Category: Star Trek: Voyager

Synopsis: Voyager enters Borg space and Captain Janeway tries to create an alliance to allow the ship safe passage through it. This episode illustrates what may happen when the Logos-driven rational conscious ego believes that it can control bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious that come to its awareness. In “Scorpion, Part I”… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 26: “Scorpion, Part I”

Synopsis: Lt. Torres discovers a holo-novel left behind on Voyager by Seska. This episode illustrates how projections are one way in which bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious can come to the awareness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego. In “Worst Case Scenario” Lt. B’Elanna Torres discovers a new holo-novel that tells the… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 25: “Worst Case Scenario”

Synopsis: One by one members of Voyager’s crew disappear and are replaced by aliens. This episode illustrates one way in which bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious can come to the awareness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego. In “Displaced” aliens from Nyria III appear on Voyager at the same moment in time… Continue reading Star Trek Voyager – Season 3, Episode 24: “Displaced”

Synopsis: A Voth scientist in the Delta Quadrant proves his hypothesis that his race shares ancestors with humans from Earth This episode illustrates the depth psychological concept of projection. Specifically, the idea that one way that the Logos-driven rational conscious ego becomes aware of the unconscious shadow, is when the ego projects the bits of… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 23: “Distant Origin”

Synopsis: The Doctor creates a holodeck family, to experience it and integrate it into his program, while Lt. Paris takes a shuttle into an eddy between space and subspace. This episode contains illustrations of two different yet interrelated concepts from depth psychology. The first is the idea of how difficult it can be to work… Continue reading Star Trek Voyager – Season 3, Episode 22: “Real Life”

Synopsis: Kes begins traveling back in time causing her to remember the future. This episode speaks to James Hillman’s idea of the acorn theory, that just as the acorn has all the material it needs to become a tree, inside each of us is an inner daimon that has all the information we need to… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 21: “Before and After”

Synopsis: Ensign Kim is led to believe that he is not human, but a native of a planet inhabited mainly by women. Harkening back to the episode “The Lorelei Signal” from Star Trek: The Animated Series, this episode is a lesson in how the anima, the internal feminine ideal that is part of the male… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 20: “Favorite Son”

Synopsis: Mr. Neelix and Lt. Tuvok go on a rescue mission together. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what happens when a bit of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious forces the Logos-driven rational conscious ego to acknowledge and work with it. In “Rise” Lt. Tuvok and Mr. Neelix are assigned to… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 19: “Rise”

Synopsis: The Doctor tries to improve his programming and gets more than he bargained for. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what happens when too much material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious comes into the awareness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego, and is not integrated into it. In “Darkling” The Doctor… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 18: “Darkling”

Synopsis: Commander Chakotay responds to a distress call and finds refugees from the Alpha Quadrant. This episode can be seen as an illustration of what happens when bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious come into the awareness of the Logos-driven rational conscious ego and then when integrated into it make an individual more… Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – Season 3, Episode 17: “Unity”