Category: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Synopsis: In order to prepare for a diplomatic mission, Captain Pike and the Alpha Shift crew take shore leave on a planet with an unusual atmosphere. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C.G.) Jung’s concept of a complex, one way in which unconscious material comes to the awareness of the conscious… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 4, Episode 3: “Human Best Friend”

Synopsis: The Enterprise and her crew find themselves thrown into the distant past and learn about how humanity came to be. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how our unconscious operates differently than our conscious ego, and how hard the ego fights to get its own way. In “The Griffin Incident” Lt.… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season 4, Episode 2: “The Griffin Incident”

Synopsis: The Enterprise and her crew find themselves thrown into the distant past and learn about how humanity came to be. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of the unus mundus, or one unified world, where everything is interconnected. In “Valles Marineris” the Enterprise crew was sent… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season 4, Episode 1: “Valles Marineris”

Synopsis: The Enterprise travels to Skygowan to battle the Vezda. This episode can be seen as an illustration of James Hillman’s acorn theory—that just as an acorn has everything inside it to become an oak tree, we all have inner daimons inside us that have all the information we need to become who we were… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 10: “New Life and New Civilizations”

Synopsis: Captain Pike, Nurse Chapel, Lt. Noonien-Singh, and Ensign Uhura are medically transformed into Vulcans to carry out an away team mission, but then decide that they do not want to change back into being human. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what Carl (C. G.) Jung described as inflation and deflation—when… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 8: “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans”

Synopsis: A film documentarian is aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise during a challenging Starfleet mission. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what African-American writer and spiritualist, Luisah Teish, and Native Hawaiian Kahuna and Dianic High Priestess, Leilani Birely, referred to in their book On Holy Ground: Commitment and Devotion to Sacred Lands as… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 7: “What is Starfleet?”

Synopsis: The U.S.S. Farragut and the U.S.S. Enterprise combine forces to destroy a centuries-old scavenger ship, after which the crews learn the true identity of the vessel. This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl Gustav (C. G.) Jung’s concept of projection—when the conscious ego projects its unconscious shadow onto another. In “The… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 6: “The Selat That Ate Its Tail”

Synopsis: An exploratory away team mission to excavate an ancient structure uncovers something unexpected. This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the conscious ego prioritizes its way of being in the world over that of the unconscious shadow. In “Through the Lens of Time,” an away team beams down to Vadia IX,… Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 5: “Through the Lens of Time”