Category: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Synopsis: The Enterprise is ordered to take part in a war game exercise. In “Peak Performance” there is an interesting subplot in that after being defeated by the visiting master strategist Sirna Kolrami in a game of Strategema, Lt. Commander Data begins to feel that there is something wrong with his programing. Data reasons that… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 21: “Peak Performance”

Synopsis: Starfleet Special Emissary K’ehleyr has a special connection to Lt. Worf. In “The Emissary” two individuals who are half human and half alien, Special Emissary K’ehleyr and Counselor Deanna Troi compare what it was like to grow up being half one thing and half another. They exhibit two opposite ways of perceiving this, K’ehleyr… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 20: “The Emissary”

Synopsis: Lwaxana Troi comes aboard the Enterprise looking for a mate. In “Manhunt” once again the holodeck affords an opportunity to observe how the use of projection of our inner opposite works to attract us in the act of falling in love. In this case, it is the inner animus of Counselor Deanna Troi’s mother,… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 19: “Manhunt”

Synopsis: The Enterprise encounters two colonies from twenty-second century Earth. In “Up the Long Ladder” the Enterprise first comes across the Bringloidi people, descendants from an Earth space exploration from the twenty-second century. The Bringloidi have assumed simple ways and have settled into caves on their planet, but they need to be rescued from there… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 18: “Up the Long Ladder”

Synopsis: Chief Engineer La Forge is taken hostage after the Enterprise responds to a distress signal from an alien vessel while Captain Picard and Ensign Crusher are on a shuttlecraft mission to Starbase 515. Early on in the episode “Samaritan Snare” Dr. Katherine Pulaski accuses Captain Jean-Luc Picard of having an ego, which of course… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 17: “Samaritan Snare”

Synopsis: Q returns to the Enterprise and sends the ship to a distant part of the galaxy where she encounters the Borg for the first time. In “Q Who” Captain Jean-Luc Picard tells Q “you’re next of kin to chaos” (Hurley & Bowman, 1989), which is something that the rational Logos-driven conscious ego abhors. It… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 16: “Q Who”

Synopsis: While resetting the Enterprise’s scanners, Lt. Commander Data receives a distress signal from a young female humanoid. In “Pen Pals” it is Lt. Commander Data, the completely Logos-driven android officer who requires the other crew members to live up to human Eros-driven emotions. Data here on the surface appears to be violating the Prime… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 15: “Pen Pals”

Synopsis: Commander Riker is confronted by an opportunity to captain his own vessel and a visit from his estranged father. In the mythologically named “The Icarus Factor,” when his long-lost father arrives to announce to his son that he has been given the opportunity to captain his own ship, Commander William Riker is forced to… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 14: “The Icarus Factor”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise comes across one of its own shuttlecrafts from six hours in the future. In “Time Squared” the danger that the Enterprise and her crew face is that of a time vortex, can be seen as how an individual experiences the enantiodromia that occurs in the process of individuation. Individuation… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 13: “Time Squared”

Synopsis: The crew of the Enterprise investigates a report of a strange vessel in the atmosphere of a planet in a previously unmapped solar system. In “The Royale” viewers can see the physical manifestation of how the unconscious may try to speak to an individual through dreams and fantasy images. Dreams and fantasy images are… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 12: “The Royale”