Tucker’s life. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s concept of the acorn theory, that just as an acorn has everything inside it… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 10: “Similitude”

Synopsis: The Enterprise crew discovers a planet in the Expanse where humans were brought centuries ago as slaves but are now repressing the species that took them there. This episode can be seen as an illustration of the concept of a cultural complex, a psychic wound that is larger than an individual and affects both… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 9: “North Star”

Synopsis: Captain Archer is infected with parasites that live outside of time. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Jung’s concept of Trickster energy, that can change forms or seem different from what it truly is, but if nothing else, is an instrument of change. In “Twilight,” Captain Jonathan Archer is caught in… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 8: “Twilight”

Synopsis: A Xindi aids the Enterprise crew by sabotaging a shipment of kemocite. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Jung’s concept of projection, how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego of an individual projects a bit of Eros-driven irrational unconscious material onto another, instead of realizing that the material is part of one’s… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 3, Episode 7: “The Shipment”

Synopsis: Ensign Sato is contacted by an alien with telepathic powers. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Jung’s concept of the animus, or the ideal inner other that resides in the Eros-driven irrational unconscious of an individual who identifies as female, and the idea of the anima, or the ideal inner other… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 6: “Exile”

Synopsis: The Enterprise receives an automated distress call from a Vulcan vessel. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how dangerous it can be when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego is too one-sided and suppresses the Eros-driven irrational unconscious. In “Impulse,” the Enterprise receives an automated distress call from the Vulcan vessel, Seleya,… Continue reading Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 5: “Impulse”