Category: Star Trek Films

Released: 20 July 2016 Synopsis: Krall takes revenge against the United Federation of Planets. This film can be seen as an illustration of what can happen when the conscious ego ignores the capacity of an unconscious complex to gain insight and psychic healing. In Star Trek Beyond The U.S.S. Enterprise visits the new space station,… Continue reading Star Trek Beyond

Released: 2 May 2013 Synopsis: Starfleet Admiral Marcus intents on expanding the organization’s military capabilities, and revives a man from the past, Khan Noonien Singh, to help him in these efforts. This film can be seen as offering a variety of illustrations of what Carl (C. G.) Jung would term inflation, the conscious ego’s identification… Continue reading Star Trek Into Darkness

Released: 6 April 2009 Synopsis: In this reboot, we follow the various origin stories of the crew that came to serve together aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. This film can be seen as a variety of illustrations of what Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman would call the acorn theory, the idea that just as an acorn has… Continue reading Star Trek (2009)

Released: 13 December 2002 Synopsis: Enterprise is tasked with providing an escort to the new Romulan Praetor, who is a clone of Captain Picard. Interestingly, just as in Star Trek IX: Insurrection, this film can also be seen as various illustrations of what Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman would call the relationship between the Senex, or… Continue reading Star Trek X: Nemesis

Released: 11 December 1998 Synopsis: Once alerted by Lt. Commander Data to a forced relocation operation occurring on a planet inhabited by the Ba’ku, Captain Picard and the crew of U.S.S. Enterprise try to stop it. This film can be seen as various illustrations of what Archetypal Psychologist James Hillman would call the relationship between… Continue reading Star Trek: Insurrection

Released: 22 November 1996 Synopsis: Captain Picard and the crew of U.S.S. Enterprise E go back in time to 21st century Earth to stop the Borg’s attempt to prevent the first warp engine test. Much like Star Trek: Generations, this film can be seen as an analogy as to what happens in one’s psyche when… Continue reading Star Trek VIII: First Contact

Released: 17 November 1994 Synopsis: Captain Picard and the crew of U.S.S. Enterprise D enlist the aid of Captain Kirk to defeat an El-Aurian scientist’s plot to enter the Nexus. This film can be seen as an analogy as to what happens in one’s psyche when one becomes too one-sided in favoring the Logos-driven rational… Continue reading Star Trek: Generations

Released: 6 December 1991 Synopsis: Captain Spock volunteers Captain Kirk and the Enterprise A to escort Klingon Chancellor Gorkon to Earth to sign a peace treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. There are many themes from depth and archetypal psychological running throughout this film, because the goal of both depth psychology and archetypal… Continue reading Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Released: 9 June 1989 Synopsis: On the Planet of Galactic Peace, Nimbus III in the Neutral Zone, the crew of the Enterprise encounter Mr. Spock’s half-brother, Sybok, who thinks that he has received a message from God, and that God is waiting for him in Eden. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was released late… Continue reading Star Trek V: The Final Frontier